Saturday 29 September 2007

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Antonia Stuart-James is a surfing member of manual traffic exchange Traffic Splash

Thursday 27 September 2007

Affiliate Marketing with Affiliate Future

One of the best and most immediate ways to earn money with internet marketing is to become an affiliate with established companies, often household names, and offer their products and services to either a wide or niche market.

There are quite a number of companies who can offer affiliates a choice of companies with a description of the program, the potential commissions and a good selection of advertising banners and text links.

One of my favourite resources is Affiliate Future who offer household names and several less-known companies with interesting products and services. What I particularly like is that you can click to join the program immediately which means no waiting for approval. I have found many useful programs for my European Travel site and accompanying European Travel blog.

I wrote about Affiliate Future earlier on this blog:
http://earnmoneyfrompc.blogspot.com/search/label/Affiliate%20Future

You can:
* Build a site on a specific niche
* Advertise direct with eg Google Adwords (but check the program's rules on keywords)
* Post banners on existing sites
* Post banners on blogs
* Post banners on traffic exchanges

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Antonia Stuart-James is a surfing member of Just More Traffic manual traffic exchange.

Thursday 20 September 2007

AGLOCO - Another Good Reason to Join

AGLOCO is a free-to-join service which earns you money while you surf. You simply download the viewbar, keep it open while you are surfing and receive a share of the total income of the company's income from the advertising via that viewbar.

AGLOCO are paid by the search engines for every search which comes from the viewbar and from advertising. The income is shared throughout the AGLOCO community so, the more people who use the viewbar, the bigger the pot, the more everyone earns. And it is always free.

The company has just announced that Ask.com will soon become AGLOCO’s official worldwide default search provider.

For those of you not aware of Ask.com, here is some recent information. According to the August 14, 2007 report, of the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), Ask rates right with Yahoo and Google in customer satisfaction - Ask 75, Yahoo 79 and Google 78. Also, ForeSee Results added that, “Ask has had the biggest increase of any e-business company measured by the ACSI, up 21% since it was first measured… Ask.com seems to be well-positioned to rival Google in the coming years because it has a strong search technology lauded by analysts and users alike.”

Ask will be added to the Viewbar search area in the next couple of days. The AGLOCO Development tem has been using the Ask.com search site the last month and are very impressed with the results.

This is a very important step for AGLOCO. It is our first major revenue partnership and should greatly improve our earnings starting in October. We will update you further as the Ask.com search come online in the Viewbar.

As usual, more and quicker updates are available on the AGLOCO company blog.

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Monday 17 September 2007

Why Audio Books?


Audio books are very popular, both with people who buy them and for those who sell them. Selling audio books can be a very lucrative business, whether it is pursued on a part time or full time basis, whether you create and market your own audio books
or team up with others to sell the products they have created.

Those who are new to the world of audio books usually have quite a few questions.

Are downloadable or hard copy audio books best?
There will remain a market for both. Some want to touch and feel a book, open it and close it. Owning a library of books is something tangible. Others are on the move so prefer to listen in their car, on an iPod whilst exercising, on the train or bus going to work (saves carrying a book around), whilst lying in hospital. Just imagine how frustrating it is to enjoy reading but not to be able to do so due to poor eyesight or recovery following an eye operation.

Students might need the hardcopy book but also want to listen whilst on the move.

So many files can be stored on an iPod now. It seems incredible that a 4Gb model can store 1000 songs and audio files such as audio books along with photos and videos.

What makes audio books so popular?
There are many reasons why the world of audio books is such an appealing one, but one of the chief benefits of audio books is the fact that they can be read and enjoyed virtually anywhere. From riding in the car to relaxing on the beach, books on tape and CD can be enjoyed no matter where you are. Unlike traditional books,
audio books can be enjoyed while cooking, while driving or doing a number of other popular activities. It is no wonder that audio books are so popular and this means an enormous amount of opportunity for those who know how to effectively sell and market these books.

People who enjoy self-help and personal development titles find listening to books empowering.

What about the cost of audio books?
Audio books are often less expensive than hardcopy books.

Creating audio books, on the other hand, can be prohibitively expensive, requiring lots and lots of very expensive equipment and plenty of in depth expertise. This means that those considering selling audio books on their web sites or through other means would be much better off to buy ready to sell audio books than to try to
create their own.

Leisure Audio Books offers over 6,000 download audio books in several categories. Affiliates can earn 15% to 25% commission on every sale of audio books, PLUS 15% to 50% of the membership fees of any affiliate you sponsor who purchases an upgraded affiliate membership!



Antonia Stuart-James is an affiliate of Leisure Audio Books

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Sunday 16 September 2007

BlogSoldiers - Manual Traffic Exchange purely for Blogs

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Thursday 13 September 2007

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The Basics Of Keyword Research For Your Online Business

by Gobala Krishnan, MBA & IAHBE Writer

Whether you’re trying to build a blog for your SFI home business, or trying to sell other products on the Internet via any type of Website, you simply cannot ignore the allure of getting free search engine traffic from Google and Yahoo.

Unlike paid advertising, research has shown that visitors are more open to natural search engine results and the amount of traffic to natural search engine results is also significantly higher. To get a good search engine ranking, you need to start with the right choice of keywords. Keywords are what people type into search engines to find information. If your site ranks for the correct keyword, your link will be displayed whenever someone uses the search engines.

However, it amazes me how little people really know about keyword research; how hard they try to achieve the impossible, and how fast they give up.

When you think about it, it’s really a vicious cycle:

1. Their lack of keyword research knowledge leads them to target the wrong keyword, which is either too difficult to achieve, or has too little traffic.
2. Then, convinced that early retirement is only a stone’s throw away, they work hard to archive top search engine rankings using whatever “new” method the gurus claim will end their misery fast.
3. Then, after a few months they realize that they will never beat the sites that appear on Google’s first page, they give up, pack up and leave.

Keyword research is a real tricky thing. It can make or break your Internet home business dreams. If you target keywords that are too competitive, you end up chasing dreams of grandeur that will never materialize. If you target keywords that are too easy to achieve, you’ll end up on the first page of Google and realize that your number one position means squat.

The secret is in finding a balance.

The most profitable online market is not the general market, but the niche market. Therefore when targeting keywords, you must target niche keywords. A niche keyword is usually smaller, two to four words long, and is a subset of the larger general keyword.

Let’s take a step-by-step approach to keyword research using a free tool called the Yahoo Keywords Suggestion Tool. Open up this site in a new browser window so you can do your own hands-on training.

This tool is not 100% accurate when it comes to the numbers, but it gives you a relatively accurate idea of what keywords you should target for your blog or Website.

Step 1 : Finding a General Market
You must know the general keyword for your blog or Website. If you don’t, bang your head to the wall and ask yourself what you’re doing trying to make money online.
Your Website cannot be about everything. It must be about something.

You can’t build a site and say “Oh, my Website is about everything that happens in my life and I don’t want to limit myself by sticking to one topic”.

The truth is that with a few exceptions, such “do-it-all” personal-ranting types of sites are doomed to failure right from the start. It’s okay to have a site where you talk about your everyday life, but there must be a main theme; a main niche; a main keyword for that site.

In the example here, I’m going to choose guitar as my main keyword. Mentally, I am going to tell myself that my blog is about guitars, so no matter how much unrelated stuff I throw into my site, the majority (80% or more) of my blog posts or content is going to be about guitars. That would give my site a theme and a reason for people to visit. If I have too much unrelated stuff to talk about, it’s best to put it into a new site.

Right, now you have a general keyword. But that’s only the beginning.

You cannot possibly dream about getting ranked number one in Google or other search engines when someone types in the word guitar. It’s way too competitive. Likewise, never try to rank for general keywords like health, money, home, insurance etc unless you can meet some / all of the following criteria:

1. Your site features a revolutionary new idea / software / service that will change the entire industry forever.
2. You are the undisputed, established offline industry leader and you are taking your business online.
3. You are a millionaire who can spend hundreds of thousands in advertising every month.
4. You can hire a team of smart, highly-trained SEO (Search Engine Optimization) experts (people who specialize in search engine optimization) to monitor the progress of your site and the ranking for your general keyword.

It’s ironic to see some many people try to rank their blogs for general keywords. Yet, they only add five to 10 new posts a month, have no credibility, spend zilch on advertising, and have absolutely nothing revolutionary going on.

It’s just never going to happen.

So, from your general keyword, you need to select a more targeted keyword based on your interests and your own capability. The size of your keyword should depend on these few things:

How much time can you spend on SEO?

Are you willing to spend money in advertising, buying links etc?

Are you capable of writing credible information for that topic, or can you find people who can?

Step 2: Find Your Niche Keyword
From the general and utterly useless keyword guitar, I found a niche market I can focus on. I choose electric guitar because I love the electric versions as compared to the acoustic guitars and I know a great deal about them. It’s also something I’m passionate about and I from which I know that I can make money.

Note: to determine if a niche is profitable, see (1) how many affiliate programs you can find and (2) how many people are using Google Adwords to advertise those affiliate programs.

But, this keyword is still highly competitive, and while it’s not impossible to rank highly for this search term, it’s just not feasible if you’re just getting started in your own Internet home business.

Yes, you can listen to your ego, have a gung-ho attitude, and just go for it. You might just make it. But I think, if you’re new to SEO and Internet marketing, this is not a safe bet.

Instead, you need to go one level deeper into the third-tier keyword range. To understand this concept, just count how many clicks you need to make from the original search term guitar till you get to one you can target. If it takes you 4 clicks it means you’re already into the fourth-tier keywords.

Step 3: Find Your Primary Keyword, Secondary Keywords, & Long Tail
Now I’ve clicked on guitar > electric guitar > cheap electric guitar.

This is my primary keyword, and is the main keyword I will target on my blog or Website.

All the other keywords contained under these keywords, are my secondary keywords.

If you click further from cheap electric guitar or any of the contained keywords you’ll find a lot of lesser keywords, usually ranging from 5 to 500 searches per month, called the long tail keywords.

These long-tail keywords are usually too small to become the main keyword for your blog, but when you add them up they usually become bigger than your primary keyword.

Some of these long-tail keywords cannot be discovered by any keyword research tool, because they are too random. For every keyword someone types into the search engine that is tracked, there is another keyword searched that is either too long or too rare to be tracked. The only way you will discover these long-tail keywords are by looking at your site statistics over time.

For this reason alone, you need an entire master list of long tail keywords. It will be easy to rank for these keywords, but they bring in very little traffic. However, add the amount of traffic each keyword brings, and soon you’ll have a very popular blog.

How to Use Your Keywords Effectively
So now you know which keywords you want to use, but how do you use them? Here’s a simple guide:

PRIMARY KEYWORD
Use it as the main title of your blog or Website.
Use it as the domain name of your site.
Whether you realize it, this primary keyword will also be used on most of your other blog posts (if you keep to the topic), which will help your blog or site to rank for the primary keyword.

SECONDARY KEYWORD
Use it as an optional tagline for your blog / site.
Use it as the category name for your site or blog.
Create new pages (or posts) with your secondary keyword.

LONG TAIL KEYWORDS
Use it to create individual posts, for example I create a new post called “cheap gibson les paul electric guitar” which comes under the keyword category “cheap gibson electric guitar.”

There are no limits to the sheer number of posts you can create, because there are way too many long tail keywords you can target, each with a tiny search figure every month.

You can also create articles with these long-tail keywords and submit them to article submissions sites like www.myarticlemarketer.com and let the articles rank on those high-authority sites instead, and at the bottom of your article you can have a link back (traffic) to your site.

Limitations of Keyword Research
There are some severe limitations to keyword research. The main one is that it tells you what the user typed into the search engine, not what the user is really looking for or the state of mind the user is in.

For example, the user typed in “cheap gibson electric guitar” into the search engine and found your site. But, what is the user thinking when he is reading your page?

Is he:

1. Looking to buy a product? If yes, then your site should be primarily monetized by affiliate programs that pay you per sale. You can find a lot of physical products and digital products that you can sell from your Website just by typing in “your keyword + affiliate program” in search engines.
2. Looking for more information? If yes, then your site should be monetized by an advertising program like Google Adsense or Chitika, since the user is more likely to click away for more information rather than buy something.
3. Looking for bargains? If yes, your site should be monetized by Ebay or Auction Ads, which is based on Ebay but works like Adsense.
4. Looking for freebies? If yes, your site should be monetized with CPA (Cost Per Action) programs that you can find on networks like www.shareasale.com or www.linkshare.com

Unfortunately, no one can tell you what works best for your site. The only way to overcome this limitation is to first have an understanding of the market you’re targeting. Keywords are just numbers, they tell you how much search traffic you can get, but they don’t tell you how to turn that traffic into cash.

This is the reason most people fail to make money on the Internet. They devote so much time into SEO tactics that they don’t spend enough time studying the market. These people rejoice when they make $50 from Adsense, when they could have been making $500 a month using other money-making methods.

About The Author: Gobala Krishnan is a freelance writer and Internet home business expert in Malaysia. You can visit his site at www.InternetIncomeMastery.com

For more info, click on the links:
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Source: The Money Blog 10 September 2007

Wednesday 12 September 2007

GDI - International Business Opportunity for Everyone

GDI is truly a great online international business opportunity. It operates worldwide and the site is translatable into several different languages.

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However, it is possible for you to make a fortune with this business using only word of mouth advertising.

Consider this example...

Let's say you tell 20 people who trust your recommendations about Ultimate Rep, of which GDI is a component.

Ultimate Rep is FREE TO JOIN and out of those 20 people, let's say just 8 decide to sign up right away. They join you and activate just one of the programs Ultimate Rep - let's say GDI. The cost is only $10 a month and for that you get a domain name, a website, web hosting and more! Most notably, you get a chance to create a tremendous income.

With GDI, you make $1 for each person who enrolls below you and pays $10 a month, 5 levels deep. Watch how quickly this can grow without any more effort from you.

You referred 8 people to your Ultimate Rep site. Now, those 8 people are reading and acting on the same steps outlined here in this website.

Say each of those 8 people tell 3 people about Ultimate Rep and 24 more people sign up right away for free. Now you have 24 more people in your GDI business.

Next, those 24 people each tell 20 people about Ultimate Rep as described in this blog. 192 of those 480 visitors sign up in your GDI business!

Next, those 192 people each tell 20 people about Ultimate Rep as described in this website. 1,536 of those 3840 visitors sign up in your GDI business!

Next, those 1,536 of those people each tell 20 people about Ultimate Rep as described in this website. 12,288 of those 30,720 visitors sign up in your GDI business!

Guess how much your monthly income would be, month after month after month from just that small original effort?

12,288 customers X $1 = $12,288.00 A Month!... RESIDUALS!

$12,288.00 per month = $147,456.00 per year. Would that make a difference in your life?

And we never even considered the $5,000 GDI WEEKLY BONUS POOLS!... just so you know.

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It's a simple fact that a large and growing percentage of people in countries where Internet access is available are looking for ways to earn extra income from home online.

The market for Ultimate Rep is MASSIVE and virtually untapped... Your ability to reach that market is what we need to develop! A great place to start is by telling everyone you know about Ultimate Rep .

* You can do it in person.
* You can do it with a personal letter.
* You can do it with a phone call.
* You can do it with email.

The first thing to do is make a list of everybody you know. Whatever you do, don't underestimate the power of this list. The list that you develop now could be the goldmine you've been searching for that will lead you to a lifetime of financial success and personal freedom.

If the people on your list don't find Ultimate Rep through you, they may never find it and that could cause them to remain stuck in financial struggle, or worse, they could get taken advantage of by some other business opportunity they try that has no chance of working for them.

Ultimate Rep is a great Internet business opportunity in the world and gives every day people a realistic chance to achieve their financial dreams, get educated in the business world, help their families and have fun. You are empowered to share this opportunity with everyone you know and doing so can make you incredibly wealthy!

To join Ultimate Rep, go to http://ancora.ultimaterep.com
UltimateRep.com

To sign up for Global Domains International, click on http://freedom.ws/ancora11


Antonia Stuart-James is a member of Ultimate Rep and GDI-Global Domains International.

Tuesday 11 September 2007

eBay Success

Wow... the 99-cent trial of Derek Gehl's brand-new eBay training system has really opened a can of worms!

People want to know why I'm suddenly singing the praises of eBay, instead of focusing on how to help people become successful with a "regular" online business.

It's not an "either-or" situation. You don't have to choose between building your own "regular" online business or getting started with eBay.

In fact, after having read Derek Gehl's new training system "The Insider Secrets to Selling on eBay" I'd say anyone who's doing one without the other is seriously missing out!

(Whether you have a "regular" business but aren't taking advantage of eBay's massive value, OR you have a successful eBay business but aren't doing anything to promote it off eBay.)

So in order to clear up any confusion, I thought I'd take a few moments to answer the top 3 questions I've received over the past week or so regarding eBay:

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Question #1: "Why eBay??? I want to make 'real' money, not just make a few dollars selling junk for pennies!"

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Here's a news flash... Selling "junk" on eBay is never going to make you rich -- and it's not something I'd ever recommend.

The secret to eBay success is using key research tools to discover what people are buying on eBay -- and how much they're willing to spend. Then all you have to do is find a cheap source of that product so you can buy it for less, then turn around and sell it at a generous mark-up on eBay!

It's not rocket science... and there are no tricks and gimmicks involved -- just steady, reliable income, and the chance to grow a huge opt-in list of people you can sell other products to in the future.

It might not be as "sexy" as the one-in-a-million chance of launching a website that starts making 1000s of dollars overnight. But it's way more of a sure thing -- and
personally, I find a guaranteed extra $1,000 a month sexier than a distant longshot any day of the week!

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Question #2: "I've been pouring all my free time and money into my online business -- now you're saying I need to start all over again with eBay?"

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For goodness' sake, no! If you're smart, you should use eBay to help you grow your "regular" online business -- not replace it! Not only is eBay an excellent place to do valuable market research -- so you know what your potential buyers are buying (and why!) -- it also allows you to grow a huge opt-in list of people you can sell to, before your off-eBay site is even up and running!

Imagine that -- being able to drive thousands of interested buyers to your site the very same day you launch it!

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Question #3: "I already have a profitable online business. Why should I bother with eBay?"

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My answer is, I guess it depends on how happy you are with your traffic numbers. If you're getting so much traffic that it's crashing your server and you literally don't know what to do with it, then you probably don't want to use eBay to send more visitors to your site.

BUT -- if you're getting less than 500 visitors a day, or if you're getting more than that but your visitors aren't converting to sales -- then you should seriously consider eBay. It's a great way to drive highly targeted visitors to your site.

Remember, these are people you've found on the world's largest marketplace, which means they're enthusiastic online shoppers! They're exactly the kind of people you want to introduce your products to.

I hope that clears up any misunderstanding about how eBay can help you grow your "regular" online business. If you're interested in learning more, I urge you to visit:

Click here to trial "The Insider Secrets to Selling on eBay"

Antonia Stuart-James

P.S. Derek said he only has a few 99-cent trial copies of his eBay training system left. Once they're gone, the only way you'll be able to get this powerfulnew training system is by paying the full price of $197.

So hurry -- get your copy before they all fly off the shelves!
Go to: http://www.auctiontips.com/t.cgi/908492/powersellers

Offer ends 15 September.

Successful Affiliate Marketing

If you are going to become a successful affiliate on the Internet, you need 3 "intangibles." These are things that must come from WITHIN you.

===> Intangible 1 <===
First, you must have a strong WHY.


Why must you make affiliate marketing work? What is driving you? What is it that you CAN'T have in your life anymore and/or what is it that you absolutely MUST HAVE now?

For me, I couldn't stand working 12+ hours a day anymore and missing the experience of my children growing up. I also absolutely HAD TO HAVE the freedom of being able to control my life and finances through a little box that I could carry with me anywhere in the world and not be tied to anyone's time pressures or demands but my own. That was my carrot and my stick. I felt a great pain deep in my gut of missing out on my children's lives and the incredible freedom that succeeding in this business would provide for me. I found my why. You MUST find yours.

===> Intangible 2 <===
You must BELIEVE that it is possible.


If you don't believe that it's POSSIBLE for you to make money with affiliate programs or make your living on the Internet, you won't. It's that simple.

For me, figuring out that it was possible was just a matter of realizing that many other people were ALREADY making great money online. If they could do it, I could too. It would just be a matter of figuring out what those people were doing and then adapting it to my situation.

There is no shortage of undeniable PROOF that people (millions of them) are making money online with affiliate programs. Just get online and do some research and you'll find countless testimonials and stories of REAL PEOPLE making real money on the Internet. Or head to your local bookstore and you'll find the same documented evidence of this fact. Truth is, it's getting easier and easier to make money online with affiliate programs.

I've always said that "affiliate marketing" is the job of the future. In the "old" days, you had to go to a potential employer, apply for the position and hope for the best. Now you can simply go to any company you want, fill out their affiliate application and start work immediately. Affiliates are the new working class. Believe me, making money with affiliate programs or making your living on the Internet is WAY MORE than possible. It is pretty much (or will be soon enough) unavoidable now. Affiliate marketing is the "job" of the future that's already here TODAY.

===> Intangible 3 <===
You must be willing to MAKE THE LEAP.


Ready, FIRE, then aim... This is the operating philosophy you MUST adopt to succeed with affiliate marketing.

That's backwards for most people who like to aim before they fire. The fact is the Internet is a moving target... The only thing constant about it is change. You need to stop analyzing the game and simply jump into it. You can't learn from the outside... You have to be IN THE RING to truly understand it.

The lesson here is that you will never really be READY to start an affiliate marketing business. You simply have to start one. This is what I call "Making the Leap."

The good news is that the cost of failure on the Internet is very small. In the "brick and mortar" world you need to evaluate things very carefully before you decide to open up a business. It's almost always necessary to invest thousands of dollars to get an offline business off the ground. However, on the Internet you can often start a successful business for less than $100. The Plug-In Profit Site is a great example of this.

You simply need get IN THE GAME... Each moment that you stay "out there," you're wasting valuable time that you could be learning and skills necessary to become a successful affiliate marketer. In fact, if you're not in the game yet, you're ALREADY behind the times. Make the leap to becoming a successful affiliate marketer today!

Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy helps ordinary people all over the world make money online with affiliate programs. If you can follow 3 easy steps, you can get your own custom website, autoresponder (email follow-up software) and pre-written email marketing campaign professionally designed and installed and ready to pull in profits for you in 24 hours or less! See details at: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-16213

Publicize Your Blog

BlogSoldiers is a blogs only manual traffic exchange so if you have blogs which need more traffic, run them on Blog Soldiers. While surfing for credits, you are bound to find other interesting blogs.

* Free to join
* 50 free bonus credits for new members for signing up and surfing 50 blogs
* 50 referral credits for anyone who refers a new member
* Increased random surfing credits & new contests!
* Major discounts on purchases and new ways to purchase more traffic for your blog!!
* Exchange Rate - 2:1
* 20 seconds page timer

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As you surf, you randomly earn the letters for your next rank. Once you achieve your next rank, you are immediately awarded a minimum of 200 credits - a very nice return!

Tod Barnhart quote

"The money I have is in direct proportion to the value I've given to others. The more I give of myself, incredibly, the more economic power comes my way."

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Manual Traffic Exchanges - Traffic Hoopla report 22/09/07

Traffic Hoopla publishes weekly lists of the manual traffic exchanges with the most hits so you know which ones to concentrate on when surfing for credits. You can join Traffic Hoopla for FREE, choose to join all or some of these traffic exchanges, add your affiliate code for each to the downline builder then publish your link so visitors to the site can choose whether to join all or some in your downline.

This is the easy way to build a downline in numerous traffic exchanges. Bear in mind that some will pay you a commission on downline members who upgrade whilst others will give you free credits when someone joins in your downline and even give you credits every time that member surfs.

Here are the top manual traffic exchanges published in this week's report:

1. WebbizInsider
2. EasyHits4U
3. TS25
4. HitSafari
5. ILoveHits
6. StartXchange (most improved in top 40)
7. 10Hits4UNow
8. CashClicking
9. ClickThru
10. ClickVoyager
11. DeepSeaHits
12. DragonSurf
13. EternalHits
14. FastEasyTraffic
15. Hit2Hit
16. HitPirate
17. LinkCrews
18. LotsMoreHits
19. MagnifyTraffic
20. MaxTrafficPro
21. ProHitsPlus
22. Realhitz4U
23. RoyalSurf
24. SavvyClicks
25. Traffic Splash
26. TrafficAtTheRaces
27. TrafficG
28. TrafficPods
29. TrafficPro-x (highest % of unique hits)
30. TrafficSoldiers
31. TrueViewTraffic
32. WebCentreSurf
33. WebMasterQuest
34. WhirlwindTraffic

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Successful Manual Traffic Exchange Campaigns

Do you want traffic surfers to stop and look at your site? Do you want them to request more information? Whilst others are surfing for credits to show their own sites, they are also on the lookout for interesting programs, info and anything which will earn them money.

So stop them in their tracks with a fast-loading page. Forget sound on traffic exchanges because it slows the loading time. Save it for your home page.

1. Your page has to load fast because when the timer runs out, the surfer is going to click to the next site. Limit your graphics to just a logo and a small picture for illustration.

2. Use a splash page for your traffic exchanges because they they load faster.

3. Take the time to add the content to arouse curiosity and provide a link or button to click so that your site opens in a new page. This will enable the surfer to continue surfing for his credits but still give your site due attention.

4. Offer information via email. Use a simple subscription page attached to an autoresponder, or better still, to your email so that you can give a personal response.

5. Save the sound effects for your main page. If you are promoting an affiliate page with sound, take the time to build a gateway or splash page, so that the surfer will want to click through to your main page.

6. Proofread your copy. Several misspelled words or grammatical errors are turn-offs.

7. Avoid using a lot of Flash. Dial-up viewers will not see your page before the surfing timer runs out.

These tips are basic but you will notice a better response to your manual traffic exchange campaigns, which will greatly increase your success with your business.

Traffic Tornado - join and promote 28 traffic exchanges from just one site.

Manual Traffic Exchange - StartXChange

* Currently 27,248 Members

* 3 Levels of membership:
Free - 3:1 surf ratio, 5% referral earning, 7:10 banner exchange
Gold - 2:1 surf ratio, 10% referral earning, 8:10 banner exchange ($6 per month)
Platinum - 1:1 surf ratio, 20% referral earning, 9:10 banner exchange ($14.95 per month)
* 10 Second Surfbar Timer
* Up to 25% Surfing Bonus

HOT OFF THE PRESS: StartXchange recorded #6 in Traffic Hoopla's report of traffic exchanges on 11 September 2007(most improved in top 40).

Activity Levels
The more pages you view, the higher you'll rank. Each level increases the amount of traffic you earn by increasing your surfing bonus. Your surfing bonus also increases when you complete a checklist. This checklist has various items that change periodically eg showing your support by linking to us, or participating in the traffic exchange forum, or even uploading a photo of yourself to show us who you are.

StartXChange Community
Members can meet others in the forum. On the surfbar you'll always see how many members are surfing.. It's not unusual to see it pass 100! Within your members area you can see who viewed your website. So you know for sure it's real people! You'll also see photos of other members that are surfing, to remind you that it's not just you here! You can customize banners with your own photo.

Free Traffic Exchange

Traffic Teams
Each month teams compete to win their share in the jackpot. The more catgories they win, and the higher their ranking, the more they'll cash out. The categories are Top Surfing (Total pages surfed by the team), Average Surfing (Average surfing of each member), and Top Referring (Total signups by the team). There are 3 winners in each category.

StartXChange was formed in 2001 by Tim Linden, an experienced PHP programmer which means there is no wait for a programmer. Tim often tweaks the site in response to members' requests.

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Monday 10 September 2007

Own a Piece of the Next Big Internet Company

Have you ever dreamed about owning a piece of a big company? Would you have joined Yahoo, MSN, or Google when they started if they promised you a piece of their company??

Of course you would have!! Even if you just owned 1/1,000,000th of any one of those internet giants, you would have several hundred (or even thousand) shares of stock worth quite a bit of money (not to mention dividends and profit sharing along the way).

How about ownership without paying a penny...ever? Too good to be true? No! Amazing and unique? Yes! Totally legal and fully disclosed?

Yes! Join Take the Internet Back and own a piece of the next big Internet company - completely free forever! You will even receive a $10.00 sign up bonus, free downloads and a contract assuring you of ownership . Totally free - now and forever!

You register and become a member. The minimum requirements are that you receive just one email a day and refer just two persons – ever - and that’s all. And what do you get in return for that? Ownership of our company, a share of the profits (and we make no promises here but do see our contract), and much, much more in the future. 90% of the ownership will be by members.

But why should you consider reading email ads? Well - you probably receive several, if not dozens, of email ads per day. Some are legal and some are spam. What do they both have in common? You do not get a penny for reading either of them. With Take the Internet Back you receive points for every email read and the points are totalled up to indicate your share of the company ownership. It really is that simple.

Join Take the Internet Back

You can also earn commission for referring new advertisers to TakeTheInternetBack. For every NEW advertiser who submits an order in using your affiliate link, you will receive 10% of their purchase value. For example, if an advertiser buys an ad for $200 you will receive $20 commission.

Blogs by Women

Blogs by Women is a website which lists - obviously - blogs written by women. There are currently 4,843 women who have listed their blogs in the following categories:

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So, if you are a woman who wants to list her blog(s) or want to read blogs by other women,go to Blogs by Women.