Do you use traffic excahnges

I have used traffic exchanges for around two years now and have seen many people not using them to their advantage.

What is a traffic exchange I hear some of you say. A traffic exchange is a web site that allows you to advertise your web site to other people that have joined the traffic exchange. To get your web site seen by other people you have to click on a link to view their web site. Some exchanges give one view to your site for every site you click on, but some only give a view for every two sites you click on.

There are also two types of traffic exchanges, manual and auto. The names say it all. In a manual TE you have to manually click on a site to view and in an auto TE you set the program running and you can leave it to surf pages for you.

Some autosurf examples are:
Jesustraffic4all
The traffic Laundry
TUPA

Some manual surf sites below:
Trafficera
Hitsilo
Soaring4traffic
Hitsboosterpro
Hit2hit

There are some things you need to check and keep on checking. I have seen pages in TE's that return a "404 page not found" page and "This site has been suspended" page.

After submitting your site to the TE and it is approved that is not the end. After this you need to see that your pages are functioning correctly. Obviously you don't want to waste your credits on sites that have malfunctioned or disappeared.

Another thing you need to check is if you have media or scripts running on your advertised web page. I have noticed that a lot of people are using media based or script base pages to advertise some of their web sites. They must fail to realise that a majority of the surfers today run programs like NoScripts to prevent certain problems like some pages that tend to break frames. I know I run NoScripts and I know many other users that do as well. So what is happening when we view these pages with media or scripting? It is all blocked so we just continue surfing as if nothing happened, not paying any attention to the sites that are being blocked. This is bad for YOU if you are using these kind of sites. My suggestion: only use splash pages without media.

If you are promoting other TE's the site you are promoting will have a page full of their own splash pages for you to use, so use them instead of the sites main page, when someone clicks on the splash page they will be taken to the main page anyway.

A splash page is a page that is small in physical size and just a few Kbytes so it will download fast. It may be a page with just a graphic on that is clickable to take the person clicking to the main web site. Here is an example of one I have made.

If you are making your own splash page, make sure the click will open the web site in a new window like my example above so the surfer can continue to surf the TE. I know I have clicked on a page within a TE in the past and when it has opened inside the the TE I have just continued to surf. If the site is opened in a new window the surfer can continue to surf but when that person stops surfing your page will still be on their computer for them to look at.

This also applies to any external link on your web site. If you send someone to another site to have a look at an example, or a similar site, or if you have quoted someone and want to show where the quote comes from, you don't want them to lose your site. How many times have you gone to another site to see something else interesting. A few clicks later your thinking "What was the name of the original site". If your link took them to a new window, your site is still below the one they are looking at and when they close that window your site is still visible to them.

Slax, Linux with speed.

Hello,

Today I am going to talk about Slax. This is a version of Linux based on Slackware, which is already a fast version.

I was introduced to Slax. by Linux Format, a magazine I subscribe to and would recommend highly if you have any interest in Linux. It is great for beginers and more advanced users who want to keep abreast of everything Linux. Slax was featured on the cover disc so I popped it into the drive and installed it.

The reason I use this on one computer is for its speed and it's simplicity straight from the CD. There is more than one way to install it. One is to run it like a "live CD" (Boot from the CD and run everything from there, nothing is installed onto the hard drive of the computer you are using so your normal operating system is untouched), and the other is to load it straight into RAM, memory. Running it in RAM means there is no wait times for hard discs or CD drives so it does make it very fast.

I am not going into a full review of Slax. here, I am just showing what I use it for. to find out more about Slax. go to their web site..

The second usage of loading into RAM was appealing to me as I use traffic exchanges. These are sites where you view other peoples web pages to earn credits, so you can use those credits to advertise your own web pages. Obviously using these sites I need a fast operating system so the next page can be loaded as quickly as possible and in turn earn the most amounts of credits in the shortest amount of time.

There are two types of traffic exchanges, manual and auto. Manual traffic exchanges are as they say manual and you have to sit and click every time a page loads. For an example of a manual TE click here. Auto TE's are as they say automatic, so long as they keep going and a page does not stop them with pop ups etc. (Though they are not allowed some people try to get away with adding them). You can set a computer with an auto exchange and just leave it but do check every now and again that it is still running. To try to entice you to watch auto exchanges they show pages that if you click on them you get bonuses like extra credits to advertise your own page. For an example of an auto TE click here. For this type of exchange Slax is a good option for a fast operating system.

If you want traffic to your web site, maybe you are selling something, involved in MLM online or want people to read your blog then a traffic exchange is a good idea. I use them to promote the charity I work for, and mainly for SFI, and Trippleclicks, see other posts on this blog for more infomation on these programs.

The begining - The first post.

I have other blogs so this not really my first post, just my first post to open this blog.

I intend to talk about my experiences both with computers and the Internet. I appreciate feedback and don't mind if you don't agree with me, these posts are just my thoughts and experiences.

At present I use Linux as an operating system but have in the past used DOS, Windows from 95 to XP including NT and server editions.

I have in the past and now been trying to use the Internet to make money. Like many of you I am sure, I have lost on some and won on others. I use traffic exchanges like Trafficera. I will let you know of others as the blog progresses including some of the other ways to make money on the net.

My main affiliate program I am advertising at present, which is free to join and use is SFI.

Keep coming back to read more.