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TeCommandPost Review

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:22:54 -0400

I have recently joined a cool program called TeCommandPost. You might have heard about it already as it's being advertised all over TEs - and that's no wonder, considering all the features it offers for us surfers.

First of all, TeCommandPost is a downline builder for traffic exchanges and related programs. You simply enter your referral IDs and then your TECP referrals will join the exchanges under you. This way you can promote one program - TeCommandPost - and grow your downlines in many traffic exchanges at once.

This alone doesn't make TECP all that special, however. I mean, there's already a good downline builder for traffic exchanges called AffiliateFunnel. No, what makes TeCommandPost unique is the fact that it allows you to monitor your traffic exchange credit balances. You just have to enter your username and password once for every exchange (most popular ones like TrafficERA, StartXChange and Traffic-Splash are supported) and then you'll be able to see how many credits your sites have left on all the exchanges you belong to - all on a single page!

As someone who uses many different traffic exchanges, I really appreciate the time I save by using TeCommandPost instead of logging in to 20 exchanges separately to check how my ads are doing.

If that's not good enough for you, let's not forget that TeCommandPost also allows you to monitor your banner and text link balances, as well as provide optional alerts if you credit balance falls below a certain level that you can set freely.

There's also money to be made. The excellent upgrades allow you to enter more traffic exchanges and referral IDs, provide lifetime banner and text link advertising and increase your commissions. As someone who already upgraded and made more than $100 in commissions in just a few days, I'd like to share a tip with you.

Pay very close attention to the OTO (one-time offer) you will receive when you log on to TeCommandPost for the first time. The Platinum membership it offers comes with unique bonuses and a generous 60% commission rate. If you don't upgrade, you miss this opportunity forever, as inside the members area only Silver ($9.97 monthly) and Gold ($19.97 monthly) upgrades are offered... But no Platinum.

Regardless of that, you will still find TeCommandPost very useful even as a free member. You will be able to connect your TECP account to up to 10 exchanges and command all your TE ads from one page and save a lot of time this way.

Click here to signup for TeCommandPost now!

Earn More Credits with Elite Surf Club

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 20:28:36 -0400

If you are serious about earning credits at traffic exchanges, you probably already are surfing more than one of them at a time (and if you aren't, you should start doing that). This way you can earn credits non-stop instead of waiting for the surf timer. Naturally, you should still pay attention to the website and keep an eye out for prize pages or bonus links. However, that usually takes just one or two seconds instead of 10, which is a common surfbar timer. Your surfing will be really fast if you use a modern tabbed browser like Firefox or IE8 and switch between tabs using Ctrl+Tab keyboard shortcut.

This is not all, however. Three excellent traffic exchanges: RoyalSurf, TrafficWitch and Blue-Surf have teamed up to bring you the Elite Surf Club. Now surfing these 3 TEs together will give you increased surf ratios, additional credits on every purchase, tickets into credit drawings and more, free of charge.

I like to think of it as doing something I already am (surfing these 3 great exchanges) and getting something extra with no additional effort. You don't have to signup anywhere - it's all done automatically, as long as you're a member of all 3. Here are the bonuses in more detail:

Surf 50 sites a day at all 3 exchanges at least 4 days out of the week:

10% surf ratio increase

5% additional credits on any credit purchase

1 ticket into the daily 1000 credit drawing

Surf 100 sites a day at all 3 exchanges at least 4 days out of the week:

20% surf ratio increase

10% additional credits on any credit purchase

3 ticket into the daily 1000 credit drawing

Surf 250 sites a day at all 3 exchanges at least 4 days out of the week:

30% surf ratio increase

15% additional credits on any credit purchase

5 ticket into the daily 1000 credit drawing

Even if you don't like these exchanges for some reason, you only have to surf 4 days a week to get the bonuses, and then you can focus on your other TEs. Can't surf 250 sites a day? No problem, 50 sites a day (only 10 minutes of surfing!) will still get you the 10% surf ratio bonus. And power surfers will really appreciate the 30% ratio increase!

Click here to find out more about Elite Surf Club.

CBPirate Review

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 17:52:26 -0400

As a member of tens of traffic exchanges, I receive a lot of TE news in my e-mail inbox (thank you GMail for the great Filters system). Today I've received several e-mails promoting a new ClickBank product called Clickbank Pirate. Usually I am not one to give in to the hype (in fact, this is only the second CB product I've ever bought) but I decided to give it a try. Hey, if this fails to make me money, I can always start complaining and blame the creators of this system! :)

CBPirate, to put it simply, provides you with professionally designed promotional tools for several Clickbank products. The most important of those are squeeze pages (splash pages with opt-in forms for visitors' name and e-mail). All you have to do is send traffic to the squeeze pages that you are given. In our case, it will probably be traffic from various traffic exchanges - and that's just fine, too. You can also use forum signatures, e-mail sigs, and even PPC advertising if you'd like.

Some of the visitors that you send to CBPirate squeeze pages will inevitably sign up to receive the free information. That's it: your job is done! Clickbank Pirate picks up from here and sends out free reports and promotional e-mails with your affiliate links. This way once you get a visitor to signup, you will keep earning commissions from any purchases they make.

You send traffic... They do the hard work. Sure sounds nice. But will it really work? It all boils down to how effective the squeeze pages are (e.g. the conversion rates), especially when everyone will start using them heavily on traffic exchanges. The Clickbank Pirate membership fee is $47 one time payment + $27 a month, so breaking even should be possible with just a few sales.

I just joined a few hours ago so it remains to be seen if this will work for me. It does look pretty promising so far though, and the idea that all you have to do is send traffic sure sounds nice. I'll keep you updated on my blog.

Go ahead and become a Clickbank Pirate like me. Arrrrrr!

247TrafficPro review

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:28:14 -0400

The newest addition to my traffic exchange list is a manual surf site called 247TrafficPro. It belongs to the same owners as two great autosurf exchanges that I'm a member of do, namely 247AutoHits and 365AutoHits so it comes as no surprise that 247TrafficPro is a top notch TE as well. It has a nice professional design, fast surfbar and a number of unique features about which I'm going to write in more detail.

First of all, 247TrafficPro has Hover Surfing which allows you to choose the correct shape on the surfbar without actually clicking it: just hovering your mouse over it is enough, and you can even set the delay in your member options (or disable it if you wish so). Actually, that's what I did since I find clicking to be faster and don't see much point in Hover Surf at all. However, it's nice to have the option and I'm sure some members must appreciate it.

Second, we have Activity Levels in which work similarly to those in StartXChange - but with much bigger rewards, I might add. You get activity points for surfing, referring, simply logging into your account, and promoting. You get a tiny number of activity points for promoting all over the web, and a much bigger amount for showing your referral URL in a special set of "approved" manual exchanges. As for rewards, there are weekly jackpots which combine credits, impressions and cash into one sweet prize. Top 10 members split the jackpot depending on the number of activity points that they accumulated throughout the week.

Finally, 247TrafficPro offers more handy additions that some other traffic exchanges have as well such as Private Messaging, a free rotator for promoting your websites using a single URL, personalized splash pages with your own text and picture, and a downline builder.

Overall 247TrafficPro is a very professional traffic exchange that looks great, loads lightning fast, offers great support and is a pleasure to surf due to responsive surfbar and clean sites. It seems to be a bit under the radar compared to the big boys, but that only means it will be easier to get referrals for you if you join right now. And don't miss the OTOs the first time you login (there's three offers in total - yearly gold membership, 4 months gold membership and an affordable free trial/discount subscription to Bronze which I picked up).

HitLink autosurf review

Wed, 6 May 2009 06:55:02 -0400

I've recently joined a brand new autosurf called HitLink. I bet you haven't seen an automatic traffic exchange like this before: it's an autosurf, but it also has social networking features such as friend lists, internal messaging, and rating or tagging of sites (all validated sites can be rated + or - by the members; they can also be tagged with searchable tags). We've seen plenty of such features in manual traffic exchanges like TrafficEra, but never before in an autosurf. HitLink also has other features like activity rank which rises from surfing, although that doesn't seem to do anything right now except for the informational value.

HitLink is growing fast. What are you waiting for? Sign up and start promoting your sites right now!

AdsVert review

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:04:36 -0400

This time I'd like to write about AdsVert: a great targeted text ad exchange system from the owner of TrafficG. AdsVert allows you to show simple and neat-looking text ads to a large audience on hundreds of different websites. You can target the visitors both by the interest channel (the topic of the website where the ads are shown), and by their continent or country. The ads can have the background color of your choice or bold titles for more visibility (both cost 0.5 additional credits per view).

To earn the impressions, you simply have to add one of their ad codes to your website. Unlike banner exchange codes, they are very safe since no graphics are included: only simple text ads and hyperlinks. AdsVert offers static and floating ad units of different sizes. Even if you don't have your own website, you can promote, say, a referral URL: just use the link AdsVert provides instead of your normal referral URL, and a floating text ad unit will be shown on top of it automatically! You can also buy clicks at affordable prices.

The best part about AdsVert is that you can show their text ads inside manual traffic exchanges! You are not allowed to display them inside autosurfs (and your account will be blocked for that), but manual exchanges are just fine. I use them with several of my splash pages to easily get some effective advertising & free traffic!

French autosurf: nice autosurf

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:43:19 -0400

This time I'd like to introduce a french autosurf that I joined recently. It's called nice autosurf and it really is nice since it is very active and has over 100,000 members (meaning more unique hits for you!). Even if you don't know French (I don't) you should manage to signup and find the link to the surfbar (it's called "Lance la visionneuse pour gagner des points"). If you run into any problems, you can always use Google Translate to make sure you understand what the site says. After you signup, it's the simple deal of starting the surfbar from your bookmarks just like with any other autosurf.

You might wonder why go through the trouble of signing up at a French autosurf, when there are so many English ones around. The thing is, if you are promoting traffic exchanges which give you credits or points for showing their referral URLs on autosurfs, you want to show them to a broad and fresh audience, and more importantly, you want unique IP hits. Same deal with PTPs where you want as many unique IPs as possible. That's why it's usually a good idea to get hits from other countries such as France or Germany. Besides, most Europeans are usually taught English as their second language in schools, so if you show your English website on a French traffic exchange, chances are, most people will understand what it's about.

TrExList.com lists several great foreign traffic exchanges in French, German, Italian, Spanish and more.

WebYourWay aka GetTheBar

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:54:28 -0500

I have recently stumbled upon a program called WebYourWay or GetTheBar (their promotional website). As you might have guessed from the name, it involves downloading a toolbar and then using it to make searches and click ads. The revenue is then shared with the users. They also offer a 7 level deep downline system and a free e-mail (BMail) that will also earn you some cash just for using it.

The payouts are made to your PayPal account once you reach $10 in cash balance.

I have a few concerns of course; mainly privacy and security, the fact that it's still in pre-launch and hasn't proven itself yet, and also the fact that they only make payments to US citizens for now (international members will be able to make money too, starting sometime between now and March. For now everyone can signup and start building their downlines). However, I do intend to signup, check it out, and promote it a little, with minimum investment until I'm sure it's trustworthy.

TopTierTraffic

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:46:23 -0500

Matthew Graves, the owner of WebBizInsider, has launched a new traffic exchange called TopTierTraffic. This brand new TE uses a clean layout that reminds me of PayPal and features an interesting surfing ladder system, similar to the one seen in TrafficPods or LinkCrews. The more you surf, the higher your Position is, and the more Virtual Referrals you get placed under you.

Here's a little excerpt from the TopTierTraffic member area that explains the whole thing:

It all starts with Position Points. Like all traffic exchanges, you earn Traffic Credits by surfing other member's websites using the surfbar. However, at TopTierTraffic, being an active participant in our community also earns you Position Points. Every action you do that helps other members, or helps build the community, will earn you Position Points. Surfing, clicking Text Ads and Banners, reading upline emails from other members and clicking their links inside, referring new members, even just showing your referral page, can all earn Position Points. This gives all the members a great incentive for being active in our community.

What do you do with Position Points? Well that is where the fun comes in. Each week, every member starts with 0 position points and they try to earn as many as possible so they can get to the top of the Weekly Position Point Leaderboard. The higher you are on the Leaderboard, the more members you get in your Virtual Downline for the following week. It is a forced matrix where the order is mixed up every week.

Midnight Sunday night, the point counters are set back to zero and everyone gets to hear about how many members are in their virutal downline for the next week. Your virtual downline works just like a multilevel real downline. You can email them once that week and you earn referral credits whenever they surf ... SIX LEVELS DEEP!

It is a fast-growing (mainly thanks to the members joining straight from WebBizInsider) traffic exchange that is sure to be among the industry leaders in the future. You can join now and enjoy the one-time premium mebership offer as well as be one of the first to signup. The exchange is in pre-launch phase and even the surfing isn't enabled yet as I'm typing this. I only hope that TopTierTraffic will also have a more secure surfbar than WebBizinsider currenly does.

365AutoHits.com is back

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:26:44 -0500

365AutoHits.com autosurf has been brought back by the owners after a long downtime. The site now uses a modern automatic traffic exchange script that allows you to access the surfbar directly without having to login, and my favorite feature: ability to convert credits into banner or text link impressions. The designers and programmers are still working on the site so some parts might be incomplete, but it's already looking great.

If you're out of ideas of what to promote in an autosurf, just save up credits and convert them to text link impressions. While CTR will be quite low (and understandably so), you won't have to spend any effort in earning the credits.