Follow Up: Traffic Swarm

I have mixed feelings about this one.

On one hand, the targeting is a nice touch. You at least have control over what kinds of links you are going to look at.

There is no control, however, to control what types of people see your ads. If someone selects to see all ads so they can get more credits, then they will see your link too.

You get charged so to speak on link views, not site views. So your link itself could be seen 200 times which is 200 credits, but someone might only click it 4 times. The statistics are probably better than that, but you get my point.

It just seems like a lot of work for less of a return.

The good news is, if you set it as your home page, then every time you open your browser you will get credits. This amount has a daily cap, but its a little less of an effort than surfing.

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First Looks: Traffic Co Op

Traffic Co Op

• Traffic exchange site.
• 1.1 ratio
• 500 Free credits
• Bonus credits often

They also do banner ads and hotlinks, which appear to be completely free. No credits needed. I haven't tested this out yet, but will.

I chose this site because it has a lot of bonuses going for it. They seem to be on the new side, but have enough people to make it worth while. I say they look new because they are offering so many freebies. Being new also means fresher eyes for whatever you are promoting.

Their timer is short, which is nice, because after a while you start to see the same ads and its nice to be able to move on quicker. I actually like looking at the ads, but you get tired of seeing a few faces that are all plastered on a lot of the ads.

I now have my 3 sites and will reporting the progress.

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First Looks: Easy Hits 4 U

Easy Hits 4 U

• Traffic exchange site.
• 1.1 ratio
• $0.30 per 1000 sites you view
• 5 active sites for free
• They also do banner ads

I wanted to add 2 more sites to my free traffic experiment. Out of all the ones I have seen, this one seemed to have it together and a decent amount of people.

I wasn't planning on adding banners, but I won some free impressions on my first round of views so I could get my bonus.

You can search at a 2:1 or 1:1 rate. The 1:1 is just a longer wait in between views. Views are views as far as counting for bonuses so I have chosen to search at 2:1 rate.

All of these stats get better with a paid membership, Im good with free.

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First Looks: Traffic Swarm

If you are making money from any program, you always make more when you have referrals. Hopefully you are only promoting the good stuff and not just anything to make a profit.

I got this link from a charity I support. They use it to help get traffic to their site. They are not a big national charity so they need all the help they can get.

I signed up quite easily and found out the free credits they offer don't come until you earn 50 clicks. It sounded like this was going down the tubes, but then I read the stats.

I made them my home page so I can get full use of this.

Daily Stats You Can Earn

Opening Your Browser

• You earn one point just for opening your browser (simple enough!)
• You get credit for the first 30 each day.
• You also get a point for everyone you refer when they open their browser (and thats on the free account!)

Clicking on adds in your home page

• Clicks on the sites on your home page earn 1 - 1000 points
• They count the first 250 clicks for the day
• You have to view the ad for 20 secs to get credit
• You can not view the same ad over and over for credit (this is part of their cheat filtering system which is a good one I think)

This is all on the free system. You can upgrade for a fee and get free credits every month and more credits from referrals but Im only going the free route for now. If they turn out to really work I might think about upgrading.

This one really seems to have their act together and out of what Ive seen, I want to start here first.

To test the effectiveness, I have gone to Google's Analytic and put in my site. I put the code on this blog and will be able to track how many visitors I get and how long they stay.

This is also a free service and I recommend using something along that line to test effectiveness.

I don't know if I will make a full 250 clicks a day, but we will see how it goes.

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