It has been a while since I updated this blog and a lot has happened since my last post.

To get the dream moved into the reality stage a new domain TrafficToBurn was launched. (well technically it was one of my old domains but to most people it will appear new)

As I write this we have 1,032 traffic exchanges in our database and a membership of 471.

As is common in many programs we have several members sitting on the fence unable to decide if they want to help test or not.

However we do have a solid core of testers who have started some serious testing and we are now showing detailed testing results for over 500 traffic exchanges.

If you are an experienced traffic exchange user then you would already know that some administrators are much more active than others and take more of an interest in what happens at their exchange. This is evident in the number of exchanges where testing URLs have been submitted but are taking several days weeks or even months to be approved and to start receiving hits.

Many exchange owners have joined us and are eager to see the results of the testing and compare their exchange with others and get ideas on how to improve their own.

Based on a combination of my own ideas and feedback received from members, several features have already been added to TrafficToBurn and there is a lot of interest being shown in these new features.

In addition of the detailed stats on each exchange, members are able to add the top performing exchanges to their down-line builder.

I believe this is now the biggest traffic exchange down-line builder on the internet.

But we have taken it further. We have added two additional features which I believe have not been included in any down-line builder on the internet to date.

Firstly every traffic exchange  in your down-line builder can be added to your Group Surfer. The Group Surfer allows you to put all the traffic exchanges in your down-line builder into a surfing manager and it keeps track of when you last surfed each traffic exchange and automatically opens the next group of exchanges based on how long it is since you last surfed each exchange.

The Groups allow you to bundle your exchanges based on common elements. For example Group 1 could contain all the auto-surfs where a log in is not required or Group 7 may contain the top quality Manual Exchanges where a log on is required. You can have up to 20 groups to organize your surfing activity so you don’t forget to surf those exchanges that you may not surf every day.

Then in addition to the Group feature all the traffic exchanges are put into a rotator so you can promote all the traffic exchanges in your down-line builder using 1 URL. But while you are using the rotator to promote YOU favorite exchanges you are also promoting TrafficToBurn, helping track the hits that generate the stats and in the process you are earning loyalty points which can be traded for things like a free pro upgrade.

To fully understand how this works, I recommend you join TrafficToBurn for free and then visit our conference room to discuss ideas with other active testers.

Today I set up a quick form connected to the auto-responder we will be using for the testing.

This form can be used to enter your details so I can keep all volunteers updated on the progress.

http://response-wizard.com/the-dream.php

If you know any traffic exchange members or owners who will be willing to help, please send them to this page.

Unfortunately I will be out of town over the next few days so I may not be able to respond to comments as quickly as I would like, but if I am within range of a mobile broadband connection I should be able to check in once a day.

Thanks
Norm

What I want to know… what I REALLY want to know is this.

If I am sitting at the keyboard clicking the mouse to earn traffic credits, how may times do I need to click that button to get a name and address added to my auto-responder?

How many people can answer that question? Can YOU answer that question? I suspect not.

Would you LIKE to know the answer to that question?

If you are reading this article then, I suspect you would.

Would you like to know if traffic exchange A required more or less clicks of the mouse than traffic exchange B to get that sign-up?

I bet you would. And so would I.

I Have A Dream

I have a dream of collecting the details of every traffic exchange I can find, and adding them to a central database.

The dream continues with a tribe of 100 volunteers each taking 10 of those traffic exchanges and doing some controlled tests on them. Yes that would be a controlled test on 1,000 traffic exchanges and the aim would be to test exactly how many times you need to click that mouse to get a lead into your auto-responder.

I see an auto-responder offering 2 free auto-responders to every one of the 200 volunteers that assist with the testing. Each volunteer would use one of the auto-responders to assist with the testing and it would be loaded with the same 10 articles for every tester but each article would be personalised with the affiliate links for every program that was mentioned in the series. The details of the leads collected by the test auto-responder could then be automatically moved to the second responder at the end of the 10 article series.

Would you like one of those auto-responder accounts?

If you are willing to commit to testing 10 traffic exchanges then I will give you one.

I will even run special training sessions in our conference room to help you set it up and train you how to use it.

As a volunteer tester you will also get free access to the reports where others will need to pay a small fee to get the results.

Interested?

Then watch this space for more details as this dream becomes a reality.

What we have done so far..

Today at the Conference, we had several members express an interest and we have a core team already starting to add traffic exchanges to the database.

If you would like to know more:

You can visit http://response-wizard.com/exchange-list.php to see a list of the traffic exchanges that volunteers have already added to the database.

You can then visit http://response-wizard.com/surfing-add.php to add your favourites to the list.

Then watch this space for further instructions as it is way past my bedtime in the land down-under and I am sure I will be dreaming a little more tonight.

Over the years you may have read articles stating how important your keywords are and how the search engines read your keywords to determine what your page is about.

Well times change and so do search engines. The keywords are becoming less and less important to search engines when it comes to determining what your page is about.

You may have also heard that the more links in to your site, the more popular your site is deemed to be. Links in is a very important part of your SEO but one thing that is often overlooked is what you say in the link.

I still see thousands of sites on the internet where it may say something like Click Here to visit my site …

Now what does that tell the search engines about the site that you are linking to? Absolutely Nothing!

So just how important are the actual words used un the link? Let’s do a little experiment. If we search Google for the words Click Here what site would you expect to be at the top? Do you think you would find a dedicated site that has the words Click Here in the domain name and in the title and in the keywords and in the content?

You may be surprised.

Give it a try and see.

What I get at the top of the organic (non paid) listing is Adobe Reader.

I have looked in the source code, titles, keywords, body and all over the site biut I do not find anything about the phrase Click Here. Their site has nothing to do with clicking here or anywhere.

Now consider this. How many times have you arrived on a web site and seen something like this “To read this document you will need Adobe Reader. If you do not have a copy Click Here to download your free copy.

There are millions of web sites using something similar to the above. Google looks at the words used in the link to help determine what the site is about.

So let’s have a look at an example of how this might be used.

Take The Traffic Laundry as an example. Lets say we wanted to get The Traffic Laundry AutoSurf on Page One on Google for the search term AutoSurf Traffic Exchange? How would we word the link to get the greatest effect.

Rather than click her to join The Traffic Laundry it would be far better to use something like as follows.

If you need traffic to your web site, and you need lots of it delivered fast then I strongly recommend you join The Traffic Laundry AutoSurf Traffic Exchange. This contains within the wording of the link the key phrase that we want to use to get to the top of Google for the phrase AutoSurf Traffic Exchange.

On a farm you have animals.

Note: After you finish reading this article, you may wish to join The Traffic Laundry AutoSurf and start testing the theory

For this example let’s say you have some horses, some bulls and some chickens.

They produce horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht right?

Yes loads of it.

Just like some people you meet on the internet right?

This is smelly ugly stuff you would NEVER dream of eating or putting anywhere near your kitchen table

However the new breed of ORGANIC farmers, just like our forefathers did, now recommend you USE this smelly dirty stuff. They tell you where to put it.

They say to put it not just on your veggie patch, but rather on anything that you may normally plant in the ground and want to see grow.

Now a word of warning:

Too much horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht can kill a young seedling so be careful how much you use.

You need to get the balance right.

Mix it in the right proportions and let it stand and mature.

Once it has matured, you no longer call it dirty smelly horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht but high-quality ORGANIC fertilizer.

Out of this organic fertilizer springs forth some amazing produce. For example, it is a perfect base for excellent mushrooms that many people find to be tasty and nutritious.

In its’ original form this horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht is not edible tasty or nutritious to humans, but to plants, wow don’t they just love it?

Mother Nature uses some amazing processes to combine this horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht with sunlight and moisture and produce from it a greater variety of flowers, blossoms, buds, fruits, vegetables and trees than humans have yet managed to document.

You would never actually use the original product as a side dish on your table, but the results of adding it to your veggie garden allows the worlds best chefs to create some of the must culinary delightfully experiences imaginable. They use it to produce flavors that stimulate the pallet in some amazing ways.

So what have horses, bulls and chickens that produce horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht got to do with generating quality traffic to your web site? What can we lean from this process that will help to build an on-line business that produces a profit?

Let’s look at the AutoSurf Traffic Exchanges.

What do they produce?

Most of them are loaded with bullsiht and the results you get from them are chickensiht.

Now let me say at this point that there are exceptions to every rule. As well as producing loads of chickensiht, some chickens produce eggs and some bulls produce top quality edible prime beef. However in their lifetime, most bulls will produce a lot more bullsiht than beef.

This is the same with AutoSurf Traffic Exchanges.

You will get some quality signups, but sorting through the chickensiht to find the eggs is not a pleasant task. As every poultry farmer knows, you need to clean away the chickensiht on a regular basis.

The traffic you get from many AutoSurf Traffic Exchanges is smelly dirty stuff that you wouldn’t put your favorite vitamin supplement advertisement anywhere near.

But take this horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht that you get from the AutoSurf  Traffic Farm and place it at the base of a traffic exchange that produces quality harvestable fruits and you can make that traffic exchange grow bigger, better, stronger and more productive.

Now just like the organic fruit and veggie farmer, the organic traffic farmer knows this:

If you put too much horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht onto a traffic exchange then you could actually bury it and kill it.

So just like the fruit and veggie farmer you need to mix the horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht in the correct quantities and let it mature. Then distribute it in the right quantities, and in the right places. You must use it where it will do the most good.

A good traffic exchange owner, just like a good organic farmer knows and manages the amount of organic fertilizer they can use.

Some farmers produce all their own organic fertilizer, while other farmers can’t produce enough to meet their own needs, and will pay to have organic fertilizer supplied from fellow organic farmers who are producing more than he can use on their own farms.

Sometimes there is a company or “middle man” involved that will collect, store and re-sell this organic fertilizer and he is rewarded for his efforts. When this happens we have a win-win-win situation where the farmers on both sides plus the “middle-man” all benefit from the process.

Traffic exchange owners may do the same thing.

They may ask another traffic exchange owner, or member, to send them some organic fertilizer so help their exchange grow.

Some may reward you for your promotional efforts by giving you extra credits when a new member joins the traffic exchange. This is a little like a commission for making a sale. Some will even pay you real money for doing this.

Other traffic exchanges may reward you just for sending visitors to their site, or displaying their promotional page to POTENTIAL customers. This is a little like paying for advertising on TV, Radio, or in the press. However the traffic exchange owner has the added advantage that they can measure the results. This can be done far more accurately than a traditional business can measure the results from a TV ad. A traffic exchange owner can record the IP address from every visitor. Most traffic exchanges that reward you for sending visitors, will only reward you for the first, or unique, visit from each unique IP address each day.

Now here is the point where I tell you the central key purpose of this page.

Just like the “middle-man” who negotiates with the producers and users of the “horsesiht bullsiht and chickensiht” (AKA ORGANIC Fertilizer) you can become a supplier of traffic to those traffic exchange owners who willing to reward you for delivering it.

First, you need to find some potential customers.

We need to find traffic exchanges are interested in growing. This part should not be hard.

Next we need to look at their willingness to accept the traffic you can supply. If someone does not need, or does not WANT, your product then they are not likely to be a potential customer.

Then you need to look at what they are willing to pay for your product. Normally they will pay you with Traffic Credits.

You need to look at two things. You need to know how many credits they will give you, but you also need to know what value those credits have. How many quality signups to your newsletter or sales of your bottles of snake oil are you likely to get by using the credits they give you. Be careful on this point as there are many instances where you may find that you have simply exchanged your high quality organic fertilizer for their poorer quality chickensiht.

FastFreewWay is one of the long-running traffic exchanges on the internet. They have outlasted many others and they are still growing every day.

How do I know this?

Because I am helping them grow.

How are we working together in a win-win arrangement to achieve this growth?

They run a daily competition that rewards the top 20 promoters every day.

Some so-called gurus have been openly critical of this process.

What right have the so-called gurus got to tell the traffic exchange owners how to grow their traffic exchange and how much of what type of fertilizer they should use? Is this not the prerogative of the traffic exchange owner to decide?

Whilever a traffic exchange is happy for me to deliver high quality organic fertilizer to make their exchange grow, I will deliver as much as they want.

If they do not need any more then I stop delivery.

What is the problem with that?

I am happy to discuss with any traffic exchange owner how much they would like delivered.

Maintaining the critical mathematical calculations to balance the exchange is the responsibility of the owner of the exchange and they should not be obligated to bow before some self proclamed guru to ask their blessing.

Simple Fact 1… MostAutoSurf Traffic Exchanges do not produce results.

Simple Fact 2… Many AutoSurf Traffic Exchanges do have a large and active membership and are capable of sending a lot of unique daily visitors to your site.

Simple Fact 3… Many experts will tell you (based on simple fact 1) that is is a waste of time using AutoSurf Traffic Exchanges because all they do is generate useless or “dirty” traffic that is simply a waste of bandwidth and server resources.

Simple Fact 4… The quality of manual traffic exchanges (when measured by signups per 1,000 hits) can vary from exceptionally good to totally useless. The vast majority fall into that mediocre range that you would not call good but you would not call bad either.

Simple Fact 5… Some manual traffic exchanges will reward you for promoting their program and give you traffic credits just for displaying their signup page in other traffic exchanges. They generally only give you credits for each unique visit. A unique visit is counted as the first visit. This is to prevent anyone from visiting the page hundreds of times a day,  just to get the free credits.

Simple Fact 6… You can generate a lot of hits from AutoSurf Traffic Exchanges with little effort but the hits are mostly useless or “dirty” traffic. Manual traffic exchanges require a lot more of your time because you need to manually click to generate traffic but the traffic generated is generally of a higher quality and will produce better results.

Question 1… Could this “dirty” traffic from the AutoSurf Traffic Exchanges (fact 1) be laundered through other mediocre to high quality manual sites (fact 4) that reward you for promoting their program (fact 5) and come out as good clean quality traffic that actually produces signups to your programs?

Answer 1… Yes. This has been confirmed by measured testing done on several exchanges. By using this principle, the exchanges listed in the AutoSurf Traffic Exchanges page when combined with the Manual Traffic Exchanges page can be used to produce some amazing results.

Question 2… What next?

Answer 2… Imagine you are in a laundry.

You have dirty laundry to wash.

You put your dirty clothes into the washing machine and out they come looking “like new”.

Well maybe only “almost like new” but you get the picture right?

The dirty laundry is the auto surf traffic exchanges that do not produce results but do produce a lot of unique hits. (see facts 1 2 and 3)
Note: Some AutoSurf Traffic Exchanges do produce results but these are the exception and not the rule.

The washing machines are the average or better quality traffic exchanges (normally manual) that do produce signups, and reward you for showing their signup page in other traffic exchanges. (see fact 5)

For more details visit the Step-By-Step instructions on setting up your own traffic laundry.