Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Auto-surfs

The other main flavour of Traffic exchange is an auto-surf exchange. What I mean by an auto-surf is a series of websites are shown to the surfer without having to interact with the program to load the next page in the set.

Pros. - The lazy way of getting traffic credits. Your fingers, arms and wrists are not as sore. You look at the ads in a more relaxed manner thus you may be more prone to click on a site for information that you like, before the robot changes the page. Ads usually cost less on an auto-surf.

Cons.- The traffic credits are not worth nearly as much as the manual credits because there is no way of knowing if your site is even seen by a person, or they just turned on their machine and walked away. An auto-surf can interfer with other things you are doing if you have multiple browsers or tabs open (eg. reading emails and surfing at the same time). The exchanges tend to be more prone to bugs and more easliy hacked. Some auto-surf exchanges are a waste of your time and money.

One of the things some auto-surf exchanges do is add bonus credits or money for the surfers to get in the time period certain sites are run, so if you want the bonuses, you have to babysit the exchanges anyway.

I use both types and I have done so consistantly for a long time, so I have a huge amount of traffic going to all my websites.

To see actual live exchanges, go to the first blog entry and click on the links.
In upcoming blog entries I will be going through other ways of getting traffic to your site.
Good luck and happy surfing.

Michael J. Kaer, President of Kaer Enterprises (.com) and www.mikesworms.com

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