Okay, never thought I would get involved with these type discussions but these things keep popping up for discussion. No, I will never post a link to one that I feel is a bad exchange, nor do I have any intention of banning them from Soaring4Traffic at this time.
My only response is to point out 2 things that stick out when deciding whether to become a member of any traffic exchange. Tim Linden, owner of Startxchange is currently writing a series on his blog that I personally will follow, just to see what he has to say. Tim Linden’s Blog link
Jon Olson also had some comments on his latest Hit Exchange News. Many discussions in forums and other blogs that frankly I have forgotten where they were, so it might be up to you to search them out. lol
Many owners and long time users of traffic exchanges have known this all along, however it seems now that more are speaking out in an attempt to if nothing else educate traffic exchange users of things to beware of. Many feel that these exchanges are giving traffic exchanges a bad name. You can of course leave your comments below. 
This is likely to be my only post concerning this matter, so here are the two things I look at before joining a new program.
As Tim stated in the first post of his series, the design is important for two reasons. First you want the site attractive enough that new members will want to join, i.e. it attracts their attention and makes them comfortable. Secondly, if the owner doesn’t care enough to create a unique attractive design, will other aspects of the program be shoddy as well?
Even if I like the design, my second red flag is the amount of credits offered to join. When a traffic exchange offers hundreds, sometimes thousands of credits to join, it will not be able to deliver, plain and simple. Sounds attractive but really not workable. Second would be the offer of thousands of credits at a ridiculously low price. No one would ever surf, no need too. No surfing, no one ever sees your site, so what would be the purpose?
Those two things can usually be seen and determined without joining. Those are my red flags and determine right away the sites I decide to advertise on. Of course there are other internal choices to make, but most are purely opinion, speculation and result oriented. Some which cannot be determined right away with a brand new exchange.
Not likely this post will be news to any Soaring4Traffic members, mainly because I feel you already know what to look for and for sure smart enough to figure this out already.
So what do you think? Some say this is diluting traffic exchanges in general, will give a black eye to legitimate exchanges? Others argue that the bad exchanges will come and go, while the better ones continue to grow and thrive?
Would love to have your opinion since this is a very serious business for me, not a hobby.
Now, on to other news. Speaking of traffic delivery, Soaring4Traffic’s activity is flying very high, a good thing yes, but credits are flying out the door too fast for my taste.
How do we solve this? Never thought I would say this, but have taken a couple of internal steps to slow things down a tad. But I also need your help. Login, assign some credits to your sites. We have literally thousands of credits not assigned or sites placed on hold. Let’s get them rotating as soon as possible. Credits sitting in your account are not doing you any good, your sites need to be seen.
Simple math, more sites in rotation, slower the traffic delivery will be.
Other steps taken are to increase the surf bonuses, so look for those while surfing. For those that don’t have time to surf, all credit purchases for the next 48 hours will be doubled automatically, please assign them after purchasing. By the way, text links are always running low, good time to add some impressions there as well.
If you’re wondering why you haven’t gotten any blog posts lately, been working hard in the background on some things that we want to add. Also took the leap, purchased a couple of books on PHP and MySql web development. Since I’m a slow reader and one of these books is like 4 inches thick, don’t worry, won’t be messing anything up for quite some time.
That’s all for today, keep Soaring higher! Login now, surf for extra bonus credits, and or make your special purchases.
Ray White - Proud Owner
Soaring4Traffic.com
P.S. After talking about bad traffic exchanges, there will be notification of a new one posted here within the next few days that will certainly fall into the “Good” or should I say, “Excellent” category.
