I am really glad you reiterated that the point of a traffic exchange is to view other ads. Sometimes I think that so many contests are taking place that people forget to look at the other ads and instead are just surfing to rack up the credits expected to earn the perk.

Tom

The best you

The referrals are flyin… er.. soaring.. fast and furiously! Thanks for letting
me be a part of this promotion! I can’t WAIT to give somebody $200!! and $100. and $20!

and… YAY Longhorns!

=)

I’ve already got one signup from my new list as well (check it out here - http://www.carolwalczak.com.au/site/YHTP.html). Lists really do work! I just added an email about the useful surf console here at S4T to the series, so I’m expecting more signups in the future. (Btw, thanks for the console, it is great!)

I started testing traffic exchanges a couple of years ago when Google cut traffic to one of my sites in half, overnight!

I decided I would find at least three or four reliable ways to bring people to my sites in addition to search engines - which still bring the great majority of visitors.

I tried traffic exchanges and did it the cheap way for several months.

Then, one month, I had more money than time and upgraded to a premium membership in one of the TEs. I also bought a few thousand credits.

The results that month were much higher than any of my previous results, and I still hadn’t really learned about splash pages and downline building.

When I started building a downline in one of the TEs, I noticed that I was getting quite a few extra credits, even when I didn’t have time to surf. I liked that!

Now, after a couple of years, I get thousands of extra credits every month thanks to my downline’s surfing efforts.

When I have the time, I do quite a bit of surfing, myself, and I’m happy to know that my efforts provide credits for the people who referred me.

This month, I cut back on traffic exchanges and dropped my upgraded memberships in all but a half-dozen, all of which I get good results from.

Of all the TEs, I like Soaring4Traffic and ILoveHits the best. I like the owners, their generosity in regards to helping us learn more and get more results from our TE memberships and surfing.

I’ve joined over 100 TEs and I’m going to concentrate on about a dozen from here on out.

I’m getting good results from Squidoo, blogging, my websites, and several social networking sites.

I’ve taken the advice you emailed me a couple of months ago to heart, and I’m currently spending most of my time redoing my marketing plan. Now, I’m basing all my marketing around building a marketing funnel, and my Aweber autoresponder will be at the heart of it.

It’s time to build my lists.

I’ve been hearing people say this for years, but it has only recently become something I really understood. I’m a fairly bright fellow, but I’ve had a lot of trouble with this. I think I know what I’m doing, now. We’ll see.

So, I’ve been practically invisible lately as I do a lot of work offline and set things up for my future marketing efforts.

I also went through a couple of hard months dealing with caring for Mom as her health declined rapidly in August. As much as we didn’t want to do it, I’m no longer caring for her, she’s been admitted to a nursing home because I can no longer provide the level of care she needs now, and it has been a rough transition for our whole family.

Truthfully, I accomplished practically nothing as far as my marketing business was concerned in August and September, but now I’m implementing my new marketing plan.

You have been a great help to me and I appreciate it.

You’ll be seeing a lot more of me on Soaring4Traffic in the coming months, and it will be a very different approach than what I’ve been doing.

Act on your dream!

JD