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In the previous post we tried to express the benefits gained from networking in forums. This was a test more than anything to see if we could increase activity for a single thread in the Members Forum.

It worked very well, thanks to those that participated and got involved. At last count the thread had reached its 6th page.

Activity in other threads was also noticed. First let me stress how important it is to use forums. The networking is probably the most important. Meeting new like minded people, getting answers to questions, and offering your own opinion for various subjects. This really does work. Whether you like the answers received really doesn’t matter, people have different personalities and therefore come across differently.

The other important aspect is how fast these active threads get indexed by search engines. A good signature file is important. Your full name, your site links properly placed etc. Example of this can be found on the 6th page of this thread where Doug Pare has given some links to verify how search engines have reacted to this thread. Check out the entire thread here:

http://www.themembersforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5298

While that thread is still active, why not join, make your post relative to the thread content? If you’ve already made a post, be sure to setup your sig file. There is a thread with instructions of how to do that also.

For more exposure, links to your sites, your name exposed etc, these are my favorite forums to visit, in no particular order. I have each one bookmarked on my browser and try to visit each day, check out new threads, find ones of interest, and leave a comment if the mood strikes me.
NetMarketing Forum
The Members Forum
Affiliate Funnel Forum - must be a member. Sign Up Here!
The Soaring Eagle and Friends Forum - Bet you didn’t know we had one, haven’t promoted it much, but will be reviving it soon!

Other great places to leave your name for branding purposes and your site url are blogs of course. Hint below…

Find other blogs on the main page of this blog under “My Favorite Blogs”, in fact Tim Linden recently posted an interview with me that was done about 4 months ago on his blog.
http://www.timlinden.com/blog/interviews/interview-with-ray-white/

Why not leave your comments?

And now as a follow up to the previous post on list building. Since in my opinion it is one of the best ways to build your business and make use of your traffic exchange advertising. The email series List Building Simplified is my answer to begin building your list without much cost if any.

No need for a website, domain name, hosting, or even expertise in html, php etc. Of course later you will want these things but to begin they really are not a must have. In this email series, we try to provide tools, products, follow up emails to copy and paste, all at no cost.

One thing you must understand up front, each free product will likely come with a special OTO for upgraded status with more benefits. Free products almost always do. Webmasters must pay their programmers, designers, hosting and domain costs. Whether you upgrade or not is strictly your choice, just don’t be upset when these offers are made. Easy to turn them down and go the free route for now.

One program not currently added in the email series, mainly because it was just launched yesterday is Daily Niche Idea. Not only a good source for more products but also new niche ideas come on a daily basis. Likely will be added as soon as possible.

All is explained in the email series, which I must say is going well. Using the exact same techniques and programs in the email series, 50 subscribers the first 24 hours with very little advertising.

So in summary, to get your name known and begin building your business without costs, use forums, blogs, list building and the lowest cost advertising on the net, Traffic Exchanges!

As always, leave your comments or experiences below.

Have an awesome Soaring Eagle day!

Ray

Two subjects one post, actually they are both related.

The idea for both are to increase your success with advertising when using traffic exchanges. Better results means more active members, which in turn benefits all.

First is List Building. It has been hammered repeatedly how best to advertise in traffic exchanges. Almost every active owner or successful user of traffic exchanges try to instill in all members the most effective advertising techniques.

While it may be easy to use program standard affiliate pages and or long sales letters, these have proven to discourage more users of traffic exchanges to just give up. When spending hours surfing or valuable dollars purchasing credits without results it is only natural to be discouraged and decide that traffic exchanges don’t work. They do by the way!

You see, I’m no different. That is exactly how I started my traffic exchange advertising and believe me it was disappointing to say the least. How were others being so successful and yet no results for me?

This is where forums came into play and actually put me on the path I needed to be. I finally got it through my thick skull that it wasn’t traffic exchanges at all, it was my way of advertising. Guess what, most of this info came from forums.

Ok, first thing I learned was the need for personal splash pages to brand one’s self but more importantly “lead capture” pages to build a list of subscribers. Much simpler to build a list, build relationships, then make your recommendations. In other words lets not call it a “list”, has bad vibes, more appropriately your customer base.

List building is what I finally embraced and in my efforts to simplify things, (my style) wrote a series of emails that might interest you if you are willing to give it a go. Have gotten many emails lately from members wanting to know how to build splash pages, where to learn html, how to build lead capture pages, etc.

To me that’s techie stuff not necessarily needed in the beginning. Especially when there are programs that do it for you, including products to sell and even follow up copy and paste emails you can use. It just doesn’t get any simpler than that.

In my List Building Simplified email series, all of this is made available if you have the desire to go this route. You can always unsubscribe anytime and of course there is no obligation, just some straight facts.

Sign up here if interested: http://www.soaring4traffic.com/lbs.php

Let me know what you think.

Okay now back to networking in forums. The question has come up many times why more people do not participate in forums? They are a great place to learn, get to know like minded people, build relationships, and even JV partnerships. Soaring4Traffic would not be where it is today without a couple of forums like TMF and NMF, and that’s a fact, plain and simple.

Now I want to hear your opinion! I really want to know the reason you do not participate in forums. First a thread has been started in The Members Forum about inactivity. Would really like you to go to this thread and give your honest opinion. For doing so, I’ll sweeten the pot by adding 100 credits to your Soaring4Traffic account, but only if real reasons are posted. Just be honest. This is the thread link:

http://www.themembersforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5298

Now for those that rather not post in the forum, you can leave your comments below. BUT posting your reasons here are only worth 50 credits. Oh be sure to use your real name or username familiar to S4T so credits can be applied properly. Please do this, its important and would be valuable information to know.

Okay, fine, that’s enough for now..

Tomorrow there will be another post on this blog, be sure to check it out. It will fit in well with those interested in adding ideas and products to sell to your List, when of course you get to work on that.

Keep Soaring with Eagles, we appreciate your support and value your friendship more than you know.

Ray

Hope everyone had a nice relaxing Fathers day! Also hope everyone had some fun, racked up lots of credits for your advertising and maybe even won some cash or prizes during our week long party.

All parties must come to an end. Sad I know, but really want to thank everyone for your enthusiasm and support during the one year anniversary celebration. The Party might have ended but the traffic at Soaring4Traffic won’t!

Now down to business. The final Soaring Jackpot drawing was completed yesterday. Had a little help from some friends. This way you can blame them if you didn’t win. Only wish there was a way to furnish prizes for everyone that participated.

Don’t have exact numbers, but a good guess would be over 2500 tickets in the drawing. Some may have had the max of 9 tickets, some may have only had 1 or 2, we didn’t keep tabs on that either. Only each member would know how many days they reached the 100 site minimum.

And now, what everyone has been waiting for. Find out if you won below.

Drum roll please, and the winners are:

Soaring4Traffic.com Winners

One Year Soaring Eagle Upgrade - tough2beat
6 Month Soaring Eagle Upgrade - ph5050
3 Month Soaring Eagle Upgrade - susanweisenburg
5,000 Credits - crisco
$25 Cash - cron02
2000 Credits - carly690
1 Month Soaring Eagle Upgrade - jthunt
1,000 Credits - saphyre
5,000 Banner Impressions - jace1
10,000 Text Link Impressions - blaise

Traffic at the Races Winners One Thousand Credits won by each of the following members:

gptrgarden, bebes, dcubed, tazmart, southernpal

Affiliate Funnel Winners - One month upgrades have been won by the following two members:

lavonna, vixen

Jeff Schuman Consultation was won by johndilbeck

Traffic Heroes Winners

The following 5 members have won 2500 credits each:

cjs727, network, spedeedoo, farmangel, srp1661

Following 5 members have each won a one month Super Hero Upgrade:

dwenglett, smiley64, patles17, hopkinsdw, panther57

Surfing For Success Winners - The following 2 members have each won a one year Pro membership:

cassiemay, hamelin

VinterChange Winner - of 500 credits goes to - millhouse

Gladiator Hits Winners

Six Month Upgrade was won by - harmony2004
5,000 Credits was won by - bamit
2,000 credits + 2,000 text link impressions won by - grandmaj

For a grand total of 34 winners in the Soaring Jackpot drawing, another 48 winners in our daily drawings, and of course thanks and congragulations to the top 5 referral contest winners! Congratulations to all Winners!

If you didn’t win a prize during the week long plus celebration, stay tuned, we have much more planned in the near future.

We would also like to thank the program owners who offered these great prizes strictly out of kindness and generosity. You added much to our total prize package and we truly appreciate and thank you from the bottom of our heart for your participation.

Winners of Soaring4Traffic prizes, your awards have been added. Check your account.

For the winners in other programs, please send me a support ticket with your username for the program in which you won a prize, or leave a comment here. Either way, we will notify the owners of each program with your usernames so the prizes can be awarded.

Hope everyone had a good time with this Party. Thanks to everyone for participating, and again congrats to all winners!

“Soaring with Eagles” just flat out ROCKS!

Ray White - Very Proud Owner
http://www.soaring4traffic.com

P.S. Wanna add another quick 7 bucks to your portfolio? Brand new traffic exchange just launched and they’re paying you $7 to join if you are one of the first 700 to do so. Might as well get your $7 now at Traffic Dynamite.

Why are we throwing a party?

Soaring4Traffic is one year old as of June 4th, 2008! With a loyal and supportive membership of almost 7,500 members, we feel the need to Soar even higher with a celebration of sorts. Let’s get right into the details.

Daily Surfing

Starting June 6th, 2008 at 00:01 am EST (New York Time), the daily surfing rewards begin. 35,000 credits awarded, 5,000 per day, 7 days total to 5 lucky winners each day. Winners (5) will be drawn from all members who surf at least 100 sites each day.

No need to claim these prizes, winners will be drawn the following day, credits awarded, winners announced in email. No limitations on how many times you can win, luck of the draw only.

More surfing bonuses will be given while surfing, look for special prize pages, and other bonuses to be announced each day by email.

Referring New Members

Also starting at 00:01 am EST, a referral contest begins and last for seven days. June 6 to13th. $250 will be awarded, $50 each to the top 5 who refer the most new members, but there’s more…

Even if you don’t reach the top 5, you still receive $1 for each new member referred. There is no limit on how much can be won, even when you make the top 5, $50 plus $1 per new referral, plus commissions should they upgrade or make purchases. Limited only by your efforts.

Normal rules apply when referring new members. See all the details on your Contest link, main member page.

PLUS, there’s More!

After the 7 day celebration, one more day of surfing 100 sites will add another chance in the final drawing to be done on Sunday, June 15th.

Each day you surf 100 sites during this celebration, will add another ticket into the prize pool for a total of 8 possible chances. Even if you are a daily winner, ticket gets placed back into the final jackpot drawing. A Soaring Jackpot for sure…and the prizes are…

Soaring4Traffic.com

1. One year Soaring Eagle Upgrade, value = $180 at reg price.
2. One six month Soaring Eagle Upgrade, value = $90 at reg price.
3. One three month Soaring Eagle Upgrade, value = $45
4. 5000 credits
5. $25 cash to account
6. 2000 credits
7. One month Soaring Eagle Upgrade
8. 1000 credits
9. 5,000 Banner Impressions
10. 10,000 Text Link Impressions

Traffic at the Races.com

Steve Ayling has pony’ed up 5,000 race points! 1,000 points each to 5 Lucky Winners! Unique free to join traffic exchange where race points have real value.

Jeff Schuman

Jeff Schuman is offering a FREE 30 minute phone consultation to explain how he is on page one of Google for over 1500 unique keywords using SEO, article marketing, forum marketing, blogging, and social bookmarking. In this call he will cover exactly how you can use these strategies to build your own business. Actual Value: $100

Affiliate Funnel

The program that provides the tools to promote you, your programs, not someone else. Also the site where surfers get to place their votes for their favorite traffic exchanges. Affiliate Funnel is offering 2 one month upgrades to our final Soaring Jackpot!

Traffic Heroes

Richard Morris, owner of Traffic Heroes has added 10 more prize winners to the Soaring Jackpot! Traffic Heroes a free manual traffic exchange where your Website Traffic is Super Charged. These awesome prizes include 5 winners of 2500 credits each, plus 5 more prizes for One month Super Hero upgrades!

VinterChange.com

Jennifer Herold is offering 500 credits to one lucky winner at VinterChange.com. Unique script, free to join traffic exchange.

Surfing For Success!

Darrell Dean, owner of Surfing For Success has added another great offer to our prize package for the final Soaring Jackpot! Not one, but TWO, one year Pro Memberships. The program to maximize your traffic exchange results with the exclusive surfing calculator!

Gladiator Hits

The Gladiator himself, Dan Davis has sharpened his sword and felt the desire to party with Eagles. He brings special gifts to three more lucky winners in our Soaring Jackpot. First a Six Month Caesar upgrade, one 5,000 credit package, and one ad package to include 2,000 credits and 2,000 text links. Gladiator Hits, a new manual traffic exchange, online a tad over 30 days and already over 2600 members.

More prizes could be added as the week progresses. Stay tuned …

How do You Win the Final Prizes?

Simply surf 100 sites each day during the celebration week to include Saturday the 14th, for 8 possible tickets in the final drawing. Each day you surf 100 sites, one entry ticket will be given.

How do You Win the Daily Credit Prizes?

Same answer, simply surf 100 sites each day to be entered in the drawing for that day.

How do You Win the Referral Contest?

Promote, promote, promote…
Use the promotional tools on your Promote page. Write your own articles, blog posts, use social bookmarking sites, send an email to your subscriber list, or any other form of advertising that has been effective for you. Just don’t spam.

Don’t forget you also get $1 for each new member referred.

In addition to the daily prizes and final Jackpot prizes, there will be more bonuses during your surfing sessions each day. Be alert for the daily emails for the details.

We wish each of you great success in your promotional efforts and good luck in each of the drawings. We have tried to provide something for everyone, whether it be surfing or referring others.

Least we forget during the excitement, Soaring4Traffic is an advertising venue. We ask that each of you show the respect for other members sites that you would want for yours.

We are so grateful for your support and loyalty to the Eagles. Without YOU there would be no Soaring4Traffic. We never forget that.

May this first year celebration only be the beginning of many years to come.

Should you have any questions concerning this celebration, please send a support ticket right away.

Enough said, It’s PARTY Time… Soar high with Eagles!

Seems there is quite a stir lately about the Traffic Hoopla ranking system.

This I’ve personally questioned over the last few months due to my own tracking and data collected, plus other conversations in forums such as the Net Marketing Forum. Seems there is concern whether the rankings are biased or in fact true realistic data.

Several other traffic exchange owners and marketers have expressed their concern. Read Tim Linden’s latest blog post on this matter.

Jon Olson, owner of several traffic exchanges and well respected in this industry, for many years has also made several comments in this respect.

On another note this post made by Robert Puddy and similar comments by others is of great concern to many.

For years I followed, believed in the Traffic Hoopla data that was being posted. Now I’m not so sure. Many questions have been brought to light. While it is a known fact that any traffic exchange ranked by Traffic Hoopla will see new activity and members, are they really joining for the right reasons?

That’s my take, comments welcome.

Guessing that everyone is finally recovering from the Fast Flipper Fortnight and Mayhem promotion.

No doubt an exciting 2 weeks plus of some awesome activity and to be perfectly honest, it has not yet subsided.

Which means of course you will need to keep an eye on your assigned credits to make sure your sites are still being rotated.

Most of the Soaring4Traffic prizes from the Mayhem prize drawing have been awarded. Congratulations to the winners. If you’ve won, and not received your prize, please send a support ticket right away. Check to see if you’ve won here:
http://www.traffic-splash.com/ffflanding.html

Soaring4Traffic will be celebrating its first birthday very soon. So many ideas have been boiling in the pot, it’s getting hard to make a final decision for the celebration. So, if you have an idea on how to celebrate the 1st birthday of the Eagles, please leave your comments.

If we choose or use your idea, we will most certainly reward you with some nice prizes.

Gladiator Hits has shown such growth and potential, many of you are already members, so we felt it necessary to add it to our list of traffic exchanges. Login, enter your referral ID#, this will add it to your surf console. If you are not a member, you seriously might want to consider. A join link is provided for you as well.

As always, thank you for your support. We truly do appreciate your activity and the time you spend with Soaring4Traffic. We know you have many options, so from the bottom of our heart, THANK YOU!

That’s it for today, just keep “Soaring with Eagles”

Ray

http://www.soaring4traffic.com/login.php

..to be announced on Saturday, May 24th at 12 noon EST!

Sorry, if I knew who the winners were, would have already made the announcement. This should be a ton of fun though as not only do we expect many members to attend the conference but a lot of traffic exchange owners as well.

Yes, the winners will be drawn and announced at the Affiliate Funnel conference on Saturday. Download the software here to attend.
http://www.traffic-splash.com/loves/afconference.php

Much to my dismay have missed the last few conferences due to personal circumstances, but most assuredly intend to be there for this one. If you’ve never attended one, be a good time to get acquainted and get involved. Meet other traffic exchange owners and members, ask the really tough questions and get straight answers.

In case you’ve forgotten, Affiliate Funnel is also the place to make your voice heard on your favorite exchanges.

Maybe you’ve been Soaring so high lately you forgot to Swoop down and cast your vote for the Eagles? Probably the reason we’ve been stuck in 21st place for the last few weeks. Take a minute right now, place your votes and lets get the Soaring Eagles moved up the ladder once again.

Vote link here, and no you don’t have to be a member, you just have to give Soaring4Traffic a good rating.
TERanking Site Link

Just kidding, give us a rating based on your true feelings. Now, if it’s bad, please leave a comment below on how you think we can best improve Soaring4Traffic. We value and need your comments to continually move forward.

Best of luck to everyone in the drawing tomorrow. Hope to see you at the conference.

Just keep Soaring higher!

Ray White - Owner/Admin
Soaring4Traffic.com

Yes, today is the last day for the awesome promotion created and coordinated by Mr. Paul Kinder of Traffic Splash. Getting 20 traffic exchanges to work together, combine efforts has to be a first. Kudos Paul!

To my knowledge there has never been a larger combined effort put forth by this many exchanges. 20 in all, all top of the line exchanges.

First we had a fortnight (2 weeks) of surfing promotions which awarded over 400,000 free credits total, 1,000 credits each to 30 winners each day.

Second phase was total Mayhem, started 15th of May, ending today May 18th, 2008! For a chance to win thousands of dollars worth of prizes in each exchange, members only had to surf 100 sites in each to qualify.

If you haven’t placed your name in the drawing, today is your final day. Still have a few hours to get it done..

Be sure you login now, surf a minimum of 100 pages to insure your entry.
>>>>> http://www.soaring4traffic.com/login.php

Check out all the prizes, traffic exchanges participating and winners posted here:

>>>> http://www.traffic-splash.com/ffflanding.html

Prize drawings will be held after all entries have been received and tabulated. Guessing winners will be posted and prizes awarded within the next couple of days. Best of luck to each of you!

Oh, and just in case you haven’t seen this yet, Josh Abbott created one of the neatest banner tools I’ve seen to date. Have been setting up my banners the last couple of days and already seeing results. You know me and tools, love things that create easier more organized means for online business advertising.

It’s called Intellibanners great name for it, so check it out when you have time.

Keep Soaring with Eagles!

Ray White - Proud Owner
Soaring4Traffic.com

Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, total MAYHEM is starting on the 15th of May and ends on the 18th!

If it applies, put the kids to bed, lock up the pets and allow me to grab your attention for just a few minutes!

420,000 credits have already been given away in the largest joint surfing promotion ever in the traffic exchange world and now it gets even bigger! We have now moved to the Giveaway Mayhem!

Fast Flipper Fortnight was the warmup - now it’s time for MAYhem! We had 14 days of madness and now, from Thursday 15th May to Sunday 18th May there follows four whole days of Giveaway Mayhem.

All you have to do is surf 100 pages in a day at any of the 20 exchanges listed to earn yourself a ticket in the prize draw so if you surf 100 pages at all 20 exchanges in a day - you will earn yourself 20 prize draw tickets.

If you surf all 20 exchanges all four days you will earn yourself 80 tickets in the big prize draw.

There is no need to claim, you just surf 100 pages and you will automatically be entered in the draw to win. Simple enough, yes?

So what can you win?

Let me first tell you what you can win at Soaring4Traffic.

1. One “Lifetime Soaring Eagle Membership” plus extra bonuses. Total value of over $1300, priceless.
2. Two (2) “One Year Soaring Eagle Memberships”, plus extra surprise bonuses, valued over $1200!
3. One “Site of the Week”, currently selling for $25, value much more!
4. 5,000 Credits!
5. Three (3) “1,000 Credit” packages!

Grand total of 8 lucky winners, just for Soaring4Traffic! Just think, there are 20 exchanges participating in this promotion.

Now don’t purchase from this page, but here is a sneak preview of partial bonuses and value with an upgraded Soaring Eagle membership. Not all bonuses are shown on this page, many more when you get the entire page. See it here..

Wait, there’s more. During the 4 days of Mayhem, bonus credits will be increased, plus a ton of prize pages will be rotated randomly while surfing. Grab the extra bonus credits on your surf bar by clicking the link.

Watch carefully for the prize pages being rotated, report them to have bonuses magically show up in your account later.

Plus, if you need more credits all credit packages will be doubled during Mayhem, automatically! Example: purchase 1,000 credit package, automatically receive 2,000 credits, etc.

Mayhem starts on the 15th, since participating exchanges are in different time zones, be sure to check each. Soaring4Traffic Mayhem starts at 12:01 am Eastern Daylight time zone on the 15th. Stats for number of pages surfed each day can be found on your main member page.

Most likely started by the time you read this post…

Who are the participating Traffic Exchanges?

Get all the details for each exchange, who’s participating and the awesome array of prizes to be won here:
http://www.traffic-splash.com/ffflanding.html

Mayhem is going to be awesome and I wish each member of Soaring4Traffic the best of luck and much success with your advertising!

FYI, Soaring4Traffic will be one year old on the 4th of June. We have several ideas and plans in the works to celebrate. After the completion of Mayhem, stay tuned for what we have in store.

That’s it for today. Swoop down and Seize YOUR Success! Soar with Eagles!

Oh, one more thing, be sure to keep your sites in rotation, assign credits.

Ray White - Proud Owner
http://www.soaring4traffic.com

Yet another update on the Fast Flipper Fortnight promotion.

Sure hope everyone is enjoying this awesome combination of 20 top traffic exchanges and grabbing hundreds if not thousands of extra credits. Don’t forget this ends on the 14th, then on the 15th, Mayhem breaks out, stay tuned for that.

Soaring4Traffic winners for the 10th of May were as follows:

kbrown79
surveywerx
riches4u2
joegraysd
hdrules

Congratulations to each of you, 1,000 credits were added to your accounts.

Get the complete list of previous winners plus scheduled promotions here:
http://www.traffic-splash.com/ffflanding.html

On another note, we moved the Eagles to a new server. Everything went very smoothly, hardly anyone noticed we moved.

We did however run into some issues with the mailing system. So, if you are receiving emails that look a tad late, or look out of place, that is more than likely the reason. Please bear with us, the issue is being addressed asap. Let me know if you see anything odd due to the mailing system.

With increased activity we continue to run low on sites in rotation and especially run out of text links to display. Login, make sure yours get seen.

That’s it for today, stay tuned for the 15th Mayhem notification.

Keep Soaring with Eagles!

Ray White
http://www.soaring4traffic.com/login.php