Tuesday, November 17, 2009

TRAFFIC GIANTIC = GIANTIC TRAFFIC

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Traffic Giantic sign up page title:
"Fueled By a Heart Stopping, Adrenaline Pumping Advertising Machine, Nothing Gets in Our Way When It Comes to Delivering Top-notch Traffic to Your Websites!"

The thing that always makes me wonder is the way people look at traffic exchanges and vote for them. Traffic Giantic is currently on position 50 on Affilate Funnel, and in my opinion it should well be in the first five.

Online for over two years now, this traffic exchange is modern, interesting, and rewarding to its active users in many ways.

Traffic Giantic is owned and operated by Kenneth Kraakstadt who also operates such TEs like Traffic Muscles, Generalen Traffic Empire, or the latest Generalen Power. It was launched in September 2007 and in my opinion it is still one of the state-of-the-art traffic exchanges.

First of all it offers four levels of membership with various bonuses for each level. Unlike many other traffic exchanges, Traffic Giantic allows a free member to list 20 websites, which may be easily 10 times as many if you use the rotator also offered as a part of the system.

The smallest surfing ratio is 2:1 (free members, two sites surfed = one credit/view of your site), but it is dynamic and changes very quickly, so after some time you may be surfing with 1:1 ratio as well, even as a free member. The timers start at 10 seconds for free members, and go down with each upgrade.

Secondly, there are two modes of surfing (both manual, there is no autosurf): click surf and hover surf where you don't have to click a symbol but just hover your mouse over a special button. Personally, I like the hover surf feature very much as it eliminates accidental clicking on a wrong symbol.
Apart from that there is also a Team Surf where teams of surfers compete against each other to win prizes inthe form of additional surf credits.

Third feature that makes this traffic exchange user friendly and worth surfing are the surf rewards that you collect during surfing, like random bonus pages with surf credits, banner credits and text link credits, as well as 7 bonus credits regularly after each 40 pages, and prizes you get after surfing 100 and more pages. While surfing you can also find a money wheel from which you can earn cash prizes.

Traffic Giantic is not only a traffic exchange. It is also a banner and text link advertising place, and you can easily convert your surfing credits into banner credits or text link credits.
There is also a downline builder full of valuable programs that you can join and you referrals can follow, and you also earn generous bonuses after joining the programs selected for the downline builder.

Promoting Traffic Giantic is light as a breeze. The site has a viral inviter allowing you to notify your friends listed as contacts in the most popular mailing programs, a large collection of ready-made splash pages to be used in other traffic exchanges, and a large collection of customizable splash pages which you can personalize yourself.

Among other important features I should also mention the downline mailer. Yes, you can send mail to your downline from within the traffic exchange itself!

Surfing is easy, especially when you use the hover surf feature. The surfbar is mobile, so it appears both at the top and at the bottom of the screen, but when you just have to hover your mouse pointer over a small banner, it is not slowing you down.

Summing up:

- downline builder
- downline mailer
- random pages with rewards (banner, text, page credits)
- regular reward of 7 credits after each 40 pages
- hover surf
- team surf
- dynamic surf ratio
- comfortable surfing

And many other features that users can discover themselves make Traffic Giantic a very valuable asset in a serious surfer's collection.

My recommendation is JOIN at once and vote on Affiliate Funnel to bring it as high as it deserves.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

FOREVER CONCEPTS - a Traffic Exchange with a Mission

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I devote my first review to the Forever Concepts Traffic Exchange for two reasons. First, it is, as far as I know, the newest traffic exchange on the Internet, and second, because it is a traffic exchange with a difference.

Forever Concepts Traffic Exchange is not just a traffic exchange. Created in Australia by Joseph and Abra Riley, it is a traffic exchange with a mission. This is what the creators themselves write about it:
ForeverConcepts Traffic Exchange is a Purpose driven online traffic generation community dedicated to driving traffic, signups and sales to our members sites.

The owner, Joseph Riley is new to TE ownership, but not to traffic exchanges. He's been surfing and promoting for quite a while now... and decided to jump in with both feet.

This isn't an ordinary Traffic Exchange, however, Joseph has a purpose in mind.
He's deeply committed to helping entrepreneurs, and wants to spread the word... so you can help people too. But here's the thing... it's on him!

That's because Forever Concepts is a member of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. And the people at Forever Concepts want to gather enough funds to facilitate 10,000 new loans to Kiva entrepreneurs. And then 10.000 more, and then...... and then..........

Now about the traffic exchange itself.

When you go the home page, you'll greeted with a welcome page explaining what the Traffic Exchange is about. At the bottom, there is a "Join Now" button, and when you join and confirm your e-mail, you can log into the members area.

The members area is neatly laid out with tabs on the top, with self-explanatory labels, so you know which to click to do what.

Below, there is another menu, not often met in other traffic exchanges if any. Once you log-in, be sure to check it, as it is full of nice surprises for everybody.

The first thing you have to do is to click the "Sites" tab and set-up the site you are going to promote. Required auto-assign is at 25%. After having set your pages, you can start surfing.

Adding sites is very easy. It is enough to enter the URL in the box, and the site is automatically verified with Hits Connect Sites Approval System, and up and running for displaying if it passes the checks.

What I miss, however, is the possibility to add at least a short description to the site, and the URL itself may not tell you too much about the site you are promoting.
The site supports rotators as well. I tried to add one created with TE-Toolbox, and it worked, but the approval time is significantly longer, so have patience.

Forever Concepts Traffic Exchange uses dynamic surf ratio, which means that the more you surf, the more credits you get per page after reaching specified number of pages. Of course if you don't want to surf, you can always buy credits, and the price is reasonable.

The basic surf ratio is 2:1 (for two sites seen you get one credit), but you can start with a higher ratio, when you upgrade. Forever Concepts Traffic Exchange offers two levels of upgrade in form of monthly subscription, both priced very reasonably, and both offering measurable benefits, like 1:0.8 and 1:1 surfing ratio, respectively, a number of credits added to your account every month, and other goodies.

The look and feel of the surfing area is also very pleasant. The layout is simple, the proper surfbar is always at the top, with text ads and banner ads, and the statistics are at the bottom together with a wordsearch game in which you win various number of credits by completing a whole phrase with letters found while surfing.

No unnecessary bells and whistles make this traffic exchange very pleasant to use, and the reasonably priced upgrade options encourage upgrading and getting additional benefits.

Definitely Forever Concepts Traffic Exchange is worth joining, especially that it is so new, and getting referrals, and building good downlines should be much easier than at the more crowded exchanges.

My recommendation: JOIN
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WELCOME!

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Welcome to Traffic Exchanges Review, a blog about traffic exchanges as seen by an average user that I am. That's right, I am not an expert, but I've been using traffic exchanges for some time, and I'd like to share my observations in the form of personal reviews. Whatever I will be writing here reflects my personal opinions and views, and often they may differ from what you see on various traffic exchanges review sites, like Affiliate Funnel or Traffic Hoopla.

I hope you'll find my posts useful when deciding which traffic exchange to join and how to use it best.

Enjoy reading.
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