The issue of tabbed browsing when surfing exchanges

In my previous post I provided you with a list of five traffic exchanges I found worth joining since they had a high membership and offered a good ratio of credits to sites surfed.

Now the experienced surfer of traffic exchanges - if not buying credits - will surf for several hours daily to build up credits to have his/her site visible. Since each exchange has a timer which forces you to stay on the page for a certain number of seconds - between 6 and 15 depending on the exchange, it makes good sense not to just sit and wait. With browsers such as Opera and Mozilla you can browse several sites at once using tabbed browsing. In the case of Mozilla simple go to "File" on the toolbar and click on "New Tab". The image below shows you what an example of tabbed browsing using the Mozilla/Firefox browser





Usually I open about six tabs and browse the exchanges one after another as the timer has run out by the time I get round to number 1 exchange again. While this is an efficient means of browsing Traffic Exchanges it does have one major disadvantage which is a bit self-defeating. You actually are not looking at the sites you are surfing - you are merely intent upon getting as many credits as possible. And that alone is one of the major drawbacks of the whole traffic exchange system - over 90% of the surfers are not even interested in looking at your site. All they want is credits.

Traffic exchanges I would recommend

Firstly, this is an objective and impartial list of the Traffic Exchanges which gave me the most exposure over the past 12 months. I base this list on the number of signups I received through the exchange, the number of persons who became one of my downline members [Downliners is a topic I will come back to in a later postings as for the serious Traffic Exchange surfer it is an extremely important issue]

My top five exchanges are:

http://www.startxchange.com
http://www.traffic-splash.com
http://www.easyhits4u.com
http://hit2hit.com
http://www.toptiertraffic.com

In up and coming postings I will examine each of these exchanges in detail and give you some pointers as to how to use them most effectively.

As I wish to stress, this is my personal but objective assessment but I shall also provide you with additional Traffic Exchanges which are well worth joining. I am not doing so now as stated in an earlier posting, newbies make the mistake of joining too many Traffic Exchanges and soon lose trace of what they are doing in this respect see my earlier posting about getting organised from the start. You will not regret it.

Example of a typical splash page for a product

Here you see a typical splash page - also termed squeeze page. The object is to get the interest of the surfer and to fill in his/her name and email address. This is known as list building. Obviously there is a lot of psychology goes into creating such a page - the more appealing, the greatest the chances of a surfer providing his/her details.

So what is a Splash Page

Well, this is how wikipedia describes a Splash Page:
On the Internet, a splash screen or splash page is a page of a web site that is a sort of pre-home page front page. Designers may use splash pages:

* to restrict access to content such as pornography, alcohol advertising or sales, or gambling (as is required by law in many countries, including the United States and Canada);
* to direct users to the appropriate website for their country or language;
* to direct users to a low-bandwidth site or one more accessible to disabled users;
* as an aesthetic compliment to the main page;
* as an additional form of advertising.

Since splash screens often increase the distance to the desired content and may take a long time to load, they are not universally liked by users. Web splash screens are especially inconvenient for users with slow internet connections as the first page may take longer to load or if the user has turned off rich content (such as images, Flash or Shockwave), the splash page may not load at all. Splash pages created in Flash (and the associated main pages) often cannot be accessed by search engines or handled by text readers for the blind.

Basically in the context of Traffic Exchanges it is the last option we are interested in:

"* as an additional form of advertising.
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You can find a lot more information on the topic here at wikipedia