traffic exchange list and tips for surfers

Matthew Graves, the owner of WebBizInsider, has launched a new traffic exchange called TopTierTraffic. This brand new TE uses a clean layout that reminds me of PayPal and features an interesting surfing ladder system, similar to the one seen in TrafficPods or LinkCrews. The more you surf, the higher your Position is, and the more Virtual Referrals you get placed under you.

Here's a little excerpt from the TopTierTraffic member area that explains the whole thing:

It all starts with Position Points. Like all traffic exchanges, you earn Traffic Credits by surfing other member's websites using the surfbar. However, at TopTierTraffic, being an active participant in our community also earns you Position Points. Every action you do that helps other members, or helps build the community, will earn you Position Points. Surfing, clicking Text Ads and Banners, reading upline emails from other members and clicking their links inside, referring new members, even just showing your referral page, can all earn Position Points. This gives all the members a great incentive for being active in our community.

What do you do with Position Points? Well that is where the fun comes in. Each week, every member starts with 0 position points and they try to earn as many as possible so they can get to the top of the Weekly Position Point Leaderboard. The higher you are on the Leaderboard, the more members you get in your Virtual Downline for the following week. It is a forced matrix where the order is mixed up every week.

Midnight Sunday night, the point counters are set back to zero and everyone gets to hear about how many members are in their virutal downline for the next week. Your virtual downline works just like a multilevel real downline. You can email them once that week and you earn referral credits whenever they surf ... SIX LEVELS DEEP!

It is a fast-growing (mainly thanks to the members joining straight from WebBizInsider) traffic exchange that is sure to be among the industry leaders in the future. You can join now and enjoy the one-time premium mebership offer as well as be one of the first to signup. The exchange is in pre-launch phase and even the surfing isn't enabled yet as I'm typing this. I only hope that TopTierTraffic will also have a more secure surfbar than WebBizinsider currenly does.

365AutoHits.com autosurf has been brought back by the owners after a long downtime. The site now uses a modern automatic traffic exchange script that allows you to access the surfbar directly without having to login, and my favorite feature: ability to convert credits into banner or text link impressions. The designers and programmers are still working on the site so some parts might be incomplete, but it's already looking great.

If you're out of ideas of what to promote in an autosurf, just save up credits and convert them to text link impressions. While CTR will be quite low (and understandably so), you won't have to spend any effort in earning the credits.

If you use a lot of traffic exchanges, you probably already heard about TrafficWitch - a brand new TE owned by Guido Nussbaum. I received newsletters from 4 traffic exchange owners eager to get referrals to this new site, and I bet I'll get more in the future. Oh well, let's see what the hype is all about.

TrafficWitch offers a dynamic surfing ratio both for free and upgraded members. For free ones (they're called Witch) it ranges from 3:1 to 2:1. For upgraded ones it's either 0.66 to 1.5 credits or 1 to 1.5 credits per click, depends which upgrade you buy. If you plan to ever upgrade here, you should check out the launch OTO (one-time-offer): they're giving away subscriptions to Sorcerer account level for $9.97/mo, while it normally costs $15.97/mo.

Otherwise TrafficWitch is just like any other traffic exchange running on LJScripts software. It does have a few add-ons like downline builder and downline mailer, but it's not like you will surprise anyone with these nowadays. It's most exceptional feature is most likely the unrivaled percentage of cash omissions they offer to upgraded members. Indeed, if you will upgrade to Sorcerer, you will enjoy a respectable 75% comission on referral upgrades and 10% on their credit purchases (most TEs don't pay anything for the latter; only a few ones like SmileyTraffic do).

I would like to share the news that BlogClicker, a quality blog-only traffic exchange from the owners of TrafficG, is back to business. So if you have a blog, go ahead: register, add, surf, and get more visitors and readers. It's that simple - and even the blog approval is instant! (The exchange was just re-launched, so there might be bad leftover sites - but don't worry, they are getting weeded out bit by bit).

BlogClicker making a comeback is a welcome news indeed, since there's a lack of traffic exchanges for blogs. BlogExplosion is the only one that's functioning and sending traffic, although no one knows where the admins are, and the site approval takes a very long time. BlogSoldiers is as good as dead for now (delivering 1 hit a week or so), and the destiny of BlogMad is unknown: it's been in beta for a year, and doesn't answer any support e-mails. As it is, from blog exchangs I can only recommend joining the reloaded BlogClicker, and BlogExplosion if you're patient.

I've got great news for anyone looking to join a new quality traffic exchange. Valerie Underhill (owner of MarketingPond) and Garrett Rowland (owner of LinkGrand) have teamed up to bring us ZoomPond: a text ad/traffic exchange running on a custom script coded from scratch for maximum anti-cheat defense (they're using reCAPTCHA forms a lot) and reliability. By saying "text ad" exchange, I mean that you surf by choosing which site you want to visit in this TE, much like you do in TrafficSwarm or LinkCrews. There also are team ("pond") competitions where you get placed in a team randomly every week and can win credits or even monthly cash prize, if you are the best surfer in your pond. Those bonuses will come in handy since the surfing ratio for free members is a bit on the low side (4:1).

This almost concludes my short ZoomPond review. I'd just like to add that I got a yearly Silver upgrade as part of a promotion (upgrade transfer from now-closed BuddyPond) and it offers some serious perks. My favorite is that you can add a single banner into the rotation and get unlimited amount of impressions, for as long as you keep your upgrade. The banners are displayed in the middle of the surfbar to ensure good visibility.

Please note that ZoomPond is currently in pre-launch. This is your chance to join it early and start building your downline; but it also means that there might be some errors on the site (I noticed the Rules page is still missing), so you'll have to be patient till it's officially launched.