The newest addition to my traffic exchange list is a manual surf site called 247TrafficPro. It belongs to the same owners as a great autosurf exchange that I’m a member of, namely 247AutoHits, so it comes as no surprise that 247TrafficPro is a top notch TE as well. It has a nice professional design, fast surfbar and a number of unique features about which I’m going to write in more detail.

First of all, 247TrafficPro has Hover Surfing which allows you to choose the correct shape on the surfbar without actually clicking it: just hovering your mouse over it is enough, and you can even set the delay in your member options (or disable it if you wish so). Actually, that’s what I did since I find clicking to be faster and don’t see much point in Hover Surf at all. However, it’s nice to have the option and I’m sure some members must appreciate it.

Second, we have Activity Levels in which work similarly to those in StartXChange – but with much bigger rewards, I might add. You get activity points for surfing, referring, simply logging into your account, and promoting. You get a tiny number of activity points for promoting all over the web, and a much bigger amount for showing your referral URL in a special set of “approved” manual exchanges. As for rewards, there are weekly jackpots which combine credits, impressions and cash into one sweet prize. Top 10 members split the jackpot depending on the number of activity points that they accumulated throughout the week.

Finally, 247TrafficPro offers more handy additions that some other traffic exchanges have as well such as Private Messaging, a free rotator for promoting your websites using a single URL, personalized splash pages with your own text and picture, and a downline builder.

Overall 247TrafficPro is a very professional traffic exchange that looks great, loads lightning fast, offers great support and is a pleasure to surf due to responsive surfbar and clean sites. It seems to be a bit under the radar compared to the big boys, but that only means it will be easier to get referrals for you if you join right now. And don’t miss the OTOs the first time you login (there’s three offers in total – yearly gold membership, 4 months gold membership and an affordable free trial/discount subscription to Bronze which I picked up).

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.

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% commission 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.

If you are a member, you probably already know that HitSafari made a switch to a traffic exchange script from LJScripts. I’ve been very impressed so far, since they managed to transfer all the websites, banners and downlines to the new database without problems. The current script of HitSafari is widely used by a big number of other traffic exchanges, so it’s a proven one; plus, it has a lot of features that the old HitSafari didn’t have.

There still are a few things that you need to do, however. First, you will need to sort out your sites: there’s a new 5 site limit imposed upon free members (you were allowed more before – I had to delete one of mine), and you will also need to set autoassign rules for each site separately. Second, the format of the referral URL has been changed from this:

http://www.hitsafari.com/newuser.php?ref=[refid]

To this:

http://www.hitsafari.com/?rid=[refid]

I’m not sure whether they will redirect old referrals URLs to new ones after they’re completely finished with the transfer. At any rate, they haven’t been working for days, so I just changed them all to the new format in order not to lose any referral credit – you should, too!