Random Thoughts While Surfing…
If you’re in to traffic exchanges, you really should get organized. Do as I say, not as I do. I’m trying to get organized, but I’m not there yet! Currently surfing:
Why these?
Well, because…
This morning, BarbarianHits launched.
I found the email announcement in the dark of night. Up early because Beau, the striped tabby cat, misjudged his leap distance and landed smack in the middle of ME! (Surely this was an accident!)
I’d ignored the first several messages I saw, those that come from TE owners, JV partners who get early notice, send to their lists, and usurp a good portion of the potential joinees before those who do join have a chance to promote, but that’s another story…
But then one came from a program I belong to that has a downline builder. As I think about that statement, probably most of the messages came from programs I belong to that have downline builders. But it occurred to me that, no matter how much I do NOT need another traffic exchange, I must join so that I can race to each and every existing program that might be likely to have already added BarbarianHits to its downline builder and plug in my affiliate ID, lest those in my downline will be presented with someone else’s referral link and I’ll lose out. OR, rush to be the first to add the program to those sites that allow members to add their programs. Again, I gotta hurry before someone else gets in there!
So when I saw this message headline (from Michael Gartner of TrafficDealer.com), I caved, clicked, joined, and set about ruining my Saturday morning: “Are you fed up with joining new TE after new TE…?”
Seriously. What in the world do ‘barbarians’ have to do with getting traffic to your site? The answer is simple.
Absolutely nothing.
And if you’re like me, you’re sick of seeing new TE after TE spring up. Especially when they just buy some stock script, and get some themed template design. ENOUGH! Sites like that don’t add anything to the industry except give us a bad name.
And he goes on then to tell me that the reason I should join is because Dan Vaughan, the owner, is different, that he’s invested a great deal of time and money into the site and is there for the long run, etc. Well, I certainly hope so, because I really, really am tired of TEs owned by folks who won’t invest the time or money to make them decent (i.e., get IN or get OUT!) But I also hope that Mr. Vaughan will not send me fourteen emails a day; I’m weary of the overdose of emails that we members are now receiving from many exchanges. End of rant.
It’s almost 1 p.m. in my part of the world. I did not feed the cats this morning. I haven’t had breakfast. I waved at the hubby as I descended from my attic office to the kitchen for a coffee refill. I have not taken advantage of the coolish morning to trim the edges before he mows the yard, and now the temp is creeping toward the century mark. But, by golly, I’m a BarbarianHits member, working my way out of the Warlord classification to whatever comes next as I collect my letters.
I’m guessing there must have been a few bumps in the launch road. I had to re-log in several times before I was able to get my websites in there and my banners, copy the promo info I needed and save it in a text file, start filling in my IDs in the downline builder - which began the “web” I’ve woven this a.m. in my ongoing effort to be “viral”.
Someday, I’ll have all my referral IDs located in one file. Don’t tell me to “do Roboform.” I’d love to, but I’m on a Mac. I have a couple of things that are supposed to help me organize affiliate info; someday, I’ll find the time to investigate their use. Meantime, I open text docs and saved welcome messages.
I’m newly “pro” at both ClickingCrazy and TrafficTroll, so I thought I’d log in there, beef up my rotators, and use the rotator URLs in BarbarianHits. Been meaning to do that; just hadn’t yet. That led me to several other exchanges that I’ve recently joined but haven’t promoted yet; thought I’d plug ‘em in to the rotator so they’ll at least get a little exposure.
Then I went to Intellibanners. Of all the “helpful tool” programs around, Intellibanners has got to be one of the most useful! The “intelli” part of it is that it is smart enough not to show a banner for a site on that site; gotta love that!
So, I’m updating my banners, adding new ones, transferring my various banner rotator URLs and image links into several new exchanges that I didn’t have time to deal with fully at the time I joined, as well as BarbarianHits.
That’s why I’m surfing TrafficTroll, ClickingCrazy, EasySurfExchange, BarbarianHits, TopFlightTraffic, and FastEasyTraffic right now.
I recommend that you group your sites to surf by surfbar type (i.e., common script, as in “Ventrino”, “LJ”, etc.) and perhaps even further by timer length or type of icon. That’ll make your surfing go more smoothly and you won’t be racing all over the screen trying to figure out where to click. Plus, “similar” surf screens tend to offer similar types of bonuses or prizes pages, so you can keep on the lookout for them. You might also want to group by your status, free or upgraded, so that your earned ratio will be somewhat more balanced. Right now, I’ve got quite a mix. I’m earning a bunch of credits on some, and very few on others.
And although I haven’t surfed one hundred pages anywhere (my “normal” minimum goal), I’m beat! I’m thirsty, hungry, sleepy, and this day’s half gone. The truck race (canceled from yesterday) has begun without me. The kids are coming tomorrow and I’ve got much to do!
So this is about it for surfing for today.
If you, too, want to get your referral ID into your various downlines before your downline folks join through someone else’s link, jump on over to BarbarianHits and sign up!
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