Traffic Exchanges
One thing I have been particularly interested in over the last few months are traffic exchanges. At first glance, they seem like simple systems following a ‘you view my site I view yours’ mentality, but there is much more to them.
The exchanges themselves come in two main forms:
- Manual Traffic Exchange
- Auto-Exchange
My interest is purely with the manual traffic exchanges, where the person ’surfing’ the system must actually look at the websites themselves and click a certain button once a timer has counted down. With an auto-surf you could set it going, minimise the window and not look at it for days on end, which would means that they are not actually looking at the websites being displayed.
For now, I will list my favourite exchanges. I’m hoping to go into them in much more detail and focus many of the posts on here around them in the future.
Traffic Splash
StartXchange
Easy Hits4U
These three are some of the most popular in the industry and achieve great results for many people and by surfing in these three exchanges you are guaranteed massive exposure for your websites.
Theme Updates
I decided that the site needed a more professional theme and downloaded Arthemia. I have to say what a great theme this really is. Best of all it is free, but there are many customisation options that are very easily taken care of and I will be modifying bits and pieces of this theme over the next couple of weeks to ensure it looks the best it can. Please bare with me whilst certain elements on the homepage look out of place and the sidebar is overly full.
I’m also compiling a list of all the plugins I am currently using as I felt that this may be extremely helpful to some people.
The premium version of Arthmeia is even better and you can take a look at some preview shots here.
End of September Update
The whole idea of this blog was to promote myself online and in the process learn for myself the best methods of generating traffic for blogs. Looking at my site stats for the last two months, I am not achieving my goal. I know this is down to the lack of new content and my seeming inability to focus on just one project at a time.
July brought in 504 hits, 226 of which were unique.
August brought in 666 hits, 276 of which were unique.
September brought in just 317 hits with just 158 being unique visitors.
As you can see from the stats above, the number of visitors has dropped quite considerably and I attribute this to my lack of participation within the community and also my lack of motivation to post. Along with the lack of visitors, this has had a negative effect on the sites income - which was minimal to start with, I hope to be able to attract some new advertisers in the near future.
I started with some negative points about this website, but I also have some good news. With the latest Google Page Rank update, Darren Singleton is now a page rank 2!! Yes, the site had jumped a full two ranks! There is also an Alexa ranking of 414,573 which looks much better than before.
If you are interested in what I have to say, please subscribe to my feed and bookmark me in every way possible!
Subvert & Profit #2
It’s been a long while since my last post. No excuses, I’ve just neglected this blog for other things.
I wanted to update you all on Subvert & Profit, which I discussed in my last post. Since posting, their system has grown with the addition of YouTube, NewsVine and iLike. So you can now get paid to Digg, Stumble, Like, Vote on NewsVine and Favourite on YouTube, WOW!
There were quite a few comments from people, regarding the last post and I will try and answer common questions here.
- The toolbar doesn’t work in FireFox 3 -
An upgraded version of the toolbar was released on 20th September. Just click here to download. - Won’t Digg be Unhappy about this? -
There isn’t an easy way for Digg to discover who is profiting from this service. All links out of S&P are sent via referhide.com, so Digg cannot track who has come from the website. Also, you are asked to vote for 4 other random articles at the same time as the paid one, so it hides sporadic activity on your account. - Do they pay via PayPal? - Subvert & Profit currently only payout via AlertPay.
If you wish to earn a little extra cash for your online efforts, check out Subvert & Profit.
Get Paid to Digg
One of the greatest ways to drive enormous amounts of traffic to your website is to achieve the holy grail that is the homepage of Digg. According to Alexa, Digg is the 125th most visited website in the world and having your website/article promoted on their homepage has caused problems for some website owners due to the shear amount of traffic that is generated.
A system called Subvert & Profit was created as a way to allow people to pay others to promote their websites in both the Digg and StumbleUpon systems. I signed up as a ‘Social User’ and have been promoting other peoples Digg stories in return for a little bit of cash.
The current prices are shown on this page. The main figure I’m interested in is the payouts: currently set at $0.75USD for each vote you make and a minimum cashout value of $10USD via AlertPay. I actually reached the payout level this weekend and received payment of $10.50USD via AlertPay this morning. Sadly AlertPay have charged a $0.51 transaction fee, which leaves me with $9.99.
If you would like to get paid to Digg or Stumble other peoples websites, then sign up with Subvert & Profit today.
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