2 – My mentor was Vern? He used to gift me ‘program’ credits at Webmaster Quest dude. One of those programs I joined from his link to get Webmaster Quest credits was Clickity Cash LOL Wow, you sure know your history.

3 – Where is all this Profit Rally stuff coming from? I was in MPAM since 2001. Thats where I got my start, not Profit Rally.

4 – As for you disrespecting my friend Pat, hey I hope that makes you feel better bringing him, Vern and Steve into a debate that has nothing to do with them. You cause trouble man, I booted you from my forum, WBS kicked you out and you are constantly warned at TMF. History doesn’t lie…

http://web.archive.org/web/20010929042126/http://the-list.cjb.net/

Not so. I may have been off your radar then as you were mine. I never heard of HEN until around the 50th issue. You were so into Profit Rally and SFI you didn’t know about half the resources for Traffic Exchanges. Your mentor was Vernon Smiley at ClickityCash and mine was Doug Williams. I’ve been a Lifetime member in Money Legs for years. The big difference between Profit Rally and Money Legs is that Money Legs is still around and it has always paid it’s members.

I had over 38,000 opt in subscribers for my newsletter. I was not off everyone’s radar just the Profit Rally radar I guess as I was a member there as well.

You have not been here since day 1. You started in the late 90′s after traffic exchanges were already established. Say what you want but you never knew that Walker & Boekers were the creators of the Modern Day Traffic Exchange. You didn’t know that Hover Surf has been around since 1996. You missed the most important part of Traffic Exchanges early years. I heard the name Jon Olson the same time you heard of Wes Morris which is what I use to go by at the same time I did at Clickity Cash Forums where the knowledge and a large amount of my readers of my newsletter came from.

No I am far from being known as causing trouble in the forums. I never caused half the amount of trouble that Pat Lovell, Vern Smiley and Steve Sartain caused and are still causing.

As for your ‘history’ lesson, thanks for ‘trying’ to steal my thunder bro, but your about a decade too late for that. My business is already here and working on it daily.

Thanks for the mention about Tracy’s interview! I was just soooo happy that so many of your blog readers dropped in too! You guys rule!

If anyone missed the interview and wants to download it – here is the link for ya!

=> http://tinyurl.com/daa8jx

Thanks again!

Here it is in Jan 2004 where it had won a few awards: http://web.archive.org/web/
20040130011338/http://linksrus.net/

Feb 1st 2006 was the last weekly issue after a 7 run. At the end there were 36,763 subscribers. It also ran in the top 20 traffic exchanges every week. So the statement:

“No one else was writing about traffic exchanges. Sure they were mentioned here and there, but there was no weekly update on the state of the industry as a whole.”

is just not true. The GOB network refuses to honor my important contribution to the Traffic Exchange Industry. I think it’s important to note the real history of Traffic Exchanges no matter who it was that contributed to it. You can’t dispute the Internet Archive records. I’m not trying to steal your thunder Jon just making a correction to the Traffic Exchange History because it’s important and because everyone’s contribution in the early years led to the current and past performance and promotion of Traffic Exchanges!

The other fact that should be raised is that the very first Traffic Exchange launched in 1994. Not 1999 when Jon joined his first exchange. The first traffic exchange was called Hitsnapper and it launched in 1994 at this address:
http://www.pavilion.co.uk/mwalker/hitsnapper
By the end of 2002 hitsnapper.com had 100,000 accounts and was extremely busy. It was owned by Martyn Walker the inventor of Traffic Exchanges. At it’s peak it made $10,000 per month and needed very little attention. Martyn did have plans for HitSnapper but he kept being asked to write and modify similar scripts for other businesses which is where the idea for WalkerSoftware began as the first commercial in 2002.

Six weeks later the second traffic exchange started also in 1994 and was known as Nomoreclicking.com and owned by Joep Boekers. Mr. Boekers died suddenly in a tragic automobile crash at a young age and Nomorehits just disappeared in the early 2000′s even after several people including myself tried to contact the family to buy the rights for Nomoreclicking but Joep kept Nomorehits a secret and no one in his family knew anything about it and his passwords for his administrative area died with him. Too bad it had well over 100,000 members and was a very active #1 exchange for a very long time with Hitsnapper being it’s only real competition until the slew of traffic exchanges started opening in 1998 and beyond.

Soon you will be able to read the entire factual history of Traffic Exchanges and it’s related programs and services in a book being written by Rich Morris called Traffic Exchanges Past Present and Future which should be in Amazon and all bookstores this Summer (2009). You will be able to read about some of the past controversial traffic exchanges that didn’t last long like ClickityCash and you will be surprised about who the original owners were of many top exchanges today.

Rich Morris
Traffic Exchange Historian

HEN is an excellent resource for TE users both new and old. It is one of the very few things that I make time for every week.

Thanks for the effort you put into this, and keep up the good work!

Jimmy Adames

Way to go Jon – I look forward to another 250 issues.

While my ezine history producing goes back to about the same time as yours, that too has changed to relationship blogging.

Your most important point is the life span of Traffic Exchanges and the fact that even today, way too many users have still not learned you MUST use splash and squeeze pages to make them work exponentially for your promotions.

One day, it will happen as most things do progress with education and we will wonder what all the fuss was about.

Congratulations on your 250th issue and keep them coming.