Issue 216 – Hover Surfing, Is It The Next Big Thing?
Good things happen when like minded people get together. Today marked the end and the beginning of the Fast Flipper Fortnight promotion held by the good folks at Traffic Splash and Fast Easy Traffic. For the past two weeks, traffic exchanges from around the world have combined to create the largest JV promotion ever in traffic exchange history.
What’s even more exciting is the launch of the MAYhem which started today. Basically after giving away over 400,000 free traffic exchange credits across 20 programs, the owners are now giving away monthly upgrades, yearly upgrades and thousands of extra credits too. Talk about ‘massive’!
It gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling to see everyone working together like this. It has translated into huge activity boosts but more importantly, given the surfer even more ‘bang’ for their click. The Mayhem started today, so be sure to support the traffic exchange involved in the giveaway and enjoy the promotion!
Jon Olson
The Traffic Exchange Guy
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The News
- Now this is a really cool new traffic exchange tool! IntelliBanners is a brand new creation from Josh Abbott. This thing is essentially a rotator for your banners. So instead of adding a new banner in each of your traffic exchange accounts, put the banner in here and then copy the code in all your exchanges. Want to change a banner, change it in IntelliBanners and presto, job done!
- S.W.A.T. Traffic’s seminar has a new day! We are having our weekly Captain Member Training Seminars every Wednesday night now at 8pm Eastern. Last night was amazing! We had dozens of people pop by for a great chit chat about all things traffic exchanges. Get the inside edge and be sure to stop by next Wednesday.
- Dan Moses announced this week that Mark Brown is the new co-owner of Gone Clicking. The original co-owner is no longer at the helm and we will see how well this new combination of Mark and Dan can advance this one time very active program.
- Congratulations to ‘Sharon.’ for winning last week’s copy of Hits, Clicks and Misses. Want to win your own copy of the best selling traffic exchange book on Amazon.com (actually, it’s the only published book about T.E.’s on the planet), simply post a comment about this week’s issue of HEN!
- Splash Page Hall of Fame – Are you kidding me? This has got to be THE best traffic exchange splash page I have seen in a long long long time. Well done TrafficSplash!. Note: Why do I focus on splash pages every week? Simple, you MUST be using them in the traffic exchanges to get results. Get a custom made splash page by clicking here!
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The Famous Hit Exchange News Top 10 (Disclaimer: These are my top performing exchanges for the past week. Alexa rankings and fancy numbers have nothing to do with how I rank my list. This is based on my results and my opinion, nothing more, nothing less.)
1. Traffic Splash
2. Traffic Swarm
3. StartXChange
4. Dragon Surf
5. Easy Hits 4 U
6. Traffic Bunnies
7. Royal Surf
8. Gladiator Hits
9. Click Ranch
10. Traffic Era
Note: Analysis and Tracking by Hits Connect – The Official Link Tracking Service of Hit Exchange News! Sign up today and get your 30% Discount!
Question: Hey Jon, how come I Love Hits, SWAT Traffic and Click Crazey are never on the top 10 list? Since I own them, I feel it would be a conflict of interest to place it on any of my rankings. (But we all know how great they are anyways lol)
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Deep Thoughts – Jon’s Weekly Rambling
Is hover surfing the next big thing in the traffic exchanges?
This brand new concept was created by Jennifer Herold and John Guanzon about 6 months ago but just recently got released in the form of New Way 2 Surf. I will admit, when i first saw it, I was skeptical at best. However, this new form of traffic exchange surfing seems to be taking off.
How so? New Way was followed by another traffic exchange that adopted the technology and this week alone, Generalan Traffic Empire decided to embrace the hover surfing way of things. What’s more is that there is rumblings of a new traffic exchange being launched in a few days that not only adopted the hover surfing technology bit actually calls itself Hover Surf, or something of the sorts.
Hey, I have no problem at all with people taking other people’s ideas as it has been happening in this industry since day one. What I do hope for, is that these other owners give credit to John and Jennifer for creating it. It’s a very simple task and I hope it’s done.
Why? Respect. If you use someone’s idea or concept, just give them proper credit. It doesn’t mean you have to throw them a party or promote their businesses for life, just a simple courtesy. I myself love to let people know where I get some of my ideas from. In fact, most of everything I do is from the books I read and the teachings of my favorite authors, Jeffrey Gitomer, Seth Godin and Mark Joyner.
It’s a really good habit to get into, and as for hover surfing, let’s see where it takes us. If the surfers like it, I’m sure we’ll see more programs adopting it in the future. Great job Jen and John, you guys may have created something very good for this business.
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Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
- So my laptop just decided to not turn on for me this morning. Combine that with the fact that Hot Conference doesn’t seem to work on my Vista computer and I’m out of the loop now…
- Traffic Era is saying they are delivering over 1 million page views per day. Sounds great, now let’s get more results from the program and we’ll have one of the best ever in the industry.
- I’m starting to get the hang of this Web 2.0 stuff…Heck, I even joined Twitter this week and managed not to break it!
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