Yup, I missed last week! But there was reason to the madness and it was Thanksgiving in America. I thought I’d give everyone a break and let them enjoy the holidays instead of reading my jargon….Besides, I’m back this week and ready to tackle my favorite subject in the whole wide world….

Search engine optimization!

Just kidding…

It’s issue 282 and wow, we are nearing issue number 300. My goodness time flies when you are having fun, and that’s the new focus of my business these days!

Ya, I’m still trying to project a professional business model. Yes, I’m still running a legit business. Yes, I’m worried about the bottom line but something happened about a month ago, that well…Had changed me.

Can you guess what it is?

If not, you can join me today…At 3pm Eastern and every weekday for that matter as I am joined by Tim Linden and John Guanzon as we host the first live traffic exchange talk show.

Crazy huh? Yes, we actually TALK and interact with traffic exchange surfers and owners each and every day, LIVE on camera. Stop by and see what the fuss is about….You never know, it may change your way of thinking too =)

Check us out at Traffic Exchange Live!

Thank you very much for being a reader of Hit Exchange News and have a wonderful week!

Jon Olson
The Traffic Exchange Guy

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The News

- I need you today! I need your opinion! I’ve started a brand new ‘survey of sorts’ at NMF where I’m asking what was your hits and misses of 2009….Simple question, what was your favorite moment and not so favorite moment in the traffic exchange industry in 2009. Give it to me here! I can’t wait to see the responses…

- Mr. Ayling is at it again! Traffic At The Races got a brand new face lift a few weeks ago and just yesterday, Steve introduced a downline builder to the members area. Be sure to add your referral ID’s for some easy downline building…

- Traffic Exchange Live @ Ning has been growing very steadily without much hype at all. Perfect, I love slow and steady growth but at the same time, I’d love to see you hang out there. Get to know your fellow traffic exchange surfer…You never know how you may meet!

- Blog of the MONTH goes to Lynn McCutcheon’s VERY funny and very informative Lynnm.net. Lots of ‘funny’ screen captures of yours truly….Well…Doing ‘funny things’.

- Notice: Cast your vote today for your favorite traffic exchanges at Affiliate Funnel’s Surfer’s Choice ranker. This is YOUR voice and YOUR opinion on what traffic exchanges you feel are the best in the business. Be sure to vote every day and get your opinion heard!

- Splash Page Hall of Fame – Natalia Hawthorne GETS IT! This is what I think could be the perfect splash / squeeze page! 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. StartXChange
2. Tezak Traffic Power
3. Traffic Splash
4. Traffic Era
5. Hit Safari
6. Dragon Surf
7. Max Traffic Pro
8. Top Tier Traffic
9. Farm Traffic
10. Traffic Witch

Note: Analysis and Tracking by T.E. Toolbox – The Official Link Tracking Service of Hit Exchange News!

Question: Hey Jon, how come I Love Hits and SWAT Traffic 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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Flip Your Downline, Fill Your Funnel!

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Deep Thoughts – Jon’s Weekly Ramblings

I’m about fed up with aWeber….

This company started out in my good books with sending me a personal welcome letter, providing stellar auto responder services and some great features.

Since then though, it’s been nothing but annoying ‘emails’ and the occasional delayed delivery times. Here’s the scoop, and I’m not just ranting about this for the sake of ranting, it’s just become quite a hassle.

I provide users with tutorials in I Love Hits about how to properly use traffic exchanges. One of my tips is teaching new members to practice list building and well, building their lists using an email capture code. Remember folks, the only place I ‘promote’ this is in my members area…

Well aWeber doesn’t like that apparently, so for the past YEAR they continue to send this email to me…

Dear Jon Olson,

Our logs indicate that you have configured an automatic traffic
generating service to direct visitors to your AWeber affiliate
link. Unfortunately, these services generally only send untargeted,
massively large quantities of traffic that generate nothing more
than extra load on our web servers and additional costs. Please
see that your affiliate link is disconnected from this traffic
generating service immediately.

Affiliate Link:

http://www.aweber.com/?223996

Referring Traffic Generating Service:

http://www.ilovehits.com/tutorials3.html

Thank you for your cooperation.

Please see our affiliate control panel for better methods of
generating traffic that will actually be interested in
purchasing things.

Same email, every day practically. Guess they don’t want or like us good ol’ untargeted traffic folks…

Here’s the funniest bit, they also keep sending me decent affiliate checks every month. So I have to as myself, why do I continue to give these people my business?

I’ll tell you what though, programs like Get Response, iContact and Traffic Wave are looking mighty good these days.

What’s your favorite auto responder service? Give me your list and I’d love to shop around. I can’t wait to hear your input on this….

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm…

- We’ve added some ‘goodies’ over at TE Toolbox. Can you find them?

- I had my dad in attendance at Affiliate Funnel’s Saturday training session. Yup, my pops looks to be getting involved in the ‘internet business world’. Two Olson’s…Yikes!

- “I want to put a ding in the universe.” – Steve Jobs

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Related posts

• Issue 297 – Social Networking On The Traffic Exchanges. Something You Should Be Doing More Of… (8)
• Issue 293 – Ocean Swelling, I Love Hitting, & Random Acts of Traffic Exchange Goodness… (13)
• Issue 294 – The Birth of TE Teams & I Love Hits Is Bananas (8)
• Issue 303 – New To Traffic Exchanges? Here’s Your First Checklist… (17)
• Issue 300 – Yup, That Means 300 Issues Of Hit Exchange News Since 2003… (16)

When it’s good, it’s really good!

Last week we celebrated the massive launch of TE Toolbox and trust me on this, we are just getting started…Big things ahead for sure!

With that in mind, it’s pretty obvious to see how healthy the traffic exchange industry has become because today we are seeing the launch of TE List Building, a brand new ‘A to Z’ guide for building your lists with the traffic exchanges.

Why is this important?

This tackles one of my ‘Two B’s’ for promoting in the traffic exchanges. Building a brand is one and the other is building your list.

John Guanzon and Winter Perkins have put together a stellar product that tackles one of the most important parts of your online advertising and I’m very excited for this release.

Be sure to check it out and support good people like John and Winter. These two have been very supportive of everything we have been trying to do to build this industry and a product like this is a wonderful addition!

Thank you very much for being a reader of Hit Exchange News and have a wonderful week!

Jon Olson
The Traffic Exchange Guy

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The News

- Traffic Exchange Live has been a HUGE success! We’ve had as many as 220 people watching the stream at once and think of us as your companions while surfing, daily at 3pm Eastern. Pop by and say hi, it’s always a fun time =)

- Wanna see what happens when like minded people get together everyday? Traffic Exchange Live @ Ning was ‘launched’ yesterday because of the ideas of a group of attendees at TE Live. What is it? It’s Facebook for the traffic exchanges. The traffic exchange’s first and only social networking site! Cool huh?

- Traffic at the Races got a complete over haul and new design this past week as well. The Duckman did a great job and this thing looks very very good. Great stuff Steve!

- Notice: Cast your vote today for your favorite traffic exchanges at Affiliate Funnel’s Surfer’s Choice ranker. This is YOUR voice and YOUR opinion on what traffic exchanges you feel are the best in the business. Be sure to vote every day and get your opinion heard!

- Splash Page Hall of Fame – Winter Perkins, you make good cookies! And kick butt splash pages too! 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. StartXChange
3. Hit Safari
4. Traffic Era
5. Traffic Witch
6. Tezak Traffic Power
7. Dragon Surf
8. Traffic Taxis
9. Max Traffic Pro
10. Farm Traffic

Note: Analysis and Tracking by T.E. Toolbox – The Official Link Tracking Service of Hit Exchange News!

Question: Hey Jon, how come I Love Hits and SWAT Traffic 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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Flip Your Downline, Fill Your Funnel!

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Deep Thoughts – Jon’s Weekly Ramblings

I touched on this in the news section but I wanted to go into depth of why this is one of the most active weeks in the traffic exchange industry. Check out this timeline for example after example of ‘coming together and making things happen’…

Only a week ago, Tim Linden, Paul Kinder and myself re-launch TE Toolbox. This has been a year in the making and essentially we wanted to give the industry the tools we use. Package them up and make it THE suite of T.E> related tools so members could get the best, all in one spot.

This spurs the idea that Tim and I are going to host daily ‘streams’ on our brand new ‘uStream Channel’ called Traffic Exchange Live. Here’s the funny part, this was only supposed to be used for launch week but it has now morphed into a daily ‘show’ where dozens upon dozens of traffic exchange users and surfers are hanging out and taking part in some great conversations…

And we’re all hanging out in the stream yesterday and we are all commenting on how great it is to network with others, so what do we all do? We start the traffic exchange industry’s first social network @ Ning.

Two of the attendees and members of the Ning network, John Guanzon and Winter Perkins meet up and start talking in the ‘stream’ and come up with the idea for TE List Building, a joint venture where they break down the importance and techniques for list building on the TEs. This gets put into action and less that a week later they launch it (today.)

How’s that for a week in review?

What’s the message? Get out there, get active, meet other people and good things…X that…Great things are bound to happen.

Just think, this is only one week into all this stuff…I can’t wait to see what’s ahead!

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm…

- Be sure to join the ‘H.E.N. group’ at the Ning Network. I’ll post funny stuff now and again, but more importantly…You get to network with other readers =)

- I’ll be in Edmonton for the weekend to hang out with my son. Oilers game on Saturday too! Sad part, no Modern Warfare 2 for five days LOL…Yes, I’m obsessed!

- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather

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Related posts

• Issue 284 – Are The Traffic Exchanges Too Complicated? (3)
• Issue 282 – Traffic Exchange Live Has Changed My Life…Scary Huh? (9)
• Issue 297 – Social Networking On The Traffic Exchanges. Something You Should Be Doing More Of… (8)
• Issue 293 – Ocean Swelling, I Love Hitting, & Random Acts of Traffic Exchange Goodness… (13)
• Issue 300 – Yup, That Means 300 Issues Of Hit Exchange News Since 2003… (16)