Paul's Traffic Tips For Newbies

Xtremehit.com Will Give Me 200 Downline?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Today I decided to check out Xtremehit.com and wanted to find out more about this benefit for upgraded members where they will give me 200 downlines automatically for FREE no less.

This is what it says on the OTO page:

XtremeHit Special Offer It Is FREE

For the past few months every member
in the Xtreme System has received over
200 members in their Downline!!!

When you upgrade your account you are
placed directly in the Xtreme System where
you are going to receive over 200
members in your Xtreme Downline. You are
Guaranteed to earn 400 credits every single
week from these members and some even earn
2,000 to 3,000 extra credits a week!!!!

No other site can offer this.

So here is what I am offering, XtremeHit Platinum Upgrade!

You will receive an Platinum Membership for 1 Month for only $7

Here is what you get with a Pro Membership

1:1 Surf Ratio
2000 Manual Credits Every Month
2000 Auto Credits Every Month
3000 Text Ads Every Month
3000 Banner Ads Every Month
Placed in the Xtreme System
At least 400 manual credits every single week from the Xtreme System
Free Downline (average 200)
Advertise up to 100 websites
Advertise up to 100 banners
Advertise up to 100 text ads
Earn Credits From your Direct Referrals
Earn Cash
Platinum Member Discounts

First of all, it's not really free if you have to pay for it and besides how active could these downline be. I guess I will have to find out for myself, only time will tell.

No other traffic exchange has ever come out and say 'oh by the way, if you upgrade, we will throw an extra 200 downline for you at no extra charge. My question is, that 200 downline per month or per year? I don't know as the OTO is not very specific about that.

Normally in other traffic exchange they use the word ' random referrals' which is exactly the same as giving you free referrals, they just don't tell you how many.

My next question is, the 200 downline that they promise to give me, will that be shared or not, will other upgraded members have access to those downlines too? again time will tell. I will send a support ticket about that and I will keep updated ok. Oh I almost forgot, I was also curious if those downlines will include email address? will I be able to email them directly or through the inhouse email system which is not that reliable.

Till next time.

Paul Penafiel

Common Mistakes By Newbies

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:39:00 +0000

One of the most common mistakes newbies make when trying to get referrals is by promoting a banner that says one thing then when you click that banner it eithers tells you a different or a generic page with a million things on it.

Here's one typical scenario:

I was surfing Volcano Hits.com and I saw a banner ad that says "Earn $2 for typing 16 sentences - Easy to reach payout of $10 - join now."

After I clicked it, it took me to a website called www.mylot.com. As you can see if you visit the site, there 's a million things going on in there and what happened to the statement from the banner ad? Nowhere to be seen and I can't spend an hour looking around for it either.

What a waste of banner impressions man.

Instead that banner ad would've gotten higher conversion rate if the banner ad lead to a report with an opt-in form like a squeeze page or a blog and with a bonafide actual results or even a good review about the service would have been really taken seriously.

Rookies I tell ya !

Paul Penafiel

What Traffic Exchange Owners Don't Want YOU To Know

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0000

There are so many things that are going on surrounding the traffic exchange industry that most people don't realize. I'm willing to admit that I know nothing about running a traffic exchange program but after several years of using them, I can tell you a few things that you don't get to read every day.

1. The people who are making money with traffic exchange consistently are the owners. Several of the well established TE programs are the ones who are buying credits/upgrades on regular basis from other traffic exchanges. Some can spend in the thousands of dollars every single month.

2. Traffic exchange owners have been telling people to 'build your list'. Folks! let me tell you it's not that easy as they say it. I've been building list for several years using various tools both free and paid but the problem is how to convert those leads into sales.

So if the majority of the average non TE owner users starts spending money left right and center to build their list but don't have a clue as to what to do next, the owners would be very happy right? of course but what about YOU and your list. You see they left that part out.

3. The majority of members who are new to traffic exchange don't have any business background or have any experience/knowledge of how to run an offline business. Most of them don't have or can't spend $50 dollars per month on consistent basis, some actually believe you can run an online business for free.

4. Affiliates using traffic exchange programs that do make more that $100 in a particular month may not make that same amount of money next month. Why? that's because members cancel their subscription all the time. Some would buy credits today but not tomorrow or next month.

5. Some owners don't provide statistics such as free members to upgrade ratio, demographics, number of new sign ups, number of members surfing. Certain info might be detrimental to the success of their business so that's maybe why some are not so forthcoming.

6. Traffic exchange owners have a slight advantage when it comes to promoting a brand new traffic exchange over the average surfers who don't have a list of their own. Remember, some TE's have over 50 thousands members that they can promote to which begs the question, are TE owners building traffic exchange programs or a list or a bit of both.

When you have 12 TE owners with a combined of over 200,000 members or more promoting a brand new traffic exchange program, what are your chances of getting quality signups. If you ask me not good, you really have to work extremely hard to beat them. You have to remember that owners can promote anything in their network and thru their email correspondence. They don't have to worry about how much credits or banner impressions they have in their account but you and I do.

One perfect example of this is the newly launched TE called BarbarianHits.com or something like that which is a project created by Robert Puddy and Jon Olson. So we know the 2 joint venture partners but who were the other 10 people that were involved in launching this traffic exchange. I heared that there were a total of 12 people that were involved in this joint venture.

How big are their lists and did they spread the word to their other friends with big lists.

Till next time, take care.

Paul Penafiel

Update on DolphinSurfing.com

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:50:00 +0000

After failing twice of trying to claim a cash prize while surfing at Dolphinsurfing.com, I gave it another try to surf another 50 pages just to see if in fact they are giving out cash prizes for every 50 pages surfed.

Here's my result.

When I finally reached my next set 50 page surfed, I watched that spot where you're supposed to click a link and guess what NOTHING! BIG FAT ZERO.

Yeah that spot wasn't clickable. However after I surfed about between 30-40 pages, the prize spot flashed and when I clicked it, it gave me .06 cents and I also received several credits and banner impressions varying from 10-40 credits.

Here's another thing. That FAQ page that admin was talking about, I finally checked that too and guess what there's nothing there that says they are giving away cash prizes every 50 page surf.

I'm not really sure if they meant that , you will get a prize (cash or otherwise) somewhere in between 1-50 pages surfed. The way I interpret it was. after I have surfed exactly 50 pages the prize icon will flash in which I as a surfer have to click it what I won.

Here's a copy of the FAQ pertaining to the surf for cash at Dolphinsurfing.com

"Can I earn real money from this Exchange?

Yes, First way is to surf the exchange and find special prizes, once you have found one click on it and see if you have won a prize. You can win Cash, credits, text credits and banner credits. Cash out for cash is $25 in your account. The second way is to be a Pro member. Once you are, if anybody in your 1st level downline buys credits or upgrades then you will earn 30% of what they spend. This is regardless of what Pro level you are. This can be built up to a very nice monthly income only by promoting the exchange. Pay out at $25 by Paypal,or you can use your cash to purchase upgrades."

Does it say anywhere there that the prize page will appear in the yellow balloon and it flashes once it is activated meaning you have won something. Hello No !

I think I'm done with this traffic exchange, I will be deleting my account there and not recommend it to anyone. period.

If you are new to traffic exchange programs or internet marketing in general, this the kind of investigating work you have to do if you want to be a better promoter. Check first, gather evidence then promote later.

Paul

Another Interesting Reply From A TE Owner

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:31:00 +0000

Today I decided to check out a statement from a splashpage I saw yesterday saying that another traffic exchange program offering cash prizes for every 50 pages surf.

The traffic exchange program turned out to be called Dolphin Surfing.com and as soon as I saw the main page, my first impression was that this particular exchange is one of those cookie cutter type. You know those types where owners just buy a domain, hosting, cheap traffic exchange script and boom! you are a proud owner of brand new traffic exchange program. Really, not a whole lot of thinking went into it ya know?

So here I was surfing away and looking at various ads which I have seen a million times in other TE and once I have reach the 50 pages surfed threshold I was looking for some kind of page where you click to claim a prize. I couldn't find it.

I was looking at the wrong places, I thought it would be in the middle of a page or some text that says you've won a cash prize and of course I missed it, so I continued surfing for another 50 and looked for it again and for the life of me I still could not find it.

So I emailed the admin and ask how the hell are you supposed to claim a prize or maybe they are not offering any cash prizes at all and this is the response I get.

" Administrator"

The bottom..... The yellow balloon who says Watch for Surprise Prize Link Here
And remember this isn't PTC site or site who is to get cash only it is Traffic Exchange, we show you the sites of the other members and you have to show them yours that's how Traffic exchanges work!

In response, this is what I said: " I've been using traffic exchange since 2001 and you don't need to tell me how to use traffic exchange. I saw a splashpage that claimed your exchange is giving cash away every 50 pages and I merely checking it out to see if it's true or not."

A few minutes later, the admin wrote back to me and said this:

"It is actually in the FAQs
Sorry about explaining to you about traffic exchanges just a lot of members are signing up when they see that they can earn money and a lot of them don't even know how traffic exchanges work.
Well I am offering cash prizes cause by that way I can award the surfers!
When my members are happy I am happy :) !
If you have some questions in future feel free to ask !"

Apologies accepted !

It was my fault that I didn't look in the FAQ page ! my goodness, how stupid of me. I should've have spend another hour looking through the FAQ page on how the heck I was supposed to claim the cash prizes. Why don't they just put in the main page and explain it there as it is the main reason why the majority of members want to surf there in the first place.

How many people look in the FAQ page right after they sign up? I can tell you not that many. Oh by the way, the admin were so quick in replying to all of my support tickets. I just love that when you get quick reply from the admin.

Paul Penafiel

Interesting Emotional Reaction From TE Owner

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:23:00 +0000

A few days ago I saw a special OTO offer at Traffic Taxis.com where they were offering a ridiculous discount on a 6 month upgrade for $24.99 for the first six months. Of course I took advantage of it.

The very next day when I try to logged in a gain, the exact same oto page showed up and it got me thinking like whoah that's kind of weird. I swore that oto page said I will never see that same page again but didn't think too much of it.

Then I after a couple of hours of surfing I stopped to do some house chores so I logged out and when I came back several hours later I saw the same oto page again and I said to my self "man this is getting ridiculous, I better send David a support ticket.

So when I opened my inbox this morning I received this email from David.

"Are you really upset about that? An attitude is definitely not the way to approach me on any situation. Maybe the oto just likes you. But it's not done deliberately. Please do not ever send me a support ticket like that again. Computers make errors."

Noticed that he didn't make any apologies at all for that oto glitched, I mean I did purchase that same oto and this is the thanks I get for buying it eh?

All I said in the support ticket was that I bought the offer and it kept showint it to me twice after I logged in, that's all I meant. There's was no attitude at all man geez ! That's who I am, that's how I write my support ticket, that's what makes me unique.

If David doesn't want my money all he has to do was say it and refund my money.

Paul Penafiel

Why IM Newbie's Are Vulnerable

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:56:00 +0000

If there's one thing that professional internet marketer's prey on, are the newbies internet marketers.

Why?

It is so simple, they are gullible, innocent and simply put they don't know any better.

Traffic exchange programs and forums are usually the first place where they go for information on how to make money on the internet because it's is FREE to join. The word 'free' is so powerful that it lures newbies to their demise like moth to a lightbulb.

Traffic exchange programs have had the reputation in the past for spreading all kinds of scams and owners can't get enough of them because it brings in money. Some owners don't care what happens to any unsuspecting newbies if they succumb to a scam as long as the people that spends money promoting those garbage programs keep spending those money that pads the walllet of TE owners.

I admit that in recent years that TE owners have done a good job of cleaning their industry but the same old crap still lingers in other less well known smaller traffic exchange.

If you are a newbie internet marketer, I want you to know that YOU are being targeted at all times whether you are surfing a traffic exchange program or browsing ads in classified ads or reading posts from a free forum.

Please do yourself a favor, be careful and always do your own homework and don't believe everything you see.

Take care.

Paul

What's Up with David Foley and Other Traffic Exchange

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:15:00 +0000

Below you will find a copy of an email I recieved 3 days ago from David of Traffic Taxis.com asking for help and this is not the first time he has asked his members for help either.

It seems like every few months or so a new traffic exchange would emerge and somehow David is involved with it even though he is not the primary owner but still he still gets involved with the promotion somehow.

Several months ago he did the same thing with Volcano Hits.com where he got involved cross promoting both traffic exchange. Now he's involved promoting Skyscrapersurf.

Where will it stop !

Is this the kind of stuff we have to expect from David Foley every few months? asking us to help a brand new exchange by purchasing credits and monthly subscriptions?

These brand new traffic exchanges doesn't have anything new to offer either or I am getting outrageous results or anything like that, they are same type of traffic exchanges that I have seen in the last 5 years. Nothing has changed.

Shouldn't David Foley be more focus on his own traffic exchange, how to make it better etc.. What is he really up to hmm..?

Till next time.

Paul Penafiel

*************** Copy of Email Message from David Foley ***************

Hey Taxi Surfers,

Ok folks I need your Taxi Pride right now!

I need all of you logged in tonight, I have loaded
cash some $5 dollar ones and some $1 dollar
ones and The Active Surfers Bonus has got money
falling out of it's pockets!

I'm looking for all my loyal members to come and
help out. I don't ask to much from you, but I do
need you know!

The Active Surfers Bonus is now up all 4 sites in
our network and we are developing one strong and
very organized team. Do you want to be a part of
that? Heck yah you do, cause we aren't stopping
this for anything.

Did I mention the jackpot has a nice little $25 cash
prize in it as well.

And folks, I know I keep saying this and I will continue
to keep saying this. If you are not a member at
Skyscraper Surf, get over there right now! I just spent
all day revamping that site and just made it about 10x
more powerful! And it's got the support of 3 of the
most active TE's today! Walk , run, jump whatever
you have to do, but get in to Taxis right now and get
in to Skyscraper Surf right now!

Update on Dynamic Surfing Ratio at FarmTraffic

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Ok so I got an email back from the Deedee of Farmtraffic.com about their dynamic ratio and how I actually got a surfing ratio of 1:3.

Here's how the dynamic surfing ratio works at Farmtraffic.com.

As more and more pages you view, the higher your surfing ratio goes up and for the entire day it can go up to 1: 1.5 that's it.

So which means that if you receive an email that says the surfing bonus is on, then whatever your current surfing ratio is, it will be doubled and it will stay like that for the rest of the day.

Other traffic exchange programs do the same thing like in Ilovehits whereas when you get an email that the power surf is on, you start at 1:2.5 right away whereas in Farmtraffic, you have to surf a little bit more to get higher surfing ratio.

This goes without saying though, if you want to get a higher surfing ratio, you have to upgrade your account.

Till next time.

Paul

How To Get A Higher Surfing Ratio

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:42:00 +0000

A couple of days ago I was blogging how boring FarmTraffic.com was and the only thing that has going for them is their dynamic surfing ratio.

Well guess what? I have been surfing FT for about four straight days now and yesterday I noticed something that completely caught me off guard. When I got home late last night around 10 pm I started surfing for about 2 hours and noticed that my surf ratio has jumped to 1:2.5.

Which means that for every site I view, I'm receiving 2.5 credits. Now while I'm typing this update on my blog, my current surf ratio is at a whopping 1:3. Which means for every page that I view, I'm getting 3 credits.

This current surf ratio has already surpassed the 1:2 ratio that I'm getting at TopTierTraffic.com

When will this crazy dynamic ratio at FarmTraffic.com ever end?

Who knows but I will keep going until my upgraded members expires which is on the 8th of May.

I will keep you posted.

Paul

Another Boring TE Launched: FarmTraffic.com

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:29:00 +0000

The only reason why I'm blogging about this new traffic exchange is because it was suggested by several top ranked traffic exchange owners including Jon Olson and Paul Kinder.

So is there anything to be excited about Farm Traffic.com? Absolutely Nothing !!

I understand the fact that because Soren Jordansen helped launched the exchange there was alot of fanfare around it but after a week of surfing it and checking it out, it is a pretty boring traffic exchange. No big credit bonuses, no cash prizes while you surf, no games, nothing !

If theres something that is going for this exchange and that is the dynamic surf ratio but then again you have to surf at least 500 pages for your ratio to go from 1:1 to 1:5 which is alot. Compare that to ToptierTraffic where upgraded members gets 2 credit for every site that you view. Which means that if you surf 500 pages as an upgraded member at ToptierTraffic.com, you will receive 1000 hits plus ToptierTraffic have over 10,000 members already compare to 1500 members from FarmTraffic.

I will cancell my upgraded membership at Farmtraffic at the end of the month and continue with ToptierTraffic.com.

I'm pretty sure those TE owners that endorsed FarmTraffic during the launched made alot of money which makes me thinks that's one of the reason why they recommended it in the first place, just another cash grab.

Till next time.

Paul Penafiel

RevolutionaryTraffic.com Is Becoming Another Dead Exchange

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:54:00 +0000

Just a few days ago one of the admin from RevolutionaryTraffic sent an email to its entire members stating that they have stop paying members for surfing and promoting their referral url. Basically they are broke and can't afford to pay anymore. That is so sad....lol

If you are still promoting RT out there, STOP! you are not getting paid anymore to promote your referral url or can expect getting paid anything because they are broke.

A couple of days later after they have made the announcement, my monthly subscription has been cancelled as promised. So I guess this is goodbye to the residual monthly income coming from their 5x6 matrix that I was getting.

I guess I should consider myself lucky that they paid me $38 bucks just days before they made the major announcement.

How long can RevolutionaryTraffic.com survive being just a regular traffic exchange when there's no incentive to either promote them or to surf at their lame duck exchange. Several members including me had made several ideas and proposal to make it sustainable for the long term but those suggestions fell on deaf ears.

RevolutionaryTraffic was unique and ordinary people were flocking to this exchange by the boat load and all of their hopes just vanished into thin air. This exchange gave them an opportunity to actually start making honest income but because some knuckleheads had a poor business plan, those hopes just went up in smokes.

I'm pretty sure someone out there will come up with a better design and a better business plan which will make it not only sustainable but will last longer than it's predecessor.

Good luck.

Paul Penafiel

RevolutionaryTraffic.com is Down....Yet Again?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:02:00 +0000

There's more episode happening at RT than any sitcom on tv, it's becoming one big soap opera I tell ya. Anyway, my cash account has gone over $30 bucks so I decided to send them a payment request just to keep em busy. Not that those boys are busy enough these days.

According to their recent emails, Revolutionary Traffic is upgrading their server again because their site just cannot cope with the heavy traffic they are getting which means they have to take their server offline again.

For me I have to go through dozens of traffic exchange programs where I have outstanding credits and put the campaigns on ice for the time being until the site is up again. This way I don't burn those valuable credits for nothing.

Guess What? More changes comming for the month of April for RT.

Start next month of April, all members will now be earning .50 (fifty cents) for every 110 sites view which is slightly down from the previous amount of one dollar for 210 sites view. Also for the Partners Member, when you promote your referral url, you will get paid .0025 cent per visit which is a quarter of a one cent, compare to .003 cent. That's a huge drop from the original amount of .005 or half a cent every time you show your referral url.

Do you what these guys are doing? they are giving valuable lessons to those who wish to copy their business model and it won't be long untill someone start a traffic exchange program that will outdo them at all level.

One other good thing about Revolutionary Traffic.com I want to mention and that is RT gives you 3 ways to earn money. So far they have paid me twice.

1) For surfing their network for free members,

2) For upgraded members, you get paid for showing your referral url

3) The 5x6 matrix pays you automatically when you have paid members in your entire downline structure. So far I have 29 people in my matrix and they all paying members.

I can't thank the people in my downline enough because ALL of them are working their tails off and they're giving their spillover to the people below them and it's so crazy how fast it's growing. As your downline matrix grows so does your residual income. I also want to mention that when I checked each member of my downline matrix, it shows their email address which means I can contact them whenever I want, ya know? to say hello.

Take care.

Paul

Take care.

I Got Paid Again By Revolutionary Traffic !

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:32:00 +0000

I didn't realize it until today that I actually got paid by Revolutionary Traffic.com for $26 bucks deposited straight to my Paypal account.

You know what the best part was? I didn't have to ask them for it, it was an automatic payment.

You know what else? The money I earned wasn't due to my surfing effort at all. It was the 5x6 matrix that did it. You see I have 21 people in my downline all of them are upgraded members but I only have 3 people below me and the rest are from my downline's downline.

This is one good thing about these matrixes, when you have so many paying downlines and they continue to pay their monthly fees, you continue to earn residual income.

This is just crazy, here I thought Revolutionary Traffic is totally waste of time, now I have second thought about this program now, I'm thinking I might actually continue paying my monthly fees.

My cash account is over $20 bucks again and ready to cash out. The month of March is not yet over and I'm about to receive my third cashout. Is Revolutionary Traffic.com for real?

Till next time.

Paul

Whirlwind Traffic.com Slow As Molasses

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:35:00 +0000

I decided to upgrade my account at Whirlwind Traffic.com and after couple of weeks I'm happy to report some traffic details.

So far I have accumulated over 2,100 credits in total which includes surfing efforts as well as bonuses. My best day was on the weekends and mondays where the network managed to deliver between 10 to 14 hits per day, which is very slow.

I haven't tracked the number if hits coming from the co-op hit that's included in the upgrade membership. It's likely that I will NOT renew my upgrade membership there due to sluggish traffic delivery. Now I know why the price for the upgrade is so cheap.

One good thing about this traffic exchange is that you can accumulate credits in short period of time and delivers it a steady pace then you can cancel your membership, find another similar traffic exchange with similar traffic delivery and benefits. If you do this over time, you can have dozens of traffic exchange programs where your sites will be shown 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without spending alot of money.

If you combine the co-op programs of WhirlwindTraffic.com, Savvyclicks and Hit2hit, you can stockpile your credits and have your site shown in over 30 top ranked traffic exchange programs around the clock.

Paul

How To Get 30,000+ Twitter Followers In 30 Days

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:27:00 +0000

This is a simple viral script that can bring in thousands of brand new Twitter followers --- http://tweetergetter.com/penafiel

Does it work? I don't know, I'm just trying it today as I'm taking my focus away from revolutionarytraffic.com into twitter.

The problem with this system is that the people that will be following you are random with different backgrounds and interest. If the system is promoted exclusively within the traffic exchange industry then you may have common interest with your fellow followers if not then you will have a mixed bag sort of speak.

Take care.

Paul

RevolutionaryTraffic.com's Server is Down..Again?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:39:00 +0000

The troubled RevolutionaryTraffic.com is down again in as many days. When will it be online again is anyone's guess at this point.

Thousands of credits are being used to promote this traffic exchange on a daily basis and it's all for nothing, it's all being wasted. Makes me wonder if anyone even noticed it or even care.

Last time I checked, RT were still paying their members .003 cent every time they show their referral url and a dollar for every 210 pages that they surf.

Who knows what the hell is going at that traffic exchange because the majority of the members are being kept in the dark.

Paul

What The Heck Is Up With Revolutionary Traffic ?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:32:00 +0000

It hasn't been that long since I got paid at Revolutionary Traffic and I'm starting to notice things are changing already.

Today I added up all of my credits that were used up within the last 24 hours and things are not adding up properly at least according to the old claim. So I decided to track how much am I getting credited for each time my RT referral url is being shown and according to my calculation I'm only being credited .003 cent per page view instead of .005 cent.

Wow! this changes everything doesn't it?

One good reason I could think of why they're doing this is to slow down the pace at which people can cash out. Thing about it, I signed up on March 8, 2009 and cash out thirty bucks on March 20, 2009. By reducing the amount I get for promoting their referral url, it will take me longer to cash out.

You'd think they would be email all their members about it before doing so but nope, they can make changes on a whim without informing their members first. What were they thinkin? hoping member's wouldn't notice.

Unbelievable !!, I wonder what's next.

The other interesting thing that happened this past week is with Traffic Taxi, they removed those 30 days upgrade promo for a penny for other traffic exchange program such as Bootscootintraffic.com when you successfully complete the anti-cheating page. That happened just a few days after I posted it on my blog. Makes me wonder if other traffic exchange owners read my blog on regular basis. Hmmm...very interesting isn't it?

Paul Penafiel

I Got Paid By Revolutionary Traffic ! Woot Woot

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:02:00 +0000

It was Monday when I originally sent my payment request at Revolutionary Traffic and today I finally received a payment of $28.88 but my cash account was around $30 bucks less the $1.14 Paypal fee.

I'm somewhat relieved that not only I got my original investment back but I also got some of my money back promoting it. I admit that it took a little longer than anticipated but don't forget they had to move servers and fix a few things to make their exchange better for the long run. So I have to give them a benefit of a doubt. If there's one thing that online marketers love most and that is getting paid fast. That's what makes marketer's really get's so excited promoting a program in the first place and that's how the addiction starts. The more they get paid and the faster they get paid the more they promote.

RevolutionaryTraffic.com still have miles to go if they want to compete with other mainstream traffic exchange programs but as a new TE they are taking baby steps but at the same time it makes you wonder how long can they do this.

Like I said before, if they can make their exchange more profitable, more stable and sustainable in the long run, those bux sites are basically going extinct. RevolutionaryTraffic can compete not only with other traffic exchange but with PTC and Getpaidtoreademail sites as well.

The only question remain is, how long can they remain online and how long can they keep paying their members.

Again, I would like to say thank you to Dan for sending me that payment. I hope there will be tons of thank you coming from me in the coming months.

Paul Penafiel

Still Waiting For My Payment Request At RT

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:08:00 +0000

So now Revolutionary Traffic is temporarily down while they are updating their servers or moving servers and whatnot but it's been over 24 hours already since my payment request and still no payment yet.

There's so many good deals out there right now especially those 2 for 1 credits sales at Dragonsurf and Traffic Taxis has that first page promo for $10 bucks which gets around 4000 views per day.

I will keep my promotion on minimum until I know for sure that RT can pay their members and on time.

If I don't get paid by Friday March 20, 2008 then we know there's a problem. I will keep you updated.

Anyway till next time.

Paul

Warning - RevolutionaryTraffic.com's Site Could Be Down In A Couple Days

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:55:00 +0000

Below is a copy of an email sent by the admin of RevolutionaryTraffic regarding a pending server downtime due to some major changes being made at their site.

"I will try to keep this short, but there are some major changes happening this week you need to know about.

We are delivering over 150,000 page views a day and because of our success at driving traffic to your sites our server situation will need to change. We are going to do this as quickly and as seamless as possible, but the site could be down for as long as 72 hours for some of you in the worse case.

We will sent out another email just prior to the move, but we think it will be March 17 or 18 at the latest.

Now for some more MAJOR News.

We will be dropping the Auto-surf portion of the site.
That is right no more auto-surf. Not only does it contribute to the server load problem but it is more trouble then it is worth on an advertising level. No one really sees your site anyway. By doing this we will also be able to fall in line with some of the larger Traffic Exchanges and down line building programs thus allowing us all more exposure. Bottom line bye-bye auto surf.

One more issue to address before I let you go, and that is the latest attack on our surf rotation. We have a zero tolerance for frame-breakers and malicious virus spreading sites. Anyone putting such a site into the surf rotation will have there account deleted and be banned from Revolutionary Traffic. ZERO TOLERANCE after we have deleted
your account we will no longer know your name much less what your account looked like before. PLEASE take this to heart.

We look forward to a long and happy relationship with you paul, and want nothing more then to provide the best possible service we can."

About an hour after I received that email I noticed the main site is down so I had to put all of my RT campaign on hold and let me tell ya how pain in the butt that is. The timing couldn't be worse for me because I just sent my payment request earlier today and I would be really bummed out if something bad happens.

I am very optimistic that RT will be back soon.

******* Update - 7:00pm March 16 2009 ******

Yeay !! the site is back on again

Paul

Cash Out Request Was Made At Revolutionary Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:18:00 +0000

It has been a week since I have signed up with Revolutionary Traffic and today I finally made my first cash out request in the amount of $21 bucks and change.

Just after I have made the payment request, the message on the site says something like "Your cash-out request has been received! Please allow from 1 to 3 days for the payment to be processed."

I've cash out at several top ranked traffic exchange like Savvyclicks and they usually deposit my commissions within 24 hours, without fail. Now that's what I call service.

I guess we will have to wait and see where RT stacks up when it comes to payment request.

Paul

Wow, The Traffic Flow AT Traffic Taxis Is Crazy !

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:04:00 +0000

When a traffic exchange programs claims that they can delivery fast flowing traffic is one thing but when you can actually prove it with your own eyes is something else.

It's only been five days since I've assigned some credits to my RT referral url and Traffic Taxis have already delivered over 2,200 hits to my sites and responsible for earning me at least $11 bucks in my Revolutionary Traffic account. Compare that to BootscootinTraffic where it manage to only delivered 540 hits during the same time.

Remember, the faster a traffic exchange can deliver the hits, the faster your cash account at RT grows. As of right now while writing this blog post, my cash account at RT is $16.265 and growing. So as you can see I've already earned my initial $10 investment and then some and it's only been a week since I have signed up, but it's not actual money until I see it in my bank account.

I just have to wait when my account reaches $20 and when it does I will cash out and I will see if they actually pay and how fast they can pay me.

I manage to get a free upgrade at TrafficTaxis during my regular surfing session when I saw a page where it says to claim the "Golden Taxis". Of course I didn't know what it was so I asked the live support and I was told it was a free upgrade for a month so I went ahead and took the free upgrade and now I'm surfing at 1:1 ratio and racking as much credits as I can plus reaping all the extra credit bonuses at the same time.

If you are promoting Revolutionary Traffic and looking for another traffic exchange program that can deliver a ton of traffic, don't look any further than Traffic Taxis.

The other traffic exchange program that were able to deliver over 1500 hits per week is Dragonsurf.biz and that's with only 1 url.

Till next time.

Paul

How To Maximize Your Revolutionary Traffic Cash Balance

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:56:00 +0000

I've only been a member of Revolutionary Traffic for about 4 days and my cash account went from $1.005 to $11.40 and there's still 3 weeks to go till the end of this month.

I must admit this new traffic exchange still have to prove itself in order to be taken seriously as a legitimate, stable and sustainable traffic exchange program. You have to remember now that there will be so many people that will be cashing out as soon as they meet the minimum requirement and if they can't handle the volume and the amount of cash coming out of their pocket, needless to say, they will be in so much trouble and won't be online for too long.

But what if they start paying in a timely fashion and more and more members start joining and upgrading their account then starts promoting like crazy, you will need some kick ass strategy to maximize your cash account so that you can cash out more often and in decent amount.

Strategy #1:

Join traffic exchange programs that gives out tons of credits such Savvyclick while you surf. Each time you receive free extra credit bonuses those are worth .005 cent per credit. Let's say you surf for an hour as a free member and rack up credits of about 250 and another 50 of credit bonuses for a total of 300 credits. While some traffic exchange gives banner and text impressions, Savvyclicks ONLY gives free credit bonuses, nothing else.

Plus when you upgrade your account at Savvyclicks, your website is being shown in over 30 top ranked traffic exchange programs which gets around 1000 extra hits a month which means if you promote your RT referral url, that's worth about 5 dollars extra per month.

The following figures are very conservative ok, you can earn a whole lot more when they double or triple the credit bonuses.

300 credits x .005 cent = $1.50 for one day

$1.50 x 30 days = $45 dollars per month

If you surf 3 traffic exchange everyday averaging about 300 credits per day, you can potentially earn $135 dollars per month. I've chatted with surfers who can surf thousands of pages daily while surfing 5 traffic exchange programs everyday.

Strategy #2

When you surf at certain traffic exchange programs such as Traffic Taxis, if you answer the anti-cheating skill testing question page correctly, sometimes they offer upgrades in other traffic exchange for a penny. It's one of those 30 days trial offers.

Now those upgrades comes with 1:1 surfing ratio and a bonus of up to 600 credits. Check this out ! 600 credits x .005 = $3.00

You are basically trading a penny for $3.00 dollars and if you surf 300 credits per day for 30 days that's a total of $45 bucks plus $3.00 for grand total of $48.

Strategy # 3

When you join a traffic exchange program such as Ilovehits, when you upgrade your account you will be surfing at a rate of 1.25 credits per view sometimes higher and you can rack up some serious amounts of credits in a short period of time. What you want to do is set up 3 or 4 campaigns of the same url. This way you will be able to burn all of your stored credits and earn you some cash. Especially if the traffic exchange program has a poor traffic flow that's even more reason to do it.

Like I said before just imagine if Revolutionary Traffic actually turns into a stable and sustainable traffic exchange, they could change so many things in the traffic exchange industry.

Till next time.

Paul

Finally, I'm Making Progress At Revolutionary Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:33:00 +0000

Shortly after I sent my second email to the admin, I finally got a response from the admin named Daniel Lund.

I asked Dan about the cash reward for upgraded members and he said that the claim is not a lie. So I had to go through my account again and re-checked my own RT referral url to make sure that I'm using the correct one.

When I compared the referral url in all of my campaign with the one in my RT traffic exchange referral url, it turns out that I was using a different one.

How the hell did that happen? I had no idea, it was probably my own stupidity. So I had to go back and change the old referral url in all of my TE campaigns and start over.

As of now, my cash account is slowly but surely increasing every time my correct referral url is being shown across several traffic exchange network.

So far so good, I have to check my account again tomorrow and see if my cash balance reflects the page views my RT referral url have been getting.

Till next time.

Paul

******* Update - 8:24am March 11/2009 ******

Since yesterday my account went from $1.005 to -----> $3.94 and steadily increasing.

I don't know about you but this Revolutionary Traffic.com site could make some people not only buy more credits at dirt cheap prices but also to surf a whole lot more. I mean I could buy credits at one TE for $20 bucks and potentially turn it into $25.

For example: a while back I upgraded my account at Startexchange for about $15 bucks and racked up over 14,000 credits. How much is that 14k worth at .005 per credit? a whopping $70 bucks.