Paul's Traffic Tips For Newbies

Taking A Long Vacation From Internet Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:49:00 +0000

I believe I owe some of my long time loyal readers a sincere apology. I am deeply sorry for not updating or posting anything on my blog for a long time.

My wrists were getting so sore that I just couldn't type anymore, they were that bad so I had to do what I needed to do and that was to quit.

I will be back as early as next year so stay tuned.

Regards,

Paul Penafiel

Rant Of The Day !!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:48:00 +0000

So I came back yesterday from my trip in Lake Tahoe and while checking my inbox I noticed a Paypal notification for a subscription from Traffic Taxis for $24.99 or something like that.

Of course I went to my TT account and logged in and noticed that my account say I'm still a FREE member, WTF !!!

I was charged for the bill on December 6, 2009 and today was the 15 so I started to wonder how long have I been a free member since I was charged 9 days ago. Anyway I sent them an email telling them my concern regarding my account and after several hours went by, my Traffic Taxis account was finally upgraded(Yeay!).

However until now I haven't received any email from the admin explaining what the heck happened.

What would have happened if I didn't say anything? would my account stay free until I send them a message.

Why haven't they sent me any email telling me exactly what happened. So I guess this is normal behavior in traffic exchange industry where every time someone complains about their account, they just go ahead and fix it without telling you what happened. Needless to say I cancelled my subscription from Traffic Taxis.

This should be a lesson to you all who pays subscription fees to traffic exchange programs. Always check to see if you are getting what you are paying for.

In a world of technological advances, things go wrong and people just need a simple explanation as to what happened that's all, I mean is that too much to ask?

Till next time.

Paul Penafiel

Simple Yet Effective Twitter Bot

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:10:00 +0000

I've seen so many of these twitter bots that I started to tune them out because they don't work as well as they should. Most of the ad copy or headlines are either copy of the previous version or just down right boring or they have tons of pop up before you could fill in the form.

This one that I have found is very simple and I guess that's why I like it.

http://twitter-builder.com/tweet/penafiel

It doesn't have a pop under or pop up ads once it loads up however, there is one that comes up only after you fill out the form and that's why it's more effective.

So how do you get thousands of followers using this simple twitter bots? you promote it all over the place every waking moment. There are twitter bots that actually roams the world wide web on your behalf and continuously add followers on autopilot but you have to pay a lot of money for it.

Happy Tweeting !

Paul Penafiel

Cool, I Made $56.78 From This Program?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Several years ago, I couldn't make dime online even if my life depended on it and now with simple techniques and a ton of hard work, anyone can cash out $50 bucks per month from one solid traffic exchange program.

All you need is a teaspoon of clever marketing technique here and there, a tablespoon of trustworthy hard working traffic exchange owner and a couple of cups of blood and sweat of hard work.

Even though the traffic exchange program that I cashed out that $56 dollars from only offers 25% commissions, it goes to show you that if your downline have confidence in the owners ability to improve his program and my downlines are getting good results from their promotions and advertising, they will support it.

Max Traffic Pro is one of those traffic exchange programs that maintains a low profile and doesn't really claim to have hundreds of thousands of active members but the owner works really hard for his members.

So, How do you earn commissions from traffic exchange every month? Persistence

There's no top secret that I can give you other than I wasted over 50,000 credits spread across dozens of traffic exchange programs, until I got my first active downline in MaxTrafficPro. Over 90% of my downline in traffic exchange that I belong to are either banned or inactive but it only takes a few individuals to get those commission going. They are out there and if you believe in yourself that you will find them, trust me you will find them.

The formula for creating monthly commissions from traffic exchange is simple:

-Choose a solid program with a good honest hardworking owner

-Promote a fast loading high converting splashpage

-Advertise to as many sites as you can and as often as you can

-Give praises, applauses or reviews about the program in forums or blogs.

-Don't quit

The hard part is executing the formula.

Good luck.

Paul Penafiel

Beware Of Misleading Ads !

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:54:00 +0000

When marketers create splashpage in hurry for the sake of earning those valuable commissions and getting signups, they don't realize that a tiny mistake can cost them not only their valuable reputations but future sales too.

Here's a perfect example when I was surfing yesterday at Traffictaxis.com and came across this splashpage and decided to investigate it. After reading every letter in that splash page it does give you the impressions (pardon the pun) that when you upgrade your account at Hittoad.com, you will be automatically rewarded with cash price EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU SURF? .....right? but when I upgraded my account to the top level and started surfing for about half an hour, all I was getting was banners, texts impressions and credits bonuses..NO Cash !

Why is that? after all it says right on their page in black and white that ONLY upgraded members can earn cash prizes. That's just it, if you are a free member, there's no bloody way you can earn cash, you have to upgrade and look for it.

Furthermore, because the ' cumulative bonus surf ' includes all of the above ei. banner and text impressions plus cash bonus. In other words, you have to click the right toad to find the cash awards, they don't just give it to you right away, you have to work your ass off to find it.

The other beef I had with that splashpage was that he/she wasn't very specific of how long did that person surf per day, even thought that person earned thirty some odd dollars in two days but didn't get into specific how it was accomplished.

So, next time you see a that splashpage you know a little bit more about it and more informed and don't jump on it right away without doing your own do diligence.

Take care.

Paul Penafiel

Is Pyrabang.com In Trouble ?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:50:00 +0000

I received the follow messages from one of my Pyrabang associates and based on this email there are some concerns about Pyrabang.com

******** Email 1 *********

Think Twice on Pyrabang. Top sponsor gets bashed by CEO Chris Perillo a.k.a NEO

If not for Netmoney, Pyrabang would still be crawling. Can you believe it, CEO calls Top Sponsor a " F " Lunatic...

[NEO] 5:58 pm: but whatever val make whatever threats
[netmoney] 5:58 pm: Because I sure as heck don't want to be a part of a company in which I have done numerous
things to try and help build, that is accusing me of copyright infringement.
[NEO] 5:58 pm: no one owns me or tells me what to do
[netmoney] 5:58 pm: I don't make threats.
[netmoney] 5:58 pm: I just don't want to have to go to my lawyer with bs.
[netmoney] 5:59 pm: And I certainly dont have time for such nonsense.
[NEO] 5:59 pm: you're a *fuck* lunatic
[NEO] 5:59 pm: seriously look at you'
[NEO] 5:59 pm: i was completely calm
[NEO] 5:59 pm: you don't see what you continuously threatening me did to me?
[NEO] 5:59 pm: and now since im upset i'm *fuck* up?
[netmoney] 6:00 pm: Ok that is it. You are a very rude person...and certainly unprofessional with that language.
Goodbye Neo. I do wish you the best with your program.
[NEO] 6:00 pm: Val.
[netmoney] 6:00 pm: Please cancel my membership, effective immediately.
[NEO] 6:00 pm: Do what you gotta do.
[netmoney] 6:00 pm: Bye all.

******** End of Email 1 *****************

Here's another email I received regarding to Pyrabang.com.

******** Email 2 ******************

For 14 months pyrabang has been online. Since our team all joined on Feb. 16th of 2009 and brought in more members in one month then what Chris Perillo could do in six months.

We we're are always able to get paid on the 7th in the A.M and in most cases at 12:01 on the 7th.

Well, today Chris Perillo took it upon himself to make member wait till 8:00 p.m. with no regards to it's memebers.

Matter of fact about noon today, he stated in chat that he forgot it was payday and it would take him a half hour to set up to pay.

Well, that half hour turned into many hours. Then Chris Perillo apparently thought he needed to do something drastic to try and save Pyrabang with a special email and to wait till 8:00 p.m. to send out it out before he paid members.

That's right. Try and save Pyrabang.

You see, many people have cancelled and or cancelling there membership with pyrabang. Those that have attempted to cancell there account had to call Chris Perillo to only be shout down to and stay a member. Therefore, they just cancelled the subscription.

You see, after Chris Perillo went off on Netmoney, the entire list of members got the word.

Now, with payday. Chris Perillo is trying to entice members with this 10% ploy of company profits to the gold members. Do the math. Comes down to about 3 cents based on 5,000 gold members.

Oh by the way. Chris Perillo has seized my account, refuses to pay my commissoins. Since my sponsor contacted me and I confronted Neo on his comments he has attempted to muzzle me for repeating the media of the CEO of Pyrabang.

****************** End of Email 2 ******************

Take care.

Paul

Which Traffic Exchange Gives More Bonus Credits?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:34:00 +0000

Today, I decided to surf two traffic exchange programs side by side for exactly one hour and see which one gives more credits bonuses. I didn't really care much about the banner and text ad impressions because I don't use them and I don't find them as effective as the credits.

Traffic Taxis ---> total pages surfed: 200 pages ---total bonus credits received:24

Tezak Traffic Power ---> total pages surfed 210---total bonus credits received:26

Keep in mind that I am an upgraded at Traffic Taxis and I'm a free member at Tezak Traffic Power but when I was a free member at Traffic Taxis, I received just as much bonus credits as an upgraded member and the same thing with TTP, when you upgrade the amount of bonus credits you receive while surfing is the same.

This non scientific test surprised me alot because I expected to earn more from TT because they give out more than what I received today.

Till next time.

Paul Penafiel

Aim High Traffic.com is Giving Away $10 Dollars?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:26:00 +0000

When I saw an ad for AimHighTraffic.com that they were giving a way ten dollars for free, I had to check it out for myself.

So I signed up by filling out the form as usual and I had to surf 50 pages to verify my account which I did. Then I had to submit a support ticket to the admin to let them know that I have fullfilled my side of the deal and now it's their turn to update my account.

Within 15 to 20 minutes after I sent the support ticket, they updated my account by adding the $10 dollars as promised. At least they are prompt in responding to my support ticket which is always a good sign. So now I have to make a decision don't I ?

I mean what's the use of asking for the $10 dollars if you can't cash it out !

The minimum amount you can cash out is $25 dollars.

There's nothing special about this traffic exchange other than the theme which has a picture of a fighter jet and armed marines. I'm not really sure what the underlying message they are trying convey to internet marketers other than to aim high whatever your goals are? or something to that effect. Certainly, this is not the first airplane themed TE that exist nor the first military theme TE either so to me this is another boring traffic exchange that no one needs.

There's absolutely nothing that separates Aimhightraffic.com from the rest of the traffic exchange programs that litter the internet and that's why I don't really want to promote or recommend this exchange to anyone.

I could hardly wait what the next fly by night traffic exchange program that will emerge next.

Regards.

Paul Penafiel

You Have Just Won .001 Cash!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:34:00 +0000

Wow I'm rich !

That's exactly how I reacted when I saw that prize page while surfing at Traffic Taxis this afternoon. Earlier today I received an email from the admin of Traffic Taxis that they will be stripping all credits, text and banner prize page and replaced it with cash.

So of course I had to checked it out and after couple of hours of surfing their network, the most I made in cold hard cash was .02 cent. That's right a couple of pennies but I don't surf their network to earn some spare change, I surf over there to build credits for my next ad campaign.

I just hope that when members get those kind of emails, I hope they don't expect to earn their next car payment.

Regards.

Paul Penafiel

Full Access To Clickbank Pirate For Only $4.97

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:51:00 +0000

Have you heared of the old saying 'There's a sucker born every minute" I believe P.T. Barnum said it and it applies to this blog article.

Like many of you, you have been bombarded by this new product called 'Clickbank Pirate' where they show you how to make money online using various tools including clickbank.

When I scrolled to the bottom of the page and checked how much it cost, it says $47 dollars for the first month and then you will be locked at $27 dollars per month after that.

The Shocker !!

Then just when I was about to close the window, a pop up mesasge appeared in the middle of the screen that says " Wait! click the 'cancel' button on the next window for something very special -- you don't want to miss out on this"

So of course I clicked " Stay on this page" and then that's when I saw the page that says you can gain full access for the entire month for only $4.97. That's a far cry from the other ridiculous price of $47 bucks.

What they are trying to do is create massive discount to make you believe that you are getting good deal when in fact the original price of this was probably $4.97

With all the jv and the emails promo that has been sent in the past few days, I wonder how many suckers that paid the full price. It makes you think doesn't it.

This tactic is what internet marketing is all about, stretching the lines if ethical boundaries.

So how would you feel if you actually paid the full price and discovered later on that you could've bought it at a much cheaper price? I'd be pretty ticked off dude!

They have also added an extra unconditional guarantee where you can try the products for 60 days which is a standard clickbank policy.

When it comes to internet marketing, there's more than meets the eye.

Paul Penafiel

Somethings You Need To Know About Pyrabang

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:41:00 +0000

There's no way I would've known this if I didn't experiement with Pyrabang network even though I've read the FAQ page a few times already. For me some things sticks to my head when I actually do things rather than just reading it and it helps me understand things better.

Here are a few things that I learned about Pyrabang.

1. When you transfer money from your Paypal account to your Pyrabang account, you will lose money. When I transferred $20 bucks from my Paypal account, I noticed that it only showed $18.89 which means they deducted $1.11 as processing fee which to me it doesn't makes sense at first.

When I asked the admin about it, it made perfect sense because that processing fee will be paid to Paypal when you request a widrawal when your money is deposited back to Paypal. So basically what it means is the members will be the one paying for the handling fees each time you transfer money to and from your Paypal account.

As you or may not know, Paypal 'Does Not' charge for sending money.

2. When you post your own news or videos items, you will lose bangs and when you cash in your profits or bangs, you will lose some bangs also which comes to like 10 % commissions.

When I did my first post, I started with 10 bangs but when I checked my porfolio my post only showed 8 bangs or 808 impressiongs. So if people only click on your post, you will earn bangs, if someone invest in your post, you will earn more bangs.

You can leave your post in the Pyrabang network until it runs out of impressions then cash out and then start all over again or you can invest in 20 posts and once you have earned a profit of 500 bangs on each post, you can cash out which comes to around $10 bucks.

I will keep you posted.

Paul Penafiel

Why So Many Members Are Quitting Pyrabang ?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:45:00 +0000

If you have ever wondered why certain people quit programs such as Pyrabang or similar programs well before they even understand the whole concept or how it works, I maybe able to shed some light into that.

Seriously folks, there are so many reason why people quit but I'm hoping to highlight the major ones.

One of the biggest reason why they quit is because the program is too complicated for them to understand it and they don't want to continue paying monthly fees for something they don't understand. Are they that lazy to spend a few minutes of their time to navigate every menu? are they not educated enough to understand the basic of starting and promoting a business. Are they just too lazy to promote and just want someone to recruit massive gold members on their behalf?

Instead they should be spending night and day and every waking moment learning How It Works! If they have any questions at all they can ask their sponsor or the program admin. Only then they can make an educated decision to either quit or continue with the program.

Here's a good video on how to post your message using Pyrabang:

http://www.pyrabang.com/postsEx.php

There are literaly hundreds of upgraded members who are cancelling their accounts within the last few months even though Pyrabang is only 1 year old, their anniversary was last week, 4th of July.

The first fundamental of running an online business is - hard work, period. Nobody is going to babysit you or spoon feed you every time you ask a question or everytime you get frustrated with something. You need to do some work too because that's the only way you are ever going to succeed. Nothing will happen if you let your account sitting there being inactive unless you take action.

The other reason why people quit is because they just don't have any experience running any type of business at all albeit offline or online. They simply don't have a clue what they are getting into. As soon as they encounter some kind of roadblock or difficulty, they quit. These type of people are always looking for an easy way out which they will never find.

The other major reasons why I think people quit certain programs is because they no longer have confidence in the future growth of the program. One negative publicity can have a mind of it's own and will wind up on thousands of website/blogs on the internet and those negative publicity will sway a lot of people's mind to stay away from that program.

To those people who think that success will just land on their lap without doing absolutely anything, good luck with that! it won't happen.

Regards.

Paul Penafiel

P.S. For Pyrabang Members! If you find this info valuable and informative, create a powerlink then send a message to your Twitter followers, vote for it for top post or invest in it to earn more bangs.

Are Twitter Software/Scripts A Total Waste Of Time?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Penafiel) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:24:00 +0000

Ever since I checked out this Twitter script or software or what the heck you want to call it, I've only been able to get 44 followers not the 15,625 that says you will get with just one tweet.

What script am I talking about?

http://tweetergetter.com/penafiel

You should really be asking am I building my own followers or Gary McCaffrey's. Believe it or not each time you promote your link, you are also helping building Gary's own opt-in list because the page has a pop up with an optin-in form.

Imagine when you have hundreds of affiliates promoting his script, his twitter name will always be included on every page unless someone unchecked it from the list and those people are building his list at the same time.

Very clever marketing tactic don't you think?

Paul Penafiel

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