Traffic Exchange Scoop

The main event for tonight… Intellibanners v.s. Banner Keyring !

Intellibanners sure introduced a great concept that will be a huge help to traffic exchange enthusiasts, a banner rotator. It was certainly a fantastic idea, however Banner Keyring also just went live and are now in an early battle for banner rotator supremacy. A little controversy already seems to be brewing at the NetMarketingForum, with the owner of Intellibanners , Josh Abbott, arguing that Banner Keyring "lacks creativity." You can see the thread at:

http://netmarketingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=18144

I decided to test drive both side by side to see which I thought was better for the customer, you and me!

First, both are nearly identical with their services. Both offer a banner rotator service that allows you to add one simple image and link into all of your traffic exchanges. Then you can manage which banners show at their website from your banner rotator account. Both offer statistics so you can see how well your campaigns run.

The big catch with Intellibanners is that as a free member, 80% of your banner impressions are yours, and 20% goes to upgraded members. You’ll also get to run 3 campaigns with 10 banners each. You can also enter in how often you want each banner to display. If you upgrade at $9.99 / month, 100% of the impressions are yours, plus you’ll get some extra from free members. You’ll also enjoy 10 campaigns with 50 banners each.

Banner Keyring on the other hand, gives all members 100% of their banner impressions. As a free member, you get 3 campaigns with 5 banners each. You don’t get to add as many banners as a free member, but you get 100% of your impressions, which isn’t too bad at all. However you can’t set how often each banner displays. By upgrading at $9.99 / month, you get unlimited campaigns and banners, source-by-source statistics, and can now set the frequency that each banner appears.

As you can see, each has their own benefits. Me personally, I’ll be going with Banner Keyring . I just think it’s a great service even as a free member, and if you need more you can certainly upgrade. Most importantly is that I’m not giving away free impressions to others, every display is mine.

Although you can upgrade at Intellibanners and get extra impressions from free members, I question how many free members will be actively using their service since Banner Keyring gives them 100% of the banner displays. That greatly diminishes the value of the Intellibanners upgrade.

Hopefully that gives you some insight into my thinking behind choosing Banner Keyring , but be sure to look at both so that you can make your own decision!

Click Here to Join Banner Keyring

Click Here to Join Intellibanners

Traffic Hoopla has recently announced that it has reached 50,000 members. Recognized for being a valuable resource as a downline builder and report on the productiveness of traffic exchanges and safelists. A big congratulations goes out to Traffic Hoopla on this significant accomplishment!

Traffic Hoopla has met some opposition lately though from several traffic exchange owners who question the validity of their testing. Is Traffic Hoopla really altering the outcome for their own benefit? I honestly can’t say they are or aren’t.

Owners certainly have an inside track, knowing detailed statistics about their traffic exchanges. However there are also many other factors to take into consideration, such as how many credits they use, which exchanges they test each week, what ads they use, and more.

As the owner of EliteSafelist, even I have personally benefited from being listed. But quite frankly there are too many unanswered questions for me to say anything negative.

Traffic Hoopla is a powerful force with significant influence on what traffic exchanges and safelists people join. 50,000 members is a significant milestone, and I send them a big congratulations for their accomplishment.

I knew this time would come, but I honestly didn’t expect it so soon. I’ve decided to change the direction of TEscoop. What you’ve seen so far is me report on the daily updates of some of the top rated traffic exchanges on the Internet. Now I want to cover traffic exchanges from a different angle, so that you are truly learning and improving your business on a greater level.

If you’ve seen some of the information being covered at Tim Linden’s Blog or Jon Olson’s Hit Exchange News , this is the type of information that I’d like to share with you as well. I’m not as experienced as them, but I think I bring a fresh perspective and unique ideas to traffic exchanges.

Of course I’ll always deliver the latest scoop and great bonuses being given out because I still get excited every time I see something big happening! However it will be less summarizing and a lot more tips, information, and analyzing of the traffic exchange industry.

I hope you’ll enjoy the change of direction here at TEscoop!

To Your Success,
Solomon Huey

P.S. In case you are going to miss those daily updates, I found out someone does a great job of that too! Check out Gina’s TE Corner .

Hey folks, with the recent security breach I am going to be updating my wordpress installation to the most recent, secure version. Sadly Solomon Huey is not a techie, so I have no idea what the end result will be once I’m done!

In the meantime, TEsoop will pause it’s usual updates. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Update: Looks like we survived and TEscoop came out in tact! Luckily most of the information that I thought was lost was still in the database too.