Traffic Exchange Scoop

Today StartXchange makes a lot of significant announcements!

First, there is a new prize page where you can now win credits, banner impressions, upgrades (For Free Members), and referrals (For Upgraded Members)! That truly is an amazing bonus for being active and paying attention while you surf.

The StartXchange marathon time will also be extended to allow more participation. It seems many people are unable to participate in the event during this holiday season. Oh, and owner Tim Linden has also sweetened the prize with 1 Year of Free Web Hosting and a Domain Name!

StartXchange has built its community foundation around the concept of teams. Personally, I never bothered to join one because the prizes rewarded people who surfed the most, referred the most, etc, but my schedule just doesn’t allow me the time to do those things and win extra prizes. This has changed now, because the surfing contest is replaced by a loyalty contest! When members of a team sign surf 20 pages in a day, your team earns a point for that surfer’s efforts. Now the average person with limited time (Like me!) can still participate for great prizes every week!

StartXchange used to allow members to sell credits earned, such as from surfing and referring. However the Terms of Service will change this new year, and if you are selling your traffic in any form, such as a Co-op, the majority of the traffic sold must be from purchased credits.

I know this is a lot of information to digest, but it is all very significant and there are a few more things you should read. You can find the full details at the StartXchange Newsletter Section:

http://www.startxchange.com/newsletter/

Remember if you are already a member of StartXchange, claim those activity points at the bottom too! If you are not a member yet, joining should be on your priority list, due to the high activity levels, large member base, traffic flow, and constant enhancements.

EasyHits4U has reached a tremendous milestone of 52,000 members, which truly makes it one of the largest membership bases for traffic exchanges. According to their numbers, their membership base has about doubled over the past year, which is some explosive growth considering it was already big to begin with.

EasyHits4U has a new promotion until December 19, 2007. Buy credits and you will receive triple the amount of banner impressions! As an example, buy 1,000 credits and you will get 3,000 banner impressions to go with it.

Also, the person who buys the most credits for this promotion will get a free month of premium membership. If you buy that many credits already you probably don’t need it, but free is free!

Well the Dragon Surf $1 referral promotion is officially over. During this insane week, they tallied an amazing 1256 new members, although these sign-ups still needs to be officially confirmed by Soren Jordensan. Regardless of what the real sign up numbers came out to be, that is an incredible number to achieve and a great way to start off their re-launch!

To keep their momentum going, Simon Kelly has added a new feature for Dragon Surf surfers. You can now win some great products / prizes for surfing 250, 500, or 750 pages in a single day! These prizes will periodically change, giving you plenty of incentive to stay active. Click here to see the list of prizes currently available for this bonus.

As one of the more popular traffic exchanges in the industry after only 1 year, one can only imagine what the future holds for this excellent traffic exchange!

As many of you probably already know, Dragon Surf has been offering $1 per referral for only 7 days to celebrate their 1 year anniversary and relaunch. The commissions are great because they are also giving out an amazing one time offer after the sign up! They will also announce a brand new feature soon. Go out there and get referring people to Dragon Surf if you haven’t started already!

Raining Traffic has announced that whenever the admin sees you using their banner advertising displays being used in a traffic exchange, you will be rewarded with extra banner impressions! You could use them in your splash pages or by using their rotator.

Before you all jump to join, Raining Traffic is a Pro-only traffic exchange where all members pay just $2 a month to join. The concept behind this type of traffic exchange is that you know members are willing to spend money. The plus side is this increases conversions and/or your chances of making a sale because you filter out those who are more selective with their spending. It is also owned by Steve Ayling, who is well known in the traffic exchange industry, so that gives this exchange strong credibility. Is $2 a month worth that piece of mind and a 1:1 ratio? That is up for you to decide!

I’m not sure how long this has been happening, but I learned that WhirlWind traffic offers a nice little feature for its free members. For every day that you surf 50 pages, your affiliate link will be promoted at 16 other traffic exchanges the next day! I’m not sure how many page views that equates to for your referral ID, but with the other bonuses they give already, it is a very nice bonus for surfing regularly. WhirlWind Traffic is one traffic exchange that you should keep an eye on because they have an active owner who is always having great little promotions, contests, and incentives to keep you surfing regularly.

In fact, I’m heading to surf there right now!

Surf4Earth has just announced a couple of contests in their weekly newsletter.

First is a donation contest, where you can donate a percentage of the credits you earn to charity. Those credits are then converted to cash to send to that charity! The person who donates the most wins 3 months of the Game Warden membership upgrade and 1 month featured featured website. The prizes are as follows:

1st – 3 Months Game Warden Upgrade, 1 Month featured website

2nd – 1 Month Game Warden Upgrade

3rd – 1 Month Ranger Upgrade

4th – 1 Week featured website

5th-10th – Banner Impressions

Surf4Earth also has a weekly promotion contest! Every time the owner sees your splash page being advertised in another traffic exchange, you get an entry to win 500 credits or a $5 gift certificate to Office max or Panera’s Bread Company.

They actually have a few other announcements, but you should join Surf4Earth now for all of the details if you aren’t already a member.