Traffic Exchange Scoop

Kenneth Kraakstad is running a huge promotion at all 3 of his traffic exchanges:

• Generalen Traffic Empire
• Traffic Muscles
• Traffic Giantic

The contest starts today at 8:00 P.M. EST, and ends in 5 days. Kraakstad explains the rewards in his latest e-mail newsletter:

• Credits prizes for 10 best surfers
• 2 surfers will get $20 into their account surfing more than 2000
  pages during contest.
• 1 top 10 surfer will win 6 months FREE Upgrade
• 2 Random surfers will receive 1 month FREE Upgrade.
• 4 Random surfers surfing more than 2000 pages during contest win a
  FREE Lifetime Pro Upgrade at my TextAd Exchange.
• Bonus page giving surfer 200 FREE credits
• Bonus pages with bonus impressions

During contest;

• 8 sec. timer
• As you earn credits, you also earn Bonus Points you can use to
  upgrade your account. Status shown in menu “Bonus Points”
• Surf more than 150 pages a day and get another 100 FREE credits.

There are also 2 new splash pages for the promotion and they are paying $0.50 per referral!

Surf4theEarth has a few notable announcements today. First, there will be a contest running with several other exchanges where you can claim prize pages for surfing. There will actually be tangible prizes (for U.S. and Canada Residents), including Starbucks Gift Certificates, Barnes and Noble Gift Certificates, jar candles, cocoa, and m&m’s. If you are not in those areas, you can also get other prizes such as credits, text/banner impressions, upgrades, and featured site ads. The participating traffic exchanges include:

• Surf4theEarth
• Click Ranch
• Clicks 4 Education
• Traffic Discovery
• Major League Hits

The HitsConnect site checker has also been added, meaning a better surfing experience for you. It will also remove sites that are not loading, which saves you credits if your hosting server goes down temporarily.

EasyHits4U, a mainstay in Traffic Hoopla’s Top List, has become 5 years old! This is a significant occasion since many of the popular traffic exchanges we know today are only 1-2 years old. To celebrate, EasyHits4U made a few announcements.

First, all active members received banner impressions. To be active, you had to have logged into your account in the last 7 days. Free members were given 100 banner impressions and upgraded accounts 300.

There is also a surfing contest that runs until January 31st, 2008. The prizes are quoted from their newsletter:

• 1st place: 5 555 credits + $5 cash + 10 555 banner impressions
• 2nd place: 4 555 credits + $5 cash + 9 555 banner impressions
• 3rd place: 3 555 credits + $5 cash + 8 555 banner impressions
• 4th place: 2 555 credits + $5 cash + 7 555 banner impressions
• 5th place: 1 555 credits + $5 cash + 6 555 banner impressions
• 6th place: 1 555 credits + $5 cash + 5 555 banner impressions
• 7th place: 1 555 credits + $5 cash + 4 555 banner impressions
• 8th place: 1 555 credits + $5 cash + 3 555 banner impressions
• 9th place: 1 555 credits + $5 cash + 2 555 banner impressions
• 10th place: 1 555 credits + $5 cash + 1 555 banner impressions

Even more good news! The surf ratios have been improved temporarily (for the 15 second timer only) until January 17th, 11:59 PM EST. Free members get a 1.5:1 ratio and Premium members get 1:1!

Other announcements are minor system changes. You can now choose to be notified if you get a new referral anywhere in your downline, rather than only your direct referrals. This will help you monitor your entire downline’s growth more carefully. You can also now unsubscribe from the EasyHits4U newsletter without closing your account, but of course you wouldn’t even think of doing that, would you? =)

Send a big congratulations over to EasyHits4U for providing traffic to us for all of these years by surfing there this week!

Starting today, Royal Surf is rewarding members with some major treats for being an active member.

There is a brand new referral contest running from December 21st - January 31st, with the first place winner taking $50 cash. Cash prizes are rewarded for the top 20 positions.

All members, regardless of their membership level, will also earn $0.50 every day for surfing 1,000 pages in a day. This is also on top of receiving credits for your referrals’ surfing efforts. Everyone who surfs will also be entered in a drawing to win upgrades, credit packages, royal coins (Royal Surf currency used to purchase items), or cash.

All members can now earn cash for referring other members who upgrade or make purchases.

Royal Surf’s unique game will also be dishing out prizes during this promotion period. One person who completes a quest will be randomly rewarded with a Cash prize of $2-10, and there will be one winner each day for this promotion.

Royal Surf also has given the website a new look with a brand new design!

To see all of the changes and start taking advantage of all of these crazy promotions, visit Royal Surf for all of the details!

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.

Soren Jordansen has finished doing all the $1 referral payments, so you should be able to find the balance in your Dragon Surf account now. Feel free to cash out, buy credits, or get an upgrade with your hard earned money!

As announced a couple of days ago, Dragon Surf now gives out prizes for surfing 250, 500, and 750 pages in a day. Well those prizes have already been changed! View the new prize list here. Looks like if you want to claim any of those prizes, you need to get surfing fast just in case they get removed.

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!

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.