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Create a few free and basic tools that you will need

There are a couple of tools that I would highly recommend before you get
started on your traffic exchange programs. The first thing that I would
recommend is a web browser with good pop up blocking capabilities. Many of
the programs that you will out with have a lot of pop ups and without this you
will have little web pages all over the place. My favorite browser is Mozilla
Firefox. This is one of the most popular web browsers out there, it has
excellent pop up blocking, tabbed browsing, and it is absolutely free. You can
download it below.

I would also recommend that you have up to date virus protection and spy-ware
protection on your computer. This will help prevent any nasty surprises out
there for your computer. There are a few good ones out there for free but I
would recommend AVG for virus protection and the Yahoo toolbar for spy-ware.
They are both free to download. You can download AVG here and the Yahoo
toolbar at

Another important thing is that you set up separate e-mail accounts for your
PTCs/PTRs. You will receive e-mails from them and it is much easier to have
them going to a separate inbox other than your personal one. You may even
want to set up multiple e-mail accounts to better organize your efforts. There
are many free e-mail servers out there that allow for multiple e-mail accounts
but I would currently recommend Google’s g-mail which you can get for free
here. Another place to get multiple e-mail accounts is at MyBestMail which you
can visit here.

Yahoo! Toolbar

A good form of advertising for your programs is completely free. These are the
traffic exchange programs. In these programs, people are sent to your
websites (referral pages) in exchange for you viewing the pages from other
users. Most of the people viewing the traffic exchanges are people like you who
are trying to generate online income so there is a build in interest level in your
programs. I think that it is extremely important that you have a presence in the
traffic exchange programs to get your information out there.
The format for most traffic exchanges is very simple. Once you sign up, you
need to list your websites with them. These would be the referral pages that
you want visitors to go to and sign-up. Traffic exchanges will allow you to
advertise anywhere between one and an unlimited number of websites so pick
your top programs to advertise on the ones that limit your number and list as
many as you can.
Once your websites are listed, you can begin surfing for credits. Each one of
the traffic exchanges has a link for your surfbar. Some you have to log in first in
order to surf and others have a personalized URL for your surfbar. You should
bookmark the address to get to your surfbar so that you can start your surfing
quickly each time you sit down for some surfing. Once the surfbar starts, there
will be a timer that runs down before you can receive credit. Once the timer
runs down to zero you have to complete some sort of action like matching a
picture or number to move on to the next advertisement. This is an anti-cheat
feature to prevent people from using programs to automatically surf the traffic
exchanges.
Personally, I open about five traffic exchanges at one time in the tabs of my
browser. This allows me to check out each page that I am surfing while being
able to maximize my time. It is only right to look at each page as these are
other members trying to accomplish the same thing that you are by showing
their pages. Another important reason to look at each page is that many of the
traffic exchanges put in anti-cheat pages that require you to perform some
additional task before moving on to the next page. These are usually well
marked by the traffic exchange with something to the effect of "Stop, Anti-cheat
feature please match the image before continuing to next page." Failure to
complete these anti-cheat tests multiple times will result in your account being
terminated. Do not worry though, if you really are taking a quick look at each
page you will not miss these test pages and you will usually receive bonus
credits for completing the task. While surfing, you will find that some of the
sites will grab your attention. This is o.k., that is just showing that the traffic
exchanges work. But do not let this interfere with your surfing. What you should
do is bookmark the page to come back and check it out when you are done with
your surfing time (for Firefox right click on the site you want to bookmark, select
this frame, then bookmark this frame. This way you can stay focused on the
task at hand but not miss out on anything that interests you.
An important thing to look at when choosing traffic exchanges is the exchange
ratio. This is how many websites you have to view in order to send one visitor
to one of your websites. This can vary from 3:1 (you must view three pages to
send one visitor to your website) to 1:1 (you view one, you get one visitor).
There are a lot of other factors other than ratios when considering websites but
this is an important one. The other thing to consider is the anti-cheat features.
If the site does not have some anti-cheat features, you can be assured that the
site is being auto surfed so even if it has a great ratio, nobody or very few will
actually be seeing your webpage.
To find out more information about traffic exchanges and to read the reviews of
the programs go to:

Traffic Exchange Review page

One thing that I want you to know about traffic exchange surfing is that it is the
cheapest form of advertising not the most effective. You will need to send
thousands of visitors to your webpages to get a handful of sign-ups. Traffic
large advertising budget to start out with and you can get started with them by
investing time and not money. This is the reason that I mentioned at the
beginning of this page that you need to be able to make a commitment of time
to developing this and stick to it. Like many other things, you can surf a whole
week and not get a single sign-up and then get 10 the next week. Develop your
plan and stick to it and the rest will work out.

Traffic exchanges provide you with referral pages just like the PTCs / PTRs do.
When you get referrals to the traffic exchanges, you earn a percentage of
credits from what they surf. It is important to advertise these referral pages on
other traffic exchanges to boost up your advertising credits. This may sound
like you are doing a lot but once you enter in all the referral pages that you want
to advertise once then all you have to do is surf away.

The most important form of free advertising when you are getting started is
interaction in your personal life. First of all, tell your family and friends about
what you are doing. Many people are embarrassed to do this for some reason
but you should not be. Let them know about it, you would be surprised to find
out how many people would like to make some extra income from home. Many
of the programs will allow your spouse or another member of your household
join as long as they use a separate computer with a separate e-mail account
(Please check each program for their rules on this as some will kick you out for
doing this while others have no problem with it).

A great tool to help you advertise your referral pages are rotator programs.
What a rotator program does is let you promote multiple referral pages through
on web address. This comes in very handy for the traffic exchanges that only
allow you to advertise a few websites. For example, one rotator I use is
PageSwirl with a rotator address of:

http://pageswirl.com/start.php?user=lsprkll

Click on this link a couple of times and you will see that it takes you to several
different referral pages. You can use these rotators to let your advertise several
programs through one link on traffic exchanges or other methods. You can
check out rotators at:

PageSwirl

Or TrafficG which is a great Traffic Exchange offers a free rotator as well at:

TrafficG

Another advertising method is not free but you can use your existing resources
to utilize it. By this point you should be tied into a very effective advertising
network. This would be the PTC and PTR programs that you are already
working with. Many of these programs allow you to reinvest some of your
earnings into advertising with them. Some of them have some form of free
advertising tied in with their upgrade programs as well. Your use of this
advertising will depend on your budget and program earnings but it can be very
effective. The people using the PTCs and PTRs are obviously interested in this
type of program and may be interested in your programs as well.

To recap what I believe is your best strategy to get started:

Get the essentials - These are all free
1. Get a good browser like Firefox.
2. Get good spyware protection like Yahoo Toolbar.
3. Get good virus protection like AVG.
4. Get a couple of extra e-mail accounts.
5. Sign-up for the payment programs of pay-pal, E-gold, and Alertpay.

Sign-up for a group of 15-20 paid to click / paid to read programs.
Complete reviews of the programs are located here.

Sign-up for a minimum of 10 traffic exchanges.
Complete reviews of the programs are located here.

Develop a regular schedule to work these programs. An example of my
schedule is to daily:

Morning
Check e-mail - approximately 1/2 hour
Work all PTC/PTR programs completing all clicks - approximately 1 hour
Work group one of five traffic exchanges - approximately 1 hour
Work group two of five traffic exchanges - approximately 1 hour

Afternoon / evening
Check e-mail - approximately 15 minutes
Work group one of five traffic exchanges - approximately 1 hour
Work group two of five traffic exchanges - approximately 1 hour

This is a little less than six hours a day and you can adjust it to meet your
needs. As you have more success online you can use some of your earnings
to purchase advertising and reduce your surf time, but when you start out the
more time that you can work on developing free advertising the better you will
do.

An in-depth look at getting started with online income programs
is contained on the Online 101 page. This contains more
information on traffic exchanges and how to use them to
enhance your online income.

Traffic Exchange Review

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for complete reviews go to:

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