24 or so hours, whats it been like?

Well, for raw traffic of little worth or merit, traffic exchanges (tx) really do seem to work

Its now been a little over 25 hours since I started this blog. Using some of the credits I've already earned with NoMoreClicking, I've been generating traffic to this site. In that time, I've generated over 600 hits to this blog. Pretty much all of which (with a few exceptions) came from the traffic exchange.

I'd call that a good first day. However, as expected, that traffic in and of itself has generated absolutely no income from this blog ;-)

Theres a simple reason as to why.

Pretty much everyone using a traffic exchange is going to be using auto-surfing. For the most part, many of them have a wait of around 15-30 seconds on any given viewed site. After that time elapses, the next site is loaded automatically. Its simple and ruthless. The end user doesn't have to do anything at all except leave the browser running.

With the advent of tabbed browsing, they don't even have to be looking at the pages as they roll on by. The rotation scripts will make sure the windows aren't minimized at each new site and will bring the window to the front, but they can't change the focus of the tabs. So by browsing around in another tab, the rotation script is still running, but its not interferring with your browsing experience in any real or significant way. Its also easy to get around the minimize/foreground issue by adjusting the javascript settings of the browser.

About the only thing that might cause issue here is the number of notices about cookies. But for me thats not an issue given that I block all cookies unless its a site I'm a regular on.

Of course, not everyone uses the same setup. I've noticed that 64% of the traffic to this blog has been from people using Internet Explorer. So they're likely to be allowing most of the cookies silently and the chances of them having changed their javascript settings are slim.

What has occured to me is that given most of these people are using Internet Explorer, it would be extremely easy for someone to inject a malicious website in to the stream. This would make it pretty easy to get spyware/adware installed on peoples browsers without them ever knowing. It seems that blind trust is the order of the day.

I also notice that a lot of the sites are specifically marketing adverts. They're designed to grab your attention and get you to click on something. They're not information sites or anything even remotely close to that. They're either selling a product, advertising a casino or trying to get you to sign up to another affiliate or marketing scheme. Traffic Exchangers are very common. In fact, they appear to make up the majority of the pages viewed in my rotation over the past day. And every traffic exchange or other GetPaidTo (GPT) site listed there is put on by a user with their own referral ID instead of the company itself.

This is viral marketing at its purest.

At the moment I haven't taken on any other programs just yet. Aside from the affiliate programs I've always been a part of, this is the only one I've used so far.

I think the next order of the day is to do what Dee suggested and try an affiliate program where I can sell products in exchange for real coin. Not just credits for traffic thats of no real value.

However, first I'm going to sign up to one more traffic exchanger so I can start getting referrals ;-) The good ol' infinite loop ;-)