The newest program I joined

Signed up for a new traffic exchange program.

I think this is the last one. From here I'm going to start getting in to more of the affiliate market than the traffic exchange market. There is no real money to be made in the traffic exchange market as a simple pleb. You're getting credits to view a bunch of web pages, but unless you have some other way of generating income from your own pages that just requires a bit of extra traffic, its a waste of time and energy.

Having said that, there are ways to make money with a traffic exchange, but its a lot of time and very small return for that time. Unless you run the TX yourself ;-)

So this latest one I signed up for is called "Traffic Syndicate 25" or ts25 and its an interesting prospect. Its not an auto surf program, its all manual, but that means the traffic is likely to be a little more qualified in my opinion. The other big change is that its not like most other traffic exchange programs I've noticed. Its actually more like a competition. Which makes you want to do more.

I definitely prefer Auto surfing (who wouldn't?) but ts25 is definitely a very cool idea and the competitive aspects of it keep me doing it even though its really quite tedious. In fact, the competitive aspects of it have got me hooked already. And I've only been using it a little over an hour. ;-)

So why did I sign up for this one instead of another auto surfer?

Traffic Exchanges are pretty boring. No matter what, sitting in front of a browser having page after page scroll by while you click on a pic to get the next one up is pretty tedious. And at the end of it, what are you going to do with all the credits you earn anyway? Sell them for $0.0001 each? Dump them all on your own website? You'd get a gazillion visitors who don't even read the page, just click on the link in the surf frame so they can get the next one up and earn the credit.

But if you consider that traffic exchanges really are just about generating raw traffic, not valuable traffic, then that is understandable. Being able to cash in your credits for real coin is just a bonus these companies offer. They don't actually want you to, but they're willing to do so given you've put the effort in to earn them.

But for the most part, there is no real incentive for anyone to go with a manual surf traffic exchange.

Unless its ts25.

Seriously, the competitive aspects of this exchange essentially makes browsing these sites bearable. ;-) The more sites you view, the higher your rank. The higher your rank, the closer to being in the next syndicate up the line. Consider this... Those in the highest ranked syndicate that have earned the most credits have a downline of 2500 people.

Mumbo jumbo bullshit. Sounds like Amway to me.

Yeah, thats the part I'm struggling to get around. All these programs and schemes are really not any different to how Amway works. Your upstream gets a share of your pie. Your downstream gives you a share of their pie. If you don't do anything in a period, you get nothing.

I guess when you think about it, thats not entirely wrong. But at the same time, I dont like the idea of making someone else rich off the sweat of my back. Kind of why I can't work in a normal 9-5 job like most people. If I'm doing the work, I should be the one getting the return.

So I've changed my view in regards to Traffic Exchanges... Instead of looking at it as a way of earning coin, I'm going to look at it as a way of competing for rank on ts25. Oh, and for generating traffic to my normal business websites. And I know how to easily achieve that.

I'll use multiple autosurfers to feed the ts25 account. I'll then use the ts25 account to feed my business website. I don't much care about how good the traffic is or isn't, but I gotta spend the credits some how ;-) By using the auto surfers to generate referrals to the ts25 account for free credits, I'll then be able to build a passive credit earnings. I won't have to do anything but leave the auto surfers running in their own little window.

So while all this is going on, I'll start looking around for an affiliate program that will generate me some money. I should also start utilizing the affiliate programs I already have been a member of for a long time. That includes Amazon.com, GPStore and Paypal. Will get on to all that later. Right now I have to go do real work. :-\