No More Traffic Exchange.
4 May 2007Regarding to the Adsense Team email notification. I consider to remove affiliate link which I have promoted previously on this Blog. Even though the email was not clearly pointing on those two third party traffic services, but I think this has been considered as Grey area.
According to the Adsense note about Traffic Exchange
, it would be better for me to remove those affiliate links from this Blog.
We occasionally receive questions from publishers interested in using traffic exchanges to bring traffic to their site. While these services may help advertise your site, we don’t recommend using them, as they may also result in similar invalid activity. We realize that you may have questions about a specific traffic service and whether it could potentially create invalid impressions or clicks. However, please understand that we’re unable to comment on any particular third-party service
When I ask for a confirmation about compatibility of Blogexplosion and Linkrefferal with Adsense policy, Adsense team didn’t give me definite answer and only suggested me to read their tips and Guidelines. However according to Wikipedia’s definition,
A traffic exchange website receives website submissions from webmasters that join traffic exchange networks. The person who submitted the website then has to browse other member sites on the exchange program to earn credits, which enable their sites to be viewed by other members through the surf system. This increases the number of visitors to all the sites involved.
Then I decided to remove affiliate links to those traffic exchange program from my sidebar and not collecting more credits as well. If your Blog was intended only for publishing article without any Adsense advertising, then you don’t have to worry about using traffic exchange program since its really works to increase your traffic.
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on May 4th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Sometimes I think that Adsense is unfair. I do believe that traffic exchange can be used as spam but sometimes it might be used fruitfully too, as a forum for new blogs and sites.
But, I guess Adsense has to be strict till it finds a better way to combat invalid clicks.
on July 26th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
There’re unreal visitors by using traffic exchange. they just click and surfing without know about the sites their visited.
on July 27th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I totally agree with samuro . This traffic is not very valuable. Better way is to leave links in forums, blogs, directories … Yes, that way the traffic will not come to Your blog fast, but this will drive the visitors You need. I think, better is to use the Time for the action I described, not for surfing.
Regards, Juri
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on August 21st, 2007 at 1:04 am
I feel like I am beating a lonely drum sometimes.
12 menu systems !
8 surfbars !
6 tutorials !
3 levels of referrals income!
1 external directory with NO reward !
and
0 external advertisers !
When a member views a webpage on our site, they are in the surfing area, one of the 8 surfbars mentioned.
They are not clicking a google adsense link any more than a person who visits any other site does.
There is NO incentive to do so !
That is why Blogexplosion, et al, are not banned from using google adsense.
With 12 menu systems, our website is a normal website, with no incentive in the normal areas.
There are incentives in the area called EARN.
The incentives are …
a) You will receive a visit back for viewing a members site. (Notice - not for clicking on an advert on that site - just viewing ok)
b) We will pay you to visit a members site, that member has paid us the 1 cent and we pay you 0.50 cents. (Notice - not $10 !)
c) We pay up to 88% referrals commission to any member with a paying downline - 3 levels make up that)
d) We encourage our members to ONLY buy from one another !!! (No kidding - some of our members only make sales from our site and say so !)
e) We have our own links directory - internally … members earn whatever amount of credits you want to pay them (We take 50% of that) - externally … you get free visits for ever , as long as oyu have any internal credits!
f) Clicksmatrix has ONLY members ads, banners, sites, at present. There is not ONE external advert, at all. ie No Competition for your advertising, just like minded folks doing their thing.
g) What are they doing there - well you see they are the most concentrated form of online marketer, advertiser and webmasters in the world - the cream rises to the top and gets the most sales - that is life !
h) With only 31,000 active members we receive 25-30,000 unique visitors per month.
i) The site is growing by nearly 1000 per month.
j) I will only say this one , I am going back to my free blog hosting website to post to my blog at http://blog.clicksmatrix.com/clicksmatrix
k) We have over 450,000 members on our largest sites.
L) When we get to a million members google adsense will have to compete with coka cola for ad space on our sites. At present , as I said, Clicksmatrix has no external sponsorships at all.
M) But we are in the market for a cool sponsor for our front page
on October 29th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
I was planning on using AdSense on my websites (I have 2) but then Google started cracking down on what you can and cannot do with your blog (more then the ‘paid to blog’ websites even!) and I decided that it wasn’t worth the worry.
I want more readers, and I will work ways to get more readers. Traffic exchanges can bring your blog more readers - therefore, your advertisers might benefit - what’s the problem here?