Highly recommended traffic exchange

4x4 hits has just under 4,000 members right now but I think they will be growing a LOT over the next several months. The site is friendly and fun - Accounts are free and the timers are only 10 seconds! You can build up credits FAST here. With only 4,000 members this seems like a really good way to get your site seen more often. I can't say with Authority, but it just makes sense to me that with fewer members it's more of an "untouched" exchange...Maybe I'm wrong (I am pretty new) but we'll see. The characters are fun and the navigation is great - They don't spam the heck out of you and the sites are different (lots of traffic building programs for free) The referral program looks to have really excellent rewards. I highly recommend it.

Join 4x4 hits and expand your site exposure today!

Here is another free traffic generator for all of us

If you haven't heard of this before, check out Ultimate Traffic System - Free to join as an affiliate and here is the simple breakdown. Start by viewing 6 sites (they said 6, but showed me 8 - still, not much) then sign up your own account. You list a site and off you go - The set up takes 10 min's and as time goes you start to get a LOT of hits on your site.

This is another free advertising program that all of us can use. It's based on promoting it to other affiliate marketers, but this is a #1 target of traffic exchanges...Really, the Traffic Exchanges (which you should be using already) are the perfect place to promote this easy, free traffic generator. All of us in online marketing are looking for ways to generate free traffic. Go join Ultimate Traffic System today!

I am actually thinking about a topic where I separate target traffic programs, but I'm really way to new to say anything authoritative on the subject. If you have ANY programs to promote though, which everyone on the traffic exchanges do, this is a perfect program for them...

I just bought this book tonight

I just bought Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate tonight. The book is only $29.95 and I will read it during the next few days. This guy reminds me of myself - Laid back, honest, straightforward - I know that you have heard all that before, but take a look at this site and see for yourself. I think you'll probably pick yourself up a copy also.

Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate

I also joined this affiliate program and am excited to promote this product - Another NetSuccess program

Another new program for us!

All I can say is that if you haven't joined NetSuccess yet, you Really ought to check it out. They now have Another New Program for us to join. It's called netsuccessMatrix. Sign up and get access to all 10 programs. Advertising avenues galore - Affiliate Programs that are easy to promote. If your new to Affiliate Marketing or even if you have been around awhile, I really believe NetSuccess is worth checking out. They have revamped everything to cover ALL angles of online marketing. Web Development, SEO, Online Degrees, Advertising - It's like a 1 stop shop for all the resources that you could need. Just check out the landing page and see some of the new programs started March 1st - It's exciting to me and I think this is an excellent program -

This company is providing top notch support and a full list of outstanding programs. I haven't found ANY program that gives you so many quality options for whatever you want to do.

New Program that looks great!

I realize that the casual surfer is looking for a program with some flash. I think I found one that suits that need. Here is the quick analysis of the program:

Affiliate Power Ads If you have a website focused on online business or internet marketing, forget Google Adsense and try Affiliate Power Ads as a much higher paying alternative. All clicks on power ads also open in a new window, so visitors stay at your site. A no brainer.

I signed up tonight and placed an add on the right hand side (at the top). As of RIGHT now, I like the idea of referring other affiliates. This is a program that is free right now, but they may start charging (that is what everyone says, of course - but as a company's demand grows, prices often grow also). This is an easy banner/text link to put in your site - The products look good and the affiliate commissions are pretty high - 65% high in some cases. It's free to join and you choose the products to promote.

So if you are looking for immediate gratification that should give you results, take a look at Affiliate Power Ads - I like the idea, their program makes sense and it's free to join. Check it out today. By the way, this is also Another excellent promotion brought to me by NetSuccess - They are quickly becoming my favorite affiliate program - If you haven't seen what they are doing lately, you really should. Great programs, lots of avenues to promote, lots of great tools & advertising ideas...

1st week in review

I think this has been a very successful first week at Affiliate Curve. I have gotten a LOT more done than I thought I could - I got a lot of programs for NetSuccess off the ground. I found some really great tools like Google Analytics. I found some inexpensive advertising. Overall I think we did well. We got 318 hits from JUST LinkReferral alone, in 1 week! That is a really good amount of traffic for $35/month. I found another excellent traffic exchange at EasyHits4U and I updated GoodLife4All.biz. Tonight I found Affiliate Power Ads which looks really solid. I think overall this was a very productive week - I believe if your new to the game like me, I already have provided some really excellent resources...Especially if your just starting out!

So, goals for this week. I did some work on a website design last night. It's coming together nicely and it's going to give me a lot more space to work with. I love the blog, I just think I need to have things more organized so everyone can find stuff quicker. Nobody wants to scroll down to the bottom, even though the real gold is there (I'm only playing, i'm not an egomaniac.....yet! LOL) Ug, back to goals!

Work on new web design and hopefully be "up" in a week.
More research so I can review the NetSuccess programs - they just added Matrix and it's awesome, but I need some time to review it before I go blasting it on here.
Get some traffic credits! I'm running low and I need to advertise
Find at least 1 more good, inexpensive advertising source - we need traffic!

I think that's enough to start with. Go check out the new Affiliate Power Ads as I think it will be a really beneficial program for us all.

quick update and thought

Wanted to let everyone know that Google Analytics are really great! It shows me how many hits, where they are from and how long the visitor stays on the site. If you don't want to spend money analyzing your stats, this is a really nice tool. I already added it to GoodLife4All.biz and BadLuckHandicapper - so I highly recommend

What it is showing me is that the average visitor visits for 42seconds - Now is this what we are looking for? Hell no! that isn't even time to read the header let alone an article or see what we're doing. This leads me into my thought and the problem with Exchanges - The avg. surfer on exchanges is looking for Pop & Glamour and the Big Red Button (I love to quote myself) - so what do we do? Add pop? Obviously we need to catch peoples attention fast. However, at the stage I am in, I am not interested in pop and flash. I am interested in organizing my thoughts and coming up with good tools that will really help people - I may come to realize in another month I better just "fall in line" and get a bunch of glitz on here LOL, but in the meantime I think we have to build up a solid reputation. What I found in my stats is I have a lot of 20 second pops and a few 5-6minute viewers. Those are the ones I want. I want people who are actually looking for something they can USE! Not to say I don't want everyone on my site - I do - but I'm not going to be discouraged by pop-ins - I understand how it works - Their is so much glitz on traffic exchanges it's easy to get into Zombie mode and just look for your instant riches...I'm not doing that right now and I hope it doesn't bother you too much - Some of my LinkReferral reviews are all about "how do you make your money!!!!" & "what are you selling!!!" - What I'm trying to do is build up a group of people that come back everyday and follow my progress. People who are in the same exact spot I'm in - trying to sort out all this information - I am not looking to sign you up for every affiliate program I'm in. Of course that would be awesome, but I don't think real marketing works that way. I want to build a network of people that will come here for GOOD, solid advice and resources. I would much rather have 10 people who FW my site to a good friend than 1,000 hits of people looking for that Big Red Button. Or maybe i'm just too damn idealistic :)

the BIG RED BUTTON

Last night I was reading 13 deadly sins of traffic exchanges. The ebook fit me to a tee! Sign up for a few traffic exchanges, post a couple links, join a couple of affiliate programs and BAM! the money just pours on in! Well all of a sudden 2 weeks later your in the same spot, not getting anything done and you start grumbling about how traffic exchanges don't work. The point of this isn't about traffic exchanges though - it's about our expectations. That book had a nice list of things for me to start working on - list building, splash pages, etc - but the part that hit home was this idea of the Big Red Button. The Big Red Button is basically what we're all looking for when we first find online money making programs. Somehow we are just going to find that magic key, set up a link or 2 and 3 weeks later we're suddenly living the high life.

Things don't work that way. You (& I for that matter) need to realize that this isn't going to happen overnight. It takes time, dedication and work. We can't just quit because we can't retire after 3 weeks of showing our new affiliate program on 2 exchanges. So just remember this is going to take time, and don't get flustered. Simple and short, but I know when I found LinkReferral that was my sudden dream for BadLuckHandicapper. Luckily I'm smarter than that and I bumped into a few articles about patience and seeing the big picture.

Accomplishments tonight - Got some surfing done for credits and edited the GoodLife4All.biz site - Changed some color schemes, font sizes and added my Ezine Expert Author logo (i can't help it, I'm proud!). So hopefully that will attract a fair amount of interest and I can start generating some commissions.

Another thing about traffic exchanges. Some of these people kill me - I've had a fairly high number of low ratings, but the funny thing is that 95% of the people rating me low have sites that take ZERO effort. They don't offer anything but a cut & paste affiliate program that takes 2 min's to put together. I'm fairly bugged by it because when I get a low score from someone with 1 or 2 reviews, I know they are just doing it to get the daily credit. They most likely clicked my site link, and clicked right back out w/out reading a thing. 1 person actually said I should offer some free stuff. I laughed because every program listed on here has a free option - things like this are frustrating but you have to blow it off. The important thing for me is that the reviewers who are actually at LinkReferral for the long haul, are giving me very fair reviews. They are the only ones who matter - I get a chance to see their good products and hopefully they find something semi-useful to them here. Another great thing is the networking possibilities at LR - anyway, this is getting very long now. I'm going to work on my new site this weekend so maybe we can get more organized and cleaned up around here! Happy Marketing!