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There are many known ways to cheat traffic exchanges and generate massive numbers of hits to your website. Some of these methods are complex, while some are very simple. Below you will find a list of the more popular methods of cheating. There have been a lot of changes in the traffic exchange industry, so some methods no longer will work.

You can rate yourself on the cheato-meter by giving yourself one point for each method you employ.

1) You open the same exchange in several browser windows to generate multiple hits at the same time.

2) Insert the Start URL from one exchange into the Target URL from another exchange.
3) Open multiple browser windows and then minimise them until only the “Next Page” link is showing. Click away.

4)Use a custom browser (eg – Crazy Browser) to “auto-click” your way through traffic exchange programs so it generates hits while you watch the football game.
5) Find and use custom made software that is designed to get around the cheat-protection of a traffic exchange.

Well, how did you do?
– 1pt: You are a liar and a thief

– 2pts You are a liar and a thief

– 3pts You are a liar and a thief

– 4pts You are a liar and a thief

– 5pts You are a liar and a thief
Get the picture? If you are any type of a traffic exchange cheater, I hope you realize the damge you do to yourself and to others.

If you have experimented with any of these ideas, then you might find the idea of being called a “thief” or a “cheater” extreme… I’m sorry, but I disagree.
You see, I believe if you are employing any of these methods, then you are no different than the  masked robber that breaks into a house and steals the family TV, or jewels from mom’s dresser drawer.

When someone creates a  traffic exchange there is a lot of time and money that goes into the project. Not just the creation, but the constant administration… The owner makes an income, by selling hits or memberships to the exchange. This is how they see justify their constant effort in operating the exchange, not to mention the monthly fees they must pay to keep the traffic exchange operating.
If you utilize means to earn credits  fradulently, it is no different from getting a friend to clock you out of work while you take the afternoon off. You are earning something you haven’t WORKED for.

I have heard that traffic exchange owners make so much money that they barely notice the lost credits that everyday cheaters steal. This is the same ridiculous argument that says it is ok to steal from large department store because “they can afford it”. It all comes down to the end of the day… when the losses are added to the prices that honest people have to pay. Its the honest surfer’s hard earned credits that are wasted by those who decide to cheat, and you are still a thief whether the individual you steal from can afford it or not.
I would like to point out that the majority of traffic exchange owners are not wealthy. Its a dog eat dog environment, and the successful ones may make a tidy income, but the majority are struggling to break even. Stealing credits does not help them. It is the main reason why so many fold up and move on…
If you are using, or even considering, any kind of cheat method, please, please, please think twice about your motivation to do so. Think about your own reputation if your caught, think about the owner you are stealing from, and think about the members of the exchange whose credits are being wasted away on Crazy Browser enthusiasts who think they have discovered something new.

A theif isn’t somebody new… its  just someone who keeps changing shape.
Just in case your smugly thinking, “I never cheat”. Ask yourself, do you honestly view EVERY website for the ENTIRE time the counter is ticking? I doubt it and let’s be realistic, it is almost impossible not to break the occasional term or condition. I know we do read everyone of them, but so many traffic exchanges, each with their own unique demands… who can remember every single last rule?

I’m not demanding perfection from surfers, just a certain amount of fair play. Here is my suggestion for a surfing routine…
Don’t cheat. Try to know and not break the exchanges Terms and Conditions and view EVERY website  I believe that it is every traffic exchange users duty to do this.

Step 1) Make a list in notepad of all the traffic exchanges to which you are an active member. For this example, I am a member of 20.

Step 2) Under the list of exchanges, put all the days that you know you can spend at least 20 minutes surfing. For this example I will use Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

Step 3) Now add the exchanges equally among the days you’ve chosen. For this example, I can assign five exchanges to each day.
Step 4) Visit the Start URL of the first exchange on your list. Go to the menu bar of IE and click, “Favourites” and then, “Add to Favourites”. Create a new folder called, “Surf Monday” or something similar and add the Start URL to this folder. Repeat for the next four exchanges on your list.

Step 5) Repeat Step 4 for the next five exchanges on your list and place them in a new folder called, “Surf Wednesday” or something similar. Repeat this process for Friday’s and Saturday’s.
When Monday comes around, open the appropriate folder for Monday’s and open all the exchanges in that folder in separate browser windows and Make sure they are ALL full size.

You should see each copy of IE that you have opened, listed in the Windows bar at the bottom of your screen. If they are grouped together, click on the IE group and you should be able to see each Traffic Exchange listed individually. Make sure you haven’t acidentally opened the same Traffic Exchange twice.
Click on the first exchange and view the website. When the counter has finished click to the next site and IMMEDIATELY move to the next IE window. Precious seconds are wasted while the next website loads, so use them instead viewing the website in the next IE window that comes up. Once again, view the website until the counter has finished, click to the next site and immediately move to the next browser window in your sequence. Notice that I am not viewing each website for the full length of the counter, but I am viewing EVERY website. I, for one, would have no problem with my websites being viewed in this manner. Far better, than not being viewed at all because of a cheaters greed. When you have viewed each browser window in sequence, return to the first browser window and repeat the process.

If you come across a website that looks interesting, don’t stop your surfing session. If you have assigned 20 minutes for surfing, then you don’t want to break your rythym. Instead, right-click the mouse button inside the website you like the look of and select “Add to Favorites…”. Create a new folder called, “Check Out” or something similar, and add the website to this folder.

You MUST use the right-click technique rather than using the menu bar. If you don’t you will bookmark the traffic exchange and not the website you are interested checking out later. When you finish your surfing session, once a day, once a week or whenever you feel is appropriate, open the “Check Out” folder and spend as much time as you need examining the sites you have bookmarked and joining/investing in the programs that are worthwhile.

Final Thought — Honesty does prevail in this industry. It will only continue to do so if people continue to grasp the virtues of conducting business in a decent way. Cheaters will always be there, no matter how hard traffic exchange owners work to combat them. If honest surfers are patient and don’t abandon their values and the rules, traffic exchanges will remain a valuable source of internet traffic. If you are a program owner and you catch a cheater, forget the two strikes, or I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt trash. Cancel his account and ban his IP or email…  I would rather be deleted from a program in error than to make make theives believe they are getting away with Something.

If your guilty of traffic exchange credit theivery, or came to this blog post hoping for ways to cheat, stop and ask yourself what you are gaining by hurting others? It’s not just the owners, but your fellow members of the exchange

DA Riley

http://www.web-biz-solutions.com

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See you there!

DA

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First, we want to take a moment to welcome our newest members to WBS… 59 since last Sunday. If these new members are in your downline, be sure to contact them and welcome them yourself. Its a great way to form a working relationship with your downlines. I know many members will send their downlines credits after an initial surfing plateau is reached… not a bad idea, considering you will earn a percentage of their credits!

If you haven’t downloaded the WBS Blog desktop notifier, you can do so here… http://myprowbs.com/introduces/WBSBLOGID its a quick and easy install, and will let you know when we have added updates at the blog. Don’t be afraid to leave comments at the blog. It lets us know what you are thinking, and also allows you some free link exposure!

My Pro WBS has added some new downloads. I will constantly be adding new material as time allows. Between J.O.E. and I we own just about every new software, script, and PLR product that is worth having… We belong to several software membership sites between us, so I am constantly getting new things also. Don’t buy anything befrore checking your personal resource at http://www.myprowbs.com If your an upgraded member at WBS and haven’t created a login at the new site yet, make sure that you do so… you can’t get in without one! We will soon be adding an affiliate program where you as pro members will be our JV partners. We will be opening up the site as a membership site and selling access for non WBS pro upgrades. You will make a commission from these members. Your WBS upgrade price of $6.99 will be less than the initial cost for others to join! So if your not yet a pro member at WBS, now is the time to give it serious consideration!

My Modern Ad is coming along nicely. It has been a work in progress, and we have had some bumps in the road. It is receiving tons of hits which is good for those of you that have joined and posted ads. It has been added to the Ultimate Traffic Directory at WBS (link is in your members area) and you are encouraged to join and take advantage of this awesome advertising opportunity. While your in the Ultimate Traffic Directory, be sure your urls are updated! Wouldn’t want you to miss out on a referral in a program because your info wasn’t updated. We have a few programs that we will be adding, and we will be taking a few out that are not meeting our expectations…

The newest site in the WBS Family of programs is… http://www.dahost4u.com We are proud to offer great hosting deals at reasonable prices! This is not a reseller account where we are an affiliate for someone else. This hosting is done on our own dedicated server, and each account will be represented on its own dedicated IP… it will not be shared with another account. Vheck out some of the hosting deals we have put together, and get prepared to take your internet marketing to the next level. If you already have a hosting account, and like what we are offering, contact us from the site to see what we can do to move your site.

Web Biz Solutions Manual Traffic Exchange is designed for you the members. We don’t operate the exchange so we can build our own personal list. Its in place for you to get quality traffic to your sites and programs. this acieved by you viewing members pages and joining/ buying form them. You in turn earn credits to assign to your sites. Its a great innovation, and DA and Dan are proud to use it as it was designed. To improve your marketing power, we have added the cash credit rotator. This rotator is shown on other traffic exchanges utilizing our credits in their system. you can benefit from this rotator by purchasing cash credits from our advertisers page… or converting your earned credits from surfing into cash credits then assigning them to your cash credit site(s). You can also purchase advertising, scripts, ebooks and more utilizing your cash credits… just visit the store from the link in your members area. The rest of the family of programs are all designed to supplement your marketing prowess at WBS. Be sure to check out and utilize the resources we provide. We do all this to ensure your success… we know that your success means our success!

Don’t forget to visit the forum often. Its a great place to interact with other WBS members, and to learn, and share with them. Its all about you at WBS and we aim to keep it that way! Thanks for being a member of WBS and we look forward to seeing your name and favorite program in lights on the marquee.

Happy Surfing,

DA and Dan

http://www.web-biz-solutions.com

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Congratulations to all members that took advantage of the recent promotion for referrals and added to their downline. Overall there were more than 100 new members join during the contest week that were referred by 42 members. We put all the names in a hat and drew one name for the $25 prize.

The winner is ktodary1 Please use the contact form at the site to send us your PayPal email, and we will send your $25. Thanks again to all that participated! Remember you earn 25% of the credits your downline earns, so promotions will help you build credits in our system.

Be sure you have credits assigned to your sites, and to surf daily… even if its only a few pages! We appeciate your being a member!

Happy Surfing,

DA and Dan

http://www.web-biz-solutions.com

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It has always been my opinion that the ranking sytem of Traffic Hoopla was merely a front for them to create huge downlines in traffic exchanges. It is beginning to come to light that other traffic exchange owners have the same opinion. Just recently Tim Linden of StartXchange posted an article in his blog about Traffic Hoopla… So whats your take?

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To ensure that email from us reaches your inbox (ie. not deleted or moved to your Junk Mail folder), add our email address to your accepted senders list by following the instructions below:

For Yahoo!

To create a filter that sends email from us straight to your Inbox:

1. Login to Yahoo Mail. 2. Click on “Mail Options” (on the right hand side of your screen).3. Click on “Filters” (on left hand side of screen).

4. Click “Add” button.

5. Assign a name for this filter: “WBS eMails”.

6. Underneath the heading “if all of the following rules are true…” go to the top row labeled “FROM header.” Next to this you will see a drop down menu. Make sure to select “contains”, then simply type in DAnDan @ web-biz-solutions .com (no spaces) into the box provided.

7. At the bottom, where it says “Move the message to:”, select “Inbox” from the drop-down menu.

8 Click the “Add Filter” button at the bottom to add this filter.

For Hotmail/MSN*

To add our email address to your “Safe List”:

1. Login to your Hotmail or MSN Mail account.

2. Click on “Options.”

3. Click “Junk Mail Protection”.

4. Click on “Safe List.”

5. In the box provided, type in our domain web-biz-solutions.com.
6. Click the “Add” button.

7. When you see the address you entered in the Safe List box, click on the “OK” button.

*To add our email address to your “Contacts List”:

1. Login to your Hotmail of MSN Mail account.

2. Click on “Contacts” folder.

3. In the new screen which opens, click “New” (upper left corner).

4. Assign a Quickname in the left hand box.

5. Enter our email address into the “Online Addresses” area.

For AOL

To add our email address to your Address Book or Custom Sender List:

*AOL9.0:

1. Click the “Spam Controls” link (lower right area of your inbox).

2. When the “Mail & Spam Controls” box appears, click “Custom sender list”.

3. Choose “allow email from ” option

4. Add our domain/email address.

5. Click “Add”, then “Save”.

*AOL 7 & 8:

1. Go to Keyword Mail Controls.

2. Select the screen name you are using to receive email.

3. Click “Customize Mail Controls For This Screen Name.”

4a. For AOL version 7.0: In the section for “exclusion and inclusion parameters”, include the following domain: * @web-biz-solutions.com

4b. For AOL version 8.0: Select “Allow email from all AOL members, email addresses and domains.”

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For Outlook 2003

To make sure you can see emails as they were intended to be seen (including images), add our email address to your address book and safe sender list.

To add our email address to your address book:

1. Right click on the email subject line.
2. Choose “Add Sender To Address Book”.

To add our domain to your safe sender list:

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Tim Linden from StartXchange has created a cool search engine of traffic exchange sites, blogs, forums and information. Its a great feature to his blog and will help you in aquiring information and news on the traffic exchange industry.

Did you know WBS has a search engine? Yep, its a powerful enginge that parses the meta tags from submitted sites. It will also parse all the links on the submitted url… as a member of WBS you can submit your own sites and programs. The link is in your members area… do a search now…

The WBS Search Engine

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Do you track the hits on sites you rotate in traffic exchanges? Its suprising the number of sites that I see, that just utilize a generic referral link. How can you possibly know the results you are getting?

Did you know you can track every lik you use to promote WBS? Did you know that you earn 1 credit for every unique display of yur referral link? Did you know you earn 25% of the credits your downline earns?

To utilize the WBS tracking system, simply add &track=YourCampaignName on to the end of any referral page you use. This hit, and any potential signups from this campaign will show in your members area. To see how well your advertising campaigns are doing, from your members page click Campaign Stats to see the number of hits you received, the number of signups and the percentage. I have 73 different programs that I have tracked using my referral url. You’d be surprised where the most signups have come from… You can also click Promotion Stats in your members area for more detail. This will tell you the exact url you used (home, splash, etc.), the username and the ID of the signup you received, and the program you were advertising in to get the signup. Be sure to utilze it, as it is a great way to see where your signups are coming from, and which pages of the exchange are working the best to get signups.

The chart in the middle of the page in your members area, gives up to the secomd stats of the number of hits to your referral page and if it was unique. If it was, the system adds 1 credit to your account. Unique urls reset at the first of every month. One other note about your referrals… if you click Downline Report, this will give you specific details about your downline members. When they joined, last time they logged in, how many credits you have earned from their surfing efforts, and more. You can contact your downline and encourage them to surf, send them credits from your account to encourage more activity, invite them to view the Ultimate Traffic Directory (if you have filled in your URL’s they will join under you!), and more. Communication is the key to success, and if your downlines in WBS know you are interested in their well being, they are more apt to be more active…

Don’t forget to add credits to your CC Rotator site. If you are running low, you can convert some free credits, or you can purchase cash credits at great price from the advertise page.

Happy Surfing (Marquee Bonus’s continue… will you win? Gotta Surf, To Win!)

DA n Dan

http://www.web-biz-solutions.com

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