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Various things going on...

Last week TrafficSwarm announced that they are enhancing the Pro memberships.
Now Pro members get 2,000 credits instead of 1,000 and there'll also be a free teleseminar every month for Pro members. Not to mention the free high-quality product that Pro's get every month. I think this is great news because I'm a Pro member and have been for several months.

Talking about Pro memberships... I decided to upgrade to Gold for Round 9 in Global Traffic Trader. I think this is a pretty fun game and I earn traffic too. Probably the main reason why I paid $9.99 to upgrade was that I also got 5,000 hits which I think is pretty cheap.

Another traffic exchange that I love is ClickThru, because I've noticed that I'm getting lots of hits to the websites I have listed even though I don't have any credits on these websites. You can add unlimited websites and once you've registered a site it's added to their directory and people will see your site listed when they're searching for something. >> That's 100% free traffic! ;)

I guess you've heard about the MyDoom virus and all the damage it has been causing. The A version of the virus attacked www.SCO.com and the website has been down for a week now, I think.
Fortunately I haven't been infected with the virus, I'm very careful about opening attachments and don't say "Yes" to everything. I have gotten a few bounce-backs though, because the virus is using my e-mail address (it must have picked it up on some of my websites) to send the virus to some random addresses. If you have been infected or think you have you can check out the information about the virus here and download the removal tool.
Both SCO and Microsoft offered $250,000 for information that'll lead to the capture of the virus' author - so, if you have any info you can make a quick buck there ;)

More details and news about the virus here.

Last week I joined a "randomizer" program. I've seen a lot of those over the past months but never joined because I really didn't believe in them. But when an "internet pal" of mine said he had a new randomizer out I decided to hop on, hey it's just $4 - can't hurt to try ;) I added a little weight to multiply my rotation and I've received several payments and it's looking good. Too bad though that StormPay and PayPal have such high fees. If you want to check it out click here.

I'm not a huge fan of auto-surfs, they don't work very well and I haven't tracked any sales to auto-surfs. But they're OK when you're getting started - hey, at least you're getting some traffic. They can also be useful when you have banner exchanges or if you want to increase your Alexa ranking. That's why I joined this auto-surf service when I heard they're giving 10,000 to anyone that joins.
Want to get 10,000 free hits? Join here.

When I was checking my website tracker I saw something cool. It looks like I'm #1 out of the non-sponsored websites for "work at home ideas and opportunities" on Overture ;) This is pretty cool because Overture is one of the biggest Pay-Per-Click search engines and the people above me in the search results have paid money for being there, but I haven't :)

This is definitely the power of linking. I've collected a lot of reciprocal links in my home business directory and I ask people to use the phrase "Work at Home Business Ideas and Opportunities" when they're linking to me - this ensures that my search engine ranking for these keywords will increase. Which reminds me, I recently got an e-mail from Stone Evans where he gave me a report called "Power Linking". I got this e-mail because I have a Plug-In Profit Site. If you would like to get one, register here - or if you just want to join his affiliate program, sign up here. When you have your Plug-In Profit Site you can just ask Stone for this cool report (or e-mail me).

I think that's pretty much it for now, I know it's a little while since I wrote last but I plan on writing/blogging more frequently in the future ;)

Posted by Hannes Johnson at February 5, 2004 4:22 PM | TrackBack | bookmark on del.icio.us