Comments on: Our view on Traffic Exchange Deals

By: scheng1

scheng1 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:15:10 +0000

It is definitely a violation of using traffic exchanges when Bukisa uses Google Adsense.
When my blog is still new, I took off the Google Adsense, and use manual traffic exchange, easyhits4u.
I got four followers within a week of using manual traffic exchanges.
It is not true that the quality of traffic from traffic exchange is bad. It’s just that people cannot find the articles even if they use search engine, after all, how many people have the skills to use seo so effectively that their articles are in first page of search results?
I think it’s time Bukisa revisit the traffic exchange guidelines, since it is no longer using Google Adsense.

By: bruce b. wetzel

bruce b. wetzel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:07:46 +0000

I have some problems with my browser Safari on your site. The monkeys are still in the page .

By: Mark Edward Brown

Mark Edward Brown — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:44:33 +0000

I think your understanding of Traffic Exchanges in general is skewed, it is a well known fact that auto-hits related sites are not good targeted traffic sources.

There are effective Click Thru Marketing Portals however that can bring targeted traffic to your content related sites if you market them correctly. Try using a manual exchange such as GoneClicking.com, try using a splash page and remember that members only view your page for 7 to 20 seconds.

If the veiwer likes your content they will stop and read you site and that has been proven. The issue comes down to tracking and testing your traffic sources NOT in placing blame on Traffic Exchanges.

To Your Success,
Mark Edward Brown
“The Marketing Professional”

By: Alrady

Alrady — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:04:16 +0000

I am liking this discussion… one thing though, traffic even if not generating a reader right now per visit attracts readers back later if the content is good.

I do agree I hate the idea of traffic exchanges, buying etc. However on teh fliop side I just read where people DO get rich from email spam even with the low percentage of response 1 out of 12 million or something like that statistically.

One site I write for will do the traffic driving for you. Another site I write on Ehow they generate great google results.

So I am kind of meandering here but long and short is that I like that you include pay per visit because you never know where that visitor will go within site. SOmeone may come for my great james bond article but not like it .. not drink, not click on smirnoff ad.. But they may decide to check another article or two, like what they see and click on several ads.

So to me there is a little value there for my efforts in bringing in traffic.

By: WriterGig

WriterGig — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:09:56 +0000

Any possibility of having revenue based on actual earnings generated by our articles (like with eHow) or at least different tiers based on quality and profitibility of individual users’ content?

By: BePositive

BePositive — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:51:53 +0000

Funny you mention Suexchange, because that is the site that lead me here to become a writter in the first place. One thing I NEVER do there is say “you stumble mine, and I will stumble yours” because YES this is totally wrong and selfish, as well as being down right pushy.
I equally never Stumble a site just because it will bring me points, I only want sites on my Blog that I actually do believe in, as such personlly I would not do “empty stumbles”.
Finally I have used it to submit sites I beleive are worth viewing, and not all are even my own.
True Empty visits are not worth anything.. but sometimes they generate interest that bring genuine visits as a result.

however your request is noted, and I shall not submit Bukisa links there further.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:19:06 +0000

Very good points. This site is only as valuable as the content so helping the owners keep everything at a high level of quality will only benefit us all.
While I do believe that social bookmarking is a good thing, paid to surf sites are definitely unethical and cost us all!

Cheers,
Dana

By: Miragi

Miragi — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:11:50 +0000

If I had to choose an option, I’d choose the Report button, since you can’t get an accurate reading based on rating alone. However, with the report button, there’s no option for reporting based upon an article’s spelling, grammar or composition. Perhaps if you added “poorly written” to the choices on the Report dropdown menu, it would be easier, than stating that the article violates TOS.

I know, I’m just an opinionated beastie I am, in no way, shape or form, any kind of expert, I only base my opinions on my own reading preferences, and comments read all over the webiverse. And this, in no way, is a problem exclusive to Bukisa.

Just some more thoughts offered up for consideration. Cheerios!

By: Blondie/Pamela

Blondie/Pamela — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:11:33 +0000

I only stumble or digg articles that I think will bring readers instead of 0 second clickers. I have two blogs at today.com and I have stopped social bookmarking my own and only rely on readers, except for yahoo buzz. I will do that when I think I have a good read.

If you get hung up on social bookmarking your own, then it is only about you and not the content. I believe in keywords for making people come to read. If you write an article that has no keyword generation, it is not going to get much traffic even if you social bookmark.

You need to offer the keywords that will trip the serach engines to get readers.

My two cents.

By: Bukisa

Bukisa — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:10:08 +0000

Part of the job of Editorial team is to review the content and remove inappropriate ones, but we also need to rely on our community to help along with this process due to the amount of content that has started to come in – using the simplest tools we have that are the rating options and the report buttons on each content item.