Just a quick heads up to let you know that a few more changes will be taking place shortly at Traffic Punk.
In some ways, we’ll be looking to the future, while going back to our roots
Please expect a few hours of downtime sometime between now and late next week, as I’ll be
making these important changes to the site and member’s area.
I will send an email out beforehand when I’ll know the specific time.
Until then, enjoy your surfing and thanks for your understanding.

-Ryan

Finally here..
Several months ago, I had designed a new social networking/chat feature that unfortunately was put on hold as I waited for a partner TE to complete a joint project.
That project never saw fruition, the TE owner sold his exchange and left a few of us hanging. But that’s ok..
So with that said, it gave me a little more time to tweak a couple things and finally provide you with a great way to expand your marketing reach.

What is it?
Traffic Punk finally has a chat feature. While its nothing new to traffic exchanges, I still believe its a great way to get to know your fellow surfers, network, share ideas and make some new friends. You may notice the appearance is a bit similar to the chat at Promolotto and that is because I once owned that exchange and designed the chat feature there.

Built-in Social Networking
To take advantage of both the chat and social networking features, all you have to do is log in, add your social network IDs for sites like Facebook, twitter, Youtube, etc. and surf.
That’s pretty much it.
Besides interacting with members via chatting, you can also view a member’s “virtual business card” by simply clicking on their name in the chat.
Doing this will bring up a nice, non-intrusive popup that displays the member’s name, photo and social networking icons, so you know who you’re communicating with and if interested, connect with.
By moving the mouse away from the popup, it will close.
You may also minimize the chat panel any time if you do not wish to participate but of course, I recommend leaving it open and interacting with the community.
To re-open the chat panel, all you have to do is click on the red text to the right that says “Open chat”

A Few Basics
While this should be obvious, I think its still important enough to mention.
Please be professional and courteous of others and avoid spamming, inciting, harassing, etc. We’d like to maintain a professional atmosphere where all are not only welcome but feel welcome too.

Let me know what you think of these new features or if you have comments, questions, etc. post them right here.
Looking forward to chatting with you!

-Ryan

When people are starting their online businesses, they need to drive traffic to their
websites ASAP.
However, in most cases, people do not have the money to pay for advertising.

There are many ways to drive traffic to a website, depending on your budget and the time you have available to work on building your online business.

Here are just a couple low cost ways to generate traffic to your website.

1.      Offer free reports and content.
Giving away some freebies and including your website URL in those freebies is an effective and low cost way of building traffic to your website. You can write some useful short reports with your website link in them and offer those reports for free on a website where you ask visitors to leave their email address before they download the free reports or articles. This means you can give away the report with your URL and also build a list.

2.      Blog!  Blogging is a very effective way of building traffic to your website.
On your blog, you can discuss your website’s products and services and add some links to your website.
You can also answer any questions your prospects and customers may have.
By blogging regularly, you will have fresh content that may get your website indexed by search engines and rank higher on these search engines.
This increase in visibility will increase your overall website traffic.

3.      Publish your own newsletter.
Having your own newsletter where you offer free tips and content on a regular basis can help to increase traffic to your website dramatically.
Your newsletter should have links to your website, so your readers will also visit your website.

4.      Join a forum related to the products or services you sell on your website.
By answering questions and helping people in your niche on a related forum, you can drive traffic by adding your website URL in your signature in the forum posts.
Be genuine and avoid spamming just to get your link seen! Trust can go a long way, so build relationships and be helpful whenever possible.

5.      Exchange links with websites that have high popularity (PR) rank.
All you need to do is to find websites that are related to what you offer on your website and exchange links with these sites.
This is particularly effective if the websites have high page rank on search engines.
By doing this, some traffic will come your way through the websites you are linked to.

6.     Join a free Traffic Exchange.
The way they work is very simple. You add your website and view sites belonging to others in exchange for credits.
You assign these credits to your own website, where others view your site and so the same.
If you join Traffic Punk today and mention this blog post, I will give you 100 credits to get started

These are just some basic, easy ways you can start driving traffic to your website.
More traffic means more sales and profits for your online business.

‘til next time,

-Ryan

Our massive, 15-day surf promo is finally over and I’d like to thank each and
every one of you for being such awesome members.

Here are the lucky winners from January the 6th:

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200 Credits, 2,000 Text Ads AND 2,000 Banner Ads:
- eladamri
- kichiro
- sheilahackett
- hf4225
- shaggydoo

$5.00 Cash:
- maczord79
- kichiro

Three month Premium Upgrade:
- rysio52
- Holidayfreak

Six Month Premium Upgrade:
- wildirishrose

1 Year Premium upgrade
- blogtommy

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your prizes have been added to your accounts.

We’d really appreciate your vote at Affiliate Funnel.
Remember 10 is good.. Thanks!
http://www.ryanhogan.com/recommends/Vote

Ryan

Today is the FINAL day of the ’15 days of Traffic Exchange Christmas’ surf promo..

LAST chance to grab a huge advertising discount:
http://www.trafficpunk.com/holidays.php

At midnight, the special is going offline for good.

Today, all 15 traffic exchanges are participating together in a massive promotion.

Check this out:
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You simply surf 200 pages or more to qualify for the draw.

Today you could win:

- 200 Credits, 2,000 Text Ads AND 2,000 Banner Ads:
5 awarded at each exchange

- $5.00:
2 awarded at each exchange

- Three month Premium Upgrade:
2 awarded at each exchange

- Six Month Pro Upgrade:
1 awarded at each exchange

+ 1 year Upgraded membership at each exchange

11 prizes at each for a total of 165 winners!
The complete list of participating Traffic Exchanges
can be found here:

==> http://trafficexchangechristmas.com

Winners from Yesterday, January 5th:

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200 Credits, 2,000 Text Ads AND 2,000 Banner Ads:
- Briksons
- bertdaniels
- bells401
- masolut
- earthgifts

$5.00 Cash:
- krazyoldman
- skylar

Three month Premium Upgrade:
- burrado
- lamasyl

Six Month Premium Upgrade:
- CreateIt2Day

1 Year Premium upgrade
- panther57

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your prizes have been added to your accounts.
Past winners can be found here:
http://trafficexchangechristmas.com

Log in and surf now:
==> http://www.trafficpunk.com/login.php

Good luck!
Ryan

Yesterday was another fantastic day in our 15 days of Traffic Exchange Christmas surf promo..

Is your name here?
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200 Credits, 2,000 Text Ads AND 2,000 Banner Ads:

- clhorv
- jgoldie
- kesud
- reesie39
- Tallell97

$5.00 Cash:
- italinowz
- lymac

Three month Premium Upgrade:
- kaybee26
- malibunut

Six Month Premium Upgrade:
- petergee

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your prizes have been added to your accounts.
Past winners can be found here:
http://trafficexchangechristmas.com

No time to surf?
Check out our limited time Holiday special:
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Make sure you’re logged in first:
http://www.trafficpunk.com/login.php

then click here:
http://www.trafficpunk.com/holidays.php

Our next scheduled day is Tuesday the 5th and trust me, its going to be HUGE so keep your
eyes open!
Right now the prizepage is jam packed with extra goodies if you want to jump in right now
and surf.

Until then..

See you Tuesday!
Ryan Hogan