Instant Sales By Using Startpage Programs ?

Startpage Programs Are Hit-Exchanges

If you are familiar with advertising on the Internet, you will certainly
have heard about the so-called Viral Traffic Generators or Startpage
Programs. What do these expressions mean ?

It is a very easy concept: It makes use of the fact that you can set
any website as your start page. So every time you open your
browser, you will be automatically forwarded to your favorite web
page, you don't have to enter anything.

How You View Other People's Websites

You can set a startpage program as your startpage and a script
from this site delivers hits for you. Within a frame, you view other
people's websites. With most programs, you have to click on a button
to view the next site. You have to stay 20-30 sec. at every site before
your account gets credited.

If you sign up with such a service, you have to name a site to which
people will be forwarded to, once you've earned credits by viewing
other sites. Usually, this will be your main site or the site where you
want to sign up new referrals for programs you run.

It is important that you have a members area, where you can login
to make some changes to your account e.g. setting another site as
your main site.

Which Traffic Generators Should You Sign Up For ?

There are several points which have to be considered when signing
up for such a service (in order of importance):

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1.) Which ratio does the service offer ?
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You should only join programs that give you at least a 3:1 ratio. This
means, for every 3 websites you view, you'll get one hit to your own
site. Anything less than that takes too long to deliver hits. It goes
without saying that a 1:1 ratio is the best you can get.

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2.) How fast does the service deliver hits back to your site?
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If you have to wait days or weeks before you get the hits delivered
which you've earned, it would not make any sense to join such a
program. It should not take longer than a few hours to deliver hits to
your site.

Be sure to check the statistics of your website often to be able to
recognize the speed of the startpage program or if they deliver any
hits at all. You have to look in the section "referrer" of your statistics.

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3.) How many credits do you get from new referrals ?
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Viral Traffic means traffic from you AND from people who join under
you. So, if you sign up other people, you get hits delivered from their
surf-sessions as well (usually about 10% of the hits they generate).

Multiple levels guarantee that you not only get credits from persons
you personally signed up but you'll also get credits from people THEY
sign up ! This can be, with some programs, up to 6 levels deep...

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4.) How many credits do you get for signing up ?
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Many of these programs give you hits for free if you join their service.
This is not the most important part but who can resist if they offer you
50 or 100 hits to your site for free, just for joining ?

Does Your Website Sell .... Are You "In The Money" ?

Unless you are using a kind of collecting mechanism to get email
addresses by giving away free reports or something of similar value,
you will not be "in the money". The topics that work best are somehow
related to getting traffic. Because that is why the other site owners are
viewing your site. After all, they want to get traffic TO THEIR OWN
SITE !

They don't view all these other pages to buy everything they come
across. You have to make your best offer and use your best headline
to get people responding. And most important, you need a page that
loads completely within 10 seconds. And then you have another
10-20 sec. to let them become interested in your offer or they click to
the next page to get more credits.

Finally, Too Good To Be True ? Autohits Without Clicking...

There is a "new" startpage program called Autohits
(http://autohits.4use.dk). You don't have to click anything to be for-
warded to the next page. This means, once you have started, you
will be transferred to the first site automatically and the sites change
every 20 seconds.

I consider this to be very dangerous because actually, you can
start this program, go out for a walk and earn credits without really
viewing other people's websites !

You don't even have to use it in the foreground window, you can
let it run in the background. But if everyone does so, you'll have no
real people watching your site but only computers. You don't have
to be active to view the next site, so there's no guarantee that sites
will be viewed by real persons.

These credits/hits would be totally worthless, in my opinion. It's a
waste of bandwidth. If this new trend continues, startpage programs
will have the same effect like posting to FFA-pages : NONE !

5 of the best viral traffic generators concerning usability/ratio are
listed below :

1.) Nomorehits :
http://www.nomorehits.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi?referrer=Mediaman69
Ratio 2:1
Better than average referral bonuses; very user-friendly

2.) Clicksilo :
http://www.clicksilo.com/referrals/info.asp?Agent=greatheadlines
Ratio 2:1
50 credits (hits) for joining

3.) Webmasterquest :
http://www.webmasterquest.com/join.php?ref=IMS01
Ratio 1:1
5 levels of referral bonuses

4.) HitHarvester :
http://www.hitharvester.com/referral.asp?ref=IMS01
Ratio 1:1
Delivers hits very fast, user-friendly surfbar, high referral bonuses

5.) Hitpulse :
http://www.hitpulse.com/cgi-bin/start/newuser.cgi?referer=coolrunner
Ratio 2:1
Support for multiple websites

Let them explode the traffic to your site ;-) .