Welcome to the newest issue of the Hit Exchange News and this week's 'One To Click On by Jon'.

Downlines in a hit exchange are a very powerful thing. Take a look at programs like MPAM or Traffic Hoopla, their success can be seen as the power of building a downline, specifically in exchanges.

What does this accomplish? It gets you a chunk of your downline's traffic. Yes, you earn 'traffic' from your downline. And for some very good advertisers, this has meant thousands of hits a day, strickly from their downline's surfing. I'm a rare breed, I'm someone who has pretty decent downlines in various exchanges, but I still spend hours a day in them. I enjoy surfing, and hey, if I'm going to publish an e-zine about exchanges, I guess I should participate in them too! =)

Recently, a very PROFITABLE switch has been happening to what your downlines can earn you in a hit exchange. Now you can earn cash from whatever your downline spends on advertising, upgrades, etc. While you will not retire from what you can make, imagine if you had 5 exchanges (with a healthy downline) that earned you about $20 a month. Not too bad huh? $100 a month for 'clicking' and referring?

I think it's great and I applaud the owners who have implemented this type of commission to their program! It's a perfect way for you HEAVY clickers to get some extra cash each month. So what is my suggestion? BUILD those downlines! Get invovled with some of the downline building clubs or create one of your own. The great thing about this, is it's something you can do AS WELL as what you are presently promoting / advertising. And this is just free money, imagine what you could make if you upgraded and made even more commision? O.k., that's a whole different story, but believe me, it's a great way to build a new revenue stream that you may have never thought existed!

Keep on clicking and thank you so much for being a subscriber!

• Congratulations to Mystical Maze and Easy Hits 4 U for becoming the newest additions to the list of Award of Excellence winners. These two exchanges have been delivering the traffic week after week and while they may be newer programs, they do provide superior traffic, hit after hit! Congrats to both exchanges!

• News from the Hit Pulse folks this week. Like many of you may know, Hit Pulse has been plagued by 'surf bar' problems for quite some time. Ever since they released their new look, the surf bar has worked for some folks, and not for others. They kept working on it, and apparently they have fixed the surf bar problem. Everything does look fine so far, and traffic deliver speeds are at a break neck pace. We shall see if it lasts...

• Hit Snapper launched their new 'Hit Snapper 3' this week. Hit Snapper has been a rock solid performer for quite some time and definately one of the better exchanges online, and the new version has some very interesting features including a pro upgrade 'auction' where you can trade surplus credits for cash with other members. Not a bad way to start 2004!

• Want proof that the hit exchange industry is starting to mature? Has anyone noticed the 'new sites' being promoted on the exchanges? One can easily tell it's election year in the U.S.A. and many new sites have a political tone to them. People are trying to get elected, and it looks like some have even turned to the exchanges for exposure.

• Need more ways to make money with a hit exchange? Traffic Meet has just launched their new Surf 4 Cash feature which allows members to earn real cash for surfing the site. Many of these kind of promotions have been attempted before, but this exchange is owned by the I Love Clicks people so it will still be here in a month. Which is more than can be said for the majority of 'surf 4 cash' sites???

• I've been busy to increase the membership at Net Marketing Forum. As many of you know, this has become quite the 'hot bed' for rumours, news, information and even the odd 'harsh word'. Yes, we keep things VERY liberal in the NMF and want to continue to make it a fun and interesting community to be a part of. Stop by and see what all the fuss is about...Real opionions from real people!

Enjoy this week's list!

1. Cash Clicking
2. Traffic Round Up
3. Start Xchange
4. Webmaster Quest
5. Fast Lane Traffic
6. Mystical Maze
7. Click Thru
8. Traffic G
9. Hit Safari
10. No More Hits

Bubbling Under

• Fast Freeway
• I Love Clicks
• Start Blaster
• Raging Bull Traffic
• EasyHits4U

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"I have a question that perhaps many new marketers have. If a hosting plan has a bandwidth limit, how can I "convert" this figure to a rough estimate of the number of visitors I can support per month?"

My reply;

Hey Aaron,

Thanks for the email.

Bandwidth is everything. Everytime anything is uploaded, viewed, downloaded or searched on your website, it counts towards your bandwidth. A big name exchange, can go through a lot of bandwidth...And take my forum for example, it's a popular forum but there are still only about 50-75 active members. However that does use up about 5-7 GB of bandwidth a month.

I would make sure that any hosting that you do get, not only has sufficent bandwidth, but your host knows that you are planning on creating and maintaining a hit exchange (if thats what you had in mind). Many hosts do not want to host exchanges because they do eat up a ton of bandwidth.

I'd say a new exchange should be able to handle about 10-15 GB a month, and once your exchange starts becoming very active, be ready to pay for a dedicated server =)

Hope this helps.

Do you have a burning question about hit exchanges? Thinking of starting one? Tired of clicking for hours with no results? This is H.E.N.'s weekly Q & A section where I will answer a question every week that you ask me! Send all your questions to me here and just put HEY JON! in the subject line! This is the first week for this feature so please let me know what you think!

Over a year ago, this exchange was going to be something special. Look at the name, it was MPAM's first hit exchange that was not only branded by the Massive Passive Advertising Machine, but it had the memberbase out of the GATE to make this a sure fire hit.

While MPAM Start may not have lived up to the hype it had, it has become a very reliable program. It has had it's problems, but I think that can come from the high expectataions it had when it was first released.

The exchange runs on the now famous AScripts script so it does move hits at a steady pace. MPAM Start is one of the more active exchanges on the net and the majority of the database are MPAM members. This could work wonders if you wanted to target your advertising directly to MPAM members and surfers. Something of note is that it seems to be getting even more active, which is great for an exchange that already has a huge membership.

Overall, MPAM Start is a solid program. Nothing flashy, and there's no more hype surrounding it. It, like it's mother program, simply perform everyday and that's what makes this work. Active membership = Happy surfers!

% Unique Traffic: 61
Results: 3.5 out of 5.0
Speed of Delivery: Average
Site Design: 3.0 out of 5.0
Customer Service: 4.0 out of 5.0
Ease of Use: 3.5 out of 5.0

Overall Rating: 3.5 Mouse Clicks (Rating out of 5.0)

Have a look at MPAM Start here!

Things That Make You Go...Hmmm? (We're just having fun folks, no disrespect intended!)

New Exchange of the Week - Fontoon

Yet another interesting name...There's a meaning behind this one, I'm sure of it but rest assured, the script is VERY familiar. Yes, another Made 4 Traffic script has been released into the wild and what I cannot stop saying to myself is WOW, these scripts are easy to use, easy to surf and best of all, they deliver the hits. Fontoon offers surfers a new twist to the Made 4 Traffic script, you actually need to surf this thing 25 times before your hits are used. And beleive me, your hits are used quickly. Some more unique features is the timer, it's 13 seconds (which I think is a first online) and as their front page states "Once membership reaches 10,000 - our autorotator will be introduced!"...Not sure what that is??? Best of all, which is really interesting, is that they claim to offer a FREE 10 MB website with 2 GB of bandwidth...Just for signing up? Anyways, it's a solid new program from a very solid script. Enjoy the Fontoon! Check out Fontoon! *** Check This Out! *** Brand New eBook "Traffic Mastery" Instantly Uncovers new Techniques, Tools, Tips and Resources That You Can Easily Apply to Your Business! Discover the Six MOST Effective, Free and Low Cost Methods to Generating Highly Targeted Traffic and Create a Never Ending Stream of Quality Visitors Rushing to Your Site TODAY! Click here now!

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