Tim Linden, owner of StartXchange, specializes in PHP programming. With his computer knowledge, he can easily make changes that better this traffic exchange. Your suggestions in the Forum can easily become the next new feature.

StartXchange is free to join and has 3 levels of membership: Free Membership offers a 3:1 surf ratio and 5% earnings on referrals. Gold Membership is $6/month, offers a 2:1surf ratio, and 10% earnings on referrals. Platinum Membership is $14.95/month, offers a 1:1 surf ratio, and 20% earnings on referrals. There are random referrals given in both the upgrades. Credit ratio is 1 credit = 1 hit. There is also a 10-second page view timer.

StartXchange is one of the 5 super surfer exchanges where you can increase the value of the credits you earn by surfing them all at the same time. The other 4 traffic exchanges that make up Super Surf are: Traffic Splash, I Love Hits, Advertising Know How, and Dragon Surf.

StartXchange rewards users for being active with Activity Levels. The more you surf the higher your rank. With each level the amount of traffic increases due to increased surfing bonuses. Your surfing bonus also increases when you complete a checklist of various items.

There are many additional ways to advertise at StartXchange. You can purchase a “Prize Page” for $20. With this purchase your page will be shown every 100 pages viewed for an entire day. StartXchange also offers a “Weekly Branding” page where you purchase the first page position by making sure your page is viewed first by every surfer, every time they surf for an entire week. StartXchange also has a forum where you can advertise. You can bid to be the Forum Sponsor for the day or buy the day for $5. With this, a banner ad will be placed at the top of the Forum page.

To alleviate the boredom that can come with traffic exchanges, StartXchange is built around a community. This community starts in the Forum and continues through the site. The Forum is a good place to share ideas and experiences. Traffic teams have even been formed that compete against each other.

This is one of the most innovative traffic exchanges today.

My Rating: 9 (out of possible 10)

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Soren Jordansen, owner of Dragon Surf, has done an excellent job. Of all the traffic exchanges, Dragon Surf has the best eye-catching graphics hands down! It is laid out very well and efficiently organized. There are 3 levels of membership: Green Dragon (free), Silver Dragon ($5.95/mo.), and Gold Dragon ($9.95/mo.).

You can’t miss your bonuses at Dragon Surf. Every 20 pages that you surf, a cave game appears where you choose 1 of 3 caves. After making your choice, another screen comes up showing you what you have won for bonuses. These include banner impressions, text link impressions, and/or traffic credits. If you happen to get an angry dragon, you will not receive a bonus.

Dragon Surf is one of the exchanges involved in Super Surf. By Super Surfing the top 5 exchanges together, you will net a combined 50% extra credits.

If you want a traffic exchange that delivers and gives you superior results, this is by far one of the best and deserves to be in the top 5.

My Rating: 9 (out of a possible 10)

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Owner, Jon Olson, has taken the traffic exchange industry to a whole new level with the addition of I Love Hits Profile Pages. Social interaction is at its best. What a perfect way to brand yourself in this Internet world!

There are 3 levels of membership at I Love Hits to go along with the boxing theme: Lightweight (Free), Middleweight ($5.95/mo.), and Heavyweight ($9.97/mo.). There is a 10-second timer and surf ratios vary depending on the level of membership from 3:1 up to 1.25:1 and climbs the more you surf.

Guaranteed traffic delivery is a noted feature at I Love Hits along with superior customer service, and instant url approval and account activation. If you like to Super Surf you will find I Love Hits to be one of the big 5. Statistics show that I Love Hits is a constant Top 10 exchange and continues to be a strong leader.

My Rating: 7 (out of a possible 10)

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This manual traffic exchange is owned by Franscisca Kruissink from Holland. It offers a 10-second timer and variable surf ratios. A 6-second timer is offered at some point each week. This is a great time to surf.

With free membership (Green Rose), you can promote up to 4 websites. There are three levels of upgrade (White Rose, Coral Rose, and Red Rose) which are good values. The way the upgrades are presented on the Upgrade Account link is a bit scattered.

Hit2Hit is a good basic TE with 30,000+ members and delivers a good, steady flow of traffic. There are many valuable contests which result in cash and upgrade prizes.

To reach its greatest potential, I believe Hit2Hit needs an update not only to freshen up its appearance but to add some new options.

My Rating: 7 (out of a possible 10)

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The co-registration service is a list builder. You add your ezine description and your subscribe email. You load a specially designed thank you page URL into your autoresponder or email manager. Free members get 3 credits for every page shown. Send one subscriber to your special thank you page url and your ezine details are shown 3 times on other people’s pages.

With Advertising Know How you have the option to submit articles that you have written to be included on their site. They accept “How I did it” stories, tips and hints, instructions, and other articles that will help their audience succeed in their home-based business while promoting you.

Advertising Know How suggests that you surf the traffic exchange at least an hour per day to get the best use from it. Other advice they offer is to use a quick loading splash page for advertising your web page.

For those of you who like to Super Surf, you will find Advertising Know How is among the five traffic exchanges.

Final Rating: 6 (out of possible 10)

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Both TopTierTraffic and WebBizInsider are owned and operated by Web’s Best Marketing, based in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.  There are many similarities between these two traffic exchanges. At first glance, you would think TopTierTraffic is just a copy of WebBizInsider.

The structure of receiving bonus credits at TopTierTraffic is just like that of WebBizInsider. The bonus credits are progressive and are given every 25 pages that you surf. You know in advance what they will be and they are added automatically to your account. This is a good feature because you’re sure to get all the credits coming to you.

Now let’s take a look at what is different. At TopTierTraffic, custom scripts have been created to add enhanced benefits for members. Their flexible Dynamic Matrix Structure allows members the ability to “Earn Your Way to the Top.”

Each week, the matrix is shuffled, putting the members who earned the most Position Points in the previous week at the top and cascading down from there. Your place in the matrix is all based on the Position Point Leaderboard. Position Points are earned by surfing, referring new members, and clicking email links. The Leaderboard always shows your position and the more active you are, the higher up you go. Each week it begins anew.

This focus on rewarding the most active members will mean that advertising time and resources will be well spent at TopTierTraffic. As of this review, there are 15, 780+ members and counting. More active members mean more signups and sales for you.

My Rating: 7 (Out of 10)

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Louise Venison, the site owner, has done a fine job with the layout of this site. HitsBoosterPro is easy to navigate, has a 5:1 ratio for free members, and a 6-second page view timer.

Great incentives are given right away at signup. You will receive 1000 free credits when you surf your first 25 sites and you are given a new member Platinum upgrade for a week. Make sure you take advantage of this. If you choose not to keep the upgrade, that’s fine. The system will automatically revert you back to the free member status.

The upgrades are very reasonable ranging from $1.95 to $5.95 per month. The Platinum upgrade offers a 50% commission on direct referral upgrades and purchases.

You win free bonus credits every 25 pages that you surf. Make sure you click the link to receive them.

HitsBoosterPro is a fast growing exchange and is quickly becoming one of the favorites for many surfers.

My Rating: 7 (out of possible 10)

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Recent stats on this popular interactive site include the following:

1. Currently takes over 75,000+ hits a day (total)
2. Boasts many members already reporting successful results
3. Is ranked in the Top 10 Traffic Exchanges since its beginning
4. Is supported by many top Industry Leaders
5. Has received the Award of Excellence by Jon Olson’s Hit Exchange News
6. Earned the surfer’s choice award
7. Remains under the protection of HitsConnect ad tracking

Traffic Witch features a 10-second timer and uses a dynamic surf ratio which means the more you use the system, the more your surf ratio will increase. There are 3 types of membership. The free (Witch) membership offers .3 up to .5 credits per view. With this package, you can earn 5% from referral surfing, 5% commission on upgrades, and 2% commission on purchases.

The second membership package (Wicca) offers .66 up to 1.5 credits per view. With this package, you can earn 10% from referral surfing. You also receive 750 credits per month, 1500 banner impressions per month, 2500 text link impressions per month, 25% commission on upgrades, and 5% commission on purchases.

The best package (Sorcerer) offers 1 up to 1.5 credits per view. With this package, you receive 15% from referral surfing, 1000 credits per month, 2500 banner impressions per month, 3500 text link impressions per month. You earn 75% commissions on upgrades and 10% commissions on purchases. You also receive random referrals and you can email your downline.

Finally, Traffic Witch is advertised widely outside of the traffic exchanges so it brings in fresh eyes to see your sites.

Final Rating: 7 (out of possible 10)

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As a free member of WebBizInsider, you can earn credits in 6 different ways:

1. By surfing
2. By showing your referral page
3. By signing up new members
4. Through surfing done by members in your downline
5. By reading credits mail (If you read a credits mail received from your upline and click the link in the mail, you will receive credits designated for your reading of the mail)
6. By winning contests

By upgrading to a Premium Membership, you can receive hundreds of credits per month just as a benefit of your membership. Premium Membership rates range from $20 per month to $160 per year.

The structure of receiving bonus credits at WebBizInsider is good. Bonus credits are predictable and are added automatically, so there is no way of missing them, as you do in other traffic exchanges. Every 25 pages that you surf, you receive progressive bonus credits. The 15-second page view timer is way too long in this day and age; kind of like watching paint dry.

With nearly 142,000 members, the opportunity to earn traffic to your website is inevitable.

Final Rating: 6 (out of possible 10)

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With each new week, some of the traffic exchanges are switching positions in the Affiliate Funnel rankings. #12 this week is WebCentre Surf which is making its way closer to the top 10 mark. This free traffic exchange review will be on TrafficEra, last week’s #12 which has fallen to #13 this week.

What makes TrafficEra stand out from the crowd is the emphasis it places on Personal Value or PV. Your PV is determined by 3 different components: your surf activity, your referral activity, and your sponsoring activity. Your surf activity is based on the number of seconds you surf. Your referral activity is based on the promoting you do with the referral link that TrafficEra provides. Your sponsoring activity is based on how many new members you sponsor each week. Members with the highest PV each week can earn huge rewards, which are given as tokens.

Tokens can be earned in one of 2 ways at TrafficEra. 1) As stated above, it is based on your weekly PV ranking. 2) Surf other member’s websites to collect clocks. The first 10 clocks you collect you will receive 5 tokens; the second set of clocks you collect you receive 10 tokens. You will continue to receive 10 tokens for every ten clocks you find as long as you don’t stop surfing for more that 2 hours.

The tokens you earn can be spent in the TrafficEra Marketplace, where you can purchase anything from website credits to increased surfing ratios (for a specified amount of time). The possibilities are endless. Remember to keep an eye out for the incredible deals you can find here, which are added to the marketplace every hour of every day.

Although TrafficEra is cleverly designed and has unique tools found nowhere else, I find that results here are less than average.

My Rating: 5 (out of a possible 10)

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