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Just got this one today myself.  I'm "interesting and useful" and I could get 5,000 to 8,000 visitors.

Thanks Barb for starting this thread so I knew what was most likely coming my way….

I have received so many emails that state how cool my website is.  I also love when the font/type size is different between the salutation and the spammy info paragraph. 

I got this, too. Delete.

Post edited 8:00 am – April 21, 2011 by Steven McGray

About a year ago I heard about this system (and some others) and it was like "Oh my, it's too good to be true!".So many people were afraid to use it, but now these widgets are everywhere! Out of curiosity, I decided to google it, and I found a lot of good things about MGID, though I haven't tried it, nor have I received letters from them.
At the moment I'm using a similar service – Feedbox. To tell the truth there's nothing wrong with it, everything is clear, just helps me get new visitors.

Regarding these spammy letters…well yeah, they look like spam and nobody likes it, but I think you judge them too harsh. I've been helping my uncle once – he had a quite small company. I was doing paper work (correspondence, clients etc) and similar stuff you know. And I've got to tell you it's hard to be personal when you have 400 or more partners. It's just physically impossible. I think MGID is dealing with a huge amount of web-sites, so it has to be difficult, though if people really want to succeed in business, they have to cherish their partners, and use more like an individual approach. 

P.S. If anyone needs more personal experience, I can ask one guy about services like MGID. He used variety of those, so I think he can share his experience.

MyJourneytoMillions said:

Steven,

I don't care about the form letter, my problem is with the approach.  If they wanted to feature my stuff they don't need me to have their widget.  So stop pretending they are doing me a favor (15K new visitors my ass lol).  Their site doesn't even provide a link back!

I think it's not a favor – it's just the way it all works. I don't know if these traffic exchanges are all the same, but speaking from my own experience with Feedbox that's pretty simple – http://feedbox.com/about. To cut the long story short – the more people see your widget, the more people click on it & the more traffic you will get. Quantity of traffic depends basically on the how catchy your content is, or how you present it to public.

Hah! It's funny, but now I see that there are things which I don't understand about these exchanges. Maybe I'll make a little reasearch and try to find more information on how it all works..

I never followed up and just deleted it.

MyJourneytoMillions said:

Steven,

 

No where have you mentioned what your website is, which is just weird. I am starting to question whether you are just trolling around these forums. 

 

More importantly I think you are correct (except when using the word "make") when you say,

 

Hah! It's funny, but now I see that there are things which I don't
understand about these exchanges. Maybe I'll make a little reasearch and
try to find more information on how it all works..

Im thinking the same thing here…usually that kind of grammar comes with every spam comment/email I receive.  We need to start requiring that all new members input their sites (or something of that nature), and then as they begin to comment we just need to watch them.  I have seen one other person posting in these forums with a website I believe to be using duplicate content stolen off of others websites…all of it just gets really annoying after awhile.

Okay,

I'm giving it a shot.  I told them that I would install it on a trial basis and evaluate it's success rate.  Also, if I get complaints about it from readers I would also take that into consideration.  I'll let you guys know how it goes.

Stephen, I think that if you just update your profile with your website, etc then I think you'll be okay.  Please understand that we get lots of people in these forum that are not who they claim to be.  Unfortunately as the network grows we get trolling traffic.

Post edited 11:48 am – April 27, 2011 by JT_McGee

In Steven's defense, this does appear to be a basic traffic exchange, although with any profitable traffic exchange, the exchange necessarily takes their own cut.  Send 10 visitors through the exchange, the exchange sends 8-9 to you, and sells the remainder.

If you want to send visitors somewhere, send them to an advertiser and use the cash discriminately to boost your own traffic.  I still don't have a good idea of Adsense click values for personal finance sites, but my finance sites are pulling down an average of $1.76 a click today.  I'd much rather have that $1.76 per visitor in cash, which can be spent on things other than low-quality traffic exchange traffic.

Traffic exchanges always revert to poor quality–any site of quality eventually leaves as the schemers, scammers, and those with low-value traffic find more benefit in joining than do quality sites with valuable visitors.  

I wouldn't join, but that's just me.