Many of these programs give you hits for free if you join their service. This is not 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 money". The topics that work best are somehow related to getting traffic. Because that is why 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 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 next page. This means, once you have started, you will be transferred to first site automatically and 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 foreground window, you can let it run in 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 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 same effect like posting to FFA-pages : NONE !

5 of 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 traffic to your site ;-) .

Now Which Tracking Method Should You Choose ?

First of all, to be able to decide about this question, you need to know one important thing about search engines : They don't index dynamic pages. This means that pages which are created by using perl (cgi), php or asp are not indexed properly.

Most of times there is database that delivers results of some search requests. You can recognize dynamic pages by question mark and by a repeating of search terms in URL or often links contain several dozens of numbers and letters.

Examples would be :

http://www.domain.net/search.pl?Terms=business%20opportunities or http://www.domain.net/search.asp?chdr84j3339s042kfmdjhwww

The point is, of course there are many great tracking programs and web sites out there but using them in your article resource box doesn't give you a direct link back to your web site. Search engine spiders will not follow them through a cgi-script back to your site and will not even index pages that look like dynamic pages .

To make last statement clear : Links to your main site but with a question mark won't improve your link popularity, either. So, one of my favourite methods for tracking results has become obsolete : http://www.website.com/?campaignname won't help me. But this is something I just recently discovered......

You Are Missing A Great Chance Of Increased Exposure

This means, you are missing a great chance to get more exposure at seach engines as you cannot increase your link popularity . Many ezine publishers have an archive of their past issues at their web site and this would mean even further exposure at their web site directly AND indirectly by increased link popularity.

As a result, if you consider writing articles as a promotion me- thod for your Internet business, use your real domain name in your resource box and you will benefit from much better search engine rankings in long run....