House keeping basics
This is intended to help anybody make money from the Internet, to make money and have time to enjoy it, so I recommend that if you haven’t already, you should spend some time getting organized so that you do not have to waste time doing “housekeeping” that you can use productively.
Pick a Browser
The first tool that you should have is a good tabbed browser, I recommend Crazy Browser, with a pop up killer built in this is the best surfing browser I have tried, and while I try each new one that I find I keep coming back to this one. Click here for a free download
Another good alternative is Firefox which is better know, and works well with most programs. They are both very good, and while I do favor Crazy browser, I do also have Firefox on my machine.
Extra Email accounts
The next thing that you should consider, is do you want the email address that you use now to become loaded with adverts and other junk mail, if not I think its worth setting up free email accounts for use when signing up for traffic exchanges, safelists, or any offer that might get an auto responder reply.
You can get free accounts from
and many others,
Because it is one of the newest walla has fewer subscribers so the chances of getting the name that you want is higher ( don’t be put off that the site is in Hebrew, it works just like all the others)
Roboform
Another tool that saves me countless hours, is an automatic form filler and password utility called roboform, once you have filled in your profile, the utility can automatically fill application forms for you, it will also remember and fill in your login and password details for each site that you visit. you can download a free trial version here
Site Rotator
To make life a little simpler, I use a rotator, which is a program where you enter the sites you want to advertise, and then advertise that rotator site URL. every time you get a hit on the rotator URL it shows one of your site adverts
This is great, because all you ever need to advertise is 1 URL and any changes you want to make to the sites you are advertising you only make once on the rotator site. The downside of rotators is a lot of autotraffic exchanges don’t allow them, because they cant control what sites are shown. One of the best rotators available is pageswirl, and you can get a free 5 URL rotator here
Where to get traffic
What ever opportunity you want to promote you will have a site that you need to advertise, whether its an affiliate page, a splash page or your own site.
Traffic is the most important aspect of promoting your opportunity, if no one knows about your site no one will visit. There are lots of ways to get traffic to your site, some are free, and some cost money.
I will look at the various options, and explain how they work and how to get the best out of them.
Autosurfing
Autosurfing is a free way to get traffic to your site, and works as the name implies, you sign up and enter the url of the site that you want to advertise, then when that is accepted into the rotation, you get your site seen for every credit that you earn by surfing, that means that you login to the surf page and the sites in rotation are shown automatically for a period of time between 6 and 30 seconds depending on the autosurf site. This means that you can leave your computer running unattended and build up significant amounts of credits, the down side is that so can every other autosurfer, so the chances of your site being seen by an interested human is remote. There is one thing that autosurfs are good for, and that is generating hits, which is what you need to increase the position of your site in Alexia.com rankings.
Manual surfing
Manual surfing is much more productive, because the surfer has to click on each page to earn credit before it moves on to the next page.
This means that your page is seen by a real person, who is also surfing to promote their product so they are already interested in making money on the internet, so they are open to the right offer. By using a tabbed browser you can comfortably surf up to 10 sites at a time and earn about 1000 credits for 1 to 2 hours surfing, if you do this as a regular part of your days activity this will produce about 30000 hits to your site a month.
Because most manual traffic exchanges have affiliate schemes you can leverage your credits by using some of then to advertise other exchanges that you are a member of when you get members sign up under you you will earn a percentage of their earning.
Purchased Hits
Purchased hits, are a viable alternative to surfing as long as your budget will stand it.
Paid sign ups
This is only effective if the program you want the sign ups for is free, if not you will find yourself loosing the sign up as soon as the free period expires.
Some companies that offer paid sign ups have no quality monitoring, and are not much better than a scam. The only program that I have successfully use paid sign ups in has been Bux.to a paid to click program.
Hosting
If you want to develop your own site you will need to get a domain name, which is unique to you, the name you choose should ideally have a relationship with the key words that you use for the search engines to home in on, for example 2 of the key words that I use with this site are “Tips” and “Internet tips” so you can see that http://tips4-u.com is tailored to the market that I want to attract.
I have used several companies to host my sites in the past, but the best service for a paid host that I have found is Midphase, one of their companies AN Hosting has the best prices in the group, without loosing quality, they offer many different plans, and are full service hosting providers meaning you get all the facilities that you will need including cpanel,php,mysql and many others.
The best value that I have found, is Doteasy, they give free 100 mb hosting for each name that is registered with them. Click here to visit but they are only basic accounts, for the facilities that I just listed above they do charge.
Ftp Software
Once you have your hosting account you will want to be able to upload your website, for this you will want a FTP client, the initials stand for File Transfer Protocol and while there are 100’s to choose from one of the easiest that I have used is Filezilla, a free download
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