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Hi Mary,
By now, you know I can be brutally honest! LOL. As an owner of an autosurf, I could tell you they're the most wonderful invention since sliced bread! LOL!
Autosurfs are generally not a very good way to advertise. In the majority of cases, from my experience, people turn them on and walk away, never seeing most of the sites that are in rotation.
The autosurf I own is an exception right now, and I am trying to understand why. From the email I get every day, I know that people ARE watching the sites that come up a lot - it MAY be because I have the timer set much higher than most autosurfs, have a lower level of restrictions than most, have a very visible menu button that allows members to instantly and easily open a site that catches their eye in a new window, and crack down hard on abusers when I catch them. It has been a most interesting experience, and not what I expected. It has been surprising, to say the least.
What autosurfs are especially not good for is for advertising replicated websites. Owners of MLMs and affiliate programs absolutely hate them, because they burn up THEIR bandwidth and generate almost no sales. Most autosurfs run a ten second timer, which gives no one any time to actually see the site, and if a member wants to view the site in a new window, it's usually a real pain or downright impossible without closing the autosurf.
What autosurfs ARE good for is for raising the profile of your OWN website with traffic watchers like Alexa, which, in turn, raises your rating in the search engines. I personally have tested this and have seen my Alexa ratings and my REAL traffic rise tremendously.
That said, always be aware that search engines are constantly changing their rules, so be careful not to overdo it with autosurfs. Try to use autosurfs that have a longer viewing time than 10 seconds, as anything less tells you that NO ONE is paying any attention to the sites in rotation.
With any kind of traffic exchange, always remember that what your goal should be is to build a downline in as many exchanges as possible, greatly increasing the amount of traffic to your website, while decreasing the amount of work YOU have to do. You want to have traffic coming to your website from as many DIFFERENT sources as possible, as that is one thing that REALLY catches the "eye" of the search engines.
In other words, never put all your time into surfing ONE exchange. What that will show the search engines is that someone from the same location is visiting your site over and over again.
God bless,
Dave
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