A Great Easy Contest - Win Free Clothes or $10,000

It doesn't get much easier than this! Play once per day until the contest ends. With a chance to win Ten Grand, I can see this catching on pretty quick!




Carhartt: a good idea for outdoors.



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Giveaways are GOOD

Two very different ideas spawned two giveaway sites with only a few minor differences in their website names.

1) Giveaway-A-Day
    "Giving Away 1 Prize A Day, 365 Days A Year!"

I've won three times (Fandango Bucks, Chevron GC, Amazon GC) and although there was a shipping error on the second one, it was resolved amazingly fast via email. Their customer support is out of this world (in a good way - not literally!). I don't know how they can give away so much free money, but I love it!



2) Giveaway-of-the-Day
    "Free Licensed Software Daily!"

They make deals with software companies to give everyone free copies of programs you'd normally have to pay for! Everything from screensavers to file converters to image editors to CD/DVD burning progs to random stuff like police sketch software or biometrics analyzers. They also have a "Game Giveaway of the Day!"

I Don't Really Know What The Point Is...

...but it appears USA has never lost, and I intend to keep it that way! One click per IP per 3 hour time period. Vote for your country! It's completely free and no registration is needed.



So click on over there, show your American spirit, your national pride, and your red white and blue blood! Chant with me while you click: USA USA USA USA USA USA...!

Hope your week is off to a great start!

How Do I Get Traffic To My Site?

Maybe you've been asking yourself (or others), "How can I let people know about my new contest?" or "How do I get traffic to my site, period?" or for those who learn by example "How do YOU get traffic to YOUR sites?" I hope you've gotten some good responses, but you probably haven't, or you wouldn't still be reading. Well, there are some very good ways out there, and you know I'm all about the free, so here's my advice (also free). Traffic Exchanges. Very simple concept, but used with a twist (stay tuned below for that tidbit). Here are the sites I'm currently an active member of, illustrated with banners (for the visually-stimulated) and explained using Pros/Cons lists (for the logically-minded):


Pros: decent timer, lottery ticket for every 8 pages, chance to win real cash, additional bonuses, credits for reporting sites that break the rules, nice upgrade price
Cons: ratio is a little low without upgrading to pro so you wind up promoting banners more than sites



Pros: decent timer, nice visual surfing interface, addictive prizebar, chance to win real cash, nice upgrade offers if you catch them, additional ways to earn credits other than just surfing, great quotes and/or helpful advice at the bottom of every page
Cons: new front-page GUI makes site-navigation less user-friendly, text ad feature has yet to work in a manner that makes using text ads worthwhile (show too fast so that credits are quickly diminished)



Pros: earn real cash while surfing, poker game for chance at bonus credits, can choose target or exclusion countries for your ads, homepage text ads option gets great results and is a cheap bargain, super-cheap upgrade price ($10 for 3 months)
Cons: can be painfully slow, high timer, had trouble at first with the poker game not crediting correctly, limited audience



Pros: fantastic user base to advertise to (over 90,000!), earn real cash while surfing, attractive site overall, new bonus pages in rotation, ongoing competitions, good ratio
Cons: so-so timer, anti-cheat mechanism can be annoying (match the gibberish word or do a math problem), bonus pages can easily be missed if you're not paying attention



Pros: best real-cash ratio, large bag of free credits just for signing up, great banner/text credit conversion ratios
Cons: so-so timer, site navigation can be confusing, sidebar text ad monitor not working, site has been completely down a couple times



Pros: speedy fast timer, lots of blatant bonus pages (every 15th), decent upgrade offers if you catch them, easy sidebar site navigation, ongoing daily credit contests, part of super-surf network (addtl credits for surfing specific other TE's at the same time), great surfer base/lots of members to advertise to
Cons: *warning - side rant* They post your login/password in every email they send. I contacted them about this procedure and their only response is that it produces more logins/surfers daily, and it may in fact, however, I think it's unsafe to have your password posted in plain text so often (especially if you use computers in public places), so I changed mine to a random password that I don't use for anything else, and I don't have to worry about forgetting what it is because I see it every time I read an email from them (usually daily). *end rant* ratio is a little low lending to using banners more than sites


Well, there you have it, my traffic story. The order they are listed above is how I open them, and I surf them all simultaneously. In firefox, I have them each bookmarked in a single folder and just click "open all in tabs." I move down the line, using the faster timers (trafficsplash, freetrafficlotto, trafficbunnies) to fill in the gaps. In a couple hours on a weekend, I can build enough credits to have my sites and banners seen throughout the rest of the week while I work my day job (hopefully one day able to quit because my internet marketing has taken off so wildly!).

These are, however, in no way a Top 5 (or even 6), they are just the ones I use because they work well and provide me with the service I need. I've been very tempted lately to try a couple of the other larger networks out there, just to see something new - I'll keep you posted and let you know if/when I do.

Best of luck and hope you had a Happy Halloween (I went to bed early and slept like a baby - it was great!)

- Get Addicted To Playing For Free -

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Time to Win With Keno 49!

I mentioned it before in my Netwinner post, and it's finally here!



If you've played the other Netwinner games, including BANKO, you're probably aware of the slow gameplay they provided. Keno49 happily (for all those impatient ADHD folks out there) plays quite a bit faster, allowing you to play all 10 plays in under 20 minutes.

If you've ever played Keno, you know that you can win for not matching anything, which happens to be my strongpoint - so I love this new addition to the Netwinner family! I hope you do too!

Prizes range from entries into the major drawing, all the way to a $250 Gas Card! Get playing today and drive around for free tomorrow!

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