Area 51 - Another update

This morning Area 51 Hits was back online again. I did some surfing there and everything seems to be working fine now.

• Area 51 Hits
• TE-Surfer: Area 51 Hits - March 3, 2014
• TE-Surfer: Area 51 Hits Update - April 29, 2014

Ghostly Ships Traffic Exchange

When I stumbled upon Ghostly Ships Traffic Exchange I got interested at once. The first thing that striked me was the eerie, dark theme of the welcomepage. I've always loved ghoststories, horror and sci-fi so I knew I had to sign up.

Free members are allowed 10 sites, 5 banners and 5 textads and Ghostly Ships Traffic Exchange promises a very genrous 500000 hits for signing up. It almost sounded to good to be true.

The autosurf has a 10 seconds timer and surfing is very smooth and easy. Unfortunately, a month after joining all of my sites are still in "Waiting Approval" state. Maybe it was to good to be true after all since the exchange looks like the abandoned ghost ship it's named after.

Ghostly Ships Traffic Exchange

Area 51 Hits - Update

As I wrote in my previous post about Area 51 Hits, I wasn't to happy with them. Over time this changed for the better. I don't know what changed on their part, but they didn't reject any more of my sites or banners and Area 51 Hits sent quite some traffic my way. Surfing was better also. Instead of like 25 sites showing over and over it looked like they got more members. Either that or they used some other exchanges memberbase.

They never DID answer my mails or explain why they blacklisted my domain, but apart from this they improved to a point where I actually was quite happy with them.

Yesterday they were missing without a trace. Their server is still answering, but yesterday there was nothing and today there is is the Apache welcome page. "The fact that you are seeing this page indicates that the website you just visited is either experiencing problems or is undergoing routine maintenance."

I have no clue as to what is going on. Yesterday I figured they were left and gone, but since the Apachepage is up they might have suffered from some sort of hardwarecrash and are working on getting the site back online.

They might have their hands full at the moment, but if I were in charge I would have sent a mail to all members letting them know what was happening and wheter or not the site is coming back. Seems like communication never was Area 51 Hits' strong side...

• Area 51 Hits
• TE-Surfer: Area 51 Hits - March 3, 2014
• TE-Surfer: Area 51 Hits Another Update - May 04, 2014

Traffic Send

Traffic Send differs a lot from most traffic exchanges. First of all it doesn't work from within a frameset but instead opens the sites it shows in a new window. I had some difficulties figuring it out at first since I had a pop-up killer activated and wasn't too keen on deactivating it. Traffic Send does behave though, and it closes the windows it has opened before opening the next one. The timer is set to a random number of seconds for each new window. To make Traffic Send work at it's best You should download and install the Alexa toolbar.

You are allowed to add as many sites or pages as You want and it looks like rotators and non-english sites are OK.

There is only surfing. No banner-, button- or text ad exchanges. No splashpages, rotators or downline builders. There isn't even any rewards for referals but You can get rewarded for discussing Traffic Send on some boards.

Traffic Send

10K Hits

10K Hits is an autosurf with a 10 seconds timer. As a free member You can add 5 sites. Surf ratio is 1:0,5. There are no banner-, button- or textad exchanges, so I suppose You could say 10K Hits is down to basics, but it does what it's supposed to do.

They do offer a linkexchange and there is a forum. Apart from this it's just surfing.

10K Hits

Area 51 Hits

Area 51 offers autosurf (called Hyper Surf), manual surf and also hover surf. There is also a banner exchange. Free members are allowed 5 websites and five banners.

I signed up three years ago and added my sites to the exchange. They were approved but after about a week I started getting mails from Area 51 Hits telling me that my sites had been rejected. They didn't tell me for what. I added new sites but the same thing happened again. When I surfed the exchange there were only five or six sites showing over and over, so when they started rejecting my banners too I gave up on them.

About a month ago I decided to try them out again, but it doesn't look like things has improved. Just days after my sites were aproved they got rejected. This time the reason was "This Site did not load". After checking my sites (and they DID load) I resubmitted them, but got the same answer. At this point my webhost had some downtime, but when my host had everything up and going again I once more tried to add my sites only to find that Area 51 Hits had put my domain on their list of blocked domains. I sent them a mail explaining about the server going down and asking why they blocked my domain, but they never bothered to answer my mail. The same sites they rejected are approved in somewhere between 10 and 15 other exchanges so I really don't know what the problem is. I wouldn't recommend Area 51 Hits to anyone.

• Area 51 Hits - update - April 29, 2014

Area 51 Hits