The FAT System Tutorial
This is a six day tutorial on how to set up a FAT (Fully Automatic Traffic) system to generate superior website visitors in terms of both quality and numbers. Access is limited to subscribers to Free Ad Tips bulletins, so if you were sent here by someone else and are not yet yourself a subscriber, please complete the form below to sign up now. Updates to the FAT system, as well as many other valuable Internet marketing tips, are sent exclusively to members of this list.
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Day Five: Traffic Generators (2)
Contents
Overview
Here we continue with the automatic Traffic Generator programs; the 'engines' that drive the FAT system. Remember, 'quality of viewing' doesn't matter because the pages that get shown are your Hit Pages, and they are designed only to receive hits, multiply them, and transfer them to where they'll do a lot more good.
The system works even if nobody reads them!
It is important to remember that, in all these programs, you need to set the appropriate Hit Page as the webpage you are promoting (not your Target Page). This is absolutely vital. The appropriate one is that which allows you the maximum return so be sure to promote hitpage2.html if two popups are allowed, hitpage1.html (or hitpage1a.html) if only one is permissible, or hitpage0.html if none are.
Screensaver Exchanges
These can be powerful for generating traffic when used with the FAT system. Whenever your computer is idle, a screensaver notches up a ceaseless flow of credits which are then used to automatically advertise your Target Page all over the Internet via your FAT system popups and banners. If you have more than one computer, you can run a different Screensaver Exchange on each and maximize even more downtime. Or perhaps you could devote an old computer to one, provided it has an Internet connection, and run it 24 hours a day! As regards viruses or other malware, take heed of what was said in the introduction to this tutorial!
ScreenBlaze was the first, still has the most users, and is the only one to allow popups. However, the latest automatic Windows Update for XP appears to have disabled it (June 09). Hopefully it will be up again soon but it just illustrates another good reason to be a member of more than one screensaver exchange. When it's working properly, this is my preferred choice.
ScreenExplosion has a better 'views to hits' ratio but is unstable. Sites with even the most minor script errors, or possibly none at all, often stop the rotation dead. Even our FAT system hit pages sometimes get wrongly reported for stopping the rotation. This is not a good feature, unfortunately, and means that it can't run unattended for very long.
The third option, ScreenSwarm, is the newest one on the market and is owned by Garland Coulson, for whom I have a lot of respect. It does seem to gobble up bandwidth quite noticeably though, probably due to it's 'moving screen' and its 20 second rotation. In my case it also caused my ADSL-2 modem to drop out occasionally, to the point where it became too frustrating. I suspect a conflict with my AVG anti-virus program but, if this were to be fixed, it would definitely be my second choice.
Whichever you choose, enter the path to hitpage2.html as your site's URL (ScreenBlaze) or hitpage0.html (ScreenExplosion or ScreenSwarm) and choose either Business and Marketing, Webmaster World, Computers and Internet or similar as the appropriate category (personally, I alternate between categories).
Click one or more below to join now:
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Stacked Text Ad Exchanges
Each of these is different in detail but the underlying principle remains the same. Just follow the instructions given on each joining page. Your target URL should be hitpage1.html or hitpage1a.html and you should have one or two suitable text ads to hand; e.g. "Get all the website hits you want—FREE" etc. (See Day One for more ideas.) Since most of these types of programs require people to view the pages linked to from each listed advert before joining, you may think that the actual wording of the ad is irrelevant. To a degree that may be true but I would advise that you should try to come up with a strong and compelling headline to pull more people in than you would otherwise and to help you to individually promote them. Keep them within 20 words, or about 150 characters.
After setting up your FAT system, you should return there to make full use of them. For the 'Linkbox', you need to join TrafficSwarm, which is basically an excellent manual 'surf exchange'. I suggest that you convert your Home Page to a TrafficSwarm Start Page as well; it is not part of the FAT system but it will effortlessly earn credits that will automatically advertise your Target Page for you too.
Where more than one target URL is allowed, set the first one as above and the second one to hitpage2.html. Click the following links to join these programs:
Autosurf Exchanges
The name says it all: just start them and then forget them. Well, maybe not quite! It really is necessary to monitor them for problems, and these do occur from time to time. Persistent popups, message dialogs, frame breakers etc can stop the automation process dead in its tracks. Also, some of the exchanges themselves include devices, such as questionnaires or contests with prizes, to make sure you really are viewing the websites rotating in their network. And some will only autosurf a limited number of sites before requiring you to reset the rotation. On the whole though, they need very little attention.
'Two Popups' Networks
Join the two programs below by clicking on the joining links but be sure to set the target page for these to hitpage2.html. This is because they allow 2 popups so you need to take advantage of that.
'One Popup' Networks
Join the programs below by clicking on their joining links but be sure to set the target page this time to hitpage1.html for the first half and hitpage1a.html for the latter half (or whatever combination you prefer). These only allow 1 popup each so these are the appropriate Hit Pages.
'No Popups' Networks
These programs don't allow any popups so it is vital that hitpage0.html is the page you set as the target URL otherwise you'll get banned. Join them by clicking on the following joining links.
Autosurfing Schedule
Click here to go to a separate page with advice and suggestions about getting the best from the autosurf programs.
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