How this works

Surfing Max wants to provide as much aid and assistance to webmasters as possible.  This system is designed to help webmasters get traffic to their sites in a simple, cost-effective way.  This benefits the webmasters in a couple ways:

• More traffic means potentially higher ratings on statistical sites, such as Alexa and SiteRanking
  • Higher statistical ratings mean potentially higher relevance on search engines
• More traffic means more exposures and impressions are made of your site and it's advertisements
• More traffic means better positioning at 'topsite' websites
  • TopSites are just more categorical-specific versions of a statistical ratings site
• More traffic means more potential customers coming through your website

One mistake that many Traffic Exchanges make is telling a webmaster that they will be "flooded with targeted customers, ready to buy".  That is not the primary purpose of a Traffic Exchange.

The primary purpose of a Traffic Exchange is to generate traffic to the website, period.

That being said, if your target audience is "webmasters working on promoting their websites", then you will probably reach some potential customers.  But even then, do not expect high conversion rates.  Webmaster surfers are all in the same boat: they want more traffic, for higher ratings, for better rankings, to get customers from the larger search engines.

General Concept

In a nutshell: You visit other websites through one of our viewer systems and earn 'credits'.  Each credit entitles one of your pages to be shown to someone else.  For those interested in tech-speak, we offer both Auto Surf and Manual Surfing options.

You are a webmaster, and you want web-surfers to see your website, for all the reasons listed above. Surfing Max will show your website to other users, at a cost of 1 'credit each time your website is shown.  So, as long as you have 'credits' available, your site will be shown to our other Surfing Max users.

[In train-speak: We'll let you put your station on our tracks.  Trains carrying passengers will stop at your station, as long as your station has 'tokens' to stop the train.  Passengers earn credits by riding the train to other Max Station.]

Credits are gained in a couple different ways:

1. When you first join Surfing Max, you are given some credits
2. You can choose to 'be a passenger', and surf other sites through one of our display systems.  For every site you visit, you will earn credits
3. We also sell credits, with bulk-discounting available. i.e.: When you buy more credits, you pay less per credit.
4. You can display our referral page.  Each display to a unique user on a given day will earn some credits. 
5. You can also refer other members.  If someone signs up through your referral page, you get credits when they sign up, and a percentage of their credit earnings when they are a passenger.
6. If someone you referred purchases something or upgrades their membership, you get some credits from that, as well.
7. We also now offer a Banner Exchange: Place a line of javascript on one or more of your website's pages, and every time that page is viewed, you earn between 0.1 and 0.15 credits, depending on the size of banner you select.

Different earning and referral ratios are available to different 'levels' of membership.  For specifics on how many credits are earned in different ways at each level of membership, see our Membership Levels page in the Pricing section.

We envision TrEx as the 'Central Yard Controller', shuttling 'boxcars of passengers' across 'tracks' to 'way-stations' and other 'yards'  where 'passengers', 'riders', 'engineers', 'yard hands', and 'station masters' can all benefit.