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Our Favourite Exchanges

  • Traffic Era

    The latest in the Logiscape traffic exchange stable and the best yet! This one is not only a great traffic exchange that delivers traffic at insane speeds, it's also incredible fun thanks to it's team-based surfing and a team chat window built right into the surf bar. If you only join one exchange this year, make it this one!

  • Link Crews

    They may be new but they're absolutely on fire! Conversion rates are currently higher here than on any other traffic exchange and traffic delivery is being kept high by an extremely active userbase.

  • TS25

    This one set a new standard for other traffic exchanges to aspire to and continues to deliver week in, week out. You need to be extremely active to get value from it but that's what keeps it going.

  • TrafficPods

    Sister site to TS25 and just as effective. Weekly pod competitions and huge bonuses for pod ownership ensure that this exchange remains active 24 hours a day.

  • I Love Hits

    One of the oldest and certainly one of the biggest traffic exchanges around. Nothing fancy here just a solid script, a great owner and an active membership - what more could you want?

  • Webmaster Quest

    Could be the only exchange to ever keep a 1:1 surf ratio working and it's been doing that since 2000. Clean, well laid-out site, large active membership, great surf bar and games galore mean you just can't leave it alone.

  • Hit Safari

    No-nonsense traffic exchange that has stood the test of time. Large, active membership and an equally active administration ensure that this site is always fresh, fun and rewarding.

  • StartXchange

    Currently one of the most active traffic exchanges around and for good reason. Great security, fast traffic delivery and more features than you can shake a pointed stick at.

Traffic Exchange Safe Surfing Tips

Surfing traffic exchanges is not as safe as it once was. Viruses, malware, adware, endlessly looping background scripts and countless other nasties plague our time surfing but don't worry - help is at hand!

The following tips should return your traffic exchange surfing to 'the good old days' when the worst you had to worry about was a cramp in your clicking finger.

  • A Decent Browser This is important. Old browsers are full of security holes, have terrible standards compliance and lead to endless frustration. Our top pick is Firefox. It's free (and open-sourced) and runs on Linux, Mac OSX and even Windows. Sure it's not perfect - it can be slow, it eats a lot of memory and it isn't going to win any awards for looks but for surfing, it's the best there is. An alternative worth considering (especially on old clockwork low-memory computers is Opera. It's free (at least in money terms) and runs on Linux (32 bit only), Mac OSX and Windows. It's very fast and there are lots of things to like about it but it's nowhere near as well-supported as Firefox. Internet Explorer is NOT a decent browser (this includes all those 'skinned' versions like Crazy Browser and Avant). It's unsafe, it's slow, it has terrible (read no) css2 support, it has no ability to block content.... the list goes on. If you absolutely must use IE, at least upgrade to version 7 so modern websites have a chance of working. Finally, keep a browser just for surfing. If you use Firefox, you can just set up different profiles - one for surfing and one for everything else. Launch Firefox with the -P switch to bring up the Profile Manager or go here for more detailed instructions.
  • Safe Surf Plugins Assuming you have taken our advice in the paragraph above and got yourself a copy of Firefox, you can now add plugins that will make your surfing even safer. Firstly we'll remove those pesky 0-sized iframes that people are using to run all kinds of background scripts. To do this, you'll need GreaseMonkey. This is an amazingly powerful tool that allows you to modify the content of a web page before it's displayed and this is done through javascript scripts known as user scripts. It has a never-ending list of useful applications (changing stylesheets, adding extra functionality) but here we're going to use it to remove iframe tags from ALL the websites we visit. Once you have GreaseMonkey installed and you've restarted Firefox, Click here to install our No More Iframes user script (if you have any trouble installing it directly, just right click on it, save target as and then use the Open File option to open it from where you saved it). NOTE: This script will remove ALL iframe tags from ALL pages that you visit. If you want to be able to see iframes again, you can either click on the little monkey face at the bottom right corner of your browser to disable GreaseMonkey or select Manage User Scripts from the GreaseMonkey menu and add a list of sites that you don't want it to work on. Unfortunately, many of the scoundrels filling our exchanges with these sites have taken to generating the iframes with javascript after the page has loaded thus defeating the GreaseMonkey method. So... The next important plugin is NoScript. This simply disables javascript globally and then allows you to enable it for sites that you trust. Once you've got that installed, you can just right-click on any page and you'll see a NoScript menu with options to enable the sites you're currently viewing. Enabling javascript for thetrafficexchangedirectory.com will be a good idea or a lot of this site will stop working. You'll also need to enable javascript for every traffic exchange you want to surf as almost all exchanges use javascript to make their surfbars work. This will only enable javascript for the traffic exchange, not the sites it displays to you. If you're using the same browser for surfing as you use for every day activities, you'll need to enable lots of other sites too.
  • Antivirus Software If you use Windows for your surfing, you really, really, really, really need antivirus software running all the time. Really. Lots of people have lots of advice on which is best - do a search and find one that suits you. I always liked Kaspersky but maybe that was just because it has a cool name....
  • Common Sense This is the one thing that is overlooked most often. Think about what you are doing while you surf. If a PayPal site appears while you're surfing, it would not be a good idea to quickly log in to check your balance! When a site is displayed inside a frame, you don't know if it's genuine. The same goes for a Buy Now button - open the page in a new window/tab before you start entering your details and make sure you are at the site you expect to be at. If a new site appears and asks you for your name, address, phone number, tax number, driving license number, passport number and date of birth, think about what you're doing before you hand the information over. Do you really trust these people with this information? Taking just a couple of seconds to think about what you're doing before you do it can make a world of difference!

So there you have it - simple tips to get you surfing smooth and safe. If you think we've missed anything, drop us a line and let us know.