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These topics pertain to advertising/promotion - see DESIGN FAQ
below
What is Traffic-Grabber? and what do you do?
Traffic-Grabber is a internet advertising
and website design service providing members with several different
advertising options, Including - guaranteed hit's and banner
exposures. We have provided our members/clients with over 50,000,000
guaranteed hits and over 200,000,000 banner exposures. We are
one of the premier advertising sources on the internet. Traffic-Grabber
internet ratings are provided by Alexa Services and can confirm
our claims about our high volume of traffic we are currently
providing members.
We also provide high quality professional design service. We
make flash, banners, logo's, advertisements or anything you may
need. Including - full websites, full flash websites, html sites,
flash intro pages, headers and all other flash designs. See design
FAQ [frequently asked questions] below.
What are Guaranteed Hit's?
Guaranteed Hit's are [real visitors] targeted
[targeted with 20 different categories] traffic which is directed
to your [up to 10] url's. We guarantee your site will show no
less than 10 seconds, or the visit will not count as a [hit].
If you purchase a package of 10,000 guaranteed hit's for example,
you could add 10 website url's to the system and [allocate]
1,000 hit's to each of the 10 websites you would like to promote.
Your hit's [credits] can also be targeted to 20 different categories
to further improve your ROI [return on investment]. Your website
url's [up to 10] can be set to waiting/enabled or deleted and
replaced at any time, offering you maximum control over your
different referral url's and promotional concerns. Targeted-Traffic
offers some extremely large guaranteed hit's packages, and because
of the massive size of these packages, it may take several months
to complete, we are referring to several million hits, if you
purchase a 10,000 hit package, estimated time to complete campaign
is one week.
What types of sites can purchase Guaranteed Hit's?
We will allow any website into the system
as long as it does not contain the following:
Illegal or immoral content, adult content,
sites with nudity, sites with pop-up windows or frame breakers,
any hate related website, and any site deemed innapropriate by
the Traffic-Grabber staff. We also do not allow hop-forwarding
or site rotators or outwar sites. If your site violates these
critical guidelines it will be at risk of deletion, and credits
which were allocated to that particular site may be lost.
You say your traffic is targeted, so what are the target categories?
You can target your Guaranteed Hit's campaigns
to any of the following categories:
* Asian interests - Need an Asian audience?, use this option.
* Canadian interests - Need a Canadian audience?,
use this option.
* Casino and gambling - Gambling related
websites and casinos.
* Dating services/sites - Dating services,
chatrooms and websites.
* Financial interests - Investing, investment
opportunities etc.
* Free stuff websites - Your website must
give something away for free.
* General - Any website can list here.
* Health and healthcare - Medicine, vitamins,
diets, health related.
* Mexican interests - Need a Latino audience?,
use this option.
* MLM [Multi level marketing] - Anything
MLM related.
* Movies - DVD's, DVD related, movie related.
* Music interests - Anything music related,
bands etc.
* Miscellaneous - Any website can list in
this general category.
* Personal homepages - Any personal homepage
is welcome to list here.
* Real estate - Real estate or eal estate
related websites.
* Sports and recreation - Sport and recreational
sites list here.
* Traffic sites - Autosurfers, traffic exchanges
etc.
* Travel and vacation - Vacation, travel
brokers etc.
* Webstores - As long as you sell something,
you can list here.
* UK interests - Need a UK audience?, use
this option.
Note - If you do not see a desired category
on this list, contact us and we will add it for you.
What are Banner Exposures?
Banner Exposures are a popular form of advertising
found around the internet, what this means is, if you purchase
10,000 banner exposures [468x60 pixel Gif], your banner will
be shown 10,000 times, it's that simple. We have our banner
code placed on thousands of different websites, webpages and
affiliate pages as well as paid campaigns, so you can be sure
your banner will be shown to a wide range of websites and targeted
areas. The Targeted-Traffic network has thousands of affiliates.
What types/sizes of banners do you accept?
We currently are accepting standard sized
[468x60] pixel banners, 468wide x 60high.
GIF and JPEG files only, annimated GIF's are ok. No banner
may exceed 25k in file
size, and we do not allow annoying flashing
banners, "you
know the type, we've all seen them" they say [YOU WIN]
and flash violently, we don't allow these
types of banners because nobody likes to look at them, it keeps
our system clean and
professional. We do not allow banners which
show nudity, extreme language or any indecent content, your
banner will show on thousands
of websites to thousands of different users,
some of them may be under 18, please keep this in mind. You
will be hosting your
own banner, and simply providing us the
url to your banner to show it on our system, so with this in
mind, we offer these
suggestions. Do not move or delete your
banner while your campaign is active, this will cause your banner
to show as a dead link.
This does not apply to featured ad purchases.
We will be hosting your banner, and it will show every time
and will not rotate.
I want to advertise with a banner, but I do not have one, what
should I do?
Have us create a new custom banner for you
within 24 hrs.
Your site says "unlimited banners" what does
this mean?
When you purchase any banner campaign, you
can add unlimited amount of banners to the account, for instance,
if you are selling movies, you could add ten different banners
[each one previewing a different movie] however - all the banners
you add to the account must point to the same url [website address].
What is a banner URL, and how do I get it? A banner URL is the
address to your banner used for various reasons including paid
banner campaigns. Here's how to get your banner url to advertise
with us, or for any reason :
Load your banner onto the internet anywhere, on a website, in
a directory, anywhere you can see it.
Right click on your banner [on the web] and
hit [properties]
Hold mouse button down and scroll over the
address shown, and right click and hit [copy]
You have now captured the [banner url] to
your own banner, your banners [address] on the web.
Right click anywhere, when prompted for banner
url, and hit [paste], this will paste your banner url into the
field.
NOTE - Make sure there's no space at the
end of your banner url, this can cause problems with many rotators.
Here's an example of a banner url - http://autohits.traffic-grabber.net/banners/ban10.gif
.
What will happen after I make a purchase?
After we receive your payment notification
from any of our secured payment processor services we will contact
you with the proper submit forms for you to submit your banner
or website information to us, this is an administrator approved
process which may take up to [8 hrs], depending on when [time
of day] you made your purchase. Our staff is in the office from
9am to 9pm CST. The process is then fully automated, you can
add/delete and edit websites or banners thru their respective
members areas. You will be given [or choose yourself/or edit
later] a login name and password to enter the system, you will
then be able to keep track of statistics and all aspects of
your advertising campaigns.
What types of payments do you accept?
Our primary payment processor is PayPal,
Stormpay, E-Gold and IntGold payments
can also be used for our services.
PayPal is a fast reliable widely used payment proccessor, we
have noticed thru experience that this is the preferred method
of payment for 98% of our customers, so this is our primary payment
system. PayPal accounts are FREE, click on any buy button, it
will give you options to pay even if you are not a member. If
you need to pay with Stormpay or E-Gold or IntGold, please use
the buttons provided. We also accept personal checks and money
orders, please contact support to work out your campaign details,
and we will provide you with a mailing address to our office.
If you need a free PayPal account, please click any Pay Pal button
from this website and sign up free.
I don't have PayPal, Stormpay, E-Gold or IntGold, can I use my
credit card?
YES!, Even if you do not have PayPal, Stormpay,
E-Gold or IntGold, you can still purchase from us with a major
credit card. Use the PayPal option [you do not need a PayPal account]
you can still use your credit card, and there is no fee. Credit
cards accepted are as follows; Visa, Mastercard, Discover and
American Express.
I want to pay with an e-check thru PayPal, is this ok?
YES!, we do except E-Checks thru PayPal,
however - there is a time period [usually 3 day] for your e-check
to clear. We will contact you after your purchase to let you
know we received your e-check, then we will send you the proper
submit forms to submit your banner or website URL information
to us after your e-check has cleared. Many of our customers
have used e-checks before, feel free to use this payment method
if you prefer.
How long will it take to complete my purchased banner campaign?
We have a very fast moving network, our banner
code is listed on thousands of websites and other networks and
affiliate networks, so needless to say, the exposures can go
pretty fast. We make no guarantee on how fast your banner exposures
will be used up, but we offer the following as an example:
10,000 Banner exposures - on average will last about 2 days.
- so you can do the math for any campaign.
100,000 Banner exposures - on average will last about 20 days,
etc...
How long will it take to complete my purchased guaranteed hits/traffic/visitors
campaign?
Our Traffic exchange network is second to
none, there are amny variables which can effect how fast your
purchased website hit's can get used up, including: how many sites
you add to the system [you can add up to 10], which categories
you pick for your websites, which category you pick for your user
account etc. We make no guarantee on how fast your guaranteed
hit's will be used up, but we offer the following as an example:
10,000 Guaranteed visitors - on average will last about 2 days.
- so you can do the math for any campaign.
100,000 Guaranteed visitors - on average will last about 20 days,
etc...
Note - If you add the maximum amount of URL's to the system [up
to 10] and choose common user categories, these numbers may increase,
these numbers were figured on an average.
What is your refund policy?
We currently do not allow refunds for purchased
campaigns due to the following reason; Once your campaign has
been activated your banner of visitor credits will begin to
be used immediately, so any refund of this activated service
would mean that Targeted-Traffic has to loose money and waste
valuable network resources and time. If you are skeptical about
our service, we reccomend that you try an inexpensive campaign
[banners or visitors]. We have several campaigns in both categories
which are extremely low priced. So, you have nothing to loose,
try a two or three dollar tester campaign today! Once you see
how well our system works, we are sure you will be back for
more advertising campaigns in the future, we stake our companies
success on repeat business and satisfied customers.
Do you have any type of guarantee?
YES! - We guarantee that whateverad package
campaign you choose, we will provide all the credits or exposures
as stated, until your campaign is fully completed. We can provide
no guaranteed timeframe for this, but we do offer examples listed
above in [How long will it take to complete my purchased campaign]
section of this FAQ.
These topics are DESIGN related:
What
types of payments do you accept? We accept PayPal, StormPay,
E-Gold, IntGold and all major credit cards, checks, e-checks and
money orders. NOTE - with an e-check or personal check payment,
we will have to wait until check clears to begin your project
[usually 1-2 days].
I
don't have PayPal, Stormpay, E-Gold or IntGold, can I use
my credit card? YES!, Even if you do not have PayPal, Stormpay, E-Gold
or IntGold, you can still purchase from us with a major credit
card. Use the PayPal option [you do not need a PayPal account]
you can still use your credit card, and there is no fee. Credit
cards accepted are as follows; Visa, Mastercard, Discover and
American Express.
I
want to pay with an e-check thru PayPal, is this ok? YES!,
we do except E-Checks thru PayPal, however - there is a time period
[usually 3 day] for your e-check to clear. We will contact you
after your purchase to let you know we received your e-check,
then we will send you the proper submit forms to submit your banner
or website URL information to us after your e-check has cleared.
Many of our customers have used e-checks before, feel free to
use this payment method if you prefer.
Does
my site’s
design really matter? Yes, site design can be a determining
factor in whether your sell site will make money
or not. I cannot stress this enough. Any
successful website always begins with a pro design, that's a
fact!
What’s
a design theme? A design theme is a general feel and color scheme
for any website, usually there may be cetain
main images which appear on every page, sometimes
in the header or logo, usually the intro page, main site, banners
and all adverts
are the same design theme.
How
can you make all these designs so inexpensive? We can make
a static banner in about 20 minutes for any customer in the highest
quality possible. We use these low priced banner orders of 9.95
and so on to keep our designers busy and to show our new customers
how fast and professional our service really is. Sure - we are
not getting rich making banners and designs at these rates, but
we do design full time, and we are doing what we love, and we
have had hundreds of satisfied banner and design logo etc, clients
who have come back to us time and time again to build them an
entire website, it all works out in the end. Because of our low
rates and fast professional service we have been able to successfully
remain in business for over 10 years now. We are trying to fill
the gap inbetween the ultra high priced designers which nobody
can afford, and the other option - no design or poor design, which
we consider totally unacceptable.
I
want something designed, but I dont see any examples of it
on your website, what should I do? Contact customer service, we
can do almost any type of design or script work, and if we cannot,
we will point you to somewhone who can!
How Web Design Can Affect Search Engine Rankings
By John Metzler
Uniquely built web sites can create unique issues when being
promoted on the search engines. From a basic 3 page brochure site
to a corporate site with hundreds of dynamically generated pages,
every web site needs to have certain design aspects in order to
achieve the full effects of an SEO campaign. Below are a few points
to take into consideration when building or updating your web
site.
1. Size
Matters.
The size of a web site can have a huge impact on search engine
rankings. Search engines love content, so if
you have only a few pages to your site and
your competitors have dozens, it's difficult to see a top page
ranking for your site.
In some cases it may be difficult to present
several pages of information about your business or products,
so you may need to
think about adding frëe resources for visitors. It will help
in broadening the scope of your web site
(which search engines like) as well as keep visitors on your site
longer, possibly resulting
in more sales.
2. Graphics-Based Web Sites. While web sites
that offer the visitor a more esthetically-pleasing experience
may seem like the best choice for someone searching for your
product, they are the most difficult to optimize. Since search
engine robots cannot read text within graphics or animation,
what they see may be just a small amount of text. And if we
learned anything from point #-1, small amounts of content will
not result in top rankings. If you really must offer the visitor
a graphics-heavy or Flash web site, consider creating an html-based
side of your site that is also available to visitors. This site
will be much easier to promote on the search engines and your
new found visitors will also have the option to jump over to
the nicer looking part of your site.
3. Dynamic Web Pages. If most of your web
site is generated by a large database (such
as a large book dealer with inventory that is changing by the minute) you
may
find that some of your pages do not get
indexed by major search engines. If you look at the URL of these pages
they can be extremely
long and have characters such as ?, #, &, %, or = along
with huge amounts of seemingly random numbers or letters. Since
these pages are automatically generated by the database as needed,
the search engines have a tough time keeping them up to date
and relevant for search engine users. One way to combat this
problem is to offer a search engine friendly site map listing
all your static pages just to let them know that you do have
permanent content on your site. If search engines see links
going to and from these dynamic pages within a good internal
linking system, this may also lead to the pages getting indexed.
The link popularity of your site may carry more weïght
in this case as well, so if you can't offer
as much static content as your competition, make sure you have
an aggressive link campaign
on the go.
4. Proper Use of Html. There is quite a bit
of sub-par web design software out there. Word processors usually
have a way to create html documents which can be easily uploaded
to a site via ftp. However, in many cases the code that the
search engine robots see is mostly lines and lines of font and
position formatting, not relevant content. The more efficiently
written web sites usually achieve higher rankings. Our choice
for web design software is Macromedia Dreamweaver, as it is
an industry standard. It also makes using CSS (Cascading Style
Sheets) a breeze, which can drastically cut down on the amount
of text formatting in html code. Hand-coding html to design
sites is also a good method if you are proficient enough. There
are some no brainers too: Web sites with abnormal amounts of
hyperlinks, bold or italicized text, improper use of heading,
alt, or comment tags can also expect to see low rankings.
5. Choosing a Domain Name. The golden rule
to web development of any kind is to keep
your visitors in mind above all else - even search engine optimization.
When choosing
a domain name, one should pick either your
business name (if you have a high-profile business name such as Chapters
or Coca-Cola)
or a brief description of your products.
Domain names can always help with search engine optimization, since it
is another area
of your web site in which important keywords
can appear. Forget about long-winded domains such as www.number-one-best-books-on-earth.com.
No one will ever remember it and it will
be hard to print on
business cards or in ads. If you need to
change your domain name for any reason you obviously don't want to losë existing
rankings. An easy way to do this, and one
that is currently supported by most search engines, is the 301 redirect.
It allows
you to keep your existing rankings for
your old domain name, while forwarding visitors to your new web site instantly.
6. Using Frames. Don't use frames. Frames
are a thing of the 90's (and in the Internet world that is eons
ago) and are not even supported by some search engines. The
search engines that are able to index your site through frames
will most likely frown upon them. Whatever you are trying to
accomplish by using frames can usually be done with the help
of PHP includes or CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Some browsers
are not frames-compatible, so there is the danger of some visitors
not being able to see your site at all. Bookmarking of individual
pages within a frame becomes difficult without lengthly scripts
being written.
7. Update Your Information. Not only does
information printed two or three years ago reflect badly on
your organization when it is read by a visitor, it is also looked
down upon by search engines. Web sites that continuously update
and grow their web sites usually experience higher rankings
than stagnant sites. When the trick to SEO is offering visitors
the most relevant information, you can bet that the age of web
pages is taken into consideration by search engines. Consider
creating a section of your site devoted to news within your
organization, or have a constantly updated resources area. Many
shortfalls of web sites can easily be attributed to designers
who just don't keep the user or search engines in mind. Search
engine algorithms are quickly improving to try and list the
most user-friendly sites higher, given that the content and
link popularity are there to back it up. So first and foremost,
know your target market and make your web site work for them
before focusing on search engine optimization. If you build
it (properly), they will come.
Question still not answered? Contact support?
Click the [contact or support] buttons listed
above in the navigation bar, from here there
are several ways to contact our support staff,
e-mail links for all departments, and even
customer service MSN Messenger contact information,
so you can chat with support in real time in
an instant window. We are here
to help, and we'd like to make it as easy
as possible for you to contact us. Our contact
information is listed at the top of
this page.
Legal Notes:
Traffic-Grabber does not assume responsibility
for content of your or any of your affiliates websites due to
connection thru our banner or traffic/link exchanges. Traffic-Grabber
simply provides a means of advertising for thousands of websites
and users, but in no way assumes any responsibility for website
content. Banners will be screened for innapropriate content, so
this should not be an issue. Traffic-Grabber reserves the right
to remove any banner or user from the system [without refund]
for any of the following reasons: Users website/banner contains
innapropriate content, to see what is deemed innapropriate please
read FAQ. - Users banner or website is not loading or has been
edited to contain innapropriate content after joining. - for guaranteed
hit's sales, we will just set your site to [waiting] so you will
not loose all your purchased hit's if your server goes down. For
banner clients - If your server goes down, your banner will show
as a dead image/alt link, if this is not corrected within a few
days, we will suspend your account. This can be avoided by not
moving your banner from its location on your server during your
campaign. for featured ad purchases, this will not be an issue,
because we host your banner/image, so it will show all the time,
until the campaign time limit has expired. All sales are final,
if your website was declined by surf-blaster or your banner was
declined due to content or any other reason, this does not obligate
Traffic-Grabber to refund all or any payment to any person[s].
Traffic-Grabber.com, Traffic-Grabber.net, Surf-Blaster.com, Premium
Promotion and all other related entities are part of Traffic-Grabber
Inc. all rights are reserved, and we own and retain all rights
related to content of our pages, all images, artwork, flash and
all other created and maintained by said entity. All images, artwork,
templates, flash etc. are property of Traffic-grabber Inc., and
may not be copied, saved, downloaded, embelished, reproduced,
borrowed, leased or used for any purpose without strict consent
of Traffic-Grabber Inc. These images and articles in discussion
are related to and created by Traffic-Grabber Inc., this does
not include added material to site thru scripted links, banners
or any other member added content.
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