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Frequently
Asked Questions,
rules and regulations, troubleshooting and general information:
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?
We currently accept PayPal, Stormpay, E-Gold and IntGold payments
for all of 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] button 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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