Well, after 15000 page views (not all of which were registered at the site) I managed to procure...
1 referral.
Suffice it to say, I don't think the crowd is ready for this. I think maybe gone are the days that people seek traffic first in order to create income.
That said, I also think this program was a monumental accomplishment that had a few fatal flaws. Since he doesn't seem to want to answer emails (one of those red flags that could possibly relate to the supposed military strength spam blocking help desk software), maybe he will read about it here.
The first flaw is that it panders to the software of the last decade. Namely traffic exchanges. I'm not knocking TEs but many of them still charge $5 for 1000 hits. That they haven't clued in yet and that many of their sites think plus 10k members
after ten years, is an accomplishment, you can see where this can bog everything down.
That leads to flaw two. Credit bleed. As I said, I sent over 15K views to the site. While it led to a good number of banner views, it led to a net of about 100 views on the main gateway site that feeds the TE views. Sure, I can produce that but how many others can? They offer autohits as the solution but that just dilutes the quality of the traffic you are trying to build.
Third, they are relying on only a few TEs to get everything done. TrafficG is large enough but slow. TS25 gave me about 20 hits per day (on the 50K residual credits in there that I didn't know I had), and traffic era still hasn't given me any hits because I didn't meet their 100 hit minimum to start a campaign. I've barely generated 10 credits from their system using their CTP(credits to promote) setup. Normally, I would wait it out but how many of my referrals will?
Fourth, they are aligned with some interesting characters. The viralURL crew that loves to fill your inbox with many emails per day and no way to opt-out unless you quit their site altogether.
You actually get advised to use a dump email and/or send them straight to the trash bin. What is the point for the few hits you are going to get from their 'massive' 14K userbase?
So, suffice it to say, they have a long way to go and should definitely try to bring their idea into the PTC realm where most sites have 10K active members as opposed to 10K total members.
I have a feeling that won't happen.
It was still worth the effort for me. It helped me understand much better how some of the sites work and I will be taking those out and using them in my new mini traffic machine. I'll finally upgrade BoB as I see their ISP page as a key in the machine. That along with Traffic Ad Bar and Leads Leap gives me a nice framework to build around. I'll use those to focue on build my LL downline and DLF.
So back to my philosophy of:
Concentrate
Cash/credit flow
expand.
I have the cash/credit flow from PV/PTCS and DLF. I'll use those to expand BoB/TAB/LL and a few others