am planning to start an auto surf site, give me some suggestion! my team has already started the work on the website, so i need some ideas! the concept is simple, member will open the surfing browser and he will be watching sites after sites!! and his time will be caluclated and credit will be given!! i will try to use all the feedbacks, waiting for your replies! cheers
Just think this way. There are lots of similar sites. So how will your site make a difference? Try answering that question to yourself. As per my knowledge, traffic from such sites it against Adsense TOS. Can you think of some similar concept which will be in accordance to adsense TOS? That will be big hit. As for now, count me always to support you in every possible way.
thanks, am planing to make the surfing based on the categories, so that the surfers will only see sites from there favorite categories! this will give the advertisers more targeted people! the difference will be, the installation of alexa toolbar will be a must, once the alexa toolbar is installed the surfing will begin! this is not paid surfing, after a member browser for 10-12 hours, he will be able to add one of his sites!! i want more ideas, suggestions and comments on this, waiting for more replies! thanks
So you are planning to keep it auto surf type or member have to do some action after watching each site for sometime (like clicking numbers or choosing some image etc)? Alexa toolbar is good idea. Will help to increase alexa rank. And try to approve sites manually.
no it will be auto, site will load for 1minute and then another site from the same category will load!! thats a nice idea of captcha, but then it will give some hard time to the members, though i will think about this option, yes, the alexa toolbar will sure help the ranks, and i will approve all the sites manually, because some sites break out of frames!! i have taken the domian, and the hosting is up!! waiting for the homepage to be made, and then i will post the url here! so, any more ideas!!
Will FF and other browsers (other than IE) be allowed in you project? You may replace Search Status pluging as a substitute of Alexa Toolbar for FF.
I will be honest, i would never ever open a autohits site in my browser again. This is why and what i was infected with when i used autohits.dk http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...ty&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=t&oq=neospace+ Rob
it won't be easy! am having a huge budjet for it, perhaps i can push my technical team for the firefox, but then for the start i will just go for the original alexa toolbar, the one that only supports IE! but then with time i will also try the firefor and detect the search status plugin. but then i have seen that the search status dosen't help the alexa rankings as much as the alexa toolbar dose! well, that's always a fear, still i mean am going to approve the sites manually, so i will check that the site has any virus or not, also there will be a tos! i hope my site may change you view, and sorry to hear the virus stuff!
Apart from manual approval, provide a single click option to repost any website while viewing it. It will be better if user can report website just by clicking sinle button which does not break the process of viewing site. Also dont ask for any input or reason of report. just a single click. This will certainly increase load on your approval and review team, but will get more chance of users reporting a bad website. What do you think?
I can't see it being successful without offering something in exchange for the surfing time. Adding their site after sometime on the site will only attract those who are active webmasters. I could also see you not being liked by Google because they do not like auto traffic so I do not see a way around that. I am also wondering how you would make any money? Will you be selling the spots for the sites and also giving credit for the surfing time?
yes, that's a nice idea, i click of a button report is a easy option, i will try to implement that aswell!! about the money!! ya i already have a big client database, so am starting with a huge capital!! money is not the problem yes google is not going to like it! but then i will try to please google with the best i can! am not offering money initially, but then later on i will start giving money for surfing also! i will keep an option for sell credits for money!! webmasters are the best traffic, because they are the ones who buy/sell the most, they have the paypal and the credit cards, so i guess if the webmasters are surfing any websites, then you may have a potential coustomer arround!! yes, the advertisers will be able to add there site and the ammount of hits that they assign to the campaign will charge them the money! this is the only way to earn possibly! but then since i already have the advertisers, it is pretty easy for me to start!
Sorry to appear so negative. I do actually hope you succeed, i just wanted to tell you my fear, and i am hoping you can prevent it. If you manually check all your sites, you are at risk and not the users, is that fair? Rob
Yes he is at risk. But then every business requires some risk. He can get best of the anti-virus to help. Also have some strict policies. Ban the account (or even IP) of person submitting bad or virus sites.
i will try to maintain a nice anti-virus programe, ya it is not easy, but then i have to check every site, though the users are going to surf a long time before they get a credit, am sure they won't submit those sites and waste there credit! but then i can't take a risk
I have a suggestion, before you visit each site, use google search to check whether it is a bad site. It works a charm. Rob
thanks, that may be a nice idea, how about checking those sites from public comuters, like the sify cyber cafe's!! am waiting for my tech team's update, for making this website am giving them about $300, but then it's still cheap, as the website is absolutely coustom coded!
Ohh com'on you cant screw public computers for your project... And yess $300 is a great bargain.. Is this site done by some Indian company?
no, not a company, i have hired some tech/programmers and made a team, am paying then $300 for the complete project! they says it will be completed in 10 days time, about a weeks time! sify has cheated me a lot in the past, i have bought a 50 INR card from them, and there system restarted 3 times, twice due to the power cuts, and my balance ended in 20 minutes, they charge some money for login and logoff! i told them that it was there fault, but the did nothing! i hate sify!! anyways, i was just joking about using sify, i don't screw them even if i hate them!
I've made an "autosurf" site that is non-profit (no ads or anything). Its also completely manual meaning you have to input links yourself. It only took a day to design and code but I think that the community aspect would take substantially longer.