Great post and I find myself agreeing with just about all the comments too.

I have never been a fan of chat in traffic exchanges as I find it too distracting and when I read some of the chat going on it is clear that some people are not looking at mine or anyone elses sites. I recall one from a few months back where someone was bragging about surfing 25 exchanges over 2 computers and there have been others saying how many pages they have surfed in a given time which made me think they must be using some kind of auto clicking.

I can see the benefit of socialising but I am not a ‘social’ type of person and with a limited amount of online time each day I am still working on the last great idea to hit this business – branding!

Keith

But, it is a distraction from looking at other members sites. While chatting, I barely notice the site being shown. That’s not good. But, it seems to be the “thing to do” right now.

To chat or not to chat. That is the question. I don’t really know.

http://www.markwieneke.net/chatorcredits.html

I agree with everything you said.

I am all for a bit of socialization here and there but this is not a hobby for me – I am a full time internet marketer running a real business!

I am not into trying to make friends with people just so I can sell them stuff! I would rather provide excellent content and information that helps people and grow my reputation that way. Its worked pretty well for me so far!

If I get a spare minute I will pop in to different conferences here and there but more often than not the content is not useful enough to keep my interest. I would rather have a training or motivational cd on in the background as I work – and I find I get much more accomplished if I sit and focus on the days to-do list – and Im all about achieving my goals.

I cant do that if Im chatting away all day! – I can multi-task, but not that well….lol – I need to focus!

The issue of chat in TEs has been around a long time – I 100% agree with you that we do not need any further distractions whilst surfing and thats why you wont be seeing a chat function at Traffic Showdown any time soon.

I also do not have time to watch over a chat session for the relentless spamming and possible breaches of TOS that go on in most of them.

I talk with my great members every day on my blog at http://TrafficShowdown.com/dailynews and they talk with me – they have access to 24/7 support also.

I like to provide tutorials and information which will help people actually move forward in their business – I write articles that provide great information that people can use and implement into their daily routines. If they choose to take action – they will see results – simple!

On top of everything else – I make money selling advertising and upgraded memberships at my TE – thats business! In order to provide the best service possible to those that support my business financially……

I need to deliver traffic! – switched on traffic – traffic that is paying attention – traffic that is responsive – traffic that matters! I dont believe I would be able to deliver the quality responsive traffic that I do currently by inserting further distractions to my members surfing time!

and yes! 100% agree that results tracked on TEs with chat and so called social features are far less responsive than that of the non chat tes – and to me thats all that matters – results!

results for my members and results for me

nuff said …….

have a great day mate – Kym Robinson

Ray

The biggest TE’s by ranking are still the ones with hardly any social interaction besides what members put on their site. I really do not think a TE needs to get involved and add all these bells and whistles when they already exist and I have the option to add a share button on my site already.

Most people when you tweet about a site or facebook like it those people have no idea what in the world a traffic exchange is nor do they really care to. I really have yet to see the social side of TE’s changing anything for its members.