Posted by Ray White on March 14, 2010 Comments Off

The other day I read a forum post by a fellow traffic exchange owner. A url was not accepted for rotation. The member who submitted the url told the exchange owner that every other exchange accepts the url and if that owner refused to do the same, then he would delete his account and tell all his associates to do the same. The forum post was asking for the opinions of others about the url.

What is this? Grade school?

Somebody got mad and decided to take his ball and go home. Fine. If every other exchange is accepting the url, then stick with those exchanges and go about your business. No need to strong arm another exchange into accepting it. But this blog post is not about the behavior of the traffic exchange member.

What is with asking other people to comment on your business practices?

The question in the forum post was would you accept this url, why or why not, so I guess it was a fact-finding mission.  But usually when people ask a question like that, all they want is support for their opinion. Was it going to change his mind if others didn’t agree with him? I doubt it. But that’s not the point I want to make either.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks. It doesn’t matter what everybody else is doing. Decide what you will and will not do, make sure it’s all legal, and post it on your website in your terms of service. Then stick to your guns. Somebody doesn’t like your rules, they can go elsewhere. This is business, not a popularity contest.