Posted by Ray White on August 11, 2007 Comments (1)

Yes, surfing as we normally think of it, i.e. riding the waves can certainly be fun too.

Of course you know the type surfing I’m addressing here. Internet surfing, and especially surfing traffic exchanges to view other members sites so in turn they will view ours. Surfing can become really boring should you not look for fun and interesting ways of doing it.

Here are some of the things I do to keep it from becoming boring and more interesting.

First I do look at each page and give it a fair view. Look for pages I’ve never seen before and use the time to generate new ideas. Keep a note pad and pen by my computer and each time I see an interesting page, write down some of the key phrases or make a note about some of the graphics, etc. Use the time as a learning process. Sometimes open the page, save to my favorites folder for more in depth review at a later time.

Also like to click some of the links provided just to see where they take me, find that very interesting at times.

Don’t take this wrong, don’t use the info for copying, more like ideas for new catch phrases or interesting points that caught my eye.

Usually break my surfing into no more than 1 hour sessions. Take a break, grab something to drink, maybe take a walk, stretch, relax, do something different for a while then pick 4 to 5 other exchanges and continue the process.

If you surf only to build your credits and have no interest in the pages you view, it can and will become very boring.

Also use the time to determine what I don’t like, what is annoying, be it audio, video, pop-ups, misspelled words, bad phrases, etc. Use that data to make sure any pages I advertise don’t fall into those categories. Really have fun sometimes trying to stop an annoying video, just to make the person look really silly when paused at the right time. Is that cruel?

Some pages should not be advertised on traffic exchanges. They are not designed for traffic exchanges, either load to slowly or have entirely too much information to be attractive and interesting. Make notes on those too, just to see what I would recommend to the owner should the question arise.

Try to use all the information I gather from surfing as either things I would like to do or in some cases, things I definitely don’t want to do.

The idea is that making your surfing more interesting can be fun and when you’re having fun, time flies by. Before you know it, you have accumulated hundreds of credits to use for your sites.

When I surf an exchange using the S4T surf console, makes it much easier to know which exchanges I’ve surfed. This keeps me active in all the exchanges I’ve joined and spreads my advertising over all the exchanges regularly. Try to make sure I surf everyone of them at least twice per week, my favorites almost every day.

Another obvious fun thing to do is surf each site until you reach the bonus credits, or in some cases the letter hunt game where each word completed adds bonus credits to your account. Some exchanges have games to break the monotony. Some fun to play, some just boring, so if I don’t want to play, just skip the game and continue surfing.

Those are just some of what I do to keep surfing fun. Would love to hear others ideas and comments.

Ray White – Proud Owner
Soaring4Traffic.com