Royal Messenger to the Kingdom

As you surf RoyalSurf Traffic Exchange this All Hallows Eve, October 31st, you may come upon the chance to choose between 3 Creepy Crypts.  This will appear on the usual prize pages that rotate regularly through the course of normal surfing…

But, what is normal on this eve…

If you dare to claim this prize, you will receive 20 RoyalSurf Traffic credits.

You may keep them…

OR…

Trade them for what’s within 1 of 3 Creepy Crypts… IF YOU DARE!

Behind these Creepy Crypts are ghouls, ghosts and foul creatures that will steal your every traffic credit…

There are 7 ghastly outcomes that may befall you…

1. You find nothing but bones and cobwebs, and narrowly avoid stepping in the Royal Poo… hmmm…. why is that here?

2. You find but 5 scattered traffic credits… this Creepy Crypt’s already been robbed!

3. You find a poor pauper with but 10 traffic credits… go ahead… he won’t miss them

4. You find a man… strangely twisted and recently killed… obviously a despicable Creepy Crypt Robber… clutching 50 traffic credits… but what killed him and how?

5. You find a fortune of 250 traffic credits… go ahead… take them… you Creepy Crypt Robber!

6. You find 7 shiney golden Royal Coins… but where’s the body… and what’s that shuffling sound behind you… and who’s hand is that on your…

7. You find 15 tarnished and ancient Royal Coins… tightly clutched in the now fleshless hands of the corpse… as you wrench the coins away you hear and feel the fingers snapping… when the skeletal corpse raises up reaching for you!

How to Play:

If you claim the 3 Creepy Crypts prize page while surfing at RoyalSurf, then place a comment to this post and include:

1. Your RoyalSurf Traffic Exchange Username

2. State whether you wish to keep your 20 traffic credits or risk them in trade, knowing you may get nothing in return?

3. If you wish to trade, state which do you wish to trade for. What’s behind Creepy Crypt #1, Creepy Crypt #2 or Creepy Crypt #3?

You may post once for each time you claim a 3 Creepy Crypt prize page!

We will respond here and tell you the results of your choices.  The results will be decided randomly using a random generator.

Surf just 30 sites today, October 31st, and then make a comment to this post including your RoyalSurf Traffic Exchange username, and I shall grant you the treat of a 24-hour upgrade to Royal Squire!

If you are already upgraded to either Royal Squire or Royal Knight, I shall grant you 30 free credits.

Do NOT forget to include your RoyalSurf username or I cannot treat you anything.

For another treat…

I shall pick the best comment made to any portion of this blog to receive the treat of either $5 Cash or 1,000 RoyalSurf traffic credits — winners choice! Make a comment appropriate to what you find on the blog, that has value other and is of interest to others to read, and you can win. 

If there are no such comments made, there will be no treat.

This offer passes quickly… with the passing of the Jack-O-Lantern.  When you login to RoyalSurf, you will see a Jack-O-Lantern in your members area.  When the Jack-O-Lantern fades away… your time shall pass.  It will pass from this world sometime on the eve of November 1st.

The King

I’m experimenting with something new at RoyalSurf to see how the members respond…

Several times a week, perhaps even every day, there will be at least one special splash page or squeeze page in rotation that will earn the person who finds it a great prize…
Such as…

• 25,000 or more banner impressions,
• $5 or $10 or more in cash,
• Free month’s upgrade, etc

There’s only one little catch… finding it!

That’s because the only way you will find it is by actually clicking through on splash pages or squeeze pages to learn more or sign up for their list, product or service. It may be just a simple click through or you may have to enter information such as your name, email, etc.

The idea here is for you to be observing, paying attention to, and actually patronizing our advertisers. Naturally, you can’t click on or signup for every splash page and squeeze page in rotation at RoyalSurf… and you aren’t expected to.

I do ask however, that you “Surf Responsibly - Don’t Surf & Ignore.” I’ve made a post on our blog, the Royal Scribe, that explains this concept in great detail. Why not take a read here.

Observing, paying attention to, and actually patronizing our advertisers who offer something that interests you can really pay off… “Surf Responsibly - Don’t Surf & Ignore” explains how and now…

You can win a great prize from RoyalSurf too!

Either way you WIN!

Whether this goes beyond an experiment and remains a permanent benefit to RoyalSurf members depends on the response of the members and the results. If it effectively increases the conversion rate for our members then we will seriously look at keeping this benefit. 

At the same time, there is a sure way in which some members can guarantee that the experiment will be abandoned quickly… and that is if any of our members start “teaming” the search for the prizes.  In other words, if members gather together and try to jointly figure out where the prizes appear and share that information with one another, this will be discontinued.  Such actions will ensure that no one can benefit from our efforts to improve the results all of our members receive.

The King

Guess The King’s Birthday and Birthplace
Thy king hath a birthday during October and it is thy undertaking to guess what day. Ye need only guess the numeric day and do not need to guess the year, for I will not reveal the year other than to say I’ll be 38 again. We shall not discuss how many times I’ve been 38.

To break any possible ties, ye need to also guess where thy king was borne; it is a city and state within the United States.

What do ye win?

Closest guess wins a One-Year Upgrade to Royal Knight!

Second closest guess wins a Six-Month Upgrade to Royal Knight!

Third closest guess wins a Three-Month Upgrade to Royal Knight!

Ye may guess any time during the month of October.

Thy First Guess is Free.

Each citizen can guess up to 4 more times but Each Additional guess will Cost ye 500 credits. The credits will be removed immediately when we receive your guess and will NOT be returned if you don’t win. This way ye can guess multiple times but it helps control the number of entries we receive from nearly 16,000 citizens.

You may include all of you guesses in one email if you wish to.

To enter:

1. Email thy entries to: spt @ royalsurf.com

2. Enter “King’s Birthday/Birthplace” for the email Subject

3. In the body of the email include:

a. Guess of numeric Birth Day:
b. Guess of Birthplace (City and State):
c. Your username

4. If submitting guesses 2-4 make sure you have 500 credits in your account for each guess ye are submitting. If credits are not included your guess won’t count. Again, credits will be removed as soon as we record thy guess.

We will acknowledge your guess(es) within 3 days. If ye don’t receive acknowledgment within 3 days please let us know.

Want More People To Buy Your Stuff?

Every traffic exchange, in order to work effectively, depends on each member’s cooperative participation. This means that if you want and expect others to pay attention to your advertising, you owe them the same courtesy in return.

You cannot simply surf and surf, ignoring everything you see, seeking only to gain traffic for yourself and expect others to behave differently.

If you are the type of person who surfs and never pays attention to what you’re viewing… who never signs up for or purchases anything… you are doing a disservice to other traffic exchange members, and a disservice to yourself too.

To gain the full benefit of using a traffic exchange, it is necessary to pay attention to and learn from what others are doing at a traffic exchange. You can improve your own results by paying attention to what others are advertising, how they are advertising, and what tools they are utilizing.

You should be watching for what catches your eye… what grabs your attention… what tempts you to or actually gets you to join or purchase. Take ideas from the use of titles, colors, and wording and use these in ways to improve your own advertising.

Please don’t plagiarize the exact usage but use things to perfect and test new ideas of your own that can greatly improve the reaction you get to your own advertising.

Try to be objective in your observations too. For instance, don’t automatically discount something being used by someone else simply because you don’t like it personally. A good example of this is audio.

Often, traffic exchange members express that they don’t like audio. Some even say they won’t purchase or signup for anything that starts audio automatically. However, it’s been proven time and time again, that simply adding an appropriate audio to a splash page or squeeze page, often greatly increases the conversion rate (number of sales or signups) of that page.

If you know that fact, as an advertiser, would you worry more about the few people that won’t like your advertisement because it has audio on it or the many more who will respond to it? Your answer had better be the later of the two or you might as well give up.

And finally, watch for products and services that might help you improve your own results, or that might offer more opportunity than what you’re promoting now. Don’t be constantly jumping from one thing to another, but be watchful of trends and changes in the industry. Watch for things that might stimulate ideas of your own.

And, be on the lookout for the better “mouse trap” — paying attention might help you pickup on when things are shifting or when a new idea is first being introduced. Sometimes, your timing and ability to recognize such things can make a significant difference to your financial success.

Keep in mind that if you want to change your success online using traffic exchanges it begins with you. You have to stop being passive, just letting things happen to you. You need to take an active part in making your success happen.

Just throwing a web page out there and driving traffic to it isn’t going to do it.  You need to learn how to get the most out of the traffic you drive to those pages.  How to make those pages convert to signups or sales.  You need to learn about list building.  You need to track and perfect your results.

There are many people who are successfully marketing on traffic exchanges… making six-figure incomes… are you?

What income are you making?

Are you making more than you’re spending?

How long have you been doing that?

If you aren’t making money and you’ve been at it for 6 months or more, perhaps it’s time to start listening to those who are.

I know it’s cliché but it’s also very true… its time to stop doing the same old thing you’ve always done and expecting a different result.

Remember, opportunity may knock but it’s not going to walk into your house, setup shop, establish customers for you, and deliver cash to your bank account all on its own.

So why the big speech on the “soap box?”

Funny thing is… most traffic exchange owners “actually” want their members to succeed.

Weird, huh?

Okay, get in there and make things happen for you!

Michael Kelly, a.k.a. The King
RoyalSurf.com

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Contest Standings

RoyalSurf Traffic Exchange kicked off a new referral contest on October 18 that will run for 10 days…

KA-CHING!

1st - 1000 credits
2nd - 700 credits
3rd - 500 credits
4th - 350 credits
5th - 250 credits

I know what you’re thinking… “Where’s the KA-CHING!??”

Here it is…

During the contest you’ll earn $1 per referral! WooHoo! KA-CHING!!!

I do have to remind everyone that paid signups will Disqualify you and put your citizenship in jeopardy. Absolutely, NO Paid signups allowed!

Please use this to your advantage and seek out referrals that you’d want to add to your own lists and who you feel would purchase the products and services you offer, and that are offered by your fellow citizens.

You might also want to remember, that it’s possible to earn up 50% commissions on the upgrades and purchases made by your referrals. KA-CHING!

Please keep in mind, that your king is rewarding you for helping to bring in people that can help your own online income grow… that IS the ultimate goal and purpose.

The King

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Calling ALL Citizens!

Join the new Joust Tournament for fun, excitement, camaraderie, and great traffic riches! There are no qualifications other than ye must be a citizen (member) of RoyalSurf Traffic Exchange. Every citizen regardless of level or title may participate. Be ye Royal Citizen, Royal Squire, or Royal Knight, or thy title be “Citizen,” “Lady,” or “Sir” — ALL are welcome to compete!

There shall be but five citizens to each team so the forming should be without challenge (easy). Ye may join a team that hath not yet reached 5 members or form thy own team.

Each team may pick a team leader and team name of their own choosing. I trust the naming of thy teams will bring honor to its members and the kingdom.

Use ye the RoyalSurf Forum to form up thy teams and make thy members, and team names known. Ye will find the RoyalSurf Forum here.

Use thy own criteria for the forming of thy teams of whom can join ye, but thy king asks that ye be respectful to all. If ye hath specific selection criteria, do express it clearly.

If sufficient numbers of teams hath formed in time, this new Joust Tournament shall begin on the coming of this Sunday, October 26, at 12:01 am Central time, commencing immediately upon server turnover. Otherwise, it shall be postponed until the next week. Thy king will announce whether the Joust is a go or not by no later than Saturday, October 25th.

What prize awaits the victors?

…Bragging Rights and Honor!

…the normal traffic credits for placing on the Joust Top 25, which are based on overall activity!

…PLUS, those on the Top 25 Winners list who are on the winning team shall each receive an Additional 1000 credits! This means several thousand credits for our Joust winners!

Recording of team members…

…team members must be recorded in the RoyalSurf Forum under their appropriate team thread by no later than 10:00 pm Central time on the preceding Saturday before the Joust begins.

Scoring…

…the winning team is decided based upon the team members who appear under “Last Week’s Joust Tournament Results” when the Joust ends — ONLY those Top 25 winners will be considered, and ONLY those specifically on a team.

…scoring will be based first on total number of Victories for each team member on the Top 25 Winners list, then least number of Defeats, and finally, any ties are broken by total pages surfed

…ONLY those winning team members who appear under “Last Week’s Joust Tournament Results” as Top 25 Winners when the Joust ends, receive the additional 1000 credits — ye will find this by clicking on the Joust Past button.

Competing in this great Joust is sure to have to be very rewarding in huge amounts of traffic, the forming of new friends, and in the gain even greater results.

The King

Now, a drumroll…

The winners of the first ever RoyalSurf Ladies vs. Sirs Joust Challenge…

Congratulations Ladies!

The Ladies racked up an impressive 128 Victories to the Sirs 42 total Victories. Those Sirs who showed up for the Joust, put up a valiant effort and should be commended… but the rest… well, the shame is yours alone to bear.

The final standings are reflected below. The Royal Jesterettes are indicated in Pink and the Royal Scorpions are indicated in Blue:

On top of the credits the were awarded automatically by the Joust, I have awarded the Royal Jesterettes on the Top 25 Winner board an additional 1000 credits each!

Once again… Congratulations Ladies!

The King

I just want to take a moment to acknowledge an awesome fact and congratulate a great guy, Jon Olson, on an enormous success…

ILoveHits traffic exchange has broken the 100,000 member mark!  Woohoo!

Jon Olson, the Traffic Exchange Guy, is a great guy who I’d say has one of the strongest beliefs in this industry of anyone you could ever know. He is a very solid advocate of traffic exchanges, and has done a great deal (perhaps more than any other single person) to sustain the growth, improvement, and reputation of this industry.  Jon’s a true believer in the value and potential of traffic exchanges, and his enthusiasm has translated into not only his own success but he’s helped (and continues to help) a good many others along the way too.

Jon Olson has a great many successes to his credit in this industry, both individually and in partnership with others. I doubt I can remember to name them all but here are a few to his credit (again, some in partnership with some great people too)…

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