How this works

Funny Farm Traffic wants to provide as much aid and assistance to webmasters as possible.  This system is designed to help webmasters get traffic to their sites in a simple, cost-effective way.  This benefits the webmasters in a couple ways:

One mistake that many Traffic Exchanges make is telling a webmaster that they will be "flooded with targeted customers, ready to buy".  That is not the primary purpose of a Traffic Exchange.

The primary purpose of a Traffic Exchange is to generate traffic to the website, period.

That being said, if your target audience is "webmasters working on promoting their websites", then you will probably reach some potential customers.  But even then, do not expect high conversion rates.  Webmaster surfers are all in the same boat: they want more traffic, for higher ratings, for better rankings, to get customers from the larger search engines.

General Concept

In a nutshell: You visit other websites through one of our viewer systems and earn 'credits'.  Each credit entitles one of your pages to be shown to someone else. 

You are a webmaster, and you want web-surfers to see your website, for all the reasons listed above. Funny Farm Traffic will show your website to other users, at a cost of 1 'credit each time your website is shown.  So, as long as you have 'credits' available, your site will be shown to our other Funny Farm Traffic users.

Credits are gained in a couple different ways:

1. When you first join Funny Farm Traffic, you are given some credits
2. You can choose to 'be a passenger', and surf other sites through one of our display systems.  For every site you visit, you will earn credits
3. We also sell credits, with bulk-discounting available. i.e.: When you buy more credits, you pay less per credit.
4. You can display our referral page.  Each display to a unique user on a given day will earn some credits. 
5. You can also refer other members.  If someone signs up through your referral page, you get credits when they sign up, and a percentage of their credit earnings when they are a passenger.
6. If someone you referred purchases something or upgrades their membership, you get some credits from that, as well.

Different earning and referral ratios are available to different 'levels' of membership.  For specifics on how many credits are earned in different ways at each level of membership, see our Membership Levels page in the Pricing section.

Terminology used on Funny Farm Traffic:

This script is highly customizable to promote uniqueness and individuality for all our TE owners.   

Credits - A unit of value.  1 credit allows a member to show one page they wish promoted 1 time.  Credits may be earned through viewing, referrals, or they may be purchased.

Views - A page on a web site.  This is what the passenger views to earn credits.

Way Station - A block of related stops that can be presented in a particular order to passengers.  This allows webmasters to create longer, more attractive, or more meaningful messages to passengers.  This also has a nice side-effect, since it will look to site-statistics systems as though each user is 'clicking through' multiple pages, creating longer visit times.

Tracks - This software provides the tracks to move passengers around the internet.

Passenger - A web surfer, using our viewer to view sites like yours in exchange for credits (or cash).  This is also the generic term used for any membership level.

Riders - A high-volume passenger.  They get extra benefit by being a more-frequent passenger.  This bonus can add on to any membership level.

Comedy Club - A monthly membership fee allows a Comedy Club member to manage lots of Views (many pages to display), create Way Stations and travel faster and more profitably than a Passenger.

Ed Sullivan Show - A monthly membership fee entitles the Ed Sullivan Show member to travel on faster on the journey, and earn more credits per stop.  Ed Sullivan Show members have an advantage over Comedy Club members.  Again, more control, and faster travel.

Vegas Headliner  - A monthly membership fee entitles the Vegas Headliner to manage more stops than ESS Members.  This is also the first level where 'Way Stations' may be created, to provide more persuasive advertising.