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The national Libertarian Party has announced that their convention for officially nominating candidates for President and Vice President will take place a little less than one year from now.
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The Libertarian Party of Ohio has received a significant boost in its struggle to overcome ballot access barriers when Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner issued a new ruling that reduces the amount of signatures required to get on the ballot by half and extends the filing deadline for primary elections by three weeks.
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Today I managed to re-access a program that I had almost forgotten about, the Quick Rewards Network. A few months ago, they changed over to a new server because the old one apparently could not handle the traffic load and there were continual slowdowns and interruptions in service. After joining the program during the period when they were having all of the problems, I became skeptical and had all but given up on them when I could no longer access my account. However, they have now resurfaced with a new server and interface.
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The market research company NFO MySurvey is undergoing a slight name change and is announcing some new reward options. They have also released the results of a recent survey about digital photography.
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Last week’s long days of finger-numbing surfing efforts have finally paid off. I have managed to place in the top groups at two different traffic exchanges, Royal Surf and Link Crews. This means lots of extra credits to use for future advertising campaigns.

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In addition to the 30% discounts on credit package prices, the traffic exchange Royal Surf is also offering better surf ratios and bonus credits through this weekend, including Monday.

Here is the latest scoop:

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More of those inedible varieties of Spam have been arriving in my email over the past few days, and the latest batch of them has been using an old tactic that I like to call the “sandwich technique”.
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The administrator of Royal Surf is extending the opportunity to purchase website credits at lower prices for a few more days and is also offering higher random bonuses to regular surfers.

Similar to Medieval Surf, Royal Surf is a traffic exchange that awards website credits to members based on the number of sites visited, referrals, bonus clicks, and overall activity. It is one of the faster exchanges out there; it has a 10 second timer with regular bonuses of 4-10 credits for every 20 sites viewed (you have to click on the link that appears on the surfbar in order to claim the credits).

What I like about them is that they have a nice ranking system that awards members for regular activity. All members are ranked into “kingdoms” of 20 people each according to the number of points that each member has earned during the current week. Points are earned mostly by surfing, but a few extra points may be obtained by referral activity or through purchases of upgrades and credits from the site. At the end of the week, the top five kingdoms (which equates to the top 100 members) are awarded bonus credits based on the total activity of all members during the previous week.

In recent weeks, the exchange has experienced a backlog of extra credits, so the admin is selling them off a below normal prices and is also awarding somewhat larger surfbar bonuses for currently active members. Here is the latest announcement:

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Earlier today, I received an email tip about an interesting photo experiment at thewvsr.com that compared different types of fast food items with their images that are broadcast on television and in print advertisements. Perhaps not surprisingly, the actual foods do not look as attractive as they do in the ads, but in some cases there is a pretty substantial difference.
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There has been a changing of the guard at the castle of Medieval Hits, a relatively new traffic exchange that I joined very soon after it opened about a month ago.

Apparently the previous “king” has stepped down and sold off the remnants of his fledgling kingdom to Canadian Internet marketer Larry Phillips. Concerning the plans of our new monarch, the latest email is pretty much self-explanatory:

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If you have ever had the experience of accidentally deleting a file that you had intended to save, there may still be some hope of recovering your data.
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While sifting through another batch of spam yesterday, I ran across a tactic that I do not see very often but is still somewhat interesting. I am not sure about its effectiveness, however.
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Although often criticized by webmasters, the Alexa traffic ranking is still viewed by many in the general public as an indicator of a website’s importance. More importantly for Internet marketers, it is used as a gauge for estimating a site’s advertising value. In this article, I will discuss the importance of the Alexa system and its weaknesses as it relates to marketing and website promotion. Then I will list 10 simple ways in which you can increase both your Alexa rank and your income potential. These methods were derived from an excellent article by Maki from DoshDosh.com entitled 20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank.

What exactly is the Alexa rank?

The Alexa rank is a system that collects historical traffic data from users of the Alexa toolbar or Firefox Search Status extension and uses this to determine the relative rankings of websites for the previous three months. It is based on the combined total of global reach and page views for each site. The reach is a percentage of all Internet users who visit your site within a specific time period (usually 3 months). Page views are determined by calculating the number of pages within each website that are visited by users of the toolbar within a 24-hour period.

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Well, this was a nice little surprise. After mailing off another three survey checks for a total deposit of $138 in Top-Dollars.com profits last night, I returned to my inbox and found this email with the title of “One Question Survey; Earn $5″:

You have participated in a beverage study and we just have one more question for you.

If you qualify and complete this survey, you’ll receive $5. In addition, you can play the Instant Win game and be entered into our $25,000 sweepstakes. If you have questions about this survey, please reference survey number 666524.

Survey length: 1 minute

Click here to begin:
[active link was placed here]

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The administrator of RoyalSurf.com sent out a correction notice regarding yesterday’s email update. It definitely ranks as one of the most sincere apology letters that I have ever seen from a traffic exchange admin before.

Apparently there was some mistake in the last email that made it seem like users could purchase “weekly priority rotation slots” for 30 days. In reality, as the name implies, they were only supposed to last for 7 days. This one had me feeling a little embarrassed as well; I had received yesterday’s email and read through it, yet somehow I missed the obvious logical fallacy. Here is the text of today’s email under the title, “Critical Correction Enclosed”:

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