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My results are in on LinkReferral and TrafficSwarm. The traffic I've received has given me results already (casino players, SurveySavvy signups, etc.). Now that I'm getting referrals, the number of credits in my account will only grow faster and faster. I'm pretty fired up about it.

My first concern was "is this auto-generated traffic" or "are these people all zombies passing through your site to get their credits and leave". I wanted real visitors that would give my sites a chance to be "heard". In my honest opinion, the answer is "yes" and "yes". LinkReferral has a program that encourages visitors to not only visit your website, but also write a short written review of your site. This review's content will also be graded and reviewed by the owners of LinkReferral. This gets everyone to actually read the content of your site to some extent. Your site is also placed in the LinkReferral categorized directory which is indexed and viewed by common Internet traffic. The more you participate in their system, the higher your site will rank in the directory.

The TrafficSwarm system allots you credits in order to display your ad. 3000 credits is 3000 displays. The Internet is full of "Auto-surf" and free-for-all garbage traffic sources where no one wants to see or investigate the ad or the website. When someone clicks your ad in TrafficSwarm, the user had to go out of his or her way to CHOOSE your ad. Yes, there is a credit incentive for visiting, but if your ad and website "stand out" it will get looked at by an interested visitor. I saw the results in my own tracking reports that had nothing but Trafficswarm hits for chosen pages. If these people were just zombies, I would have had 0 results, which wasn't the case. I'm sure many of the hits are just "credit-seekers", but for a system that gives you hits for free, I'll take a bunch of them if many of those hits are actually reading my content.

SurveySavvy just went over 10 million dollars in survey payments to participants. I now call it "The Little Residual Income That Could"! You should see the look on some people's faces when I personally tell them about it. What I like the most is the "permanent" part of getting referrals. 10 years from now, I'll still have the same referrals that I have now, plus a whole lot more. That keeps me focused on the long-term.