What I think about TimTech (part 1)

Yea, I said it!

If you are familiar at all with FarmVille, CityVille and a host of other Facebook games, you will know what I'm talking about.  I have a love/hate relationship (I'm starting to think that I have one of those with almost everything!) with Zynga and their freaking addictive games. So, me comparing Timtech to FarmVille and the rest of its ilk, is actually a good thing.

So, what do you look for in a traffic exchange?  When I used to think of traffic exchanges, I think sitting in front of my computer, looking at the same ads over and over again, just so I can earn credits to show my ad over to some other person who was doing the same thing. The only difference is that person may see my ad more since I passed out from boredom about 200 or so pages ago.

I like that the Timtech crew (from here on out in this post and in the ones that follow, they will be referred to collectively as the Nerds), are switching it up and making it fun.  Chat, collecting badges and surf brackets all make surfing tolerable  I have the attention span of a fly, so getting me to sit and do something non-game related at this computer for more that 15 minutes is an accomplishment and should possibly earn the Nerds their own badge.

Because I go off on a tangent, I'll go ahead and summarize now:

fun = more people stick around and surf = more people see your page = ??? = More MONEY! 

Actually, I'm quite fond of my FarmVille Pony collection.

I can easily swap out  FarmVille and Pony with Tim Tech and Badges.

There are a few other exchanges that offer interesting features. I'll be reviewing those shortly. I have a few bookmarked and need to revisit them soon. 

Also, this blog is a segway into a  new and pretty cool feature that I have planned: The Tim Tech TE Challenge. Oooooh...its so awesome, that I had to bold and capitalize it! I'll be posting more tomorrow along with an explanatory video!

Stay tuned :)