We have been working on implementing more Personal Branding tools on 247TrafficPro.com, in fact the personalized/customizable splash pages are now available. Again we have added a couple of twists from the default ‘mod’ that anyone can get implemented for a fee from several programmers. This is just the beginning of several new tools and utilities that will allow you to brand yourself, your site etc.
Here is an example: Personal Splash 1. This page is fully cutomizable except for a couple of words and the graphics. Here are the elements configurable
1: Your Picture
2: Your name
3: Link below your name
4: The text for the link below your name
5: The text below the header is all custom
6: You can add your own banner in the bottom.
7: This is one of the “twists” we added from the default mod. You can change the “header” to target any traffic exchange. No need for 10 or 20 different splashpages.
Example. I’m going to target Jon Olson’s ‘I Love Hits‘ Check out the same page by clicking here.
Take a note of the URL location. Its the same url except for the last part of the URL. Thats the part that targets a specific exchange rather than a generic message.
Its very very simple. The URL to this version of the personal splashpage (there are a couple now and several more coming) is: http://www.247trafficpro.com/splash/personal/psplash1.php?rid=1. The version that Targets ILH is: http://www.247trafficpro.com/splash/personal/psplash1.php?rid=1&site=I%20Love%20Hits.
Its the last part: &site=I%20Love%20Hits that replaces “Traffic Exchange” with “I Love Hits“. It may seem cryptic but let me explain and break it down. Its very simple really.
The personal splashpage will look for the variable ‘site’ and replace the generic “Traffic Exchange” with whatever value you add. The part after ‘site’ might look cryptic, but fair not, this is not something you need to figure out your self. Simply add the default URL to the browser then add the following at the end “&site=What Ever Site Goes Here” (without quotations). The browser will then convert it to something the webserver can read. The webserver needs this info without empty spaces, thats why the webbrowser adds some number and signs. In this case %20 where the spaces are. Anyway, without getting in into more technical things, thats basically it. The URL your browser shows you is the url you submit to the exchange that you are targetting.
There are rare cases where the traffic exchange won’t allow urls with %20 characters and others. Its basically a scripting issue on the traffic exchange, how it handles special chars in the url. In the case of I Love Hits it works perfectly. Now if it wouldn’t work, I would simply write ILoveHits all in one instead. that would solve the problem.
So simply take the personal splashpage url and add “&site=whatever” to the end of the url, and add it to the browser, the browser returns the url you can submit to the traffic exchange, thats it, its now targeting that specific exchange.
If it feels to complex just use the default one, it works as well. We would also like feedback and comments, if its too hard to understand then we might have to look at how we can do it easier 
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You now have:
1: Personalized splashpages
2: Rotator
Both of those are “brandable” with your picture and all the information mentioned above.
Branding YOU is one of the most effective and important ways to work the traffic exchanges. One good example I can use is Tony Tezak. He is branding himself and building his list. Thats the very basics of it, and he has been doing it successfully for quite some time.
More goodies too come.
Have a great weekend and a happy 4th of July to our fellow Americans.
Links:
247 Traffic Pro - Get your personalized splashpages etc today.
I Love Hits – One of the oldest and most active exchanges online today – Run by Jon Olson
Tony Tezak – Prime example of how Personal branding works .