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Suspended?

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

“What do you mean I’ve been suspended? I didn’t do anything wrong!” That may be the first thing that goes through your head when you receive a message from a traffic exchange with the word “suspended” in the subject line.

Not to worry. It’s not like when you’re in school and you get suspended. Getting suspended from school is meant to punish you for doing something wrong. But, when you receive that “dreaded” message from a traffic exchange, like PrizeHunters.com, it usually means something totally different.

Traffic exchanges have their own terminology:

Active- This means you have met all the requirements necessary to get your websites shown in the traffic exchange rotation (not including hit credits).

Inactive- means you haven’t surfed the required amount of pages to be considered “active” by the traffic exchange. The message usually tells you how many websites you’ll need to surf to become active. Your websites do not go into rotation until you become active.

Many traffic exchanges require free members to surf a specific number of websites every month to remain active.

Suspended- This means you haven’t surfed or logged in for a specific amount of time so your websites have been removed from rotation until you qualify as “active” again. It also means that your account could be deleted because it appears to have been “abandoned”.

Some traffic exchanges will automatically “cull” suspended accounts on a regular basis. Because of this, your suspended account could be in danger of being deleted if you don’t do something about it. To correct the situation all you need to do is login to your account and surf enough pages to be “active” again.

Banned- This is the one that means you’ve done something wrong and have been kicked out!

So, if you’ve received that dreaded “suspended” message from PrizeHunters.com don’t wait another day! Login to your account and do a little surfing. That’s all it takes to get back in the black. :)