A user named Adam recently posted this comment:
"Sadly, a disappointing test result so far and given that you said in a later post that your favourite traffic exchange is BlogMad it seems to suggest that most are just surfing to build their credits up rather than reading. So they surf and don't read, they build their cr3dits which in turn generates visitors but those visitors will only do the same so it's a dog chasing his tail! What's the point of it, I ask? Who wins? This is a problem with traffic exchanges I guess; you get the traffic but not the quality. There has to be a better way and I'm wrecking my brains about this and am thinking of doing soemthing about it."
And there is some truth to this statement. It raises several considerations; do people really want to read others blogs? Or is it simply a vain quest to get their own read? I've spent some time surfing, and watched my efforts be (mostly) fruitless. However, when someone like Adam posts a comment, it makes it all worthwhile. Really, without comments, you don't know if people are really reading your blog or just skimming through. With the 25 seconds that Blogmad requires you to view each blog, the person earning the credits could be chatting on MSN, viewing other websites or any number of things; I, myself, are often multi-tasking while blog surfing. How do you reach people who would actually be interested in what you're writing about? For now, until something better comes along, you'll just have to hope that among every 100 people that sees your blog, at least 1 person actually reads your blog.
