I joined Traffic Kahuna less than a month ago and so far I’m happy with the program but it still needs to prove  itself before I will say I’m sticking with it for life.

What will turn most people off is the price tag – costs $150/month and secondly the inability to really profit from an affiliate program as they have opened only twice in the past year and quickly close the doors as the available slots quickly get filled. This aside here is my review of Traffic Kahuna.

Traffic Kahuna boasts the following:

• Dramatically Increase Your Website Traffic
• Boost Your Search Engine Rankings
• Tap into the FULL “Social Power” of Web 2.0

How it does this is through various methods and by harnessing the power of not only technology but the power that it’s users have to promote and be promoted – right now we will take a brief look at the tools: Blog Feeder, Article Feeder, Web2 Co-op, Link Exchange and  Bean Rocket.

Blog Feeder on Traffic Kahuna:

The TK Blog feeder is simple in concept – Search engines love blogs, People love blogs and Blogs are easy to post to.  To use this tool you will essentially set up articles that will be spun and the spins posted to blogs of your choice which relate to your niche. The set-up of the article takes the longest but by no means should take you more than 30 – 45 minutes per article.

Basic Spin concept:

Create two to three titles which can have spins inside of the title if you like.

Set your main content up to be spun by the system using [spin]text1|text2[/spin] within the text to replace words with your article so that you don’t run into duplicate content.

A  400 – 500 word article can have 3 text links which are represented by %LINK%, %LINK2 and %LINK3% and are entered by listing your URL tags and actual URL in a separate location in the Blog Feeder

 Once you have your article set-up you go to your tools and follow along the step-by-step process copying information into the system and required. Once you’ve entered all the required information you will see examples of what are articles will look like (again the system spins them you have to code the content which is pretty easy).

Once you’re happy with the spins you will go through a process of choosing the blogs that you want to post to. The number of blogs your articles will be submitted to depend on a number of things I would imagine but the more spins that you have the more blogs you should be able to post to. I’m not 100% on how it determines the number of blogs you can post to as my options have been between 21 and 30 blogs and my articles could probably be spun about 150+ times so this is just a guess on my part.

Finally after you have chosen the blogs you want to post to you get to choose a submission process – you can choose all at once or once every 6 hours – the age of your site should depend on what you choose. If you have a new site it is probably best to choose the drip system so the SE’s don’t take it as spam – if you have an established website I don’t see anything wrong with submitting them all at once as long as you aren’t slamming the net with 100’s of articles in the same day.

Blog Feeder only posts your content on other sites and doesn’t require an exchange so these are one way links.

Overall I really like the blog feeder once I figured it out, but this isn’t their most powerful tool IMHO (In My Honest Opinion).

Article Feeder on Traffic Kahuna:

The TK article feeder is much like the Blog Feeder when it comes to creating the article but requires that you set-up your own article website, which isn’t hard as TK provides all the files you need. The biggest difference between the Blog and Article Feeders are that the article feeder is like a 3 Way Link (3WL) set-up for articles.

If you’re not familiar with 3WL basically this is a strategy that links your website from another website,  your website will link to another who may link back to the one that linked you ;o) this means that if you link to a site they won’t link back to you and visa-versa.

The rules for the linking when it comes to the Article Feeder are more complex then that though. Not only does it look at sites it dives deeper into the IP addresses ect… this way it doesn’t look like a link farm – I was glad to see so much is put into the rules. You don’t have to worry about the rules though, TK does all of that for you, just know that TK is doing their best to make sure the 3WL’ed articles help your site and do not hurt it in the search engines.

Web2.0 Co-op on Traffic Kahuna:

This Co-op tools is one of the most powerful in my opionin that TK offers. It is simple but very effective and uses web2.0 websites like Digg, Del.icio.us, YouTube, Squidoo and about 50 others Web2.0 sites.

The concept is simple – you start by setting up your profile, inserting your user names and URL’s for various sites which you have registered for. It then uses this information to tell you which projects you can complete. The more sites you’re registered to, the more projects you can complete and in turn the more you can request to be done.

 The system works on credits – you cannot (at this time) buy credits, you earn credits by completing “jobs”. Jobs are as simple as “Digging a specific Digg on Digg.com” or more complex link “write an unique article” for someone. The harder the job the more credits you can earn. The fun part comes when you post a job.

Posting a job requires you to have credits and the job that you post will cost you more on the harder jobs and less on the easy ones. Using the examples above you can post a job to digg your digg.com digg for 1 credit or if you want someone to write you an unique article it may cost you 8 credits.

Once you post a job you can see which ones you have running and when someone completed your job you are given a message to approve, request clarification which send a message back to the person who completed your job with your comments or request that TK admins look at what the other person did and let them decided if it was done correctly.

This system is pretty simple on the user side. You complete jobs to earn credits and post jobs to get your sites promoted – very effective!

Link Exchange on Traffic Kahuna:

The link exchange uses the 3WL concept and is very easy!

To set-up the link exchange you enter some required information, create a page on your site and submit that page to the admins. Unlike some 3WL program you don’t need to upload anything on server but you are required to paste a PHP snippet on you link page and you must have a link to your link page on your main website. After that it is all automatic.

Like the other options within TK you decide how many links will be on your link page which is the number of 3WL you will have pointing back at you. You choose the topics which you want your link to be within and how many you want initially and over time.

Unfortunately I cannot compare this to other services because I haven’t used them but one thing I really like is you can have up to 6 unique links for every site. This is great because your one link will essentially have various content and you can even have your one links point to different pages on your site. I don’t know how well that is understood and if you have questions about that just ask and I will clarify.

Bean Rocket on Traffic Kahuna:

Bean Rocket is a blog that is hosted by the creator of TK and you create a blog page that resides on their server but has your content. Many of the same rules apply here as the others: No spam content or keyword stuffing, content must be unique, up to 3 links in each post and each post is approved.

Although this isn’t my favorite tool it is nice to have a link from a high PR website pointing to your blog posts.

In conclusion:

Before I wrap this up I have to say that so far I’m happy with the results that Traffic Kahuna has provided. TK offers video help on all of its products and customer support is great!

The amount of time that you will save with Traffic Kahuna is probably pretty substantial. I have come to respect the fact that the tying in all of these services on your own is not only requires a TON of time but also if you’re not a member you may not ever be able to harness this much power – ever!

Although this isn’t the cheapest service it is a very powerful tool package and a very exclusive membership club – if you get a chance I would say give it a try!

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Jason

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