New features on the Exchange

Cash Accounts now online!

There are a couple ways to make money at vs-ten, including referring paying members, or allowing your interface to see commercial pages from TheLinkRing.com. This means there are several ways for you to earn a little a month. So, we've created a 'cash account' which lets you see your earnings in real-time.

You will be able to make a withdrawal request when your account reaches a certain level ($20 for free members, as low as $2 for upgraded members).

Getting Ready for full live and the move!

We've dallied in Gamma-land for several more months than expected. Our goal in April/May will be to move to 'full production' and to a new domain (vs-ten.com).

We will do this gradually, so people have time to update their links properly.

New payment processors

We have added the following new payment processors in addition to PayPal:

• AlertPay
• Money Bookers
• eGold - Note: eGold has been removed because of problems accessing it in the USA
• We are getting ready to add SolidTrust Pay into the system... still testing...
  

Reminder on the "on the net" logo

The referral graphic, shown at left, is automatically available to any member with an approved incoming interface to put on their site.  The full code is available at the bottom of the incoming interface screen in the members' area (edit an interface, and scroll to the bottom.) The link clicks through (new window) to verify this is a valid member, and embeds a referral cookie if it's viewed by a Traffic Exchange Owner who later joins the network.

As you can see from the scoreboard, multi-exchange support is fully operational. We now also allow upgraded members to make their sites "sticky", to increase visibility, and to create multiple interfaces to the same site in certain circumstances.

We automatically enforcing the blacklist in-network, which helps cut down on pop-ups and non-english pages, if your site doesn't allow them.. 

If you get a popup or frame-breaker through the network, please help track it down and get it in the blacklist.  That makes the system better for everybody.  Our blacklist now has over 4,300 entries to help keep the network clean.

Manual-only is now a validated flag in the system.  (Inclusive: no manual flag means no manual-only interfaces will be polled, manual flag checked means ONLY manual-only interfaces will be polled).

Popups-permitted is now a validated flag in the system. (Exclusive: no popup flag means no popup sites will be polled, and the blacklist will be checked for popups on any page loaded.)

We're testing an opt-out option, so that individual customers can 'hide' their pages from the network.  This is currently available for LJScript, Walker Software, TrEx, and a few LJ Variants.

Coming soon

In approximately this order.

• We will be adding a banner exchange back into the system... this is for exchanges between users, not a network-level thing.
  
• We will be moving to vs-ten.com and eliminating 'gamma' and 'beta' directories (your discounts will still apply, however).
• Page-caching will be delayed until we've moved to vs-ten.com. There's too much coding needed to have to do that twice.
• Users will get the option in their incoming views page to see pages on their site that were skipped because of blacklisting.  They will also be able to get an email summary of that information.