What Is a Site Rotator and Why You Need It
A site rotator is
software that picks an URL from a list (either
randomly, or based on priority rules) and
displays it to the visitor. Rotators are very
useful when you want to promote multiple
websites using a single URL. If you are a
traffic exchange user, for example, and want to
promote 50 splash pages while the exchange only
allows up to 3 websites, you will probably want
to use a rotator. Also, when adding a new URL,
you will only have to do it in the rotator, and
not in the 100 websites that you are a member
of!
A sophisticated URL rotator will not only be
able to rotate your sites randomly, but also
assign priorities (so you can show selected
pages more often), track statistics, and even
filter domains (meaning if a visitor comes from
"site A", we do not show him pages that
advertise "site A").
There are a lot of options when it comes to
rotators. You can either host your own URL
rotator script, or use one of the many online
services. When choosing an online service, you
usually want to make sure that the maximum
number of URLs allowed is enough for you, and
the additional features, such as hit tracking,
are included.
What Is TeToolBox and Why I Recommend It
No other free URL rotator has the features that TeToolBox does!
I
have tried many site rotator services, but none
came even close to TeToolBox in terms of speed,
stability and additional features provided. Here
are some of the things I like best about TTB:- It's
fast! TeToolBox is an extremely fast
rotator, which loads your sites before you
can blink. I never had any problems or
noticeable downtime. Stability and uptime
are important since you don't want to waste
your advertising efforts sending people to
an unreachable website!
- No ads.
Most free rotators show some kind of ads in
a frame above your site. TeToolBox doesn't
force ads even on free members.
- Hit
tracker. TeToolBox will not only track
all hits to the URLs in your rotator, but
will also gather and count site referrers,
so you will know which traffic exchange or
website is sending most people your way.
-
Subrotators. With TTB, you can create up
to 10 subrotators and pick whichever URLs
you want to rotate in them. For example, you
might want to rotate a specific group of
advertisements in one rotator, and another
group in the other.
- Domain filtering. Like the name suggests, TeToolBox is simply awesome for traffic exchange users. Domain filtering is a unique feature of TTB which ensures that if a visitor comes from, say, StartXChange will not be shown StartXChange splash pages. Domain filtering is optional and works 100% automatically.