Using traffic exchanges is a great promotional tool for anyone. Either you are an internet marketer or simply want exposure for your forum or blog, using traffic exchanges can benefit you with wonderful exposure. But is cheating a traffic exchange the way to go?

The process of using a traffic exchange is a simple one. You view other member sites, in exchange, for them to view your sites. The more sites that you view, the more viewers that you will receive at your end. It is simple, fair, and based on the premise of good surfing. But always, there will be the very few that will want to “cheat” the system to garner more exposure for their own ventures, without putting in a fair effort themselves. In this author’s opinion, these are the lazy lot.

There are many ways to cheat a traffic exchange, and really depends on how the traffic exchange is set up. Let’s look at a few of them.

Downlines – Here, a member may sign up under their own membership (as being referred by themselves) and benefit from any downline bonuses that the traffic exchange has in place.

Emulators – Using an automatic clicking emulator, can take away the manual process of surfing and let the cheater simply tend to other activities, while he cheats the efforts of the other members of the traffic exchange.

Refreshing – Some traffic exchanges will give credits for the opening of a browser page to their exchange. Refreshing the browser can cheat these types of traffic exchanges.

Now you may be saying to yourself, that this is a great way to use traffic exchanges, where you do not have to put forth the same effort as other members of the exchange while gaining the same benefits. But hold on. Traffic exchanges have developed over the years and most have very good anti cheating mechanisms in place.

If you are cheating the downline way, then this can be easy picked up by the traffic exchange’s own system. I won’t mention all of the ways, but repeated signups from the same IP address is a simple give away. The use of emulators have been halted, by many traffic exchanges implementing “clicking” procedures to be actual done by a human. These can come in the form of simple questions to be answered once in while, asking for a certain number or color code to be clicked upon, or by simply changing the area of the screen in which a user must click to continue surfing. Also refreshing browsers, is now a simply pick up by any reputable exchange.

It should also be noted cheaters, that are caught, risk a great disreputation to follow. Not only will they usually be banned by the traffic exchange in which they abused, but more than likely, their actions will be passed on to other traffic exchanges. Owners of traffic exchanges, generally keep in contact with one another, and if a known cheater is doing the traffic exchange circuit, it won’t be long that the won’t have any avenues to expand their cheating efforts.

In short, there is no place for cheaters in the traffic exchange industry, or any industry in fact. Maintaining good business practices and respect to all involved, is the best approach for enterprises and reputation.

The Hindu Vedic astrology believes each of the heavenly bodies to have a particular function. While it takes the sun to be the primary life force, it takes the moon to be the one influencing the fertility cycles. Vedic astrology is believed to be a branch of science for it takes the magnetic field and gravitational pull between the heavenly bodies and planet earth to affect the latter physically. And this very fact acts as the prime basis of its calculation.

Although both Vedic astrology and Western astrology recognizes twelve zodiac houses, the two uses different yardsticks to calculate the zodiac signs of different individuals. Unlike Western astrological predictions which are calculated upon the solar charts, jyotisha is calculated upon lunar charts.

Moreover while the former depends upon tropical zodiac, the latter makes use of sidereal zodiac. The horoscopes are prepared by studying the planetary position (graha), the exact location of the stars (nakshatra), the zodiac houses (rashis), the planetary periods (dasas), the planetary aspects (drishtis), the planetary combinations (yogas) etc.

Using these information a chart is drawn which is believed to be able to accurately predict matters of family and relationship (Kama), finances (artha), career (dharma), spiritual salvation (moksha) and physical health (arogya).

Role of Karma

Although our Vedic astrology takes the location of stars and planetary positions during a person’s birth to determine his future, it undeniably believes that the person’s Karma has caused these heavenly bodies to arrange themselves in the like-wise manner. That is to say, the planetary deities are subservient to the omnipotent God. Thus to dole out justice, the planetary deities may very well be asked to align themselves in a particular manner during a person’s birth to either reward or punish him, depending upon whether he has led a virtuous or a vicious past life.

Laws of Karma thus combine the concept of both fate and free will to suggest that a person’s present life has been determined by the choices he had made in his past life (i.e. the idea of fate) and that his future life will be guided by the way he consciously acts in his present life (i.e. the idea of free will).

The wisdom in Jyotisha lies in imparting a kind of spiritual resignation among its believers, quite like the motto of que sera, sera. It also leads its believers to embark on an enlightened spiritual journey through which not only does he get better acquainted with his soul but also with the cosmic connection that exists between his inner self and the guidance offered by the Divine One. It imparts a kind of unflustered confidence in his outlook towards his life for he knows he cannot make amends to drastically alter his present life and that he has to deal with every ups-and-down that come his way for they are but a direct consequence of the way he has led his past life.

The only thing he can make certain is a better next life through a strict adherence to the path of righteousness. However, Jyotisha does leave a scope for ameliorating the effects of the past life upon the present life through practice of meditation, yoga etc.

The ancient wisdom that has been passed down to us has become an integral part of our rich heritage. It is after all the Indian form of astrology, an art that stands out distinctly from the West’s endeavors.