Traffic exchanges are ‘hubs’ where webmasters can receive free or very cheap traffic - either via paying for credits or ‘clicking for credits’.
When you sign up with a traffic exchange, you are assigned your own ’start page’, where you are rotated through views of other webmaster’s sites. Each time you view a site, you will earn credits. You then use all the credits you have amassed and use them to get more page views for your site. It may seem a bit pointless but if you do things right it does work.
What you need to do is refer other people to the traffic exchange in order to build a downline. For everyone you refer you get extra credits for the number of clicks they make.
When you are first getting started traffic exchanges can be a free way of driving traffic to your site but you need to put spend at least an hour a day to get any results. I find the best way to use them is to send them to your ‘squeeze page’ where you give away a free report or something of value to encourage them to opt in to your list.
Obviously, the majority of people viewing your site in this situation are also wanting traffic, and hoping to sell something. But you can still squeeze leads and maybe even a few sales out of the average traffic exchange.
You may get only one or two signups a day but if you are struggling to build a list then an hour a day spent on a traffic exchange could be worth it.
This is especially true if you’re in the internet marketing business, and if your site appeals to newbie marketers. Just getting more eyeballs on your squeeze page will likely help you get more opt-ins; but, better yet, it gets you exposure and builds name recognition.
Here’s a good tip oh how to make an effective squeeze page.
The main thing is to design a simple but eye-catching page with something of value for your visitor, who will probably see it for only 15 seconds. If you can catch their attention then that is half the battle. But how do you decide what is an eye-catching page?
Easy.
While you are actively participating on a traffic exchange, make sure to study the pages that you see and take a note of the ones that caught your attention. Some are quite eye-catching and it’s a good idea to bookmark them to get ideas for your own squeeze pages. By the way, here’s a shameless plug for my own optin page, which receives daily visits from traffic exchanges and helps to build my list. And I have found that traffic exchanges do work for this purpose.
How to get more traffic exchange credits the smart way.
Imagine if you joined five traffic exchanges and participated on them for one hour a day each. That means you would be doing five hours of tedious clicking a day with most of that time wasted waiting for the timer to count down.
So why not condense all this down to one hour per day and get the same result?
Here’s how.
It can be a bit confusing getting the timing right at first but once you have the hang of it you will be getting hundreds of credits spread over the five exchanges every day. This means thousands of page views for your site per month.
Try doing this for 30 days as an experiment and see if it has got you more subscribers to your list.
So it’s well worth giving traffic exchanges a try if you’re looking for marketing and building a list that is related to internet marketing. Don’t forget to refer people and build a good downline to get even more credits and more traffic to your squeeze page.
By the way, grab the free report called ‘Super Efficient Surfing’ in the downloads section here. This will show you how to use traffic exchanges and there is also a link to a free piece of software that will speed up your surfing.
There’s some good traffic exchanges to get you started below. By the way, they are referral links and you don’t have to use them if you don’t want to.
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Those are WONDERFUL tips that have been outlined, and I’d like to add to them, by touching on another niche of the traffic generation
systems which is text ad exchanges. With text ad exchanges, you’re able to be sent “solos” (mktg solo ads) directly to your email inbox
rather than be forced to click onsite (like a lot of the manual traffic exchanges - or even some of the automatic ones). That is another way to save time since you can allot yourself some time for this necessary part of list building. The only thing to watch in this approach is whether or not the solos are limited in the amount of time they’re valid for point rewards since you don’t want to be stuck with scads of solos in your inbox that’ve lost their value, because it still takes time to clean them out (lol!). Also consider the value of safelists (no spam advertising), business networking communities, and adboards. By no means is it a finished
business of finding means to generate traffic. You’re going to have to go out and overturn every rock you can to find those types
of ad delivery systems which are going to be beneficial to you as far as the amount of time you put in versus the desired effects that
derive from your usage of them. Now, exercise your brainstem by Googling these resources I’m going to list for you (in no particular
order - just by the ones I use in rotational cycles) to help start;
businessads.com, trafficexchangeaustralia.com, respondoo.com,
thelistauction.com, myfreeadsubmit.com, text-ads-r.us, leadsleap.com, eazyeuros.com, happydayssafelist,
and there are tens of 1000s to investigate under the designation of internet advertising. And don’t be afraid to take a chance and spend a couple of bucks because that can help as well - whatever you can afford or if you come across a great deal at a great price.