Traffic Exchanges
Free Traffic with Traffic Exchanges
by admin on Feb.17, 2010, under Traffic Exchanges
First of all you may be wondering what is a traffic exchange. A traffic exchange is basically an exchange of web site views. You look at other people’s web sites and they will in turn look at yours. As you view the other member’s web sites you earn credits. These credits determine how many times that your web site is viewed by other members.
There are basically 4 ways to earn credits when using a traffic exchange:
- Surf the traffic exchange to earn credits
- You can purchase credits from the traffic exchange owner
- If you upgrade your account which involves a monthly fee then you are given a certain amount of credits with your membership
- You can refer others to the exchange and you earn credits from the referrals.
You can usually advertise all of the following:
- A web site page of your choice. In many exchanges you can rotate between multiple web pages
- You can use a banner
- You can use a text link
The major benefit to using a traffic exchange is that the traffic can be obtained free or at least in exchange for your time to surf for credits.
The downside to using a traffic exchange is that many people use them and do gain any useful traffic. This is largely due to the user setting up thier standard web site and hoping that everyone viewing the site will immediately sign up.
It’s not gonna happen!
You need to understand the mentality of the other surfers which is not far off from your own reasons for joining a traffic exchange. YOU WANT TRAFFIC!
You must offer something that your target audience wants. And you only have seconds to capture the attention of the surfer. This means that you should be offering something that will increase the surfers traffic and you must introduce this to the surfer with a lead capture page.
A lead capture page is a page designed to:
- Capture attention quickly
- Give just enough information for the surfer to want more
- Easy capture the surfers information so that you can follow up with a series of information messages.
Free eBooks are a quick way to capture attention and get new sign ups from people looking for traffic. If you are not using these simple methods then you will probably fail at traffic exchanges. If you are ready to try your hand at traffic exchanges I list a few below that I use on a regular basis to get free traffic.
