What Are Traffic Exchanges?

Simply Traffic Exchanges are  websites that let Internet marketers earn credits by looking at the websites of other members on the traffic exchange. The more pages you view, the more credits you earn, and the more often your page will appear in rotation of the Traffic Exchange.

There are two types of Traffic Exchange that you will find on the internet, manual and auto surf traffic exchange sites. The manual sites require you to literally click a button to go to the next site, while the auto surf ones scroll through the sites automatically. If you’ve got repetitive strain injuries, the second is definitely the way to go!

Why traffic exchanges are good

Traffic exchanges can attract more eye balls to your website and more clicks on your site, which can help improve your ranking in the search engines. The more people who are visiting your site, the more the search engines will view your site as popular, and up the rankings your site will go.

This means when people are searching for your keyword terms, they’ll be more likely to find your website if you’ve been able to rise towards the top of the search engine listings. Naturally getting clicks through a link exchange is no substitute for having a website that is well written and high quality, that is optimized for those keyword terms properly.

Attracting other members into traffic exchanges will also earn you a small percentage of these members surfing credits. If you get enough members signing up under you, you can replace your surfing credits with those earnt through your downline. You will also receive a one off credit amount for each member who signs up under you.

Why traffic exchanges are bad

The main problem with the free traffic exchanges is that you have to spend time clicking on other people’s pages to view them in order to earn credits that get people to view your page. This can be time consuming—and not a lot of fun—if the sites aren’t things you are interested in. The way you feel when you have to take time out of your day to click on pages in the traffic exchange is probably the way that the majority of the other people there feel—they’re just trying to get clicks to their own site.

Most people in all probability won’t spend a lot of time on your site, and you won’t make many sales from traffic exchanges.

Why bother with Trffic Exchanges?

You may well be wondering why anyone would bother with traffic exchanges. They seem like a lot of time for little return, time that could be better used in developing new products or writing e-mails to build your relationship with your current customers.

The time involved in viewing other pages and clicking on links is the biggest downside of traffic exchanges.  But the amount of traffic you get in exchange for your time can be significant, and there are a sure to be some of those visitors that will be interested in what you have to offer. If you don’t want to surf you can usually purchase credits quite cheaply.

Ultimately, you have to determine if this is something you want to utilize, but there are definite positives, especially for the new Internet marketer who doesn’t have a big advertising budget but wants to draw traffic to his or her site.

Affiliate Funnel publishes a list of the top Traffic Exchanges each week along with their seminar every Saturday where you can get lots more tips.

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