Many marketers shy away from Traffic Exchanges, but it is an often an under used traffic generation technique that can bring floods of traffic to your webpage.

Simply Traffic Exchanges are  websites that let Internet marketers earn credits by viewing 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 on the Traffic Exchange.

There are dozens of people for who Traffic Exchanges don’t work, with the amount of members in most exchanges it ought to be very successful. The error that most people make when using a traffic exchange is that they try to sell products and services, but seldom are they successful since members are there surfing for credits to show their own pages.

What you need to be doing is showing your squeeze page for your valuable free offer, this then produces a significant change in the members mentality as it barely interupts their own goals of surfing for credits. If your free offer is perceived to be sufficiently valuable enough, you will have targeted visitors signing up for your list.

With so many members, traffic exchanges can provide you with 700 to 800 visitors viewing your page each and every week for around 25 minutes of your time surfing daily.

When you convince other people to sign up for the same traffic exchange through your link, you will receive additional bonus credits for your squeeze page, either as a one off amount of credits or based on the amount of pages they view when they use the traffic exchange you introduced them to.

Clearly, with some work and a well targeted free offer, you can easily develop a powerful stream of targeted visitors who will sign up to your list.

Join some of the leading traffic exchanges, they are free to join and add another traffic source for you to build your list. Here are a couple to get you started:

Bootscootin Traffic
Traffic Witch
Traffic Splash
Gladiator Hits

For the top Traffic Exchanges go to Affiliate Funnel. They publish a list every week of the top exchanges over the previous week.

Too many marketers who use traffic exchanges give up before giving it a chance to produce results. It is not the fastest way but most traffic exchanges are free to join. The secret is to build your downlines in these programs, this will build your credits from other peoples work (surfing).

If you are using traffic exchanges you need to use a fast loading squeeze page with your opt-in form in a prominant position, a catchy headline, may be a graphic and 4 -6 bullet points stating the benefits of the program you are promoting.

Remember your page will only be viewed for a short period of time on a traffic exchange, as most surfers who are also members of traffic exchanges are looking for more traffic!

They will mostly be using a tabbed browser, surfing to gain credits to advertise their own pages. So you should be using at least 50% of your traffic exchange promotion promoting other traffic programs, this will build your downlines in your other TE programs and you will earn credits from refering people to a program as well as off of their surfing. Initially you will need to spend time surfing in the exchanges to gain credits.

The majority of these programs are free to join and allow you to email your downline, this is where you can promote your own product, affiliate products or other opportunities and exchanges. Always make sure you maximise the downline builder in any TE you join by filling in your affiliate details for all the exchanges you are a member of, and consider joining any you are not currently a member of so as you build your downlines these members are signing up at other exchanges in the downline builder through your links.

Other ways to build your traffic exchange downlines can include emailing to your own list, write and submit some articles, or write a post on your blog reviewing a Traffic Exchange you wish to promote. The larger you build your downlines, the more credits you will earn, this will allow you to divert your time to work on your next traffic building strategy.

Traffic exchanges are a great place to get free traffic and start building your own list, and should be used as part of your overall Traffic Strategy.