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.

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.