What’s the point of Traffic Exchanges?
Traffic Exchanges are one way of directing free traffic to your site. Certainly using them will increase your site’s hit rate considerably – there is no doubt about that. However, what do the visitors do? I ran a trial to find out!
The idea behind Traffic Exchanges is simple. For each site you visit you are awarded a credit, and, as a result your site will receive one hit. The more credits you get, the more hits! Generally you need to spend 10 seconds on each site to gain a credit.
The clever way to rapidly build up credits is to surf several sites at once. To do this you need at least four Traffic Exchange accounts. Use your bowser tabs to open each exchange. Start surfing on one exchange. The clock starts rolling there. Move on to the next site and click on its link, then on to the next. By the time you have started all four clocks, 10 seconds will be up and you can return to the first exchange and repeat the process. No need to waste time looking at the sites!!
Four of the best Traffic Exchange sites are:
I set up accounts with these and started to surf. In 30 minutes I had built up 400 credits quite easily. Hits started to pour into my site. Statcounter got quite excited. BUT, when you actually check what is happening it is clear that very very few visitors opt-in! Everybody must just be simply building up credits without looking at the site content.
I will continue to try this for a full week. However, if first impressions are anything to go by, I suspect that Traffic Exchanges will be rapidly abandoned. Google Adwords rules OK!
admin on December 13th 2008 in Internet Marketing Tips
