What is a Free Traffic Exchange?
By: Andrew Daigle
A free traffic exchange offers webmasters the ability to
promote their websites or affiliate marketing campaigns for
free, or at very low cost. The idea is to surf around other
members websites, and for each viewing, you get so many of
your own URLs and banners added into the rotation for other
members to view. There are hundreds, if not thousands of free
traffic exchanges online today. The trick is to find the ones
that work best for you. Not all free traffic exchanges are
created equal and the most active ones are not necessarily
the best ones for your needs.
Free traffic exchanges are a great marketing tool for a variety
of reasons. The most obvious reason is that you get lots of
people looking, and hopefully clicking on your website or
promotional pages. But there are hidden benefits to free traffic
exchanges you may not have even considered.
Search engines love free traffic exchanges because of all
the incoming and outgoing links they generate. Plus the rapidly
changing content is another reason the search bots love these
things. Exchanges that have more content also generate a higher
pagerank, and therefore more traffic, and increased memberships.
The key is to find exchanges that are very active and have
lots of members. The more members they have, the more potential
customers you get looking at your offer and your chances for
sales conversions are that much better. But bigger isn't always
better.
Some free traffic exchanges may convert sales like crazy
for one person, and be a complete waste of time for another.
If everyone were promoting the same website or affiliate program
is the same traffic exchange for example, then chances are
you would not make many sales. Even if you were promoting
the #1 thing on the internet, if everyone promoted the same
program, your chances are much lower that someone will purchase
through your website or link to make you any money. Also,
when people see the same ad over and over again, they get
desensitized to it. Don't fall into this trap. It's one thing
to try and sell a very popular product/service/ebook etc,
but it's another thing when a million other people are trying
to do it too. Competition is a good thing, because it validates
your market, but too much competition is tough and it's time
to move on to something else.
We all know clicking on ads in a free traffic exchange can
be very boring, monotonous and can take a lot of time. That's
why you need to make the best of your opportunity or you will
just be wasting a lot of your time and effort on something
that just isn't working. If you have your own niche website,
then you already differentiated yourself from the pack. If
you are an affiliate marketer, then you need to find products/services
that everyone else isn't promoting, especially within that
particular traffic exchange.
One way to use free traffic exchanges to your advantage is
to join a few at first, and see if your sales pick up. If
your sales aren't doing well, then test out a few more. When
you do find a few traffic exchanges that appear to be generating
sales for you, then narrow those down until you find the one,
or two that are working. Now concentrate your efforts on those
because they're the ones you want. At least for now anyway.
Things may change, so keep an eye on your campaigns and if
sales seem to be falling off, then it might be time to change
your offer or find another traffic exchange that could pick
your profits up again.
As I mentioned, your individual promotion is everything.
If you're trying to promote something everyone else is, I
don't care what traffic exchange service you're using, your
sales conversions are going to be very low, or nothing at
all. You cannot always blame the exchange. Sometimes you have
to look at yourself and think if you're doing all you can
to make sales.
If you're going to be using multiple free traffic exchanges,
and I recommend that you do, your first priority should be
to pick up a multi-tab web browser. Many of these browsers
are free and run on PCs and MACs. The tabs feature allows
you to have one web browser open with multiple tabs each going
to a separate website. You could easily put 5 or 6 of your
free exchange sites in these tabs, and earn credits for all
of them at the same time. So instead of surfing for 1/2 an
hour or an hour earning 200 hits for one exchange, you could
earn 200 hits for 5 exchanges in the same amount of time.
This is a huge time saver and multiplies your earned hits
by 5X or 6X.
Getting free traffic to your website is a lot of work. If
you don't have the money to spend on full blown PPC (pay-per-click)
campaigns like Google AdWords, free traffic exchanges are
a great way to get the traffic you need.
Author Bio
Andrew Daigle is owner and creator of TrumpTraffic.com, a
Free Traffic Exchange www.trumptraffic.com , DXInOne Free
Training Site and Forum www.dxout.com
and Google AdWords Training www.adwording.com
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