Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Traffic Exchanges - Do's and Don'ts

Today is my 6th day with my new Internet business and thus far I have had 1468 hits to my site. The best part is that I have 19 subscribers already. That meaning people that wanted to give me their name and e-mail address to become part of my newsletter (http://www.webmoneymaker.com/pips.html).

For a while now I've been signing on with safe list (checkout my next post in a day or two) and Traffic Exchanged every chance I get! PLEASE don't do this. My main reasons for this is:


  1. Now I get about 300-400 e-mails a day, which I had to setup a rule for to delete as they are downloaded.
  2. You will spend your whole clicking on links, browsing websites to gain credits, so that you can advertise your own site or banner. Again not worth it.

What I have found is 3 of the best ones that work for me and I would encourage you to use them as well. It takes only about 15 mins a day of surfing to gain credits and that is it. Here they are:

These three are unique advertising methods. First off, they don't cost you any money. You can sign up for free. So here is what makes them so unique and best to use.

Advertising Know How:
With advertising know how you can surf for credits as per usual with any other Traffic Exchanges, but if you surf 50 sites a day for 5 days out of 7, Advertising Know How will add one free referral to your account. This means within a month you can have at least 4 referrals in your down line, helping you to surf for credits to advertise. Not mentioning that if they upgrade to the pro account you will earn commissions. :)

Secondly, Advertising Know How have an option to add banners for your site, to your account. You can then convert your surfing credits to banner "impressions". These impressions is used to show your banner to people that are surfing. I use this option exclusively. Every 10 credits will earn you 1 000 impressions. Very nice right?

TrafficSwarm:
With TrafficSwarm you also check out sites to get credits, but what sets them apart is the fact that they give you an "startup url". This you can put in your browsers startup page and everything you open your browser, the browser goes directly to that "startup page" and you earn 1 credit. Now this might not sound like a lot, but I've tested this. For me this brings in 50 plus credits a day, without surfing any additional adds. Then if you refer people to there site and they sign up, you will again earn credits for your referral's views of sites, plus commissions if they sign up for the pro membership.

InstantBuzz:
With InstantBuzz it is even easier to earn credits for advertising. You simply install a little program that becomes an toolbar on your browser. Every time you visit a site, it will show you a new advertisement and that counts as 1 credit. Within writing this blog I've earn 130 odd credits. Simple as that, setup your account here, setup you ads in your account profiles, install the toolbar and that is it. Check in once a day to see your ads stats. :) PS: your antivirus program might see this as "Adware", which of course it is, seeing as it does show you ads. It DOES NOT contain any viruses or spyware. When prompted, simply add this program to you antivirus exception list.

Now just to make it clear, none of the people you refer needs to sign up pro membership with any of these kind of sites, just the extra credits you earn will be benefit enough!

These 3 sites have helped me a lot, but believe you me, it took a while to get to these three. Use them, they are free and will generate a lot of traffic to your site.

Till next time,
Happy Money Making!

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3 comments:

Ellyn said...

Great post! I found you on BlogExplosion, which is tedious, as you suggest. So I'm thrilled at your traffic-building suggestions. (I haven't checked them out yet, but I will.) Thanks!

Ellyn said...

I joined Advertising Know How and it doesn't recognize my blog. When I type in the url, my page shows up, I'm told to wait 15 seconds, and then it says error: page not found. But it was there, in their window! Very frustrating. Plus, I noticed none of the banners included referral info, but nowhere does it tell you how to change that.

Paul Bester said...

Where do you host your blog. I havent had a problem with Advertising Know How so far. My BlogSpot blog is fine.

As for the referal info, if you go to the menu : Traffic Exchange, there is your referal link.

Hope this helps.