Traffic exchanges are programs that let other people view your website in exchange for your viewing theirs’. Most of them are absolutely free to join. Since you have a small budget or none at all, your investment will be in time. When you view other peoples’ pages to earn credits, there is a timer on the page. These timers vary from 5-30 seconds depending on the exchange. When the timer runs out, you are required to click somewhere on the page and you will be taken to the next site. The process is repeated over and over. That is how you earn credits for your site to be shown.
Obviously, this can be very time consuming, but it is free!
Now, there are some things that you want to take into consideration. You need to remember that the people that are using the traffic exchanges are mostly people in the same position as you are. No advertising budget!
Don’t expect to make a lot of sales with an affiliate product or explode the down line in your network marketing program. Always keep your audience in mind. These people don’t have a lot of money to spend.
Also, you will see a lot of the same affiliate pages over and over again. These are hundreds of people promoting web pages that look exactly alike. This is boring. After several days of surfing, you will find that you only pay attention to something new, something you haven’t seen before.
See where I’m going with this? If at all possible, you want to create something that is unique. I have found that the best use for traffic exchanges is for lead capture. Build your email list. I’m sure you have heard this over and over again.
That is because it is true! From the minute you begin your career as an internet marketer, you want to continue to build your email list always. We will cover some very effective ways to do this in another issue, but for now, back to traffic exchanges.
Build yourself a lead capture site. Give away something free to entice people to submit their information. This can be a free report, ebook, software, be creative!
There are a lot of products that come with resale rights that you can buy and then give away. Do a search on “articles” and you will find lots of sites that allow you to give away other peoples articles (as long as you don’t change them).
Try to use things that pertain to your product or service that you wish to market to your list later on. Don’t try to sell them on first contact.
Design your site so that it grabs your prospects attention. You only have 5-30 seconds before they click on to the next site, so don’t be long winded.
Most of the free traffic exchanges don’t trade traffic at a direct 1-1 ratio. They encourage you to upgrade for this to happen, don’t worry about this. If you are going to commit to a monthly payment, your money is better spent else where. Stay with the freebies.
You do want to keep an eye on your email box for specials. Almost all of the traffic exchanges that I have used, run specials from time to time, where you can earn double credits for a set time period on a specific day. You want to make sure you watch for these and take advantage of them.
You also want to make sure that you participate in the little traffic games that they have while you are surfing. You can win extra credits this way.
Another way to earn extra credits is by referring others to the traffic site. When you join, you will be given a referral link that you can promote to get people to join under you. After they join, you get a percentage of the credits that they earn.
I have designed a system to help you get the most out of traffic exchanges and to start building your list. It is totally free and my gift to you. I call it the Traffic Hits Multiplier. Use it and you will save yourself a lot of time and you will learn a little lesson on the power of viral marketing.
The system will also automatically build your down lines in the traffic exchanges at an incredible rate. This will drive even more traffic to your sites as you earn credits for each referral plus get a percentage of the credits that each referral earns when they surf.
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Contributor's Note
This is an article from my newsletter "Marketers Mantras".
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