Traffic Exchanges are simply Webmaster Cooperatives, where everyone views websites for a fixed time period, usually around 20-30 seconds, and in return credits are earned, which provide hits to the websites of the webmaster/mistress concerned
Do Traffic Exchanges Work?
Using Traffic Exchanges can be a very effective method of getting traffic to your site, especially if you use the right strategies and methods e.g. Lead Capture Pages, Splash Pages where a link opens in a new window etc. for more information on this see the articles section
How Do I Generate Traffic To My Website?
The short answer is by lots of different effective Traffic strategies. There are lots of ways to generate Traffic to your website, however there is no one simple easy "silver bullet" type method. what you need to to learn the range of tried and tested stragegies that will get traffic to your website day after day. Please take a look more in the articles section, where various articles are posted on traffic generation strategies that work
Do You Need A Website?
In short NO!! Lots of people get affiliate type websites just for becoming a member of an affiliate marketing scheme of some kind e.g. becoming a particular Ebook Affiliate
Can Any Website Be Shown?
The actual websites that will be accepted by the Traffic Exchange in question will depend on the "Terms Of Service" of the particular Traffic Exchange. Most websites will be accepted in practice except Frame Breakers, Adult and porn sites, gambling sites, or sites known to be SCAMS. Some Traffic Exchanges are more strict than others on the sites they will accept, for example some will not allow popups or java script alert boxes
Do People Cheat?
Cheats unfortunately exist anywhere, but in the Traffic Exchange world cheating rarely works. Most Traffic Exchanges have a button users can press to report offending sites. People that try and click up a huge amount of credits on any one exchange are basically wasting their time as all they will succeed in doing is getting their sites viewed by the same people over and over again - pretty pointless really. Most Traffic Exchange owners are on the look out for cheats, and the admin control panels of most Traffic Exchanges show up who is cheating pretty quickly
What Are Frame Breakers?
A Frame Breaker is a website which has a piece of code in the HTML, usually in Java Script, which forces the page to be in a window all on its own i.e. it removes the top frame. This means other surfers are effectively robbed of credits they were earning as they have to try and get the frame back to continune surfing
Are The Sites Seen By Real People?
The beauty of a Manual Traffic Exchange is that people have to view your page for the full period required. The length of this period depends on the timer set by the Traffic Exchange. Some sites require a user to view a page for as long as 30 seconds. If you compare this to your text ad say on Google Adwords, someone may click on a link in your text ad and then immediately return to the search results on the Google website. On a Traffic Exchange this can never happen
Are Some Traffic Exchanges Better Than Others?
Absolutely!! Obviously the longer the timer the better the hits will be. If someone is only viewing your page for 10 or 15 seconds then your page will probably hardly load properly, if the connection is bad then the visitor will only see a white page while their ISP connection tries to find your server
I Have Used A Traffic Exchange But I Never Sold Anything!
This is a difficulty that all websites have whether they use Traffic Exchanges or not. At least the Traffic Exchange industry does provide you with real visitors. The secret to success online is to make money by giving away something for FREE. This is always a successful strategy. you have to work out ways of giving away something for FREE but then have some kind of back end profit. A good example is if you give away a FREE Ebook as some kind of training manual, but provide links to useful services that you happen to be an affiliate of
So What Does Traffic Exchange Monitoring Do?
The whole idea of this site is to monitor and verify how good the traffic is from the different Traffic Exchanges online. If you dont track how successful you advertising is then you are stabbing away in the dark
Our strategy is to use totally independant ranking figures supplied by Alexa to measure the performance and effectiveness of Traffic Exchanges. These figures, which are available for every site on the internet, show which sites are getting the most traffic themselves and therefore have the most people surfing. The greater number of people there are surfing the bigger the "pool" of people there are ready to view your site. This means the chances that your pages will be seen by all the same people over and over again are lessened
Whats The Best Way To Surf?
For information on the best strategies to employ in surfing please take a look at my articles pages. In general the best way to surf is to use a tabbed browser like Mozilla Firefox and surf up to 10 or 11 Exchanges at once. This will dramatically multiply your hits and if you concentrate on the best Traffic Exchanges as listed on this site you are sure to get the best traffic available.
What Do The Figures On This Site Mean?
The ranking figures on this site refer to the overall ranking in terms of hits received by a site, usually calculated by Alexa on a daily basis. This means the lower the ranking number the better the Exchange. For example Traffic Swarm often has a ranking figure of around 500. This means is the 500th most visited site on the internet in any one day/week/month. The graphs plot the daily rank for a particular site over the last 3 months, and show the trend i.e. up or down of the overall ranking for that site.
Bearing in mind that there are billions of websites now online, if a Traffic Exchange is in the top 20,000 out of all websites, then this is a very good performance indeed. Most home pages for example will be lucky to get in the top 5-10 million!!
How Do You Get Banners On A Traffic Exchange?
Many Traffic Exchanges allow you to place your banner codes on their Traffic Exchange for FREE. There are just two parts of the code you need to get your banner to display properly. First you need the URL of the graphic, often called the Banner URL. This is only the graphic part that people see. Next you need the website that people will go to when they click on the banner. This is called the Target URL
Banners and text ads can be a very effective way to advertise your site because people only see your pages if they actually click on the banner. Although click through rates can be low e.g. 0.5% or 5 clicks in 1,000 shows or impressions of your banner, people who have clicked are interested in your product or service so this advertising can be very effective.
In general a good strategy to employ is to find out which text ad wording is giving a good response and then put that wording into a banner
