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Traffic Exchanges:What Are They... And How To Start DrivingFree Traffic To Your Website Today...What are traffic exchanges? They are websites which offer a way for internet marketers to get free visitors to their websites in exchange for them visiting other members' websites. So you get free traffic for doing some surfing. Usually, you would receive some type of credit for viewing someone else's site. Then you would spend those credits automatically when someone else views your site. It's also noteworthy that in order to receive credit for viewing a site you must remain on that site for a predetermined period of time before moving on to view the next site. Although it costs no money to join traffic exchanges there is definitely a "cost" involved. It will cost you your time. Remember, to receive a credit for viewing a site you must stay on that site for a period of time, usually 15 to 20 seconds. The ROI (Return On Investment) for this activity, in my opinion is nominal at best. Here's why I say that. If you receive one credit for viewing a website and that one credit allows your site to be viewed once, that takes some time. If you surfed for one hour how many sites could you view? My experience has been about 100 to 200 sites per hour giving you 100 to 200 credits for your site in that time. Even if you got creative and opened up 5 browser windows and surfed 5 different traffic exchanges at once, alternating between sites during your 15 to 20 second waits, maybe you could gather as much as three to five hundred credits. What is your return? Up to five hundred or so visitors. Now, you might say, "wow! That's way more than I get now!" But compared to what you could get from the search engines this is a paltry return. But there may be another not so obvious cost. Keep in mind that when you are surfing in order to receive credits, you are not necessarily looking to buy or join anything. You just want traffic to your site in hopes that someone else may buy or join what you're offering. Guess what? That's what everyone else is doing also! Who wins? Also, if you have your own website and you are hoping to get free targeted traffic from the search engines, you may be hurting yourself in the long run. How? Because google is constantly evaluating websites for relevancy and popularity. One of the metrics they look at is how long a visitor stays on your site. If most visitors are "clicking out" of your site, spending less than 30 seconds, google and the other top search engines will determine your site must not be relevant to the searched keywords. Eventually you will lose your top rankings for those keywords and may get dropped altogether. What I would use traffic exchanges for is for testing out a squeeze page with an opt-in form. You may want to drive traffic to a replicated site since those are ignored by the search engines anyway. Just keep in mind not to expect more than a 1% response rate at best. Want more info?...
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