Traffic exchange programs are a good way to bring in inexpensive and sometimes free traffic to your site. Over the years I have used several programs to keep a steady flow of traffic to my free classifieds site when the advertising budget was low. It became obvious though that those using traffic exchange programs were mostly businesses trying to get you to join or buy their products and people surfing to just earn credits. So that is why traffic exchanges might not be a good choice for receiving fresh-targeted traffic. These programs are excellent however for those businesses that cater to other businesses; a good example is my free classifieds site. If you have an idea or sell a product that other businesses can use to better promote their product or services than traffic exchanges are perfect for you. Most sites are free and offer affiliate programs that reward your promotion efforts with a percentage of your downlines click credits and will pay a commission when someone upgrades their account. My approach was to build my downline quickly by advertising on my site and advertising in search engines for each program I joined. By doing this I now get enough free credits from my downline to where I do not have to surf or buy credits at all. In the beginning of your campaign you may need to buy credits to get the ball rolling and the good news about that is most clicks to your site usually only cost about $.03 cents. For more information on traffic exchange programs just do a search, you will find many good programs to test out. Just remember that most are free to join, which will enable you to give them a good test drive before you spend any money. |
