The Thing About Promoting Your Internet Business with Traffic Exchanges
What is it about traffic exchanges? The thing that makes so many people join them then forget all about them after awhile? Ironically, it’s the thing that makes them so valuable! There is more to them than meets the eye, and people get overwhelmed.
Each traffic exchange is basically the same in that you can surf or buy credits and you get traffic. But each one has it’s own “personality” for lack of a better word, and its own uniqueness. There is even a new traffic exchange browser that you can use these days, to make TE surfing and marketing even easier.
When you start joining traffic exchanges, you will see that to make proper use of them, takes the investment of some of your time. Each one almost without fail has a downline builder. At least I’ve never seen one that doesn’t, have you?
If you aren’t already enrolled in all of the other exchanges that are in a particular downline builder, it takes some time to do that and input your username or ID number into each. If you don’t do this, and you start referring others, you are leaving free traffic and potentially money when they upgrade or buy credits, on the table!
But this can also make you crazy! There are SO many traffic exchanges and not all of them have the same recommendations in their downline builder. After a short while it can feel like trying to keep up with all of the different accounts isn’t worth it since there is no way to know which ones are established and worth having an account with, and which ones aren’t.
In truth though, there is a way to know which traffic exchanges have the most traffic, along with which list builders (that’s another post!). You can use a service called Traffic Hoopla. It’s free to join and use and will send you monthly updates on the top rated TE’s. They rate them independently, meaning that no one can pay them to say their site gets more traffic than it really does. How refreshing!
Then you just make sure you have active accounts with those ones, and anything else you can manage to get set up over time, is, well, gravy.
Surfing traffic exchanges for free advertising has a place in every serious Internet marketers’ promotion toolbox. But if you don’t have a system, or a plan for your time and energy investment, then you can wind up spending more and more time and money, while getting little or no return.
Spend an hour today putting your traffic exchange marketing plan in place, using Traffic Hoopla or your own system – though I’m not sure why anyone would want to recreate that wheel. Take consistent action and as long as what you are promoting on them has value to the other users, TE’s will serve you well.
