- Traffic Exchange Programs are services that webmasters or bloggers join to promote their sites or blogs and increase their site traffic. The idea behind Traffic Exhange programs is very simple. After setting up your account with any of such program, you have to browse (or manually surf) other member's sites in order to earn credits to enable your sites to be viewed by other members through the system. The more you surf others' site the more site traffic you will get for yourself.
If your site/blog is new, traffic exchange may do wonders in sending visitors to your site. But for more wider exposure there are other tasks to be done too such as submitting your site/blog to search engines, open directories and blog directores, making a press release and so on.
Almost all traffic exchange programs are free and encourage users to build their own referral networks,
which in turn increases the referrers' amount of credits. Many of them also have paid scheme and offer some special features to paid members and offer credits for purchase. You can purchase credits from others in very low price.
Most programs have a 2:1 or 3:2 conversion rate (some even have 1:1 ) which means that each 1 1/2 or 2 pages you see from other members, yours site is shown 1 time. There are lots of ways you can promote your site such as Pay Per Click, Banner Exchanges and Impressions, Start Page programs.
Surfing Process Depending on the program, you will get between 0.5 to 1.0 credit for every site you visit. There is a timer at the top or bottom frame of the page to compel you to remain at the site for a certain period of time which ranges from 10 to 30 seconds. You are then required to click one of the corresponding images, numbers or mentioned button in order to proceed to the next random site (some like LinkReferral are exceptions). This is to prevent autosurf cheating. You can assign the credits earned among your sites ( in case you have multiple Urls listed) as you desire. You can also find auto assign feature but you have to allot certain percentage (or credits) of your earned credits among your sites.
For every visitor you get to your site/blog, 1 credit is deducted until all of your credits are spent.
How much time you will need? There is no certain time limit. Some of these programs requires 30-45 minutes to complete daily allotment. But it doesn't mean that you have to complete that every day. It depends upon you, how long you want to surf on members' sites in order to accumulate more and more credits. Remember "the more you surf others' sites the more you get site traffic for yourself".
Some tips on joining traffic exchanges and getting most of it: Try to get involved in 3-5 good traffic exchanges only. It is difficult and time consuming to keep up with large numbers of programs. Check the list below. Before joining any Traffic Exchange Programs it is good to check it's Traffic Ranks (to check traffic ranks visit http://www.alexa.com) and Google Page Ranks. But it doesn't mean that joining only high ranked programs provide you huge traffic.
You can also find some of emerging Traffic Exchange Programs promising too. If you love to get targeted traffic then join programs with categories available similar to your sites or blogs.
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