June 11, 2007
About Traffic Exchanges
What are Traffic Exchanges and why should we use them? Can a Traffic Exchange really be a viable source of advertising?
Obviously my answer is going to be a emphatic YES but I want to share with you why I say yes and why you should be as excited about Traffic Exchange advertising as I am.
Reason Number One: The Cost
Advertising on a Traffic Exchange is probably the lowest priced advertising that you’re going to find anywhere, besides tacking your flyer to a telephone pole. The majority of Traffic Exchanges are free to join and the monthly upgrade fees are minimal.
You can produce literally thousands of views to the website of your choice for pennies.
But does low cost equal low value? NO! Unlike the flyer on the telephone pole, Traffic Exchanges have one very important and unique advantage. This leads me to…
Reason Number Two: A Captive Audience
When you advertise in Traffic Exchanges you are making use of some of the the most valuable advertising there is. There are a couple of different characteristics that make this true.
First, your audience is captive. A manual exchange requires the surfing member to physically click on a link to advance to the next website. The member must be looking at the surf bar to do that.. the same surf bar that surrounds your website. In other words, in order for a member to surf and accumulate credits, he MUST see your site.
Secondly, Traffic Exchanges are increasingly using categories. When you submit your website you are asked into which category it fits best. Doing this assures that if another member selects the category of Autoresponders, and yours is listed there, that member is going to see it. That’s as targeted as you’re ever gonna get.
It’s true, that all don’t use the category feature yet, and it’s also true that at this point many categories aren’t needed. Honestly traffic exchanges cater mostly to Internet Marketers at this point.
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Don’t confuse being Internet Marketers with members who are only looking for the next get rich quick scheme or even a legitimate opportunity.
While that covers a portion of an exchanges membership.. it certainly isn’t exclusive to that.
A large group of Internet Marketers are serious minded business people that have already found a legitimate business and don’t want another one! What they do need are the tools and resources to run, market, organize, maintain and promote the business they have.
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The fact that so many users are Internet Marketers makes Traffic Exchanges the ultimate targeted audience for many of us right now.
But that fact also leads us right into the best part.. the most exciting, I can’t contain myself any longer, reason!
Reason Number Three: Traffic Exchanges are in their infancy.
The first Traffic Exchange began just 8 short years ago! Each of you as members of a Traffic Exchange are truly in at the beginning of a new era of advertising.
We are just beginning to see the big picture. We are just beginning to experience the immense power of this new advertising arena. You can believe it when I say that you haven’t seen nothin’ yet!
Have you noticed while surfing that you come across more and more sites that are NOT related to Internet Marketing. While still the minority, there are many sites targeting gifts, pets, music, sportswear, apparel and more. This is the future of TrafficExchanges! This is what should make you ‘jumpin’ outta your chair’ excited!!
If you are an Internet Marketer.. Traffic Exchanges are just going to continue to grow and be a huge target audience for you. If, however, your passion lies in another area, making jewelry perhaps or having an online antique book store, Traffic Exchanges are on the verge of exploding your advertising horizons.
As all of us involved with Traffic Exchanges work together and begin stretching and growing out of our comfort zones, our presence WILL become known. We WILL impact the advertising world in a HUGE way.
No matter what it is that you want to advertise, you will have a world wide market! Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people will be drawn to and begin using Traffic Exchanges.. and for 2 very simple reasons.
Reason Number 1: The Cost
Reason Number 2: A Captive Audience
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
- Mark Caine
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Hello and Thank You,
for the information about how important Traffic Exchange
Advertising can be. Learning something new everyday is
A Blessing for yourself and your business….
Hagall,
Thanks for the update It is good to know.
Jane
This is a reply for Paul Kinder. The TE that treated me in such an inconsiderate manner was Traffic Swarm. They have done this to me on two different occasions. The two occasions were quiet a while apart as I did not go there for some time after it happening the first time. I will not return to the site. They treated me like I was a two year old.
Sir, I am 57 years old, have a college degree in History and have studied computers and many other subjects since graduating college. I do not appreciate, nor do I find it good manners, to treat anyone like they do not have good sense. You don’t even want to know what I would really like to say to the admin. of that exchange. It is their lose.
Respectfully yours,
Joyce Sanders
No doubt that TEs are one of the way to get traffic to your website or affiliate link…fast.
And I think the dark side is that mostly everyone surfing those TEs are the same as you. Internet marketers, advanced or noobies, so the traffic is not very targeted.
Still, for many reasons, I belong to maybe more than a hundred TEs, mainly manual, and auto. I have gathered some referred guys, and that’s all.
Well, I am reflecting right know that maybe thanks to the TEs traffic, my website is now about #684,000 on Alexa. Not much; but if you come to see that I was not much longer ago over #5′000,000, well, I have to “blame” those TEs about this.
My best regards,
Jesus Moreno
Thank you for the update on traffic exchange. The three reasons you outlined are very logical and revealing. With a mega size market out there, media like traffic exchanges are indeed necessary to connect merchants and purchasers.
Just like in blogs and articles, I get to learn something by surfing and reading postings in traffic exchanges. There are scums but most are genuine postings from earnest people who provide usefull content other than just make money on line.
More power to you!
Jose Alberto Velasco
This is Kenneth Young and I have just joined your program
and I would like to say that I love your website its
very crisp to look at and the writing doesn’t look like it was
done with an old typewriter ribbon.
Send me any information that you feel would
be useful to me.
Kenneth Young
email
kenyoung@ns.sympatico.ca
Thank you for highlighting the advantages of TEs. I was about to give up, as I did not get any results yet (been at it for about 2 months now).
Will continue and see how it goes.
Regards
Kelvin Yeoh
I think TE’s are great! IF you find that you are not getting the desired results from a TE…think about the pages that you are using to advertise. When advertising to an audience in a TE, it is best to use a splash page that is linked to your main site. Splash pages allow you to catch the attention of the surfer and direct them back to your main site.
Judy L Young
Hello Doug thanks for the info in times like these it’s good to hear a positive note .
Keep It Real !
Thank You Danny Brooks
Everyone is absolutely correct about hitsafari. The features are clear and simple. The website is very attractive. It is a pleasure to be part of Hitsafari. Your credits and hits to your websites are being added automatically as you surf.
Thanks
Fifi
Everyone is absolutely correct about hitsafari. The features are clear and simple. The website is very attractive. It is a pleasure to be part of Hitsafari. Your credits and hits to your websites are being added automatically as you surf.
Thanks
Fifi