10 Top Tips To Make Traffic Exchanges Work For You

H ave you ever tried using a      Traffic Exchanges work for you     start page exchange to get                                         extra traffic to your           1) Spread Your Surfing Across      site??                                Lots Of Exchanges                                                                                           There is no doubt Traffic             Many Traffic Exchanges have        Exchanges can provide you with        fairly small active memberships.   lots of extra FREE traffic, and       This means the number of people    if you use the right strategies       who are actually surfing, at any   you can turn those start page         one time, is limited. Even the     hits into high quality targetted      larger exchanges may not have      visitors                              more than 100 people surfing in                                          any one day. In addition most of   For those of you new to internet      the hits to the exchange are       marketing who need an                 accounted for by a small number    introduction to the Traffic           of determined, committed surfers   Exchange world here a brief           i.e. a few people are surfing      introduction                          alot of sites                                                                                               A Traffic Exchange allows you to      The way Traffic Exchange scripts   join for FREE, register your          work means, that people who surf,  site, and earn credits by viewing     are shown sites which have         other sites. You can then use         credits remaining in their         those credits to receive traffic      traffic account. So if you earn    from the exchange to your site.       alot of credits on any one         People must view your site for a      exchange the chances are your      minimum number of seconds before      site will be shown repeatedly to   passing on to the next site           the same people over and over                                                                               Here are 10 Top Tips to make          In order to combat these problems  you should surf for a small           once. If you use a tabbed browser  number of credits only, on each       you can surf each different        exchange you visit. By surfing        traffic exchange in a different    like this on many different           tab or window. This will work      exchanges you will pick up hits       best if you have a reasonable      from all the small number of          amount of memory (RAM) on your     people who are "stuck" on one         computer and a broadband or fast   exchange or other.                    internet connection                                                                                         By surfing for a small number of      My own recommendation is to surf   credits on a large number of          7 exchanges at once in different   exchanges you are likely to get       windows or tabs. It is best to do  far more unique hits, and, just       this for no longer than 20-30min   as important, you will be             so as not to earn too many         "hitting" a large number of           credits on any one exchange        interested business opportunity                                          seekers spread across many            3) Use Mozilla Firefox             exchanges                                                                                                      Mozilla Firefox is an extremely    By "unique", we mean that only        good surfing browser, which        one person has seen your site in      enables you to have many "tabs"    a 24hr period                         or separate windows open, but                                            with only one main browser window  2) Surf Sets Of Exchanges At Once     open. This is a very clever                                              browser which is far better than   One of the easiest ways to click      Explorer, and includes lots of     up a really large number of           extra features such as RSS Feeds   credits and therefore generate a      and most important of all anti     large number of hits, is to surf      virus protection                   multiple traffic exchanges at                                            Firefox enables you to disable        web window i.e. no scrolling down  websites downloading software by      is required. There is normally a   default. This means that              link which can be clicked to open  everytime someone tries to            the main target site in a new      download something as part of a       window                             web page - an all too frequent                                           method for bad sites to get           The best way to use splash pages   viruses/spyware onto your             is to combine them with a          computer - an alert box will          name/email lead capture box, so    deploy giving you the chance to       that you have the chance to        say "no actually I dont want your     follow up on leads later           silly software thank you very                                            much!!"                               Many splash pages are poorly                                             designed or badly worded and       Mozilla is also much faster than      therefore fail to achieve their    other browsers at displaying the      full potential. You should         pages, especially if you install      remember that the "ad copy" in a   the "FasterFox" addon                 page is the most important                                               element. Poor "ad copy" will       There is also a very nice addon       reduce the effectiveness of a      from Firefox which gives              splash page to virtually zero      different colors to the different                                        tabs you have open, making it         You should also be careful with    easier to see where you are           images, as images will always                                            draw the eye away from your "ad    4) Use Splash Pages                   copy". So its important that any                                         images underline the message you   Splash pages are simply quick         are trying to put across on the    loading web pages, which are          page. An image should "say" in     generally the size of a normal        summary what the words are saying  in the "ad copy". If the image is     if ever respond to an affiliate    suggesting something different to     URL or sales page - this is in     the message, then its likely          part because they are              people will see the image - even      concentrating on earning credits   remember the image - but have no                                         idea whatsoever what the page was     However if the main purpose of     actually about!!                      your page is to collect names and                                        emails then you can add these      Avoid using the "STOP" sign in        people into your autoresponder     splash pages. Some people take up     automatically and send them a      most of the space in the window       series of email messages over the  by displaying some kind of "stop      next few weeks. You will be        surfing" message. However this        surprised how many more people     means someone then has to scroll      will respond to emails, than just  down the page to see what the         visiting your site "blind"         message of the page is. It is                                            absolutely essential that people      6) Surf For Banner Impressions     can "get your message" in no more                                        than 5 seconds. You can do this       One of the things you will notice  by a great proven headline            about all Traffic Exchanges is                                           that they have a banner displayed  5) Concentrate On Lead Capture        somewhere in the surf frame. When  Pages                                 someone clicks on this banner -                                          no credits are earned - and the    The biggest mistake people make       page opens up in a new window. So  with Traffic Exchanges is signing     when people visit your site, as a  up for some affiliate scheme, and     result of seeing your banner,      then clicking for credits for the     they are of much greater value to  affiliate URL. This is a recipe       you. This is because they are      for disaster!! People will rarely     actually interested in visiting    your site. They are not earning       the HTML FORM code, so that when   any credits and so there is no        someone enters their name/email,   timer. These people are many          an extra variable will be sent to  times more likely to join your        you, to show which page or site    program or buy your product, than     they were on when the form was     people who view your site while       filled in. At its simplest this    surfing                               could be done by changing the                                            subject line of the CGI email      7) Use A Rotator                      that is used when the details of                                         the webform are transferred into   A rotator is a single URL which       an email. In case you are unsure   rotates the different sites you       about all this, CGI Email, is a    have added to it. So if you had       program hosted on your web         10 sites in a rotator, then every     server, which turns the contents   time your rotator URL is "called"     of a webform into an email and     then a different one of those 10      sends it to you                    sites would display. This has the                                        advantage on a Traffic Exchange       9) Concentrate On Exchanges With   that if repeat hits were sent to      A Longer Count Down                the same person, they would                                              actually get a different site         It is simple common sense that                                           the longer your webpage has to be  8) Track Your Advertising             seen by other surfers the greater                                        the chance that your page will     Its very important in any             convert to sales or signups. If a  advertising to monitor your           Traffic Exchange has a very short  responses. Its much easier to do      counter then it could be that      this with a Lead Capture page,        your page wont display at all -    than with any other page. You can     especially if someone has a slow   simply add a piece of code into       dial-up connection                                                                                          Traffic Exchanges with longer         One useful shorthand guide to how  count downs also perform much         good a Traffic Exchange is can be  better for banners i.e. you will      achieved by looking at its Alexa   often get a much better click         Ranking. Obviously if a Traffic    through rate - the number of          Exchange is not in the top         times a banner is clicked per         200,000 out of all sites then its  thousand impressions. As banners      probably best left alone           provide you with the best                                                possible traffic from start           If you follow these strategies     pages, its worth spending more        you will have an excellent method  time on exchanges with longer         of getting the very best from the  timers                                time you spend surfing traffic                                           exchanges                          10) Compare The Alexa Rankings Of                                     Exchanges                              About the Author: Tim Fulcher is an independent writer and webmaster and maintains a number of websites including: http://www.ebiz4every1.com http://www.traffic-exchange-monitoring.com http://www.profitchargerhits.com Read more articles by: Tim Fulcher Article Source: www.iSnare.com