All About Traffic Exchanges

All About Traffic Exchanges


by: Penelope Smith

Traffic Exchange Sites are websites where you essentially exchange traffic. You submit your sites and earn page views to your site by viewing other sites. This can be done both automatically and manually. But dont think the work automatically means its without work on your part. Some sites offer both and some specialize in only one type of surfing.

Auto Surf

Auto surf is more for page-view/site-view stats. Your sites do get viewed by real people but can be missed or not clicked on because they automatically continue on to the next site. I know I have missed something I wanted to click on because it moved on before I was ready. When surfing on these sites, you really have to remember that you are on auto and that if you see something interesting to open the site in a new window or tab before it moves on.

Manual Surf

Manual sites can be broken down into 2 separate kinds. There is hover surf and click surf. Some offer the options to choose. Hover surf is where you simply have to hover over the location required to move on to the next site. Click surf is where you have to click a particular image or number to move forward to the next site. I personally prefer hover surf because it is just simpler in my opinion. You also have to be careful with hover surf as you do with auto surf. Once you slide past the spot, it will go on to next page. You can sometimes miss a bonus or offer because you hovered over the wrong location.

Choosing a site

There are numerous sites to choose from. Site with less than 100 people to sites with over 50,000 people. Don’t be deceived by big numbers. The more people in an exchange, the faster your credits run out. These larger sites often have much lower surf ratios as well which means you will have to work harder and longer to get views for your sites.

I find it better to get in with small exchanges when they are just starting and grow with them. You can get great surf ratios and many times extras like free upgrades or a large number of free credits. They sometimes also offer an extremely cheap upgraded account or have contests for free upgraded accounts. It is also easier to get signups under you when there is a really great offer.

I suggest making a blog about your exchanges and using it in your promotions. You can visit my blog for an example: http://free-lifetime-upgrades.blogspot.com and also find free upgrade offers as well. I would suggest to start at these exchanges if you are new to exchanges and then add new sites as you come across them in your surfing. A blog is free and is a great way to spread the word about all your sites in one place.



About the author:
This article is written by Penelope Smith. Owner of this site.

http://free-lifetime-upgrades.blogspot.com

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My Page Rank full of great tools for your website or blog...

http://www.mypagerank.ne/

If you look to your left you will see some of the tools pulled from this site. You can get a google page rank button or a detailed list of your rankings and links in and more. There is also button you can add to your site that will tell you when was the last time Google, Yahoo, or MSN has checked your sites.

They also have other tools that will check your Meta Tags and etc. Deffinately a site to bookmark.

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Stat Counter the better counter by far...

After testing out several different counters, I feel that StatCounter.com is the better of them.

It gives you the most detail and picks up the most sites.

Some sites have the same features but do not catch all site views. You may think your advertising budget is going down the tubes, but it just may be that your counter is not picking up these soruces. I ran all counters at the same time for a month and could see what was being missed.

Hitstats isn't too bad nor is Google's tracking service, but they are not very expandable. They also seemed to miss some hits. Hitstats will give you a nice counter you can display on your site that will show your number counts to visitors. If you want to put a counter that shows to the public, you might as well pick Hitstats since you get both a visible counter and tracking services.

I highly recommend Stat counter for your site tracking needs.

http://www.statcounter.com/
http://www.histats.com/

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Twitter is a Mini Myspace

For those of you who haven't heard of Twitter, it is a community of people that takes elements of myspace and a blog and minimizes it to 140 characters.

Users can post quick messages either to their followers or in replies to others post. The can only be a miximum of 140 characters, so it makes you have to get really to the point.

This is called a Tweet or a Twit.

I have seen this around for some time and finally decided to give it a try. It is not to hard to use and before you know it you are hooked. Even Obama had a Twitter account during the election. It is still up but hasn't had a Tweet since mid Dec.

It is a great way to connect with friends, customers, followers, or strangers. It only takes a click of a button to follow or unfollow anyone on Twitter.

There are newsgroups that will Twit the news regularly as well as many of the bloggers you follow are probably on there.

For those of you on Facebook, there is an application that will update Facebook with your Tweets. Now if they could just do that on Myspace, I would be killing 3 birds with one stone. Maybe it will come in the future and maybe we should send emails to Myspace to add it. If one exist that I do not know about, someone PLEASE email me.

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If you look to your right you will see that I included a whole section of just free Twitter resources. There are all kinds of apps, buttons, pictures, and more for Twitter.

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