Before going to the effective usage of traffic exchange websites, it is good to have a clear definition of what exactly are traffic exchanges.
Traffic exchange is a service that offers generation of free of paid traffic to your SFI gateways. When you join the site, you’re going to view other site members’ web pages in exchange for having your SFI web page viewed. You’ll get credits every time you view other members’ web pages for at least 20 seconds. Every time another site member views your SFI web page your credit balance will get deduction.
There are two options of traffic exchanges:
- Manual exchange requires the site member viewing the web page to click for the next web page.
- Auto exchange runs the members’ web pages in your web browser automatically for viewing.
These two options will drive traffic to your SFI gateways but manual exchange will most likely lead a visitor to actually read your web page. On the other hand, auto exchange user will just leave his/her computer all night automatically refreshing on his/her web browser web pages after web pages of site members just to accumulate credits while he/she sleeps and is unlikely to become a new sign up.
When deciding which traffic exchange sites to join, consider the following important features:
- Credit ratio
Traffic exchanges offer members to earn credits in exchange for viewing other members’ web pages. Choose one that provides a good return on the number of credits you receive of each page you view.
- Time Limits
When viewing to earn credits, most traffic exchanges require you to spend a minimum time of viewing before getting a credit. Typically between 10 and 30 seconds.
- Anti Cheat Mechanisms
Most traffic exchanges are equipped with anti cheating mechanisms to ensure that a real person is viewing your web page. Choose a site with this feature to ensure that our credits are not wasted on cheaters who never view/read your web page.
- Referrals
Most traffic exchanges have referral pages and banners for you to recruit your downline. Every sign ups through these special features are placed in your downline. Referrals has the advantage of being the fastest way to build up your credits.
- Bonuses
Traffic exchanges may offer bonus credits for signing up or for surfing a certain number of web pages or for winning competitions or sweepstakes. Look for this feature when signing up to accumulate credits even faster.
- Paid or Pro memberships
Most traffic exchanges offer paid as well as free memberships. Paid memberships earns you privileges such as allocation of credits every month plus an increased number of credits for you and your downline. Furthermore you can opt to purchase extra credits.
To effectively use traffic exchanges remember to:
- Employ tracking.
It is important that you track all traffic generated by traffic exchanges so that you can identify which of your SFI gateways is top performer. Tracking is a powerful tool in analyzing your marketing efforts.
- Be aware of your audience.
In traffic exchanges every member are interested in having his/her own web page viewed. All site members want to drive traffic to their web pages. Most likely the majority of the site members will just use common affiliate materials for their traffic exchange. If you want to be effective, be creative, designed eye-catching pages to attract your viewers and take action.
The bottom line is that you need traffic, real people to actually take action on your SFI gateways by signing up; therefore the manual traffic exchange is the preferred method. The auto traffic exchange method leave out the people factor.
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