Traffic
exchanges are still a popular method for
internet marketers to get a large number of people to see their offers
in a
short amount of time.
With
that said,
not every traffic exchange is
created equal. It is possible that you will experience great results on
one
exchange but terrible results on another. The traffic exchanges may
seem quite
similar in terms of what they offer and how they operate. In this
article, we
will look at how traffic exchanges compare to each other so we can find
the
ones that will work best for us.
This
involves
getting the best results possible
out of a super cheap or free method of promoting your online business.
If you
are having a difficult time with getting positive results with traffic
exchanges, you have most likely been using them blindly.
For
instance,
it would be a good idea to know
how popular a traffic exchange is prior to surfing it. Other
information you
would want to know is how many new members it brings in every week and
how many
unique hits the traffic exchange delivers for its members. This
information
allows you to know which traffic exchanges are popular and responsive.
Popular
traffic exchanges will draw in new members every week which means there
are
potentially hundreds of thousands of fresh eyes that could be viewing
your web
pages and offers.
However,
if the
traffic exchange only has a
small membership that brings in only a few new members every week, then
the
members' pages will be rotated again and again and shown to the same
people
numerous times, which is not good.
But,
there is
nothing wrong with having the same
person see your page several times, especially if you have a personal
branding
element to it. However, if you allocate 300 credits for a particular
web page
and the traffic exchange goes through all of them in 24 hours, but the
unique/repeat visitor ratio is say 60/240 with no sign ups, you
probably would
not be very happy, right?
So
here
is what
I recommend. First of all, seek
out and join the most popular traffic exchanges. Those are the traffic
exchanges that are likely to be growing the fastest with the largest
membership
base and the largest number of new members joining. You can find out
which are
the 100 most popular traffic exchanges by checking the Affiliate Funnel
rank
report at:
You
will
immediately notice the huge variation
between the traffic exchanges in terms of recruiting power and hits
power.
Interestingly, there is not an exact correlation between the two
figures, but
you will notice significant differences in new member figures between
the top
recruiters and the lower ranking recruiters.
When
you
have
joined a few traffic exchanges you
will want to measure your own results across all the exchanges. To do
this, you
will need to use some kind of tracking service such as Hits Connect.
Whatever
service you use, make sure that you can track the different results you
will
get from the different traffic exchanges. With hits connect, you can do
that
easily and also discover the total/unique hits ratio that your campaign
is
getting on each exchange. Furthermore, you will be able to monitor
which
traffic exchanges are delivering affiliates or subscribers by adding a
piece of
tracking code to your "thank you" pages.
