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Traffic Exchange Alternative

by Warren Contreras Extra $300 a Month?
I have been using traffic exchanges for over 10 years and had great success with them in the early years, but the environment keeps shifting toward more personal methods for making initial contact. They have evolved so far toward focusing on traffic generation, instead of producing desired actions like in the old days.

That led me to do some comparison that has me using them less than before and here's why. With a traffic exchange most people just push for more traffic with contests and rewards to encourage mad clicking in the hundreds. With that goal in mind, who could possibly be truly considering what is offered on each page? I tried a new exchange just last week and generated 1,000 views of a compelling splash page that resulted in ZERO click thrus, not one person did anything but let the timer run out and click to the next page.

Actually I was still happy, because my new sponsor paid me 600 credits at DownlineRefs  for being his referral at the traffic exchange. Then I added another 400 credits from clicking ads with much less effort than I extended to get the same number of credits from the traffic exchange, so I had 1,000 credits for each.

The end result was, the traffic exchange credits produced 1,000 visitors to my website with no further action and the 1,000 credits at DownlineRefs produced a CUSTOMER that completed the enrollment form at my website and sent me proof. That customer allowed me to give away another 50 free bids for Zeekler and I got paid again. It also allowed me to start a dialog with my sponsor so I could help him get more referrals and foster further interaction. I just started this strategy, but I have picked up 3 new customers this month already. Now I set up a new website at http://GetYoursFree.com to kick it into high gear, so lets see what happens.

Is your clicking traffic exchanges producing any real positive results?


About Warren Contreras Professional Pro    Extra $300 a Month?

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Created on Jan 9th 2012 08:52. Viewed 653 times.

Comments

Corey Blackmur Committed Pro   Blackmur Global
Like you Warren; I used traffic exchanges extensively when I first got online, but as of late, I use mostly social media for generating relationships. Now whether I never used the traffic exchanges to their full potential or not, I found that I did not generate many leads or clients that would generate income.
I found that most people were clicking just to get the credits to show their sites, they generally have multiple tabs open and just go from one to the other as the timer expires.
Just my two cents...........
Jan 9th 2012 09:40   
Janet Legere Committed Premium   Internet Marketing Training Expert
Success online is all about being consistent and offering your readers something of Value. I find exchanges work best with Lead Capture pages that offer something of value for free. Great article!
Jan 9th 2012 09:49   
Candra Kurniawan Advanced   Programmer & Internet Marketer
I agree with this article. Thanks
Jan 9th 2012 10:37   
Michel Card Advanced   Internet Marketer
sounds familiar
Jan 9th 2012 10:40   
Shaishav Sood Senior   CEO & Founder Of Future Vision Affiliates Referral
Agree with Janet, TEs work best when you provide value to others. If you are promoting your business opportunity as others then you are not different from them..
Jan 9th 2012 10:47   
Christian Eckardt Committed Pro   Marketer, HTML & Javascript coder
Yeah The golden TEs years are over. You have to click much more to get results. You should also use self branded capture and splashpages to increase your results. Keep that in mind -> DUSAP = Dont use standard affiliate pages.
Jan 9th 2012 13:19   
Carol Jacobs Senior   Money Keeps Coming To Me
After a while I stopped using them also. So much to do on the Internet it gets a little too time consuming.
Jan 9th 2012 15:34   
Gillian G. Senior   INTERNET MARKETER
A very informative article, thank you.
Jan 9th 2012 15:48   
Maisa Desouza Freshman   Internet Business
Very nice information.
Jan 9th 2012 22:45   
Mariusz Filipkowski Senior   Web Designer
i like this article!
Jan 10th 2012 00:12   
Ken Miami-Water.com/blog Committed    ***
i agree with the part you need to stand out from everyone else.
It is like fishing if you are using the same hooks and bait that
they already seen before it wont catch there attention..
I think myself when i surf exchanges and it would take
something really cool and free for me to want to sign up.
This one guy had a really cool splash page it was a cat and dog
doing funny stunts and the music was hilarious i saw that and signed up..
Jan 10th 2012 01:56   
Jaya Gupta Advanced  Web Developer
Thanks for the post. The good old days are gone, and we have to work more hard to achieve the result.
Jan 10th 2012 03:05   
Maneesh B. Innovator  Director - WBS
Very informative post, thank you. I too agree with you. Now days the results are hard to get.
Jan 10th 2012 03:10   
Ken Miami-Water.com/blog Committed    ***
Yes think about it if a guy been surfing traffic exchanges for 5 plus years imagine he has seen
every business idea possible plus he is probably multi tab surfing so he might not be seeing
you splash page at all till the last second? So you would think a splash page with sound would be slightly more effective and traffic exchanges that don't reward multi tab surfing like the apsense traffic exchange where you know people have to look at your website are more effective.
Jan 10th 2012 10:05   
John Dcosta Innovator  Web Marketer
Yah traffic exchange is essential to provide some business to any site.
Jan 11th 2012 05:20   
Cynthia Barbour Advanced Pro   Internet Marketing Trainer/Mentor
Thanks for sharing your strategies, very interesting. It takes a lot of effort to get the results that you seek. It use to be a lot easier back in the day
Jan 12th 2012 13:58   
Jan Moraru Senior   Free Lancer
TE are What its are Traffic Generator...
Whit a Team can generate a lot of Traffic but never a constant critical mass of subscribers.
it`s like you fliging a bucket fill with watter on the walls, maybe remain some drops to persuade the Walls!
Is the most unefficient method to have real interested subscribers.
Jan 14th 2012 05:49   
Irfan Khan Innovator   employe
very interesting and valuable information dear
Jan 15th 2012 09:03   
Brady Flores Freshman  e Marketing Adviser
good info, thanks
Jan 16th 2012 02:18   
Marlo Evangelista Senior   Online Marketer
I will note those information and check later
Jan 16th 2012 02:25   
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