Why use auto-surf Traffic Exchanges when you know nobody will see your splash pages?

Nilam Patel  Internet Marketer
I think some people use it b'cpz they want to use it as traffic seeker.
Sep 22nd 2012 07:12   

Robert Coaster   Independent Business Owner
Traffic doesn't mean anything if no one is actually viewing your links.
Sep 22nd 2012 11:04   

Philippe Moisan   Video Champions, APSense Mentor
Exactly, Robert, it's not targeted traffic, I think we could even call them phantom hits
Sep 22nd 2012 11:15 1 Likes  

Jayshree Patel   Self Employed & Internet Marketing
ya i agree with Philippe.
Sep 23rd 2012 06:54   

Christian Eckardt   Online Marketer
I would never use a autosurf exchange. It is so useless. Even a manual traffic exchange is very time expensive and when you do it like the most others your site must have many, many credits to get your site seen. (They surf 3, 5 or even more exchanges at the same time and just click und tab to the next autosurf. Some of them use also autotab so the jump to the next traffic exchange appears automatically)
Sep 23rd 2012 07:10   

Joe Sansoucie   Advertising Your Business Is My Business
Auto surf exchanges attract brand new affiliate marketers. If anyone is watching the pages, usually very little once the figure out they can go do something else while it runs, they stop watching. Your results will be dismal.
Sep 23rd 2012 07:19 1 Likes  

Paula van Dun   TE Owner & Graphic Designer
I also do not see any benefit from autoexchanges
Sep 23rd 2012 07:21 1 Likes  

Joe Sansoucie   Advertising Your Business Is My Business
I agree. Not even owning one which used to be a good way to build a list "back in the day" lol.
Sep 23rd 2012 07:24   

Paul Peeters   Internet Marketer and Coach
ONLY advantage is to the one who post his advertising on auto-exchanges : he/she get's more clicks on his website, which can be nice for the stats, but worthless if someone interested in the site starts digging a little deeper. Hits or clicks in itself are in fact really meaningless. The big question is to know where they come from and if they (can) result in (future) sales or sign-ups.
Sep 23rd 2012 19:14 1 Likes  

Philippe Moisan   Video Champions, APSense Mentor
Paul, Alexa considers not only the hits but the length of time the visitors stay, so it's definitely useless, imo
Sep 23rd 2012 22:33 1 Likes  

Joe Sansoucie   Advertising Your Business Is My Business
Stats are useless without conversion. Sales have to take place in order to make money. I agree with Philippe, totally useless.
Sep 23rd 2012 22:44 1 Likes  

Ron Miesner   I can help you succeed
Then what good are Traffic Exchanges and Safelists?
Sep 24th 2012 04:34   

Joe Sansoucie   Advertising Your Business Is My Business
@Ron the main difference between autosurf and traffic exchanges and safelists, text ad exchanges as well is the fact the autosurf does it for you. So if you don't have to look at the ads and offers using autosurf, what would you? That's the deal no one does. On a manual traffic exchange, safelist and text ad exchanges is the one thing autosurf doesn't offer the advertiser. Eyes on page.
Sep 24th 2012 04:43 1 Likes  

Philippe Moisan   Video Champions, APSense Mentor
Ron, we're talking about auto-surf TEs here.

Manual TEs are better, because the person has to look at the page, at least a bit, to click on the right image to continue surfing. Also, many TEs add bonus credits here and there so you'd better pay attention.

For safelists, there's a timer, and some safelists have ways of making sure you are paying attention by having capcha.
Sep 24th 2012 06:23 1 Likes  

A S Kumar   Netpreneur
Manual Traffic Exchanges are good if you are promoting sites that generate Traffic as the page viewers are looking for Traffic to their website.
Sep 24th 2012 07:16   

Joe Sansoucie   Advertising Your Business Is My Business
If you look at it as a niche, people using traffic exchanges are interested in more traffic exchanges and things related to traffic exchanges. Same with safelists, list builders, text ad exchanges etc.. give them what they want or you may be wasting your time and credits.
Sep 24th 2012 07:31 1 Likes  

Patty Scheeler   Intetgrity Networker Owner
I agree, they are totally useless.
Sep 25th 2012 18:43   

Tim Roosendaal   Online Entrepreneur
Traffic Exchanges sites will only give your website pageviews, not directly unique visitors..
Sep 27th 2012 15:21   

Saviour Thomas  Network Marketer
Totally useless from a marketing point of view. Minimal advantage if you want to boost the Alexa ranking for your site
Oct 26th 2012 17:13   

Samantha Delaney   Success Mentor
I find traffic exchanges to be somewhat useful however networking and getting to know people I find to be the best way to improve your growth in business
Nov 4th 2012 01:11 1 Likes