Traffic Exchanges Suck!!!
hey guys!
i personally feel if there is an advertsing method that really sucks to the core it's this..."traffic exchanges".
there are many reason which enable me to arrive to this conclusion:
no.1) the most told marketing method to newbies by the inexperienced and those with lack of knowledge:
now many ppl should agree here with me. even i have faced this many times in my journey here in the network marketing world when i was new to all this. As a newbie i clearly remember this was the most appealing and starightforward method of advertising that came to me and which i easily grasped. well what really is it?
"you view other ppl's websites and they inturn view yours, it's so simple. and yeah what did my sponser say...it's all abt traffic right, so 4 hours a day should get enough traffic to my page! WOW!! i did'nt know network marketing was this easy!"
i know many ppl would have said this dialouge when they first heard of tarffic exchanges as means to promote there business. it really does look so appealing, but do you think these are all quality hits?? the pro's here with me would have shook their head by now. in my opinion 500 traffic exchanges hits equal maybe just 1 quality hit that you might have got through your apsense business center where somebody thought they should explore your opportuinty. i have'nt got many hits so far but wow! i already have got 1500 tarffic exchange hits....see the diff??
no.2) easily the most time taking!!!
agreed?? 3 to 4 hours a day should be the minimum to drive some results...
no.3) the most hectic
even those in love with traffic exchanges will agree on this. As a newbie when you were first introduced to tarffic exchanges you siad "WOW! is network marketing this easy" atleast i did, only later to realize it's much more difficult then i thought. the fact that they are used as advertising methods specially for newbies could easily be a "shooing" factor for them. although they first appreciate it they soon find out, clicking silly figures for hours and hours is'nt the most easiest job around. this basically was what i experienced. i did enjoy them at first and later it was only a burden on me. not surprisingly the few days that i did traffic exchanges they shooed me away from netowrk marketing for the next 2 months, well to me it was simply a waste of time, extremely boring and the best way to loose money! (my bizness ofcaorse went down)
no.4) they are not catagorized as "staying" forms of advertising:
that's right! the day you don't hit the traffic exchanges for most of your time you don't get any hits for that day! to be precise if i write blogs and discussion sujects and take active part here at apsense will this be btter for my business or hitting traffic exchnages would be a better idea?? branding myself here infront of thousand of ppl is more appealing to me then going for those so named "hits to your website"
no.5) results are a miracle:
again this should'nt be contradicted much, as i said "500 traffic exchange hits=1 quality apsense hit" which suggests results are really hard to come by let's discuss why traffic exhange hits are so low on quality.
the major reason is you can never convince anybody seriously in looking forward to your opportunity in the limited time that you have of for example 20 secoinds after which the reader hits the next button simply becaue he is in too much a hurry to get views for his website, honestly speaking if you go abt reading even 10% of the websites you'll see at the end of the day you end up with very few hits for your site. besides another major reason for these hits being low on quality is that the views you generate are spent looking on the timer and not the website that is showing up. and i bet you do the same (and if you do it there is no major reason to contradict that others won't be doing it).
these are the factors which enable me to term traffic exchanges as really bad. not to say they are totally useless, a few of us have generated prospects through them right?? but then the opportunity cost is so huge! honestly speaking if i do this one marketing method every day for 5 hours and get a ref at the end of the month i won't be so happy because i know i could have achieved much more given the time that i spent
Thus i feel traffic exchanges are really poor quality sources of advertising needless to say i have points to support my ideas, criticm is ofcoarse welcome! and we can have a good debate with those who support traffic exchanges here! so sroll down and have your say through your valuable comments.
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Comments (30)
Ghous Zaman4
exactly!! i agree with you snakesmum, the time involved is one major reason why i think TE is'nt a good place to be in...actually i am not totallly against them, i only feel and believe that it's a bad place to first off start off with and secondly if you're a netowrk marketer, i have has success with TE when i used to do ptc's some years back, but when you're promoting a $320 product (like i am) no matter how good it is the convesrion rate is always very low.
Jean DAndrea7
Retired
Don't think I actually said a "Good" starting place, however they are easy to use, and when one has little or no advertising budget, and are new to internet marketing, it's often the only place one knows about.
Some people I've talked to have had success online using only TE's, so
I guess everyone has their own opinion, depending on their results.
The biggest problem I see with them, if you don't have a downline such as Tony has, is the time involved. We can't all spend hours each da
Ghous Zaman4
yes but i actually diagree with this being a starting a good starter thing! when you're new toi all this all you need is a big boost and bang to get your business going, you se it motivates you and gives you courage to go on for long and even though when ppl know success is'nt wating round the corner when you're new to all this they "do" expect some of it, and when they get it, they want to be over the moon with it...so in my opinion i feel getting anybody off to a start with TE is a start and "
Jean DAndrea7
Retired
Although I don't see TE's as fantastic sale makers, they do have a place in my marketing strategy. A small amount of surfing each day gives you some credits, which you can use to advertise your program. The trick to this is to use a personalised splash page, preferably with your pic on it. Getting yourself known and "branded" is what it's all about, really.
TE's are also usually free. Many people starting out in sales have little or no advertising budgets, so TE's are, as Ghous said, a
Ghous Zaman4
i am not being negitive unneccesarily tony! you have to agree that tarffic exchanges can be really ineffective ofcaorse there are excpetions and you're one of them but your stats don't change the fact that fvery few ppl will actually make signifiacnt success with traffic exchanges...hence forth calling it useless is not negeitivity, it really is being sensible.
Tony Beach7
CEO Of My Own Destiny
Ghous.....To be at the top you must go with the top guns.....I've had over 1.3 million visitors to my sites and have sites that make me No. 1 in the world for traffic/visitors and many sales.....need proof? Just ask....the key to using the exchanges is to build deep downlines...see my referral credits below....I get visitors based on what my downline group does forever...that will be over billions of visitors! Think about it.....DO NOT THINK NEGATIVE...You will turn people off!
I will give yo
Chuck Bartok10
Veteran Entrepreneur now Sharing
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MichaelAp Clayton14
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Hi Ghous
I agree with Chuck traffic exchanges can be good. Ghous like any marketing you need to do research and see which exchanges do deliver quality hits.
Ghous I get 10,000 site visitors a day from good traffic exchanges and make sales every day.
It took me years to find good exchanges and I had to put in a lot of hard work. But if you want to succeed online this is what you must do.
Also any online advertising must be ongoing for 90 days or more before it starts to be effectiv
Ghous Zaman4
yeah ok you may be right abt all that you just said, but the way you use the traffic exchanges has got to be exceptional, let's except the fact that 99% of us doing traffic exchanges don't woprk like this...and what makes all this dangerous is the fact that often ppl don';t know how ineffective raw or orthodox tarffic exchanging can be! specially for newbies, they think they've got what it takes to be a netwrok marketer, where as they have'nt even enterted the arena yet, honeslty tell me were yo
Chuck Bartok10
Veteran Entrepreneur now Sharing
Ghous, my friend.....
By and large what you state is true.
The secret is How to EFFECTIVELY use Traffuic Exchanges.
I use 14-16 of the Top Exchanges, determined by analysis of my Advertising results, use Splash Pages only and enjoy new Opt-ins to my Information newsletters daily.
Using proper Tracking and split testing I know where my Time and energy needs to be Focused.
I surf a little to see other ads to get IDEAS...but my purchased credits allow me to pursue other needed tasks, p