Free Traffic To Your Internet Business While You Surf

There are many ways to go about getting traffic to your website and some do take more time than others. Ideally the best source of traffic is from search engines which are organic and free. We know it does take time and requires a strategy to build great traffic to your website, but what if there was another way to generate free traffic while you are surfing the web? I recently decided to explore a method called traffic exchanges.

What Are Traffic Exchanges?

Traffic exchanges are another alternative to get traffic to your website. They can provide a cheap source of traffic and continually deliver it when used properly. In essence, it is a cooperative form of advertising and generates free traffic to your website. You view a members website for credit for a set amount of time in exchange for getting a view on your website for credit for a set amount of time. In other words, you get a visitor for a visitor.

However, the timed limit of these views means that viewing the entire inventory of a store or reading a long sales letter is not going to happen often or even likely. Because of this many people do not use traffic exchanges effectively to advertise their sites. They promote a generic affiliate page or sales page hoping that someone will stop and look long enough to buy their product or purchase from their affiliate link. This is wrong on many different levels and is why 95% of “online marketers” fail to use traffic exchanges properly.

How To Effectively Use Traffic Exchanges?

Traffic exchanges are best used as list-building tools using either splash pages or squeeze pages. The reason is people who are using traffic exchanges are also doing the same thing as you, trying to drive more traffic to their website and earning more credits. Therefore, they will not spend too much time reading through a long sales page or see the front page of your website. The best way is to set up a short squeeze or splash page to capture a first name and an email address. That way you can effectively market them your products or services using your back end systems.

My Top 10 Free Traffic Exchanges

Simply visit their websites and register and follow their instructions and you will be on your way to getting free targeted traffic to your website.

1. Hit 2 Hit
2. Easy Hits 4 U
3. Hits Booster Pro
4. Traffic Swarm
5. Traffic Splash
6. Easy Surf Exchange
7. Instant Buzz
8. Webmaster Quest
9. Traffic G
10. Traffic Syndicate 25

Tip: Why not use all of the top 10 programs all at once? It will leverage your traffic exchanges much faster than going one at a time. Work smarter, not harder!

Tyrone Shum
Traffic Exchanging

7 Creative Traffic Generation Techniques

1. Write and Distribute Articles, Reports and Ebooks.
   Internet users are all interested in one thing – information. Use this to promote your business by creating high quality content and allowing others to reprint it for you. One great way to do this is to distribute a brandable ebook or special report. This is one that a website or list owner can change to include a reference to their website. This doesn’t mean that it looks like they are the publisher, it’s just a way for them to include information on where the ebook was downloaded from and (if applicable) to include their affiliate link for your products and services.
2. Participate in Newsgroups, Forums, and Mailing Lists.
   There are hundreds of forums online and you can find one for almost any topic imaginable. Most allow you to include a signature line that will be attached to every message. This is a chance for you to advertise your site. Visiting these forums to post thoughtful questions and offer your expertise will mean your signature is viewed by others and will bring you free, targeted traffic. Of course how much traffic you get depends on how often you post and whether your signature makes people want to visit your site. A good approach is to use an ad you’ve had success with elsewhere as your signature.
3. Join Networking Sites to Build your Personal Network.
   Networking sites are designed to make it easy for people to meet others in their industry and to advertise their products and service. Similar to offline networking events where lots of people come together for the sole purpose of meeting people, online networking sites work the same way.
4. Use Classified Sites and Traffic Exchanges.
   Classified ad sites and traffic exchanges have gotten a bad reputation, but they really do work if you know how to use them. If you’re promoting a product or service that advertisers can benefit from then they’re a great place to get traffic. Although not very many consumers visit this type of advertising sites, lots of website owners do in order to make sure their ad appears on the site. While there they can’t help but notice other ads and if one catches their attention you’re likely to get a visitor.
5. Run a Contest.
   People love the prospect of winning something – that’s why a contest can be a great traffic generator. The key is to choose a prize that will attract people from your target audience. If you make the grand prize a new laptop you’ll get entries from everyone who would like to win a new laptop (which is basically every computer user in the world!). Get more targeted traffic by choosing something that your target audience is interested in but wouldn’t mean much to other people. To start promoting your contest do a search in Google for “Contest Directories” and you’ll find lots of places to list your contest for free.
6. Include a Powerful Signature on all Outgoing Email.
   Every time you send a piece of mail you have the potential to get a visitor to your site. Simply create a “signature” that is automatically added to every outgoing message. Use the signature to briefly explain what you do, give your USP or slogan and add a hyperlink to your site. Once it’s set up you don’t have to think about it again!
7. Try Newsletter Classified Ads.
   There are lots of newsletter publishers who give classified ads to new subscribers. Although these don’t typically bring a huge response, they can generate some traffic if you offer something with a high perceived value but low price tag. They’re also a great way to test new ads to see which ones get the best response. Once you’ve found a winner use it in a PPC campaign, make it your new email signature, run it as a top sponsor newsletter ad or use it as your forum signature.

Tyrone Shum
Aspiring For More Traffic