Inquiries on Traffic Exchange - Would Google Penalize Me?

[fated82]

Hi all,

I have a question on traffic exchange program. One of my blog is written by someone not long ago and I just found that there is a spike in traffic which is a good thing. The problem is the spike in traffic is due to some sort of traffic exchange program or 'auto surf'.

I wanna know if google will penalize this kind of traffic and is it consider blackhat internet marketing because I am not prepared to risk my blog being ban by Google just for this. Need advice.

Btw, the referal url is smileytraffic.com and it doesn't look pretty decent in my opinion. Advice appreciated. Thanks

[stma]

Your fine from a seo perspective... however, if you have adsense on the site they will ban you from adsense.

[Louis Raven]

Originally Posted by stma

Your fine from a seo perspective... however, if you have adsense on the site they will ban you from adsense.

Why?

for getting a lot of traffic?

Louis

[rondo]

Originally Posted by Louis Raven

Why?

for getting a lot of traffic?

Louis

Because it's auto-generated traffic and the page is usually displayed in a frame or a popup. Read the Adsense TOS to learn what's acceptable.


Andrew

[fated82]

Another website under my referral. Do you guys think I should stop this? Personally, I don't quite feel comfortable with manual surf kind of programs. Is this way of website promotion actually legal?

I am a noob so I need some advice from you guys.

hyperlinkcash.com

[mar1on]

Originally Posted by fated82

Another website under my referral. Do you guys think I should stop this? Personally, I don't quite feel comfortable with manual surf kind of programs. Is this way of website promotion actually legal?

I am a noob so I need some advice from you guys.

hyperlinkcash.com

Manual traffic exchanges are perfectly legitimate tools for getting visitors to your website. They are especially useful for newbies on a budget as the costs are low, although you do need to spend a little time surfing other peoples sites.

The whole premise isbased on reciprocal viewing, you look at other websites in turn for others to view yours, simple as that.

Traffic exchanges are just another tool that (if used correctly) can work very well.

The problem arises with autosurf programs, which are just rotate sites without anyone having to look at them. They are a complete waste of time and artificially inflate the volume of traffic a website receives (and thus Alex rankings).

All traffic exchanges (manual and autosurf) are often just grouped together and genuine manual traffic exchanges are often unfairly dragged down by their autosurf counterparts.

It also depends on the manual traffic exchange itself and SmileyTraffic has a jaded reputation amongst other traffic exchange owners, although I cannot possibly comment on smileytraffic myself as I've never used it. I agree that the site looks terrible though and that does it no favours.

If you have any doubts, pull the site out of the exchange but don't discount traffic exchanges (or anything else) until you've tried them.

[Melkor]

However, using any kind of traffic exchange is against Google's Program Policies for Adsense.

So if there's Adsense ads on your site/blog/page and you want to keep your Adsense account, you can't use traffic exchanges to generate traffic to them.

If you're looking for beginners in the make-money-online niche traffic exchanges can be a good place to find them according to Robert Puddy and a few others -the traffic doesn't convert well to sales offers but it's possible to get a reasonable opt-in rate with a well designed splash page. However, to monetize that you'd need to know how to warm up a cold list of freebie-seekers. It can be done, but unless you're very, very good at it you'd probably be seeing higher returns from a smaller, more responsive list generated through other means.