Inquiries on Traffic Exchange - Would Google Penalize Me?

Why?

for getting a lot of traffic?

Louis

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.