Question About Traffic Exchange Program?

I have to say Cindy Battye's program at trafficbunnies.com is great

Again does it work...

depends on what you want and how you do it...
If your aim is to get people to buy right away from you, but could work as a way to get leads if you have a good optin page. Look at what everyone else is doing and then do something different to attract attention - what ever you do, make sure your page loads quickly.

Also be careful as you can not have adsense on those pages, and also if you buy a lot of credits your bandwidth may get exceeded - yes it does happen

richard

Zeurois,

Sorry for the delay in responding... I'm afraid I've been relying on the subscription segment of this forum too much-- and it still shows this thread as having no responses. :-\

Anway, I couldn't list them all here-- about 30 TEs, plus 40+ SLs. A good place to start is by going to http://www.traffichoopla.com, which ranks them weekly, based on activity and responsiveness. That's a much more accurate listing of the best.

The real key to using them to increase page PR is DAILY, consistently using both to their fullest extent. That consistency is so important; it's a major factor in the SEs for determining a page's rank. Once you achieve it, it can drop down again... but that happens very slowly. Over a period of months... meanwhile, you're enjoy 1st and 2nd page ranking on the SEs...

However... a few cautions. TEs do not have the responsiveness they once did. They're still good for raw traffic, but with everyone using tabbed browsing, that's about it. Also, it's VERY important to clear your cache each day afterward as their high-profile standing tends to attract hackers and viruses. I got one of the worst viruses I've ever seen from a TE.

Credit-based safelists, on the other hand, do deliver a good response rate, as well as traffic (notice I said, CREDIT-BASED safelists... which are new and completely different from the old safelist systems). Some as high as 12.5%.

So it's relatively easy to get a PR3... it's PR4 and PR5 that are tough.

Marige

With Traffic Exchange, sometimes you'd have to think "outside the box" to maximize the result.

Majority of people who use this medium consist of the following (at least in my observation).

1. MLM or Opportunity Seekers looking for downline members
2. People pitching different TE programs
3. People using squeeze pages to build lists

Many people really struggle because they simply do what they see others do, repeatedly pitching either MLM or another TE programs, using TE.

What I have done in the past was providing a report (with squeeze page), explaining how to use "XYZ traffic exchange" to build a list. Like in this example http://asktak.com/reports/akh.pdf (this is a few years old and with created with bad PDF converter in my early days, sorry)

First of all, the title of the Squeeze page (and you can see the screenshot of the squeeze page I used in the pdf) screamed "How to Use XYZ Traffic Exchange to ...." specifically targeting the surfers of ONE traffic exchange program. This raises curiosity and make people stop surfing (for once).

Few things to note...

1. Instead of pitching another MLM or TE, my Squeeze page is "calling" the surfers themselves.

2. I only use 700 by 400 small splash page and 3 bullet points. This loads within 2 seconds instead of full 10 seconds.

3. I then repeat the same process, but changing titles only to adapt to different TE programs, so the title changes from "Advertising Know How" to maybe how to use "Dragon Surf" while keeping the majority of the content exactly the same.

4. I join as a free member and start surfing.... if it works well and generates opt-ins, I'll buy paid membership and automate the surf.

5. I create another PDF with different titles and create whatever adapts to another TE (mostly just changing the titles to adapt). I join as a free member and start sending traffic to see if it generates opt-ins. If it does, I upgrade and automate, move on to another.

6. I open up bunch of tabs in my Firefox and start "tabbing" every 10 seconds just surf as many TEs as possible (like 10-20 TE at the same time). Pretty soon, you'll start generating opt-ins from multiple TEs.

Now it sounds like an awesome way to build lists, using TEs, but the thing unique about lists built through TE (again, based on my own experience) is these leads can be very "flaky".

Majority of people who use this medium is new to any type of online marketing and pitching them IM related stuff didn't seem to have a lot of effect on them. They probably use TE just for like a month and if it doesn't work for them, they'll jump to something else quickly.

They'll stay subscribed on your list for the longest time but not very responsive... but they don't unsubscribe (how weird), probably assuming you're possibly a guru and must stay on your list in order to keep them informed of something else? I have no idea.

If you happen to have lots of backend offer suited for these types of people but if you don't, you'll have trouble converting leads into sales (like I did at some occasions)

Honestly, what I like doing with TE is just sell B2B products geared for the surfers explaining how to overcome their problems when using TE or how to build lists using TE. I wouldn't present a "make money" ebook, MLM program or anything like that because then it'd create another problem for the surfers (they don't need another program, they already have one they're struggling marketing).

Only the rich can cut corners? Anyone who can re-invest their profits can spend money on advertising. By always doing things the hard way until you get so-called 'rich', it will be very hard to reach your goals.

No such thing as pretty hard to scale? Anyone who has 24 hours a day (and I assume you live on Earth) will find it hard to scale their time.

Fabian