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Who here uses traffic exchanges, safelists, or list sites?

by Tyson Faulkner
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Hey guys,

As alternative ways to get traffic, I've been broadening my scope to some of the widely known sources of super cheap traffic. The kind that so many people say is 'useless.'

I'm just wondering how many warriors are using things like safelists, traffic exchanges, list sites, and those other traffic-getters on a daily basis?

And if you have some tips on how you're successful with them I would LOVE to hear those too

So how about it, anyone wildly successful with this stuff?
#exchanges #list #safelists #sites #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author SolomonHuey
    Not too many fans of these methods in the Warrior Forum, but I know a lot of people doing very well using traffic exchanges, safelists, and viral list builders.

    You'll hear a lot of naysayers, but just remember there are people who are making a killing at these advertising sites.

    Personally I use these almost exclusively and have built a list of well over 13k at last count.

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  • Profile picture of the author Emily Meeks
    Safelists, traffic exchanges, and list builders are the perfect target audience for one type of product: they all want to get traffic to their website, essentially for free (though many will buy if they're faced with a OTO).

    I think they're good ways to build your list (so long as you can entice them with just that), but you won't have much luck promoting paid products directly.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndrewStark
    Many people make a classic mistake of using them to promore an affiliate offer directly, get no results, and automatically assume this is a crap traffic source.

    If you have a free report, or even better, a membership site built around your free report on something of interest to your average safelist / traffic exchange member then you will get results.

    Things like free reports on affiliate marketing, listbuilding, and traffic generation generally do well.

    My top tip is to keep your page simple, tell people what you have and why they give you their email address to get it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tyson Faulkner
      Thanks for the replies guys, I know traffic exchanges aren't real popular here, but there's got to be some more marketers who use them.

      I'm going to do some testing on different exchanges to see if I can get some results with varying squeeze pages.

      Does anyone have any suggestions on the ones I should start at? So far I'm with traffic swarm, my first ad will be displayed soon, we'll see how it goes.

      How bout some more suggestions about other exchanges that are popular!

      Would love a little guidance from those who have used em.

      Thanks!
      Tyson
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  • Profile picture of the author richhaz
    You can certainly build your list with these strategies. Mike Filsaime acquired a "few" people on his list using safe lists.

    You can help build your list using traffic exchanges if you are willing to spend your day clicking away on traffic exchanges. Make sure you are promoting something that would intrigue a new person, like free list building report/training or systems...

    If you are going to surf, open up about 10 tabs of different sites to surf at once and then save the tabs for your next session using a firefox browser.

    List Joe & List Dot Com have been a very steady way for me to add to my list for less than 2 minutes of effort a day to send out an e-mail.
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  • Profile picture of the author Emily Meeks
    Originally Posted by cjmo75 View Post

    I started off early in my IM "career" using traffic exchanges and safelists. That's before I found out what they really were and that's just a bunch of people doing the same thing I was doing - Trying to get clicks to my site. I hardly ever paid attention to the page, just the timer. I 'm guessing most of the other people are the same. Bottom line, they're no good for much. If you are going to use one, I recommend EasyHits4U and ListJoe.
    I wonder if anyone's ever tried outsourcing this task?

    You know... hiring a bunch of people to click on other people's links for you... you probably wouldn't have to pay very much...

    Just a thought.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robert Puddy
      Originally Posted by moneysoapbox View Post

      I wonder if anyone's ever tried outsourcing this task?

      You know... hiring a bunch of people to click on other people's links for you... you probably wouldn't have to pay very much...

      Just a thought.

      Quickest way to get an account deleted in any traffic exchange is to do what you just suggested. They are very sophisticated these days and can spot that a mile away.

      They work... if you use them correctly

      I built a list of over 50K using them and they bring in an average of 30 to 50 people a day to my lists still.

      Take far to long to put everything down in a forum post on the what to do and what not to do, especially as i have a home study course on how to use them

      However the quick answer is dont try to sell them anything while they are surfing, but drop them an enticing squeeze page or splash page and get them on your list, they buy

      Oh you can click for credits if you want, but to really dominate them you have to buy the traffic by purchasing the credit packages from the owner.

      This tip will piss TE owners off, but i cant win them all never upgrade in TE's instead buy the credits. you get more bang for your buck.

      In some TE's I can get a subscriber every 80 to 100 page views and with credits at around $10 per thousand page views (less if you buy in bulk) thats better than some PPC campaigns

      If they have a draw back they cant be scaled like PPC campaigns, average views per URL is 100 to 150 a day

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      • Profile picture of the author Emily Meeks
        Originally Posted by Robert Puddy View Post

        Quickest way to get an account deleted in any traffic exchange is to do what you just suggested. They are very sophisticated these days and can spot that a mile away.

        They work... if you use them correctly

        I built a list of over 50K using them and they bring in an average of 30 to 50 people a day to my lists still.

        Take far to long to put everything down in a forum post on the what to do and what not to do, especially as i have a home study course on how to use them

        However the quick answer is dont try to sell them anything while they are surfing, but drop them an enticing squeeze page or splash page and get them on your list, they buy

        Robert
        Good to know. I never tried it, so I just threw it out there.

        I dabbled in safelists awhile back (occasionally traffic exchanges - though I did a lot more signing up than actually using them >), got some signups through offering freebies. One thing that really pissed me off was that a lot of people would promote "matrixes" or HYIPs - stuff that wouldn't make you money anyway. I'm sure freebies go over well though - I know it worked on me, sad to say...
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        • Profile picture of the author countonuspr
          I have used safelists with great success this year. I am sending all promotions to a squeeze page to pick up a free offer. When I was new I made the huge mistake of sending them affiliate offers. Safelists have added a lot of prospects for me.

          Robert, thanks for the comment on the traffic exchanges. I will be giving that a shot for sure. I am open to any method that can get people on my list as long as it is ethical.
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      • Profile picture of the author jonbeebe
        Originally Posted by Robert Puddy View Post

        Take far to long to put everything down in a forum post on the what to do and what not to do, especially as i have a home study course on how to use them
        Thanks for the great advice, Robert. I've actually never thought to use TE's because I thought they were just low quality, but you're making me want to do my own tests!

        Can we get a link to that "home study course" on TE's that you mentioned?

        Thanks,
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        • Profile picture of the author Robert Puddy
          Originally Posted by jonbeebe View Post

          Thanks for the great advice, Robert. I've actually never thought to use TE's because I thought they were just low quality, but you're making me want to do my own tests!

          Can we get a link to that "home study course" on TE's that you mentioned?

          Thanks,
          -Jonathan Beebe

          Hahaha sure id be nuts not to comply with that request, just hope the mods see it that way

          http://hiddentrafficformula.com

          TIP: there is an exit pop, which offers the course in a digital version... its half the price of the full home study course.

          Wouldnt tell everyone that of course, but as its in the warrior forum and you asked, I figured i should give you a discounted version
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