Are Traffic Exchanges Any Good?

My thoughts exactly . i have tried it . I have never had any joy with traffic exchanges . They seem to be lots of people like me beck then not willing to spend any money to grow their business .

I don't know anyone who knows anyone who has succeeded with traffic exchanges . of course , i could be very wrong

Many of the people who have had bad experiences with traffic exchanges have mis-used them; some have misunderstood them completely. (Nothing surprising there, I think: the same could equally truthfully be stated about almost every facet of internet marketing).

If you're promoting a product about "how to get extra traffic to your website", then traffic exchange traffic is highly targeted, isn't it? There's no point in criticising traffic as "untargeted" if you're trying to sell something that those people aren't already looking for, is there? This is just "Marketing 101", surely?

With Traffic Exchange traffic, there's maybe no point in trying to sell anything directly. My understanding is that the people doing well with it (and some are adding 100 double opted-in leads per day to their lists) are using it simply as well-designed list-building, offering something of value to traffic-seekers. If you try to use it in other, different ways - well: "it's" just not going to work, is it - or rather, "your business" isn't going to work with it.

Nobody's going to convince me that adding 100 double-opted-in people to a list per day can't become a good source of income, or that it's all "traffic" rather than "buying traffic": to me, this makes no sense at all.

There are people starting threads (here and elsewhere) all the time saying "Article Marketing doesn't work any more". And when you look at what they're doing, it transpires that they're spinning and mass-submitting articles to article directories, using software, without even publishing the articles themselves first on their own site, and then sometimes they're further compounding the damage by putting their time, energy and resources into building backlinks to article directories instead of to their own sites. And naturally enough, quite a common conclusion from them to make, from their own experiences, is that "article marketing doesn't work any more". And they say so, right here, very repeatedly. :p

What does this have to do with traffic exchanges? It's just an analogy: exactly the same thing's true of traffic exchanges, too, isn't it?

They also "don't work" for people who don't know how to use them and are promoting products/services inappropriate to that sort of traffic.

However many people say "this is untargeted traffic" and "keep away from this traffic", they can't change the reality that (as discussed here in several other threads) some Warriors are adding several hundred names per week to their lists, and making five-figure monthly incomes from this same traffic. Like everything else, it's what you make of it.

Oh, I do that already Daniel. Though I have to say, I've been concentrating on forum marketing more lately. It's much more enjoyable connecting with people this way.

But you can't stay still in business. I'm always looking at potential new ideas for generating leads. As I said, I've dismissed traffic exchanges in the past but there are so many of them it made me wonder if there is anything worth while in them.

Thanks for the response

So are you saying in order to make money from traffic exchanges, you have to sell systems that show how to make money from traffic exchanges?