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What is a Traffic Exchange?

A traffic exchange is a website that allows you to increase the exposure of your online business to other members in return for viewing their ads and sites. Membership to these websites are usually FREE. There are 2 main types of traffic exchanges - autosurf and manul surf. An austo surf exchange is one that does not require you to click on any pages andwepages austomatically refresh after a set time interval. A manual surf on the other hand is probably more effective as this the surfer to actually view the webpage and click on a link to get credit and view the next ad. There are hundreds of traffic exchanges available on the internet and it is important you do not wase your time with those that will bring you little or no traffic.

Which Traffic exchanges are best?

We use Traffic Hoopla to help us determine which traffic exchanges are the best. Traffic Hoopla posts the names of the top 5 traffic exchanges for the week on their website. These top 5 exchanges have been voted by members of traffic exchages from all over the internet and is a reflection of which traffic exchanges are considered most effective and will be more likely to deliver you quality traffic.

The ranking of the best traffic exchanges is usually dtermined by a few factors.

1. surfing ratio - traffic exchanges allow you to earn credits for viewing other member's websites. You then exchange these credits to "buy" traffic back to your own site. Some traffic exchanges reward surfers with a 1:1 ratio meaning for every ad you view your website gets 1 view back. A surf ratio of 3:1 for example requires you to view 3 ads in return for 1 hit to your website.

2. ad viewing timer - you must view each ad for a set amount of time before you can view another. This timer can vary between 6 secs to 20 seconds depending on the traffic exchange.

3. paid vs free option - most traffic exchanges have an optional upgraded membership where you can receive more credits and priveleges. Having said that if you are just starting out and wanting to gain exposure for your website then you should test the traffic exchanges as a free member to see if this meth.

4. referral program - one way to increase your credit earnings is to refer others. Usually there is a signup bonus and then an additional percentage bonus on all referrals. Some traffic exchanges allow you to earn from referals 5 levels deep, some more and some fewer than this.

5. Anti-cheating mechanism - Unfortunately in any industry you have the cheaters who will try to take advantage of traffic exchange and manipulate the programs and sytems by having some sort of automated robot, script, or clicking mechanism. The people can steal your credits or decrease the value of your credits. It is therefore important to choos a traffic exchange that have excellent anticheating mechanisms in place to allow you to receive the results you deserve.

Traffic Exchange Tips

Our first advice is to join Traffic hoopla for FREE. Traffic Hoopla is not a traffic exchange. It is an advertising program that not only reports the best traffic exchanges every week but also provides a free traffic builing system so that you can build your downlines quicker and thus increase your traffic and productivity.

Surf multiple exchanges at the same time - if you want to increase the rate of credits earned then the best way is to surf multiple traffic exchanges at the same time. Use a tab browse such as IE 8.0 to shuffle through the exchanges. We usually surf about 4-5 different exchanges at the same time to maximise our time and effort. Surfing this way for 1-2 hours a day will result in a great increase in traffic to your webpages.

Advertise webpages that are simple and fast loading -members will onlly be viewing your site for no mor than 20 secs so it is advisable that you have waht we call a splash page or a leadcapture page with minmal graphics and videos. This will allow your webpages to be loaded faster. You can create simple splash pages with Traffic Exchange Toolbox

Build a downline - leverage off your referrals. This will allow you to earn credits faster. You can choose to advertise each individual traffic exchange buy we recommend you join and promote traffic hoopla which will promote all traffic exchanges for you in return.

Finally stay focussed when browsing traffic exchanges, it is quite easy to let you eyes get attracted to other peoples great offers. It doesn't hurt to acknowledge what is out there as you can learn many things through other viewing other people websites but remember you are there to increase traffic to you website.

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