Often Traffic Exchanges are the first place where newbie marketers go to generate traffic to their web sites.

With traffic exchanges you view the sites of other members for a set period of time and earn credits, you can then spend these credits having your pages viewed by other members.

Most Traffic Exchanges are free to join, with a paid upgrade which will often include a better credit ratio as a reward for your surfing and monthly credits, banner ads and/or text ads. Credits are usually in the reion of 3:1 or 2:1 for free members, upgraded members will normally get a 1:1 ratio. i.e. 1 credit for each site you view.

The majority of marketers fail to take full advantage of Traffic Exchanges.

TE’s allow you to email your downlines that you have built in these programs. You can promote your products and services through your emails to your downlines. You should also consider encouraging the downlines you build to continue to surf and upgrade their accounts. Take full advantage of contacting your downlines through these weekly emails.

As your downlines surf you will earn credits from thier efforts as well as your own, this will allow you to increase your advertising or you can reduce your surfing and spend the time working on other areas of your business.

Traffic Exchange members are looking for more traffic. One of the most obvious things to advertise to them is other traffic building programs.

Advertising on TE’s is best carried out using a squeeze page, other traffic building programs realise this and often offer a selection to choose from so you can promote their programs. Use an attention grabbing headline to get surfers looking at your pages. Use a graphic of your product or your picture on the page along with a list of benefits and an opt-in form. The idea here is to have the viewer wanting to find out more information and therefore prepared to give you their contact information.

If you are not using Firefox then I strongly advise you download and install it now as it has a tabbed browser which will allow you to have multiple tabs open when you are surfing, this way you can surf several TE’s at the same time. I would suggest 5 TE’s at the same time.

Using fast tab will allow for faster changing between tabs as you surf.

Spending 30 minutes surfing can earn you around 450 credits.

Start by advertising other traffic building programs in the TE’s and promote your opportunity through your downline emails, as your sign ups start to produce credits for you, you can promote your product or service through TE’s by splitting your credits. As a free member just make sure that you don’t spread your credits to thinly, remember viewers may need to see your page up to 7 times before they take action. It is advisable to only offer free products such as reports or ‘lite’ versions of software.

You can download a free copy of Traffic Exchanges Explained here.