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How To Get Free Web Site Traffic
Copyright © 2005 East Tech LLC
There are many ways to get free web site traffic to your website or
business promotion. One of the best ways is the use of free traffic
exchanges. These exchanges allow you to submit your website into the
rotation with hundreds, or thousands of other websites for the
membership of that particular traffic exchange. Some traffic exchanges
are better than others, so you need to make sure the ones you choose,
are best for you and your business.
Needless to say, you want to pick a free traffic exchange that has
lots of members so there’s much more exposure to your websites, sales
pages or affiliate programs. You also want to make sure the audience
would be more likely to purchase your product or service you’re trying
to sell. For example, if you’re selling antique dolls and the free
traffic exchange you’re joining is made up of 95% webmaster business
opportunities, then your chances of selling something are slim to
none. You need to know your market.
A free traffic exchange offers webmasters the ability to promote their
websites or affiliate marketing campaigns for free, or at very low
cost. The idea is to surf around other members websites, and for each
viewing, you get so many of your own URLs and banners added into the
rotation for other members to view. There are hundreds, if not
thousands of free traffic exchanges online today. The trick is to find
the ones that work best for you. Not all free traffic exchanges are
created equal and the most active ones are not necessarily the best
ones for your needs.
Free traffic exchanges are a great marketing tool for a variety of
reasons. The most obvious reason is that you get lots of people
looking, and hopefully clicking on your website or promotional pages.
But there are hidden benefits to free traffic exchanges you may not
have even considered.
Some free traffic exchanges may convert sales like crazy for one
person, and be a complete waste of time for another. If everyone were
promoting the same website or affiliate program is the same traffic
exchange for example, then chances are you would not make many sales.
Even if you were promoting the #1 thing on the internet, if everyone
promoted the same program, your chances are much lower that someone
will purchase through your website or link to make you any money.
Also, when people see the same ad over and over again, they get
desensitized to it. Don't fall into this trap. It's one thing to try
and sell a very popular product/service/ebook etc, but it's another
thing when a million other people are trying to do it too. Competition
is a good thing, because it validates your market, but too much
competition is tough and it's time to move on to something else. We
all know clicking on ads in a free traffic exchange can be very
boring, monotonous and can take a lot of time. That's why you need to
make the best of your opportunity or you will just be wasting a lot of
your time and effort on something that just isn't working. If you have
your own niche website, then you already differentiated yourself from
the pack. If you are an affiliate marketer, then you need to find
products/services that everyone else isn't promoting, especially
within that particular traffic exchange.
One way to use free traffic exchanges to your advantage is to join a
few at first, and see if your sales pick up. If your sales aren’t
doing well, then test out a few more. When you do find a few traffic
exchanges that appear to be generating sales for you, then narrow
those down until you find the one, or two that are working. Now
concentrate your efforts on those because they’re the ones you want.
At least for now. Things may change, so keep an eye on your campaigns
and if sales seem to be falling off, then it might be time to change
your offer or find another traffic exchange that could pick your
profits up again. As I mentioned, your individual promotion is
everything. If you're trying to promote something everyone else is, I
don't care what traffic exchange service you're using, your sales
conversions are going to be very low, or nothing at all. You cannot
always blame the exchange. Sometimes you have to look at yourself and
think if you're doing all you can to make sales.
If you're going to be using multiple free traffic exchanges, and I
recommend that you do, your first priority should be to pick up a
multi-tab web browser. Many of these browsers are free and run on PCs
and MACs. The tabs feature allows you to have one web browser open
with multiple tabs each going to a separate website. You could easily
put 5 or 6 of your free exchange sites in these tabs, and earn credits
for all of them at the same time. So instead of surfing for 1/2 an
hour or an hour earning 200 hits for one exchange, you could earn 200
hits for 5 exchanges in the same amount of time. This is a huge time
saver and multiplies your earned hits by 5X or 6X.
Getting free traffic to your website can be a lot of work. If you
don’t have the money to spend on full blown PPC (pay-per-click)
campaigns like Google AdWords, free traffic exchanges are a great way
to get the traffic you need to get visitors to your site and close the
sale.
Andrew Daigle is owner and creator of many websites including
CashCurve at
http://www.cashcurve.com, a free online business opportunities
site, a Free Traffic Exchange at
http://www.trumptraffic.com , DXInOne Free E-Currency Exchange
Training Site
http://www.dxout.com , Free Google AdWords Training at
http://www.adwording.com
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