Traffic Exchanges Bring More Visitors To Your Websites

I'm not going to try to cover all the news related to traffic exchanges here.

If you want to follow the industry more closely, I suggest that you visit these forums periodically:

• NetMarketingForum.com
• TheMembersForum.com

Recent Updates

Jon Olson, the owner of ILoveHits.com, has added some great new features for the members of his traffic exchange.

Now, by editing your new profile page, you can link to your blog, websites, social networking sites, and even post blog entries.

Come visit my ILH member profile page to see what I'm talking about.

I'm impressed by these new features and, if you are a member, I recommend you make use of them.

If you're not a member, you are invited to join I Love Hits today.

Traffic exchanges are effective if used correctly.

However, most people do not use them effectively.

If you are showing a sales page, your blog, a catalog, or any other slow-loading page that offers more than one thing to do, it won't work.

You only have 5 - 10 seconds to get someone's attention and to have them perform your most wanted response.

One of the best things you can do is capture your visitors contact information by enticing them to subscribe to your mailing list or join a program that builds downlines.

After they join, you no longer have just 10 seconds, you can contact them multiple times over days or even months and offer them valuable information on how to accomplish what they want with their websites and businesses.

You want to build a relationship, not just make a sale.

Do you want to learn how to used traffic exchanges effectively?

Join the following site. You can join for free and it offers inexpensive upgrade options when you realize how much it can help you improve your marketing.

Join today, while you're thinking about it.

• Affiliate Funnel

Affiliate Funnel offers a lot of training, a forum, and information on how to use traffic exchanges more effectively.

One of your first priorities is to build your list, and traffic exchanges are a great way to promote your list sign up pages (also known as lead capture or squeeze pages).

You can learn from some of the best, and you can do it for free.

Act on your dream!

JD

Dan Moses, owner of several traffic exchanges and services for online marketers, wrote a free report about traffic exchanges called Click Thru Marketing System that is well worth reading by experienced traffic exchange surfers and is almost "must reading" for anyone who is new to traffic exchange services.

Although the report is several years old, it still contains very useful information about a few of the top traffic exchanges.

Do you have an opinion about the best traffic exchanges? Click the image, above, and vote for your favorites.

When used wrong, traffic exchanges can be a huge waste of time and energy.

How do you use a traffic exchange incorrectly?

Link directly to a blog or website - unless you just happen to show it to someone with particular interest in your site, nobody is going to stick around long enough to read it.

Link to a page with your Adsense ads - this can, and probably will, cause Google to cancel your Adsense account. It is a direct violation of their terms of service. Don't lose something that can earn you thousands of dollars!

Link to a sales page - it is unlikely that you will make a sale in 10 to 30 seconds.

Link to a page that takes forever to load - you have a few seconds to catch someone's attention, don't waste it by having a page that takes so long to load that nobody ever sees it in the exchange.

How do you use traffic exchanges correctly?

Brand yourself - don't use the standard pages that are provided to all affiliates, create pages that brand yourself first, and then you can bring your visitors to your other pages over time. How?

Build your mailing list - everyone says that the money is in the list, but many of us wasted months or years by not making that our top priority. Traffic exchanges are great for gathering leads, and one of the best ways is to get the viewer to subscribe to your mailing list. How?

Use lead capture splash pages - Create pages that load fast, have your email subscribe form, and brand yourself. Capture those leads when you can, on traffic exchanges, on your blogs, on your websites, on social networking sites, and here on Squidoo.

If someone is interested enough to join your list, they may eventually be interested enough to become a client or customer.

How do you learn how to do this?

Join Affiliate Funnel and learn about marketing, creating and managing mailing lists, how to use traffic exchanges, and much more. Join for free and upgrade later if you think there is value there for you.

I'm a Gold member and I'm happy I upgraded last year.