Are Traffic Exchange Site Worth It

Well my testing of 4 traffic exchange sites is now done. I spent over 5 hrs. looking at other peoples sites (time that I could have spent writing an article), I had my spyware software, alert me 6 different times to sites that were know for spyware.

I had over 1000 views, no sales and one opt-in. So is the traffic that you get from these sites worth it, I think not! It is low quality traffic. And I think that the risk of getting a virus or keylogger etc. is too high. For when you are trying to start or run an on-line business, having an infected computer is the last thing you need.

I think that I will continue to use the older method of getting traffic. Writing articles, submitting to site directories, posting to other blogs and trying to get one-way links.

Good Luck

I have Traffic, but is it the Right Traffic?

Well after six days of using a few traffic exchange sites, I have had over 300 hits. Maybe 50 to 75 hits of this traffic has been repeat visitors. I have been testing five different pages over these six days(one of which is an opt-in page) and not one has produced any results other than being viewed.

Not one sale, AdSense click or opt-in. I have spent over four hours viewing other sites, and that is time I could have spent promoting my pages by some other means.

But I may keep doing this till I hit 1000 hits, just to give it a good try.

Good Luck

PS If any one has had any success at this let me know.

The Traffic War Continues

It's day two of using traffic generating sites, I have spent 2-3 hrs looking at other peoples sites to earn point so the same can happen for me.

Checking today's stats and a little over 100 people have been to my home page and still there hasn't been anyone go pass that page. But I did just see a great idea to try with this traffic site, will have to get a new page put together and test it.

Good Luck

Traffic, Traffic, Traffic, Who's got the Traffic

Well, I got my hands on an old program used to automate viewing for traffic generating sites. You know the ones where you sign up and sit and look at other peoples sites and earn points. And in return others do the same, main purpose is to drive targeted traffic to your site.

I figured that I could sit there, the software would do the work and move me to the next page, so that I didn't have to have my hand on the mouse and clicking every 20 to 30 sec. I know I'm lazy!

Now I know that these programs were used by some to cheat the system, but I want to look at the websites, because you never know when you'll see something that you can use or give you your next niche idea.

So I went to 5 of these traffic site and in the terms; I found out that you can't use these kinds of software. So after signing up, I wanted to see if the traffic that I earned from these traffic sites would produce some kind of action.

One hour later,a sore wrist and clicking finger, I checked my stats. And I had 56 visitors to my site and can you guess what happened? What's right the traffic that I got was the same traffic other's had gotten from me 20 to 30 seconds on the home page and nothing more.

But it's a little early to tell if this is a waste of time or maybe a sale or two.

Good Luck

Affiliate Links

How many of you sell affiliate products on your website? Well, I have a few affiliate products on my site and I just learned an important lesson. I have never bothered to check these links. So I started clicking my affiliate links last week and to my surprise not all were active.

Two of the affiliate products were not being sold anymore. And one other was using PayPal, so anyone I had sent there didn't get credited as a sale for me. Which is a little disappointing when you sit down and think about how much time it took to get traffic to my site (as little as it is.

So if you don't check your affiliate links on a regular basis, learn from my mistake and start checking, so you don't lose a sale!

Good luck

Web Site SEO--How are you ranking?

Yesterday I talked about site promotion: how is your traffic. And today I came across this site http://coolestguyontheplanet.org/ which was set-up by Jonathan Leger.

Here he shows you how he got this site list at Google and is ranked #9. But what is more important is that he explains how he has gone about it. On the progress page it shows that the site went on-line Wednesday, April 18th, 2007.

Within it's pages he explains that it's all done over time (like I was saying yesterday by promoting 10 minutes a day). Another thing that caught my eye is he uses a product that I have mentioned in a past post and it's called: SEO Elite.

So if you are like me and are having trouble with finding traffic, head over to coolestguyontheplanet.org.

Because without traffic your site will never be seen!

Good luck

Site Promotion How is Your Traffic

Well I haven't posted in some time. Trying to redo my site and do some reading on how to get more traffic. I don't care what everyone says, but it comes down to traffic and how much you are getting to your website.

It doesn't matter how good your product is, how much time you spend on keyword research, SEO or list-building etc. If you don't have traffic at your site, you are not going to have any sales or people signing up for your newsletter.

Now we all have read or heard about writing articles, PPC, finding good one way links and listing your site using search engine submitters, plus listing to directories. All of which I have tried! I have listed at about 300 directories, submitted an article or two and looked for links. And still the traffic to my site is close to null.

Now I have done all of this, but not on a regular basis. Till I read this article and it said something like this: If you want traffic to your web site then you need to make a list of places you are going to list your site at.

Example of places: directories, forums, article sites etc. Then this article said the most profound thing which was "spend 10 minutes to an hour a day promoting your site." And this is what I wasn't doing, I wasn't spenting 10 minutes to an hour a day promoting my site.

I guess I'll be spending 10 minutes a day so that the rest falls into place.

Good Luck