Using Traffic Exchanges to Promote Your Website

Have you considered using traffic exchanges to advertise your website, the Plug-In Profit Site opportunity or to build your list? Traffic exchanges are a free and easy way to promote your site and it doesn't take much time to get started.

You can get good results using traffic exchanges, but most people go about it the WRONG way.

If you are advertising a long sales page, your home page or an expensive product in the traffic exchanges it is unlikely that you will get good results. The reason for this is that most traffic exchange users are surfing to earn credits, not to buy. They don't have time to read long pages.

To use traffic exchanges effectively you need to:

1) Make sure your offer grabs the attention of the surfer. It should be short, snappy and interesting

2) Capture the visitor's email address. Ideally entice people to sign up to your list, perhaps in exchange for a free report or EBook.

3) Track your results. If you are not getting a response do something different e.g. advertise a different page instead. Don't just keep on advertising the same page aimlessly!

4) Surf at least 5 traffic exchanges at the same time using tabbed browsing. This will earn you credits 5 times faster!

5) Build your downline. All traffic exchanges will give you benefits such as additional credits when you refer someone, which means that you won’t have to spend as much time surfing.

Ok, so now that's out of the way, here is a PLAN OF ACTION for you to build a big downline from the traffic exchanges AND get some signups to your list :-) This plan will take around 1-2 hours to follow through initially and then 20-30 minutes per day. There is nothing to buy.

ACTION STEP 1:

If you don’t know what a traffic exchange is take a quick read of my short Introduction to Traffic Exchanges.

ACTION STEP 2:

Join Traffic Hoopla. This is a downline builder for traffic exchanges and it is FREE to join. This will show you the current top traffic exchanges.

ACTION STEP 3:

Login to your Traffic Hoopla account and click on "1st Join". This will show you the current TOP 5 traffic exchanges. Join each of these (they are all free) and put your referral ID in the spaces provided by Traffic Hoopla. You may want to consider joining the "2nd Join" as well, but leave that for another day - you don't want to overwhelm yourself!

ACTION STEP 4:

The next step is a little bit more time consuming and will probably take you about 1-2 hours. You need to learn a little bit about each of the 5 traffic exchanges that you have joined. By this I mean learn how to add your site, how to surf and how many credits you will get for surfing and referring.

You will need to enter a website URL to promote for each traffic exchange and you will normally have to surf around 10-20 pages to activate your account.

For the website, you need to choose something that is going to work well in a traffic exchanges. The choice is yours but here are some suggestions.

1) Promote a lead capture page. I currently promote this lead capture page and this one and I receive regular optins to my lists. If you don't have a lead capture page you may want to consider my lead capture page service OR use one of the standard PIPS optin pages. The address for the PIPS page is http://www.pluginprofitsite.com/main-4231/pop1.html (replace 4231 with your own PIPS ID and use anything from pop1.html up to pop11.html)

2) Promote Traffic Hoopla. This will help you to build your downline in the traffic exchanges. Traffic Hoopla have a few different splash pages for use in the traffic exchanges. To find the splash pages login to Traffic Hoopla and click the link on the home page that says “you may also use these pages”

3) Promote a free business opportunity. My favorite free business opportunity is Cash Crate. You can see the Cash Crate splash page that I use here and I can create one like this for you free of charge. Another program you could promote is SFI.

ACTION STEP 5:

On a daily basis, open 6 tabs inside a browser and spend about 20-30 minutes surfing all 5 of these traffic exchanges at one time. Move between each of the tabs, clicking the next button to view the next page. This will earn you credits and as you earn credits your own websites will be shown.


Repeat step 5 as often as possible. Your credits will grow and you will get more exposure. At the same time your downline should grow and you will be able to surf less as you will earn credits from your downline.


Traffic exchanges were one of the first advertising methods that I used when I started internet marketing back in 2004. As a result I have hundreds of people in my downlines for these exchanges and I never need to surf myself. If you work on this you can easily find yourself in the same situation!


If you have a question feel free to post it in the comments below!