TrafficBars (Built into your Browser)

Instant Buzz

and

Free Traffic Bar

, are two unique and

unusual applications that allow marketers to market to other

marketers quite effectively. There may be others but these

two have the sector cornered so far.

Their concept is simple enough, you build up free Ad impression credits just by

surfing the websites that you already go to. (You never have to go anywhere you

wouldn’t already want to… This is nothing like a traffic exchange program in that

respect.)

Both traffic bars display Ads to other internet marketers who load these programs

into their browsers as well. The ads are cute, sometimes funny, little one-liner

text Ads that either change when you reach a new page, or change at a pre-set

amount of time.

I give them a higher-than-usual quality rating only because anyone using these

methods would already assume that the target market would be only to other

Internet marketers. (Inside the IM2IM niche)

If you try to use these to market to a different niche, such as golfers or horse

trainers, then the amount of clicks you’ll get will be very low.

Since delivery is instant, and targeted text ads are always high in quality to the

people that do click on them, this method is a great way to test your Ad campaign

quickly, if not to be used for full-fledged advertising itself.

See: “

List Builder Traffic Strategy

” at the back of the book for more on them both.

Traffic Exchanges – Manual

Traffic exchange websites, either manual or automatic, are

simply places that shows you a bunch of websites, and for

every one you look at, your website is displayed to others on

the exchange.

These aren’t Banner Ads or Impressions of some other kind of Ad, this is truly

traffic to your site, although it’s not targeted.

Manual Traffic exchanges bring visitors that are more targeted than Automatic

exchange visitors, because you know that every one you get is someone who is

actually looking at the page.

Automatic exchanges, by comparison, allow you to leave the program running

while you go to sleep for the night and wake up with a couple hundred credits in

the morning… Not exactly top quality traffic.

Even Manual exchanges suffer in quality a little because you know that the

person looking at your page is pressured to move along in 15 or 20 seconds, and

also that they don’t fit into any one demographic… Nothing there is binding them

to any other niche other than that of a generic Internet Marketer. (Putting this

kind of campaign in the IM2IM Niche with Safelists, Trafficbars, and list builders.)

There is still some conversion however. Perhaps just a little better than a safelist,

you can get perhaps 5 out of 100 people to really look at your website or

download a free offer on that page with Manual Traffic Exchanges.

If you just join one exchange you can generate perhaps 200 hits a day to your

website, so that’s something around 10 people who will take an interest. A

common tactic is to use multiple manual exchanges at once, perhaps up to 7 at a

time (so that by the time you’ve click on the last one the first one is ready to be

clicked again) and you can generate up to 200 hits a day from each of them.

Naturally, if you build a downline or purchase an upgrade you’ll get better

exchange ratios, up to 2 shows for every view. All programs offer a free version

that begins with a ratio of 1 show for every 2 to 4 views, depending on program.

The top Four highest-quality Manual exchanges I’ve tested are:

TS25

TrafficG

WebbizInsider

TrafficPods

I like these four specifically because once you have some downline members,

you never have to surf yourself anymore… You just keep getting free credits from

your downline’s surfing!

Traffic Exchanges – Automatic

There is something to be said for Automatic Exchanges too.

Although everyone prefers their traffic to be highly targeted,

there are times in which sheer bulk traffic has its advantages.

Do you know how Alexa.com gathers its’ data on how popular websites are? It

depends on people who download the Alexa Toolbar , and that program

constantly reports back to Alexa which websites they are viewing.

Naturally not everyone uses this tool, especially since McAfee and Norton

spyware scanners identify it as a security threat! However, the largest segment of

the population that uses those Alexa bars would of course be the people who

care about their Alexa ranking the most… Internet Marketers.

ESPECIALLY the ones who use traffic exchanges.

You’ll find that a large number of traffic exchange members have the Alexa

Toolbar installed and their browsers are set to run the automatic exchages every

night.

Imagine having your website visited by 2,000 Alexa-toolbar-packing internet

marketers, NIGHTLY. Do you think your website’s ranking might be affected at

all?

I use automatic exchanges for this purpose and none other. All it takes is some

spare computer “idle” time and a good spyware removal program… Many of

these websites can be hazardous to your computer’s health.

Additionally, since page hits are so cheap to these guys, even free accounts

come with many thousand free page views just for signing up!

Here are my three favorite Auto-surf sites:

Click Evolution

Traffic Plus Hits

Christian AutoSurf

Additionally, there are two places I recommend that rate Traffic Exchanges. (Both

manual and auto.) A nice, not quite complete but very easy to use Traffic

Exchange directory listing is located at:

TrafficExchangeDirectory.com

.

It includes both Manual and Auto exchanges as well as many other kinds like

Banner, text ads, and mixed formats. Well worth a look if you like these traffic

sources.

However, the real find is a service called

Traffic Hoopla

that is quite frankly

incredible… Both for Traffic Exchanges and for Safelists! They continually rate

the RESPONSIVENESS of each safelist and traffic exc hange out there, and

even give you weekly stats! They have a downline builder and a free level of

membership, so be sure to sign up for this one!