Tips for using manual traffic exchanges

 

As you probably know, advertising your referral link or sales page in traffic exchanges directly isn't a good idea. You would end up sending thousands of hits without any results! Here are some tips on how to utilize TE traffic more effectively:

 

• Use splash pages provided by traffic exchanges to build your downlines. They load fast and are designed to grab the surfers' attention in those short seconds before they click on to the next site. If you are a member of many different exchanges, use a rotator service to promote all of them with a single URL.

 

• Design your own splash pages using free services like EasySplashBuilder. A custom splash page will usually be much more effective than a default one that most surfers have already seen hundreds of times.

 

• Track the performance of your splash pages and use your credits to advertise the most effective ones. The free splash page creator services I mentioned above have built-in tracking. If you host your own pages or use premade ones, try Trck.me. It will count the views and clicks (or conversions), and calculate the CTR for each page. What's more, it also works as a rotator with useful features like domain filtering.

 

• Building your list is still the most effective way of using traffic exchange credits. I personally use TrafficWave for this purpose; in addition to the excellent email marketing services, they also offer a great affiliate compensation plan thanks to which I get paid every month. Offer a free ebook or other bonus to get more subscribers.

 

• Earn text ad impressions with every view while promoting your splash / squeeze page. Adsvert is a quality text ad exchange that allows traffic from manual TEs. You can place their ad code on a splash page that you designed yourself, or even use the "floating" ad with any URL without the need to modify the website code.