Making The Most Of Surfing For Traffic
Are you looking for the quickest and free way to get traffic to your site? Then you might consider getting involved in one of the many traffic exchange programs where you surf for traffic. Basically, for every site you view, you are given credits for a certain amount of views on your own sites.
Some of the best ones will have a 1:1 ratio where for every site you visit, they will send you one visitor. Most have a 2:1 ratio where you will have to visit 2 sites for every one visitor they send, but will also offer contests, surprise extra visits, and sometimes cash back.
Some of these visits you and other surfers will endure can last anywhere from 10-30 seconds. The better programs will have some degree of interaction where you will have to point out something to prove you are actually paying attention during a surf session. The worst ones to join are the auto-surfers which just automatically rotate sites without anyone having to be there.
A good program is one that actually checks the web sites before they go in the queue to verify there are no excess pop-ups, forced downloads, or anything obscene or irritating. Some even forbid music or automated greetings to be in the queue. The bad programs are lax at enforcing these protections for the surfers which make a very frustrating experience for someone trying to earn credit for their own sites. Bad programs are responsible for browsers crashing and virus/trojan attacks.
The good thing about these programs are they allow newbies who do not have a web site at all to promote a program hosted on another site. For instance, if you have signed up with an affiliate program, multi-level marketing, or other business opportunity that has their own web site set up with your personal url to get credit for it, you do not really need to fork over the money to set up your own domain name, hosting, or have skills to design a web site.
For those who do have their own site, it brings a benefit of starting to get some traffic your way until the search engines discover you. It also helps those who have sites that have gone on blacklists of search engines or whose sites are not being spidered.
The truth is people who are inexperienced are expecting too much from their participation in these traffic exchange programs and feel frustrated that they spend all this time surfing without results.
Remember, with these traffic exchange programs, time is not on your side. You have from 10-30 seconds to grab the surfer's attention and make them take action. If you can't get it, you have just wasted your opportunity.
The biggest mistake people make is submitting the wrong kind of site for the traffic it will experience. Keep in mind, everyone who is surfing is primarily interested in business, making more money, or getting more traffic. It's not that they have no other interests in life, but while they are surfing, this is where their minds are at. If your site does not catch their attention, they will merely wait until time is up and move on.
Mistake number two is to have a web site that has way too much information to read through. Remember, you only have a few seconds of them having to be there. Unless it is really interesting or you have given them a way to come back to know you, most will not read through your offer.
Mistake number three is lack of a way for the surfer to come back to you after the session. Be sure to include a link that will lift out of the surfing frame without breaking the session, or create a squeeze page to capture a name and e-mail, or a link to bookmark the page. If the surfer is interested, but time constrains them from fully enjoying your site, you have just lost them if you do not give them a way to come back at their leisure.
If you don't have one yet, get a blog. Fill it with content related to whatever you offer, whatever you know, or whatever you love. Then register it with Blog Explosion for traffic exchange for your blog. The benefit of this one is not only do you get to receive traffic for your blog, but it allows you to surf other blogs and post a link to your site with your comment.
Sign up for one or all of the traffic exchanges below:
- Blog Explosion
- ClickThru Net
- CobraSurf
- Hits UK
- SavvyClicks
- Silent Hits
- Smiley Traffic
- StartXchange Traffic Exchange
- Traffic HQ
- Traffic Traderz
- Hits UK
Make sure the web sites you choose for the traffic are business, traffic or money making related. Make sure they do not have any automated greetings (a big turn off for most surfers!!!), more than one pop up, or forces you to download anything. Make sure the page loads fast. If it is your own site, add a bookmark script, refer a friend script, and/or a sign up for a free newsletter in it.
If your site fits with the above, it will improve your chances of success. Any other type of site you try to use in this program is likely to be a wasted effort. If you have a more informal web site that does not fit into these categories, at least be sure to have a bookmark script in it because someone may be interested in the topic, but may want to see it at a later time.
Some of these programs allow you to rate the sites you visit and the better the ratings, the more exposure you get. If your site has automated greetings or an obscene number of pop ups, it will get a bad rating and people do not react well to whatever you have to offer. Ask yourself, is this a site you would welcome visiting?
Once you have chosen the sites you want to promote, you need to organize your time for the best effect.
Get a browser that allows for multiple tabs such as Firefox or Crazy Browser. Be sure to bookmark all of the traffic programs you joined. Pick out a time schedule just for surfing, but be consistent. It could be 6 hours a week one day a week, or 1 hour a day every day, or however ambitious you feel, but stick with a schedule.
Position yourself in a comfortable chair with the keypad or mouse in your lap. You may want a beverage or snack by your side if you choose. To break up the monotony, turn on some form of music or radio for background noise [if you have Windows Media Player, Real Player, Napster...create a playlist of your favorite songs to play while you surf.]
Open your browser and open up a tab for each of your surf programs and start the session. Go from one tab to the next, from left to right or right to left, whichever is more comfortable for you, then start again from where you began. Keep surfing for however much time you have scheduled for yourself, then move on to something else.
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