Traffic exchanges continue to be a popular way for Internet marketers to get their offers seen by a huge number of people in the shortest possible time.
However, not all traffic exchanges are created equal. You may experience terrific results on one exchange and terrible results on another even though the exchanges seem quite similar in terms of what they offer and how they work. So in this article let's look at how we can determine how traffic exchanges compare so that we can home in on the ones that will work best for us.
This is a matter of squeezing the best possible results out of what is after all a cheap method of promoting an online business. If you have been playing the traffic exchanges the wrong way you will probably find you have not achieved much.
For example, when you surf a traffic exchange it would be useful to know how popular it is, how many new members it attracts each week, how many hits the traffic exchange delivers for its members, and how many of those hits were unique. This kind of information shows you which traffic exchanges are popular and responsive. Popular traffic exchanges grow quite rapidly and that means they are pulling in fresh members every week, that in turn means that every week hundreds of thousands of fresh eyes might be viewing your webpages.
Looking at it the other way, if you are surfing a traffic exchange with a small membership that recruits only a a small amount of new members each week, it means that the members pages will be recycled again and again and presented to the same people many times.
Of course if your web page has personal branding then it is not a bad thing for the same person to be visiting your site several times. But if you allocate 300 credits to a certain webpage and find that the traffic exchange has gone through them in twenty-four hours, but the unique/repeat ratio was something like 60/240 with no sign ups, you probably would not be very happy.
So here is what I suggest. Find the most popular traffic exchanges and join them. They would be the ones growing rapidly with the largest member base. You can find out which are the 100 most popular traffic exchanges by checking the Affiliate Funnel rank report at:
Http://www.Affiliatefunnel.Com/rank-report.Php
You will instantly see the enormous variation concerning the traffic exchanges in terms of recruiting power and hits power. Interestingly, there is not an exact correlation between the two figures, but you will notice sizeable differences in new member numbers among the top recruiters and the lower ranking recruiters.
After joining a few exchanges you will want to see your results across the exchanges. You will need to use a service such as Hits Connect to achieve this. Whatever service you use, make certain that you can track the different results you will get from the different traffic exchanges. With hits connect you can do that without difficulty and also find the total/unique hits ratio that your campaign is getting on every exchange. Furthermore, you will be able to check which traffic exchanges are delivering affiliates or subscribers by adding a bit of tracking code to your "thank you" pages.
Armed with this valuable knowledge you will be able to discover which traffic exchanges work best for each of your individual campaigns.
