Can A Free Blog Traffic Exchange Really Bring More Visitors?
A free blog traffic exchange is made possible by two bloggers joining a service that promises them more traffic. These exchanges are made via various forms of free trade which we will cover in this article. Despite the popular belief that these free blog traffic exchanges hardly work, some blog owners claim that they do.
One thing we know is that the weblog (blog) market is huge and will not slow down quickly. In fact some say that many online businesses will enter the blog market at some stage in their lives and a free blog traffic exchange can act as a traffic converter for these new blog owners.
Blog traffic exchanges can be made possible by using widgets like the ill-famed Blogrush, alternatively there are blog traffic exchange sites that trade your time spent surfing the web and playing games to send you blog traffic instead.
Whether these kinds of exchanges serve a bloggers interest is left to discover by blog owners who are game enough to give this a try. It all sounds good on paper (ahem..on a blog posts) but in reality these traffic exchanges hardly work for most bloggers.
The reason being is that most bloggers simply don’t have the leverage of a huge blog network to make these free blog traffic exchanges work for them. For this to work, a blogger needs to have an established blog (network) to gain the most possible amount of traffic in return for little time spent. Most blog owners often invest many hours of their precious time into these free blog traffic exchange sites to find out that they simply wasted their time for nothing.
We all want more traffic for our blog and the thought of exchanging free traffic is tempting. I’m not stopping anybody to try a free blog traffic exchange tool or site to see whether they can trade some free traffic to gain more visitors, but I do warn you that most likely you will not achieve what you set out to do.
Good Thank You.
hi Monika,
Have you tried those full fledged traffic exchanges like StartXChange and TrafficSwarm?
Cheers.
Most traffic exchanges – if nto to say all – bring little targetted traffic in my experience and I have tried many. I have set up a blog called Traffic Exchanges Explained if anyone is interested.
Regards,
Colin
@ IWST: yes I have, years ago and after tireless clicking to gain more credits for weeks on end I felt it wasn’t worth my time to be honest. That was with Traffic Swarm.
This all is crap ! only search engines work the best!
I’ve been trying out several free blog traffic exchanges over the last few weeks. You can check out my results here: http://blog.ffff.ca/2008/08/01/blog-traffic-exchanges/
I think the services can be valuable to bloggers just starting… but yeah, finding a site that actually delivers on its promises is hard!
how can i exchange my blog;
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think the services can be valuable to bloggers just starting.
I felt it wasn’t worth my time to be honest. That was with Traffic Swarm.
I’ve been trying out several free blog traffic exchanges over the last few weeks.
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Link Referral is the only one that has sent noticeable traffic. Even then, you have to put in time perusing junk blogs (some of them are sales sites masquerading as blogs) just to get hits. Obviously, most are “junk” hits, people who are obliged to visit your blog for 2 seconds in order to get credit for hits to their own blog. There must be another way.
This is a good article; however; there is a new kid of the block that does deliver traffic in a simple, clean, and efficient way: Along for the Ride!
Check it out, its 100% free and there’s nothing to loose.
My take on Traffic Exchange Programs is to really think about a couple of things when deciding whether or not to use them.
*Know Your Audience
The only people who are using traffic exchange programs are people who want to get more traffic to their website.
*Entice Your Audience
Now that you know who they are, you have to entice them with an ethical bribe… say a free ebook or video on how to drive lots of traffic to their website… or better yet, a free report on how to outsource their traffic exchange activity for just a few dollars per day.
*Capture Their Contact
You can just give them your ethical bribe… in fact it’s not a bribe if you don’t ask for something in return. The only website you should promote on traffic exchanges are squeeze pages that capture name and email address.
Final Thought
The only people who can really make any money from traffic exchanges are those who are selling a product that teaches people how to drive traffic! If you are in any other business, you are more than likely wasting your time.
Great post!