The Key to Using Traffic Exchanges Effectively

The Key to Using Traffic Exchanges Effectively

by Allison Whitehead

Most home based net entrepreneurs have got enough to do without clicking for credits to get their sites seen on a traffic exchange.

But is auto surfing really the answer?

Traffic exchanges are an excellent way to drive extra traffic towards your site. But there are surely pros and cons to both manual and auto exchanges.

Both versions usually have some kind of reward scheme going on, whether that means random bonus credits, games to win credits that make the surfing experience somewhat more enjoyable, bonuses for referring others, bonuses for answering questions to make sure you’re not just a computer program that’s trying to cheat the system… the list goes on.

Auto programs are of course much more user friendly than the manual versions. They do the surfing for you, meaning you don’t have to run the risk of repetitive strain injury in your mouse finger.

Sounds great – but the chances are, if you’ve ever used an auto exchange, you haven’t spent too much time actually looking at the computer screen while you’ve been racking up the credits.

When you consider your site is also being advertised in the same way on that same exchange, you suddenly wonder how many people are seeing yours. Yup, it’s easy to score loads of credits, and get your site ‘seen’ loads of times… but how many people are actually looking?

For my money, manual exchanges are the best. As the name suggests, there is some manual work involved. You have to work to earn your credits, but these exchanges tend to deliver far better results, and you can be fairly sure that people out there are seeing your site.

Half the battle is in knowing how to make the exchanges work for you. You need quality traffic, you need leads, and you need customers. And to get the best out of any exchange, you need to consider what YOU do when you’re surfing. Do you look at the sites? For how long? How many times do you need to see the same site before you click on it for more information? What makes you click on a site the first time you see it?

You need to bear in mind that the number one reason people use traffic exchanges is to click on the ‘go’ button to go to the next screen and earn another credit. That’s it. They are not looking to buy stuff. You might occasionally get lucky and sell something right off the page in a traffic exchange, but it’s unlikely.

The key to succeeding with traffic exchanges is to use them effectively, and use them to capture leads, or recruit people into free to join programs. Advertise the other traffic exchanges you’re using. Write a report you can give away for free that advertises your latest e-book or product. Promote your free to join affiliate programs. Use them to create a relationship between yourself and your audience.

Whatever traffic exchange you use, look on it as a way of capturing leads if you have a product to sell. Offer a freebie in exchange for their details and email address. Look on the traffic exchanges as the Internet version of a ‘loss leader’ – the first sale that you actually lose money on, in order to keep that customer for the long term. Do that and you won’t go far wrong.

Only it’s actually better online – you’re not losing any money upfront. You’re just losing a little time, clicking on other sites for credit.

Personally I think that’s a good deal.

Blogging Newbies - Blogger or Wordpress ?

For someone new to blogging, choosing a blog platform could be a challenge.

There are a lot blog platform that you can search on the Internet to start a blog.

Just search "blog" on Google and you will find a variety of blogging platform.

Most of these blog platform are free to join and they also offer optional paid upgrades on certain services.

The top two blogging platform are Blogger and WordPress which are free but with optional paid upgrades.

Blogger offer an easy and simple setup to creating blogs even for a blogging newbie.

WordPress offer much more features and more search engine friendly but more complicated setup.

If you are new to blogging and have zero knowledge about the Internet, html, css etc, I would recommend you start a blog at Blogger.

Blogger is so easy to use.

If you want to learn about creating blogs and blogging, start a blog at Blogger.

You can become a "PRO Blogger" at Blogger just by reading all the how to guides.

New to blogging ? Create a blog at Blogger.

8 Quick Ways to Generate Blog Traffic Systematically

I learnt from other marketers such as Ewen Chia and Alvin Phang, that there are many ways to generate free traffic to your sites, especially for blogs.

After creating a blog post, you can use methods ranging from sending your posts as articles to article submission sites like EzineArticles.com, to leveraging on social bookmarking sites like OnlyWire.

In fact, it is advisable that if you have the time, to take advantage of them all.

However, due to the numerous ways available, the whole process can be extremely tedious without a systematic or automated way of doing this.

Below is my own step-by-step system which, while not fully automated, can be used to reach out to a wider audience quickly and instantly, for each of your blog posts.

#1 - Submit the post as an article to article submission sites

Article submission sites are guaranteed traffic generators for well-written articles, usually on an average of between 1-200 visitors a day. If your post has been written like an article, do not hesitate to submit it to sites like EzineArticles.com. However, do note that article sites require good content, and not just something from a daily muse.

#2 - Publish Feedburner feed(s)

Ensure your posts have been published using RSS feeds, such as Feedburner.

#3 - Use Squidoo

Create Squidoo lenses for each keyword in your post, if it has not already been done. Then add your blog RSS feed in the lens. This will place your post to the eyes of anyone who visits you via Squidoo.

#4 - Stumble the post and Squidoo lens

StumbleUpon.com is a social bookmarking site which provides a browser tool bar from which you can bookmark your site’s pages. It helps to generate massive amounts of traffic to your site, especially if you provide content which people find useful. As a result, more people will review and bookmark your site, creating much exposure, possible backlinks and a subsequent readership. Learn more about StumbleUpon here.

Once you have set up the tool bar, use the “I Like It!” button to bookmark and review the site page with your post.

#5 - Submit to OnlyWire and other social bookmarking sites

There is an increasing number of social bookmarking sites available today which provides massive potential for traffic generation. In order to submit your post to each of them requires considerable effort and time. Wouldn’t it be a great timesaver if there was a tool that could automate this?

With OnlyWire, this can be achieved to a certain extent. At the moment, OnlyWire allows instant submission of your post to up to 22 social bookmarking sites. You will still need to have your own account at each of these sites, and key in your account name and password into OnlyWire. But after that, all you need to do is to bookmark your post using OnlyWire, and it will help to submit your post to all the 22 sites and a global audience.

If you are part of other sites like Digg.com (which is not on OnlyWire), do the necessary submission to those sites as well.

#6 - Ping Technorati

Technorati is often known as the authority of the latest buzz on the World Wide Web. If you have an account with Technorati and have added the necessary widgets, Technorati will ping your site upon adding a new post.

#7 - Write a WTF (Where’s The Fire?) on Technorati

WTFs are short articles or excerpts on Technorati that are often used to spread the word on practically everything. They are frequently exposed on Technorati’s main page and can be voted on by people. If your post or article is of great content, write a short WTF and post it on Technorati. This can provide residual traffic as well, since popular WTFs can remain on the Technorati homepage for a long while.

#8 - Alert your blog communities of new content

People who have joined your blog communities in MyBlogLog for example, are definitely keen on visiting your blog for content. Do them a service, inform them of your new post and they will drop by.

There are many other platforms on which you can leverage on to generate free traffic through various media - such as Yahoo! Answers, YouTube, Flickr, Google Alerts and the countless Web 2.0 sites sprouting up all over the Internet.

The above 8 steps are just the main methods which I use to quickly and systematically spread my posts to a wider audience, using such platforms.

Use and integrate them into your own methods where applicable and useful, and pretty soon traffic generation will become second nature with more visitors to your site!

Now What You Gonna Blog About ?

The hardest part in the everyday life of a blogger is what to blog about.

Blogging is not easy if you don't enjoy writing.

Even if you are a good writer doesn't make you a great blogger.

The worst part is when you want to make money with blogging, you need to have great quality and relevant content for blogs.

With good quality content then only you can think of making money with your blogs.

I have experiment that if you stick to a certain niche for your blog, you can make money with your blog especially if you are monetizing your blog with Google AdSense.

Google AdSense will deliver ads that is relevant to your blogs niche content.

When you have ads that is related to your blogs niche content, your blog readers are bound to click the related ads.

Being a newbie in making money online, I have tried many different approach to making money by blogging.

I have created different blogs with different niche such as travel Malaysia, paid surveys, outdoor camping survival, landscaping etc.

Its better to create a "niche" blog rather than a blog that is about everything though there are very successful blogger that blog about everything.

Creating a "general" blog is ok for as long as you have good volume of readers, then you can monetize your blog with affiliate programs.

Most blogger face "what to blog today" problem once in a while.

I would sometime uses PLR articles in addition to the articles that I wrote myself.

Using PLR articles is fine as along as you don't use as it is.

You need to rewrite the PLR articles in whole before you use it.

Using PLR articles will greatly enhance your blogs content.

One blogging problem solved - use PLR articles for your blogs.

Make Money Blogging

Everybody wants to make money online.

Everybody thought they can make money with their blog by blogging.

Its not that easy though.

One thing I realised, if you don't intend to make money with your blog, your blog will eventually end making money for you.

The reason is because you are not giving pressure to yourself to make your blog start making money for you.

When you are pressured, you tend to make blog post that are not intended to make money and that way your blog is free of any keyword or all that money making keyword.

In fact, you would be posting a great blog post that your blog reader would be more interested to read.

If you want to make money blogging, you need to have a great content for your blog which your blog reader would enjoy reading.

Blogs and blogging is about people reading your blogs.

You will make money blogging if your reader loves reading your blog posts.

Google AdSense is one of the best way to monetize your blog.

To make money with Google AdSense, you will create a "niche" blog. In simple word, make a blog about a single topic.

You can choose any topic but make sure your blog stick to that topic online.

This is because Google AdSense will deliver ads that is related and relevant to your blog topic thus your Google AdSense ads will generate more clicks.

More clicks means more money for you.

To make money blogging, you need to have a blog with good niche or topic...

Make Money Blogging Using Google Blogger Blogspot Blog

A lot of people is trying their luck in making some money online by blogging.
But which blog platform do you choose ?

Well there are a lot of blogging platform that you can choose to start making money by blogging but today I'll be blogging about Google Blogger Blogspot Blog.

You can search for other blog platform by doing a Google search "blog".

Google Blogger Blogspot Blog is a free blog platform that you can use especially if you are a newbie to blogging.

I prefer to use Google Blogger Blogspot Blog because its easy to use as compare to other blogging platform and its free.

Google Blogger Blogspot Blog however, is not search engine friendly as compare to Wordpress blogging platform.

Not too worry about the search engine thing, Google Blogger Blogspot Blog is owned by Google and you will get indexed by Google. Why worry about other search engine when Google is the biggest search engine around ?

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So, how do you create a blog at Google Blogger Blogspot Blog ?

Watch this video by Google Blogger Blogspot Blog support team :-



See how easy it is to create a blog at Google Blogger Blogspot Blog. Do note that you need to have a Google account to create a blog at Google Blogger Blogspot Blog.

If you don't have a Google account yet, you can start by signing up free with Google Gmail email account. Once your Google Gmail email account is set up, you can create a free blog at Google Blogger Blogspot Blog.

All free blog at Google Blogger Blogspot Blog will have a "blogspot" in the domain name ie. yourname.blogspot.com .

If you want to make money with your blog I would suggest you get a "custom domain name" for your Google Blogger Blogspot Blog. Custom domain name will only cost you USD10.00 per year at Google Blogger Blogspot Blog.

The video below will show you how to purchase and create a "custom domain name" for your Google Blogger Blogspot Blog :




Your purchased domain name will be available after a few days.

I am currently testing which of my Google Blogger Blogspot Blogs are making more money and getting more traffic, blogspot domain or custom domain. Since all my Google Blogger Blogspot custom domain blogs are still very new, my "blogspot" blogs are still making more money and receiving much more traffic currently.

So, how do you monetize and make money by blogging at Google Blogger Blogspot Blog ?

The easiest and the best blogging money making tool are Google AdSense. Find out more about Google AdSense here. Once you have posted a few posts at your Google Blogger Blogspot Blog, you can apply for Google AdSense and sign up with other affiliate programs to make money with blogging.

Below is video tutorial on how to implement your Google AdSense ads on your Google Blogger Blogspot Blog :-




To make money with blogging, you need to create a niche blog at Google Blogger Blogspot Blog. I have a few niche blog that I created at Google Blogger Blogspot Blog - landscaping, camping, surveys, etc...

To make money with your blog, you need to have unique good quality content for your Google Blogger Blogspot Blogs. With unique good quality content you will receive more organic traffic from Google.

Good Luck on making money with blogging.

These are just the very basic tips on making money with Google Blogger Blogspot Blog.

Good Luck.