Effectively Make Money With Traffic Exchanges

Manual traffic exchanges allow you to earn visits to your web pages by viewing the web sites of the other members. In other words, a traffic exchange allows members to exchange traffic between their sites.

When you join a traffic exchange, you can join as a free member or as a paid member with a monthly subscription.

The goal in joining a traffic exchange is the opportunity to promote your URLs and have other members view, and often times, join them. Whenever you view other members' pages, you earn credits towards them seeing your page. Paid upgraded members usually earn more credits than free accounts, allowing them to surf less for the same number of credits. You'll typically view each page while a timer counts down, usually from 10 to 30 seconds, before you can move on to the next page.

To earn credits as quickly as possible, you may want to surf traffic exchanges by opening up multiple tabs in your browser.

You page must be both quick to load, and quick to grab their attention, as many other users are also using multiple tabs. It is crucial that the URL you are advertising have enough draw that the other surfers want to click through and stay on your site.

And because most members are clicking almost mechanically to get to the next page, they will need to see your page several times before they decide to do more than glance at your headline. This means you will need lots of credits to successfully promote your URLs.

These facts have a profound effect on your ability to make money using traffic exchanges. To make a significant amount of money from traffic exchanges there are two things you must do.

Build a Downline

The first thing you need to do is refer people to the traffic exchange in order to build a downline. That is, you must encourage other people to join a traffic exchange from your promotional link to that exchange. You may receive credits worth 10% or 20% of the credits earned by the surfing of your downline. In addition to receiving traffic credits from your downline, some traffic exchanges pay handsome commissions just for signing a referral up. Two such exchanges are Traffic Witch and Traffic-Splash, which just happen to also be two exchanges that give excellent results!

A large downline adds significant credits to your account and allows your pages to be displayed frequently. Building your downline gives your tremedous power to promote money making opportunities with traffic exchanges.

There are two ways to accomplish this. That is, you use a splash page from traffic exchange "A" on traffic exchange "B" and visa versa. So, when someone surfs traffic exchange "B" and joins traffic exchange "A" from your splash page, you've added to your downline on exchange "A".

The second way to build a downline is to make use of a traffic building resource like TheViralBuilder. TheViralBuider orgranizes all your referral links into one place, so that anyone who joins under you is shown all the links needed for them to join the manual traffic exchanges as your downline.

Then, when you advertise TheViralBuilder, the links to the various exchanges will contain your program IDs. When someone joins the traffic exchanges via your TheViralBuilder link, you'll gain a downline in each of those traffic exchanges.

This is a very powerful technique for building downlines on the traffic exchanges.

Build a List

A quarter of the web pages in a traffic exchange ask for your email address while another 38% of the pages will ask for your email address when you click to a second page.

An opt-in list allows you to send out newsletters that cover a topic of interest to your list members. As you cover topics relevant to your list members you'll build credibility with them.

In addition to providing a downline building program, TheViralBuilder also helps to grow the number of subscribers to your mailing list.

These things will put you ahead of the average exchange member.

You can learn more about how to make money with traffic exchanges here.