The Website Project after Dark

Once you realize that you are never going to have enough time to write articles and submit to directories to get the traffic that you need for your website, the traffic exchanges and banner exchanges start to look better and better. When you get tired of looking at your statistics and seeing that you only had four visitors for the entire day, you start to get desperate. Many people complain that the visitors from a traffic exchange are not "targeted" visitors. They are only on the traffic exchange to get visitors to their own websites. For those of you who don't know--a traffic exchange is when I visit your website and then you are sent to visit mine. Google Adsense forbids you to use them. Your account will be closed. Some people are removing Adsense from their sites and replacing it with Adbrite or something else, so that they can promote their website any way that they want to. I won't put any of my websites that have Adsense on them on any traffic exchange. I have found another company called ClickMyAd that lets you put their ads anywhere and on anything. They also give you a free FFA site. I am creating a small website to put on the traffic exchanges. It has its own domain name. I am also including an About page and a Privacy Policy, so that it will qualify as a micro site. All of my websites are linked together. If someone sees one of my websites, they have the option to visit the other ones. Many people do click through to the other sites.

The best way to get noticed on the traffic exchanges is to make a splash page or squeeze page. A squeeze page is designed to just grab someone's e-mail address so that you can e-mail them later with your offers and the URL of your website. A splash page has a catchy headline and gets right to the point about what you are offering. It should not include video, sound, or pictures. It should load very quickly since you only have seconds to get the surfer's attention. Some people like to put a picture of themselves on it. These pages still need to be hosted somewhere. Many traffic exchanges will host it for you for free. I am just including them in my micro site and submitting the URL of that page. Another thing to beware of is that putting your site on the traffic exchanges uses a lot of bandwidth. If you have a host that limits bandwidth, you may exceed your limit quickly. This means that visitors won't be able to visit your site and your hosting company may try to charge you more money per month.

Some other things that you need to have are virus scan and a firewall on your computer. It is very rare, but there have been reports of websites on an exchange trying to download viruses into computers. Another handy tool is a browser such as Firefox that allows for tabbed browsing. Some people like to surf five traffic exchanges at one time. Firefox will also remember all of your passwords. Below is a list of the best exchanges to join. If used properly, they can be a valuable advertising tool. Click here for more traffic exchanges that do not appear below. Be sure to bookmark this website before you leave.

Be sure to also look at the Classified Ads page for some more easy traffic. I am going to try and list some sites that blast ads to thousands of websites in their network. Adland Pro is more than a traffic exchange. It gives you a page that links you with a network of classified ads and their traffic exchange. You can always have free ads running. Any person that signs up under you gets a free page with a link to your website in the corner. I have already seen results from this. The traffic exchange gives you 100% of the credits earned by your referrals. Click on the banner below to find out more.

Traffic Meet will pay you a limited amount of cash for a limited amount of sites that you view. You must have 3 URL's listed with them and be actively promoting their website in order to surf for cash. You must also surf for credits at other times. There is a 2:1 ratio for free members. You can get paid for 1 level of referrals.
Traffic Swarm This is different from the others because it allows its users to select which ads they want to click on. It's the closest that you are going to get to targeted traffic in a traffic exchange. Traffic Swarm is usually at the top of everyone's list. 1:1 ratio.
Traffic G has many different ways to advertise besides surfing. They have a banner network to show your ad. This one also came highly recommended, so I'll give it a try. 1:1 ratio.
Easy Hits 4 U will pay you .30 every time that you visit 1000 sites. It has a surf exchange and banner exchange. There is a 5 level referral program. They also have a free splash page creator and you can use the splash pages on other traffic exchanges. It has a 1:1 ratio. You also get .30 every time one of your referrals visits 1000 sites. It has a $3 payout.
Top Surfer pays 1 cent for each 35 sites that you visit using the cash surfbar. You can also click on solo ads and get 5 credits each. 2:1 ratio.
Top Tier Traffic and Web-Biz Insider have the same owner and he will give you bonus credits for surfing them both at the same time. This works out to be more than a 1:1 ratio. You can also earn free referrals for surfing 100-250 sites per day. These are two of my favorite programs. Referrals run 6 levels deep.
Gone Clicking has a 2:1 ratio and 10-15 second timer. 5 levels of referrals. Moves very fast, even on a slow internet connection.
Smiley Traffic has been around since 2004. They offer any kind of bonus that you can think of--credits, cash, banners, and text links. They have a 5:2 ratio for free accounts with many bonuses in between. There is a 15 second timer. Get 2 cents for 100 clicks, and also get money and credits for 4 levels of referrals. They have both manual and auto surf.
HitTactic has a 2:1 ratio and a 20 second timer. Earn 0.025 for every 100 sites surfed. Get 50 credits and 10 cents for referring others. Also get credits for 5 levels of referrals. Win credits and banner impressions and play poker.
SeaFast Traffic gives you credits or cash for surfing 15-100 sites. It has a 1:05 ratio and a 15 second timer. You get 15 cents for signing up and half a cent for each referral. The referral program goes 8 levels deep. You get a 300 credit monthly bonus and 2500 banner and 2500 text impressions. They have added a banner maker and are adding a splash page maker. You get so many bonus credits that it works out to a 1:1 ratio. They also put your website into the v-10 network which allows it to be seen in more than 120 other traffic exchanges.
Share-Traffic has a 20 second timer. They give a 1:1 ratio and 25% of credits earned from direct referrals. There are 4 more levels of referrals. You also get paid .0002 cents for each site you view. There is a $20 payout.
Webmaster Quest has a 1:1 ratio and a 30 second timer. You get credit for 5 levels of referrals.
Traffic Roundup has a 3:1 ratio and a 10 second timer. You get 5% of the credits earned by your direct referrals and a 10% cash commission on their purchases.
Clixswap has a 1:1 ratio and a 30 second timer. You can earn 25 clicks each day when your referrals come in to collect their clicks.
Bionic Hits has a 15 second timer. You get 10% of the credits earned by your referrals 10 levels deep.
Hit Safari promises free traffic and cash commissions. I haven’t been able to find anything on the website to clarify that yet. This has a 2:1 ratio with a ten second timer. It’s supposed to give many bonus points for surfing.
Hit2Hit has a 2:1 ratio with a 6 second timer. There is a cash commission of 5% on one referral level.
Free Traffic Bar is not really a traffic exchange. You download a toolbar and watch other members text ads while you do your normal tasks on the internet. Every time that you load a page while the toolbar is on, you earn a credit. You get 25 credits every day just for logging in to your Free Traffic Bar account.

Click here for more traffic exchanges that do not appear above. Be sure to bookmark this website before you leave.