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There is something to be said for Automatic Exchanges too. Although everyone prefers their traffic to be highly targeted, there are times in which sheer bulk traffic has its advantages.

Do you know how Alexa.com gathers its’ data on how popular websites are? It depends on people who download the Alexa Toolbar, and that program constantly reports back to Alexa which websites they are viewing.

Naturally not everyone uses this tool, especially since McAfee and Norton spyware scanners identify it as a security threat! However, the largest segment of the population that uses those Alexa bars would of course be the people who care about their Alexa ranking the most… Internet Marketers.

ESPECIALLY the ones who use traffic exchanges.

You’ll find that a large number of traffic exchange members have the Alexa Toolbar installed and their browsers are set to run the automatic exchages every night.

Imagine having your website visited by 2,000 Alexa-toolbar-packing internet marketers, NIGHTLY. Do you think your website’s ranking might be affected at all?

I use automatic exchanges for this purpose and none other. All it takes is some spare computer “idle” time and a good spyware removal program… Many of these websites can be hazardous to your computer’s health.

Additionally, since page hits are so cheap to these guys, even free accounts come with many thousand free page views just for signing up!
Here are 6 Auto-surf sites:

Five Hits
10000 Visitors
Click Evolution
Traffic Plus Hits
Christian AutoSurf
5000Clicks

Additionally, there is a nice, not quite complete but very easy to use Traffic Exchange directory at: http://www.trafficexchangedirectory.com

It includes both Manual and Auto exchanges as well as many other kinds like Banner, text ads, and mixed formats. Well worth a look if you like these traffic ources.

Traffic exchange websites, either manual or automatic, are simply places that shows you a bunch of websites, and for every one you look at, your website is displayed to others on the exchange.

These aren’t Banner Ads or Impressions of some other kind of Ad, this is truly traffic to your site, although it’s not targeted.

Manual Traffic exchanges bring visitors that are more targeted than Automatic exchange visitors, because you know that every one you get is someone who is actually looking at the page.

Automatic exchanges, by comparison, allow you to leave the program running while you go to sleep for the night and wake up with a couple hundred credits in the morning… Not exactly top quality traffic. Even Manual exchanges suffer in quality a little because you know that the
person looking at your page is pressured to move along in 15 or 20 seconds, and also that they don’t fit into any one demographic… Nothing there is binding them to any other niche other than that of a generic Internet Marketer. (Putting this kind of campaign in the IM2IM Niche with Safelists, Trafficbars, and list builders.)

There is still some conversion however. Perhaps just a little better than a safelist, you can get perhaps 5 out of 100 people to really look at your website or download a free offer on that page with Manual Traffic Exchanges.

If you just join one exchange you can generate perhaps 200 hits a day to your website, so that’s something around 10 people who will take an interest. A common tactic is to use multiple manual exchanges at once, perhaps up to 7 at a time (so that by the time you’ve click on the last one the first one is ready to be clicked again) and you can generate up to 200 hits a day from each of them.

Naturally, if you build a downline or purchase an upgrade you’ll get better exchange ratios, up to 2 shows for every view. All programs offer a free version that begins with a ratio of 1 show for every 2 to 4 views, depending on program.

Any Internet Marketers not Squidooing right now simply aven’t tried it yet! This exciting Web 2.0 application is truly a business Marketer’s dream come true. You can think of it as ySpace, but for serious professionals. It’s a lot like being given editorship of our own topic at About.com, but with even more functionality!

A lens is a web page on their domain that “brings into focus” your niche topic in a few and dynamic way. It’s a place for you to show off everything you know about our topic, as dynamically as possible.

Started in the Fall of 2005, within one year flat Squidoo had already gotten gotten itself into the top 1000 sites according to Alexa, and it’s been pretty steady ever ince, slowly growing.

I believe a lot more Internet Marketers would use this service if they only knew about it. I’m already starting to see Squidoo Pages pop up in the #1 spot at Google for those member’s keywords!

They’ve now got about 65,000+ lenses, although considerably fewer members… few people have cranked out many lenses on all of their favorite topics, so here’s no reason you can crank out one for each of your business ventures or marketing ideas.

To attempt to get your lens featured, simply email their review team once it’s one and they’ll consider making it the “lens of the day.” These get some serious traffic, but of course they won’t select a lens that appears to be blatant advertising.

One other great feature to note is they share all advertising revenue with you for dvertising on your page! Some people are making lenses, and treating them as irtual Real Estate style publishing sites… Theoretically, you could make a few undred great lenses and live comfortably off the income forever.

For our purposes, however, the benefit of using lenses for marketing our other websites is clearly the main reason to get involved. The branding you create and the nearly automatic stream of traffic will be well worth the time.

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