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Just like with the MSN AdCenter program, Y!SM has occasional freebies too for new members. I found one for you all this time, worth $25 to all new sign-ups.

Simply go to www.yahoo.com, and click at the bottom where it says “Suggest a Site.” The page will then take you to an account login screen if you’re not already logged in. Do so, and then the next screen will be the familiar website URL suggestion form. (You ARE submitting your urllist.txt sitemap here, right?)

On that very page, at the bottom, there is a $25 credit link for Y! Search Marketing. (Until this offer is gone, but I bet it will last a while.)

Like MSN AdCenter, Y!SM requires a $5 deposit. Unfortunately, the Y!SM minimum bid is higher than anyone else’s at $0.10 per click!

Still, because of this higher entry barrier and lesser popularity than AdWords, this can still equal upwards of 20-75 highly targeted visitors to your site.

See also: Yahoo Groups Marketing

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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.