I love this guest post topic! Although my experience is slightly different from Brad’s, who runs canadiantechblogger.com, his perspective is enlightening and I agree with his point of view for the most part.
Although things may seem the same initially, sometimes it pays to look closer...
First up what is a traffic exchange: a traffic exchange is a website where you view other people’s sites. As a thank you, you get a hit back (or cash).
What is a auto surf: it is basically a traffic exchange on automatic no user involvement needed.
This is why I call both just a fluff for your blog.
The manual version you basically sit there wait for a page to load and wait 10-20s to get your credit. It’s not worth it because you usually get marketer videos. Some traffic exchanges even have bad websites in their service (although most check ahead of time). It’s pointless since you are not really interested in a site but rather the viewing credit.
Auto surfers are worse since they do that automatically. As such no one is viewing your site but rather just fluffing your page views.
While you can add banners, and text links, and pay for hits they’re not worth it. Most large ad networks (adsense, adbrite, etc) DO NOT allow you to use traffic exchanges while their ads show since it’s basically invalid impressions.
So pretty much keep clear of them…unless you want to waste your time or fluff your page views.
Brad from canadiantechblogger.com is one of my long time contributors to this site. He writes about all things related to technology on his blog.
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Interesting.
That is why there is no one way to catch a fish – at least not on the
internet. Personally I prefer to put in the time to other methods of
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These kinds of traffic systems are most definitely a waste of time and effort. The quality of the traffic is terrible and you end up slaving away in order to attain it. All around, it’s not very good use of your time.
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At beginnig, i use Adsense and also traffix exchange but i didn’t know that Google Adsence don’t allow it.
Quicly, i realize that people who use traffic exchange don’t care at all of my blog, the’re only want credits to increase their own traffic, so i immediately stop using it, all is do i increasing my numer of traffic but these visitors are too useless!
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i agree with you that we must be careful about traffic specs.
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I only use one traffic exchange, hit2hit. I only use it when I’m feeling super lazy. I have a splash page with a big stop sign on it, that works best.
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i think after this advice i will stay clear
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do you think twitter is better?
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I only use one traffic exchange, hit2hit. I only use it when I’m feeling super lazy. I have a splash page with a big stop sign on it, that works best.
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out of them?
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is word press better than blogger ?
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Heh… I found BTE (Blog Traffic Exchange) gave me pretty good links and decent traffic when I was starting out. Actually, it was really very helpful!
I don’t use BTE on my main site anymore, no need. But I might recommend it to a raw newbie to use for a few months. It could really help them find their groove. If I was entering a totally new niche, I’d probably run it a month or two, until I found some of the other new players in that niche.
Then stop using it. No shame.
All things for their purpose.
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Maybe webmasters use it to inflate their visit count so when they go and sell their website it looks better traffic wise
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Traffic exchange can be alternatif to collect backlink. As we know if our site have much BL will get better position on SE
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Using autosurf traffic exchanges is the only way I drive traffic to my sites. Funny thing is, I am at the top of the results page on Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., for my chosen keywords. I also make sales and have built quite a list. After 10 years of experience in this arena, I can say whole heartedly that they Do work, they Do bring buyers and sales, and they Do help get your sites/pages listed higher in the search engines when you have a quality product/service. More visitors = a More important page to the search engines.
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Autosurf traffic is obviously not high quality. These people are paid to view sites and most of them will not be interested in your service unless it is free or has a very wide appeal (i.e. making money online).
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That’s the point, they’re meant to be list builders, not sales machines.
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autosurf do increase your page his does these pagehits are good for SERP, will sutosurf will increase my position in search engines as i was having 1000 hits from last 5 months and when i use autosurf i got 500 hits in a single day it is good for my site or bad please guide
Can say that auto surf is the real cheating that don’t give anything for your website. Can tell it from my own experience.
Auto surf gives only the “vision” of visitors number and a little increase of Alexa.
Yeah, Alexa rankings are tricky things. I just wish it wasn’t so important, after all, it is hardly accurate…
Thanks so much for pointing that out, (Not sure how I missed that.)
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Thanks Gabe! I never fully knew about traffic exchanges until I read this post.
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An article very well written. And yet another thumbs up.
yes traffic exchanges are really worthless if you don’t promote a traffic exchange.
Yeah, Alexa rankings are tricky things. I just wish it wasn’t so important, after all, it is hardly accurate…Can say that auto surf is the real cheating that don’t give anything for your website. Can tell it from my own experience.
The Truth About Autosurf Traffic Exchanges:
Those who think autosurfs, and traffic exchanges in general, do not work or send just fluff traffic have either not used them correctly, or have not given them a fair chance. I receive sales & signups every day and 95% of my advertising is with autosurf sites. Posts like this annoy me because they are opinion based, not fact based. Traffic exchanges have been in use since the internet became a part of daily life and they will continue to be a valid promotional concept future forward. Please visit my site if you really want to know the truth about autosurf traffic exchanges! I have over 10 years of experience using autosurfs, and I have laid out a simple & effective plan that anyone can implement for making the most of free traffic exchanges.
Thanks for the perspective. Love the counterpoints made here!
Perhaps you’d like to write a guest article with your traffic exchange plan?
Yes, I do agree with your comments on above question. I am quite satified with your views. Good ideas.
I totally agree with what you are saying, however I think most people just use this to inflate the alexa rating, which seems to be a recognized unit of traffic measurment. Once that is inflated, they solicit advertising. If you spend $50 on receiving 1500 – 3000 views per day and you have 6 ad slots at $25… Then generate 10 websites with the same business model and now you can work from home.
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Traffics exchange website and other websites that guarantee you about traffic are just wastage of time and money. To bring natural traffic on the website, keep your website updated with relevant content, get it ranked on search engine and participate in social media.
Seems to be pretty obvious, but like was mentioned, people will do anything or try anything to get traffic.
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that’s right,but we must focus on good quality only,other wise we are wasting time only.
there are better ways to get traffic !
Well done.Thanks for the timely info.. Hopefully we will make best use of the info provided in the blog…
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I have tested several traffic exchanging widget like wahoha. It bought me traffic but my bounce rate was like around 90% !
Can say that auto surf is the real cheating that don’t give anything for your website. Can tell it from my own experience.
exactly, it’s a total waste of time if you use auto surf sites for traffic,it presents nothing as a result,no one going to watch the site.
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I guess the point is, if you’re using autosurfing exchanges to drive traffic to your site with the goal of adsense and other advert money making systems, it is not a good idea. However, if you’re trying to make your way to the top of the Google search lists, in terms of your search niche, then autosurfing exchanges may not be such a bad idea.
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Auto surfing traffic only makes money for those sites that are selling it! Its a complete waste of time, effort and money and there are far better things for your site and traffic generation you can invest in.
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I agree with Trudy on this one, I have spent a good amount of money on traffic using those types of methods and haven’t had very good results. I would also like to say that I tried several sources for this and none of them panned out.
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I tested autosurfs as well as manual surfsites and other creepy sites like that. Summing up – total waste of time.
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If you place the URL of your blog in traffic exchanges it is more of a waste.
Traffic exchanges are powerful traffic tools if you use them properly, using Splash/Squeeze pages.
One way to advertise a blog in TEs is by telling the view what they can expect
out of your blog. i.e. Great tips on how to cook.
Use that as a caption/header to a splash/squeeze page and then give them a little more information and add that page to the traffic exchanges.
This is a far better way and you won’t get your adsense in trouble.