Traffic Exchanges

A traffic exchange is a website which is devoted to enabling webmasters to generate traffic to their site by surfing other websites in exchange.

The procedure is this:

1. Just put "traffic exchanges" into Google (or check the list at the bottom of this article) and you will find more than enough to keep you happy.
2. Join up with as many sites as you wish. It is a simple matter of filling in an online form with your details, and waiting for a confirmation email from the exchange. Upon receipt of the confirmation email, click the confirmation link, and you should be taken to a page that will show you your traffic exchange membership details.
3. Take note of your surf URL (the URL that you need to click in order to start surfing other websites). When you click on this URL, a special traffic exchange window will open and another member's website will appear on your screen. If you are interested in what the site has to offer you can interact with it in the normal manner. After about thirty seconds (this varies slightly from one traffic exchange to another) you will be informed that you have received credit for viewing this website, and you can click a link which takes you to the next site. This procedure repeats itself until you wish to stop surfing.
4. The amount of credit that you receive varies from one traffic exchange to another, but it is typical that you receive it in the ratio of 2:1. This means that for every two occasions on which you get credit for viewing another website, your site will be viewed by someone else on one occasion.
5. Also take note of your referral URL (which you use to refer others to the traffic exchange). If someone else joins from your referral link, then you will earn credits as a result of their surfing efforts as well.

If you have more than one website that you wish to promote through the traffic exchanges, then a Website Rotator is what you will need. When you sign up with a rotator, you are able to enter a number of URLs (the number will vary from rotator to rotator), and have them rotate so that they are all promoted in turn.

Finally, it should be noted that traffic exchanges should not be used to encourage clicking of adsense advertisements. Google takes a dim view of such activity