How to Drive Traffic to Your Website with Traffic Exchanges

Written by Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy


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Now, before you head over to Google and search for Traffic Exchange, I'd recommend knowing a few facts:

  1. Some traffic exchanges are simply out to get money from you and will refer very little traffic to you.
  2. Some traffic exchanges have poor systems in place to stop cheaters from running programs to increase their credits faster.
  3. Finally, some traffic exchanges will allow popups, activex controls, site rotators, etc. in their network. Any of these can stop your autosurfing from working, or even worse, allow your computer to be infected with a virus.

The best part about Traffic Exchanges is that you really have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The worst thing that could happen to you is you get a little bit of traffic which increases your Alexa rankings and you don't get any money.

Of course, forrepparttar system to work, you've got to make sure that you do some surfing yourself. The makers ofrepparttar 124607 exchange programs realize this and some of them even have an autosurf feature where you get a reduced number of credits while your browser happily loads page after page every 10 seconds or so.

Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy is a published author, speaker and owner of Make Money at Home Based Business Opportunities, one of the most popular home based business sites on the internet. His favorite traffic exchange is the InfoWizards Traffic Exchange.


Submitting your Web Site to Free Directories

Written by Adrian Kennelly


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Write Description Describe your website in a way that will attract visitors. The length of your description will vary from directory to directory, but most will be under 250 characters. Some will allow up to 1,000 characters, and in those cases writerepparttar most comprehensive description of your site and its features that you can. It is a good idea to write several descriptions of different lengths, say from under 50 characters for a brief overview, to around 150 characters for a fuller description, up to 250 characters for a yet more comprehensive listing, and finally a full description as previously mentioned for over 250 characters. Keep your listing pertinent to your website, insert keywords where relevant and appropriate, but do not just submit a keyword listing, as most directories will reject your submission. Save all your descriptions in a text file, and just copy & paste intorepparttar 124606 descriptions boxes when needed rather than typingrepparttar 124607 same descriptions out again and again.

Choose Keywords Again, as withrepparttar 124608 description mentioned above,repparttar 124609 amount of keywords you can use will vary from directory to directory. Some will not giverepparttar 124610 option, some will allow you numbers of keywords, whilst others go by numbers of characters. Make a list of all relevant keywords for your site, from most important to least, and basically keep adding keywords until either you get torepparttar 124611 bottom of your list (unlikely unless your list is really short) or you run out allowed characters/keywords. Check what keywords your competitors are going for if you need inspiration. This can often be done by viewingrepparttar 124612 source of a web page and checkingrepparttar 124613 META tags. Again, save your keywords to a text file.

Keep Track of Your Progress Keep a careful record of what directories you have submitted to, and your progress. It is far too easy to totally lose track of what you are doing, which does not help your linking campaign at all. The best way is by using a spreadsheet, such as Excel, to keep track of your campaign. At a minimum, you need to keep track ofrepparttar 124614 following: Directory URL, Directory Name, Date Submitted, User Login & Password for those directories that allow you to alter your details and Response (accepted/declined). Other categories can include: Directory Alexa Ranking, Directory Page Rank (this will be forrepparttar 124615 home page only), Referral URL (ifrepparttar 124616 directory will improve your ranking for referring visitors) and any Notes. If you are usingrepparttar 124617 deep linking and multiple submissions strategies above, also keep track of what other pages you have submitted to each directory. Make a seperate entry for each URL submitted. For example, your spreadsheet columns could go as follows: Directory Name, Directory URL, URL Submitted, Referral URL, Login, Password, Alexa Ranking, Page Rank, Date Submitted, Response. I would advise keepingrepparttar 124618 list in alphabetical order, rather than order submitted, as that way you can check more easily whether or not you have submitted to a particular directory.

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