This guarantees extra hits to your website, but quality of traffic isn't best. There's little or no targeting so your message rarely reaches right people.

Furthermore, Start Page Exchanges are closed systems. In other words, your site is only being promoted to those people who are ACTIVELY using system. The same surfer will probably see your website several times over.

Fortunately, with a little bit of work, you can devise a Start Page Exchange strategy that will get several systems working simultaneously and bringing in high-quality, targeted traffic - not just from members of exchange itself, but from right across Internet. Here's how it works...

STEP 1 - GET YOUR PAGE RIGHT...

Develop a web page especially for Start Page Exchanges. This can be a page from your website (if it's a real attention grabber) or it can be something separate altogether. The important thing is that this page has got to scream "LOOK AT ME!"

Remember, only people who use Start Page Exchanges are webmasters. If your own product or service isn't of interest to webmasters, it will be a hard sell. Find a product or service that has a good affiliate program and that's geared towards needs of webmasters. Promote that product via your Start Page Exchange page. Try to offer something for free - an e-book, a demo, a free trial, or whatever. Many of better affiliate programs will give you free stuff to promote. The ClickBank MarketPlace is a good place to start looking: http://clickbank.com/marketplace/

By way of example, take a peek at page I use on Start Page Exchanges: http://www.bizzydays.com/47k/

Now that you've got an attention-grabbing page that's geared towards webmasters, let's move on...

STEP 2 - DOUBLE THE TRAFFIC...

This is where we add some extra elements to page that brings in lots of extra traffic from outside exchanges.

Here's challenge: over next ten days, carry out ONE of following strategies EACH (working) day. Just one a day over ten days. It doesn't matter which order you do them in, just do them. I guarantee you, it will give your website a terrific boost.

(1) Go to Google.com and run a few searches for keywords related to your business. Find those websites that target same market as you, but that don't directly compete with you. Contact them and propose a joint venture. You could, for example, exchange advertising with them, offer them a free ebook that they can give to their visitors or invite them to promote your product in exchange for a commission on sales. This free ebook will give you some good ideas: http://www.bizzydays.com/downloads/ebook/jointventures.zip

(2) Visit forums related to your product/service and get involved in discussions there. Aim to answer people's questions in a competent manner so as to establish yourself as someone 'in know'. Don't blatantly plug your website or product. Instead, place a signature at end of your message with a link to your website. Be sure to check forum rules (and look at other people's messages) to avoid getting into trouble with other users.

(3) Download my free ebook "Over 178,000 Targeted Hits for Free!" and follow instructions. Get your free copy here: http://freetraffic.bizzydays.com/.

(4) Find at least 10 websites to exchange links with. REAL links on proper content-filled pages are best, but even links in links pages can be okay (not FFAs, just proper permanent links pages). Again, find websites targeting same market and suggest an exchange of links. Try signing up with services like LinkPartners: http://www.linkpartners.com.