Why Traffic Exchanges Are Bad

This article is for those using traffic exchanges not realizing the negative effect it can have within the SERPs (search engine ranking pages). This will be especially helpful for those trying to make money online. First if you would like to replace your traffic from visitors forced to visit your website to visitors that are interested in your website you need to stop what you are doing immediately. A traffic exchange is a bunch of new webmasters that don’t understand just because they are getting traffic it will magically transfer into commissions. If you want to make money with your website or blog then it is a must that you begin a targeted marketing campaign rather than wasting your time mindlessly going from website to website that you really don’t want to visit in the first place.

I would like to talk about the theory of organic traffic and why a traffic exchange has not place within natural targeted traffic. When you get a visitor from a search engine it is because the steps that you took to get the webmaster or blogger there and if you are not willing to take the steps then you should probably give up on being a webmaster or blogger. The first and most important step in gaining a decent position in the SERPs and actually getting people to join your affiliate program or purchase products/services on your site is to have a constant stream of unique helpful fresh content. Let say you spend an hour a day bouncing from website to website, if you spent that hour working on your site the visitors you do get will be much happier to be there and much more likely to purchase from you. Now as you give up your traffic exchange you will see a decrease in your visitor counter this is GOOD. No longer will you have people coming to your website for the sole purpose of burning up your bandwidth.

Once you receive the drop in traffic you will be thinking everything I am telling you is crap, but you really need to read on. After the decrease what you will need to do is begin a campaign which consists of actually learning the niche (category of website such as get paid to) which you are in and learn who your competitors are and who is linking to them. You should also know their keyword density for any keywords you would like to be on top of Google for. Once you have an understanding of your competitors and how much work you will need to do start building the backlinks and SEOing your website. If you would like to learn about SEO then you should join V7N forum the webmasters there including myself will help guide you in the right direction to begin receiving traffic that wants to be at your website (targeted traffic). When you begin building backlinks I prefer article writing sense it is one of the best ways to gain high quality backlinks as well as targeted referral traffic from the article directory that you choose. Personally I like ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com to promote my website. Anyway if you do the work necessary to gain a decent position in the Google SERPs then you will begin seeing the hits flow in and the conversion rather dramatically increase. The max really from a traffic exchange is if you are lucky a hundred or so daily, the max for being at the top of Google for competitive key terms is in the hundreds of thousands daily. So do you see the difference of actually doing what it takes to gain the traffic necessary to succeed online compared to bouncing from one site to the next fighting for each and every worthless hit? If not continue spending time looking at websites you don’t want to look at and I will continue to get hundreds of daily hits from Google.

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