Introduction to Traffic Exchange

When you start to market online you are sooner or later going to come across traffic exchanges. The number of exchanges online is staggering, so if you need to know what these things are all about read on.

A traffic exchange is a system where in return for viewing the websites of others you will get credits for hits to your own sites. You can find several different types of traffic exchanges online. 


They are:

Surf exchange - or also known as page exchange. The names are synonymous and they are by far the most predominant type of traffic exchange. The user is required to view a web page in their browser for a sent amount of time before clicking to earn credits and move on.

Auto surfing - like in surf exchange, the auto surf pages change by them selves and credit is received without user interaction.

Pop-up Exchanges - with these webpage’s will popup at set intervals or events. You will need to view the window for a set time before closing and receiving credit. These will usually require a small program to be downloaded and run on the user’s computer.

Now that you know what they are you need to know what they're made of. These are the things you will need to consider when comparing the different exchanges.

The surf ratio is how many pages you'll view before one of yours is displayed. These can be from 1:1 to 5:1 but are usually some where in between. Many sites will also give bonus credits to run promotions for credits. All of these will combine to determine how many credits you actually get for surfing.

You can also be credited for referring others to the exchanges. You'll receive a percentage of the credits earned by the referral, usual this will go several levels deep.

You will always be required to view the pages for 10 to 20 seconds. In surf exchanges you'll have to click on a certain button, image, and icon from several to proceed to the next page and get credits. This is because the exchanges are protecting themselves from programs surfing instead of you. If you click on the wrong icons several times, you are likely to get banned from the exchange and loosing the account. This is the anti-cheat system.

There is also an option for joining the traffic exchange as a paid member, this way you get monthly credits, a better surf ratio, more referral credits and other special offers. You can also earn real money from the people you refer to the traffic exchange. And if you don't like to surf, credits are usually offered for sale by the traffic exchanges.

But before you decide to be a paid member or purchase credits, I recommend that you join 2 or 3 traffic exchange sites and sacrifice a bit of your time and do the surfing yourself. This way you'll learn first hand what traffic exchanges are all about.

These are the things you'll need to look at when comparing traffic exchanges. There are hundreds out there with new ideas based on these principals appearing every day. 

Just one more thing, when you are choosing a traffic exchange make sure that they have at least 2:1 ratio, a referral program that allows you to earn extra credits, bonuses that offer additional credits. You also need to know for how long the traffic exchange has been around, the more the better, and also how many members do they have again the more the better.

Now, surfs up! Start surfing and getting the traffic you need.