Manual traffic exchange = quality traffic for your business?

High and quality traffic is in onliene business the key factor for success. There are many ways how to increase traffic to your site. Some of them may be quite slow and other may be quite fast. In this article I will be talking about one fast way how to increase traffic to your blog.

Manual traffic exchanges are programs which allow you to surf other members’ sites. For each site surfed you will receive credits which can be exchange for impressions for the site you are advertising. That means more site you surf more traffic you will gain. Some of these programs offer also banner and text ads so you can promote your sites also this way. Fast increase of your traffic is the main advantages of traffic exchange programs. On the other hand there is huge and fundamental disadvantage of all these programs which is connected to the quality of the traffic you will get from this source.

So what kind of traffic will you get from traffic exchanges?
If you are promoting business site and looking for potential customers who will buy your product so you can make money this is not right place where to go. Most of the traffic exchange surfers are owners of other sites who want to promote their referral links, online business, affiliate programs or promoting adsense on their own sites. Most of these users don’t care about what you are offering on your site, they just want to increase their own traffic. So on one hand your traffic will surely raise but will you receive potential buyers or people who are really interested in your content? I don’t think so. Another disadvantage is you will receive the traffic only if you surf other users’ sites what can become time consuming and annoying.

New kind of traffic exchange?
The main problem with traffic exchanges is indifferent and not interested audience. But there is one site which works at the same basis but bringing something new. The site I am talking about is Linkreferral.com. Your site will be listed in the main site directory. Your position in this directory will be influenced by your activities. The higher in the directory you are more traffic you will receive. You will get positive points for visiting other member’s sites but that is not all. If you want to be ranked high you have to write also short reviews and appraise the quality of websites you visited. Generally users here are more focused on the content and appearance of visited sites as users at traffic exchange sites.

There is a question if more focused users will generate higher income for your online business? Not at all. The audience here is the same as it is in manual traffic exchange sites. It consists mostly of sites’ owners who are primary looking for fast way of traffic for their sites and not for other businesses. I think the main advantage here is the feedback you will receive from other users so you will be able to improve wake areas of your site or blog.

To sum up I doubt there is any fast way how to gain stable amount of quality traffic to your site. The only and proven method is creating SEO friendly site with unique content. You can read more about this in mine previous articles.