The key to the success of any website is generating a steady flow of traffic. There are a number of ways of doing this; from writing articles to joining forums and posting messages with your website address in the signature box. Hit exchanges offer one of the best opportunities to generate free traffic, and most importantly, ongoing traffic to your website. It works when you consistently click for credits by viewing other websites and in exchange, you website is shown to others. I actually enjoy sitting down and viewing the plethora of other websites to see what others are doing and how they go about marketing and setting up their sites. It gives me ideas for my site as well. The amount of work and hours you spend at the beginning will pay substantial dividends later.



The real benefit with exchanges comes from the traffic you earn from referring others. This is where viral marketing comes into play - multiplying over and over again. The key to making hit exchanges work for you is referring others. Hit exchanges will greatly reward you for referring others, especially active members.

There are many exchanges out there to choose from. Where does one begin? I would recommend joining a couple of the many internet marketing forums out there and pose the question of which traffic exchanges are the most used and recommended. There are many excellent choices available and most offer incentives for referring other customers to them as well.

First, join and use each of the hit exchanges on a daily basis. I recommend earning a minimum of 50 hits from each of the exchanges. Using a multi-tab browser, like Avant, this can easily be done in less than an hours time. Serious marketers will often surf hit exchanges three or more hours everyday. If using a multi-tab browser and a reasonable Internet connection, you should be able to earn upwards of a thousand hits a day. It is just a matter of time before it all works for you.

How valuable is ten thousand daily hits to your website? We are talking about a level of traffic that occurs everyday. No junk traffic. No pop-up traffic. No auto-surfing traffic. I can tell you from experience, ten-thousand daily hits is extremely valuable. And, from experience, top marketers can achieve this level within a few months or less.

Try a traffic exchange today and see what I mean. I think this is one prudent thing you can do to achieve substantial traffic to your website.

Copyright (c) 2006 Ted Crawford