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Clean Traffic Exchanges
by MarMatthias Darin
Is there such a thing as a "clean" traffic exchange? Yes, actually
there is and hopefully you'll find these tips useful in generating more
traffic for your blog.
I'm not going to cover banner and link exchanges, only exchanges where
full pages are displayed.
There are plenty of traffic exchanges all over the internet. Most are
junk and aren't worth the time to sign up for. Lets start by covering
the types of traffic exchanges floating around.
First is the AutoClick style. These are perhaps the worst of them all.
You sit in front of your monitor from 15 seconds to 30 seconds looking
at worthless "get rich quick" trash sites all offering the "holy grail"
of traffic generating techniques. These sites do absolutely nothing
except rip you off, ruin your page rank, drive your bounce rate sky
high, and drive most, if not all, advertisers away from your blog.
AutoClick exchanges are the trash of the trash and should be avoided at
all costs.
Second is the Manual Click sites. These site work just like the
AutoClick ones, with the exception that you have to click on a number or
picture to get credit. Manual click exchanges are just as bad as
AutoClick, but requires you to participate in them ripping you off.
The third type of exchange, if this can even be called an exchange, is
more passive. This type really doesn't have a name or classification
because it doesn't fit the standard exchange definition. Its not
incentive based as the first two, its not blog owner driven (you don't
spend hours clicking or watch worthless sites rotate) but rather visitor
driven, and there are quite a few of them.
These are the ones that could be considered "clean". Here's a few of
these clean exchanges.
Twitter, Facebook's Network Places, BlogCatalog, Blog Top List, Top Of
Blogs, BlogFlux, Bloggernity, Loaded Web, and "Along for the Ride".
These are an excellent, but slow, way to build traffic.
You'll note the most in the above list I gave are directories. The
thing that make each of these work well is they require very little work
from you and they are not incentive based (you have no reason to visit a
link unless you WANT to). Yet, they are, by definition, considered
traffic exchanges. If you were to put a name to these, it would most
likely be the "non-incentive exchanges".
Every social networking site fits into this third category and I know of
a least 100+ of them. The list will be at the bottom of this post.
There are a lot of ways to generate clean traffic through exchanges.
Also, bare in mind that not every exchange will work well for every
person.
The only way to know what will and won't work for you is to try them.
Here are a few thing to look for though:
1. Transparency. This is important. Look for a members list or a
public directory. This is a good example of the type of traffic you
could get.
2. Make sure they explain how they work.
3. Make sure their rules are public. Any site that requires you to
sign up BEFORE they show you the rules is not playing on the level and
will most likely be slanted in THEIR favor, not your.
4. Above all, always use the free services to evaluate performance.
Any site that requires you to pay first without having any idea how well
they work is a scam. That's really it, simple and to the point.
Have fun exploring this list:
- de.lirio.us :: cut the web down to size
- Delicious
- Ma.gnolia
- The Matthias Chronicles: Along for the Ride!
- Spurl.net 1.0 - Free online bookmarks with so much more...
- Backflip | Stop Bookmarking and Start Backflipping Your Favorite Places
- BibSonomy :: home
- BlogBookMark.com - Welcome / Published News
- Faves: Sites you'll love, from people like you
- Blurpalicious.com - Social Network l Bookmark Websites - News Stories
- BmAccess: Gestion de favoris | Online bookmark
- Free Online Bookmark Manager
- Blue Smiley Organizer - Open Source Online Organizer
- Best Free Online Bookmark Manager
- BookmarkTracker : Free online storage, management, synchronizing and RSS sharing of your bookmarks
- BOOKMAX.net - free online bookmark manager stores your bookmarks online!
- :: BuddyMarks ::
- My Site - Your Source for Social News and Networking
- Chipmark.com
- CiteULike: Everyone's library
- claimID.com - Manage your online identity
- Cloudy Tags
- Connectedy: Social Bookmarking with Personal Link Directories
- Connotea: free online reference management for clinicians and scientists
- Content Pop : Web 2.0 Social Networking Ajax Enabled Content News
- coRank > A better way to get, keep and share the web you want!
- All News, Videos, & Images
- Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Social Bookmarking and Annotation, Social Information Network!
- Dropjack
- Online Bookmarks - Bookmark Your Favorite Links
- ez4u.net We make it ez4u! - Welcome!
- EntreView
- Welcome to Facebook! | Facebook
- FanBox
- Favoor.com Deine persönliche Startseite - Favoriten, Bookmark, Links, RSS News
- folkd.com - Enrich your websurfing experience
- Welcome to Freelink.org!
- Meet People and Make New Friends | Gather
- GetBoo - Get your bookmarks!
- Hyperlinkomatic : Introduction
- iKeepBookmarks.com - A Web-Based Bookmark Manager.
- iloggo
- Kaboodle - have fun shopping with friends, share and discover new products.
- linkaGoGo - free Online Favorites manager and Social Bookmarking Application
- Social Bookmarks sammeln und finden | Social Bookmarking | LinkARENA
- ListerLister Social List Community | Create, Rate, and Manage Favorite Lists
- memFrag
- Manage, sync and share your data online: contacts, calendar, bookmarks, ...
- Mister Wong | Social Bookmarking Tool
- Mixx - Latest news and top videos and photos from around the web
- Mobile Phone Bookmark Manager - Mobleo.net
- Multiply - Secure, Family-Friendly Media Sharing
- Murl.com - The Online Bookmark Manager
- MyBookmarks.com - Access your bookmarks online anytime, anywhere
- myHq : Fast, text based, banner free online bookmark manager
- Newest Links
- MySiteVote.com - Your Source for Social News and Networking
- MySpace
- bookmark manager, online bookmarks, online favorites with myVmarks
- Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
- OYAX - Home
- Propeller
- QuickieClick: The Fun Online Bookmarks Manager
- rambhai.com
- Welcome to RawSugar | sweeten your content
- reddit.com: what's new online!
- Searchles | Home
- Simpy - Social Bookmarks Manager
- :: SiteBar :: The Bookmark Manager | The Bookmark Server
- SiteJot - Free Online Bookmark Manager/Bookmark Organizer
- Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters
- Social Danger - Your Source for Social News and Networking
- View All - Socialogs.com
- Sphinn / Hot Topics
- Spotback - Rate everything!
- Squidoo : Welcome to Squidoo
- Online Bookmarks and Favorites - StartAid
- StumbleUpon: Personalized Recommendations to Help You Discover the Best of the Web
- Stylehive - Fashion, Beauty, Home, Design, Style and Travel, Blogs and Reviews
- Social Bookmarking - / Published Links
- Technorati: Front Page
- TeDigo.com: Tedigo.net: Save the best of the best!!!. Social bookmarking service in spanish and english. Save and share your favorite bookmarks online.
- Pocket ~ Store, organize and share your bookmarks on the web.
- TotalPad - Popular
- Twitter
- Clip2Net - The easiest way of web publishing and file sharing
- Uvouch: Share your passion with the world
- Voteboat.com - vote boat Resources and Information.This website is for sale!
- VoteLists - Online voting lists
- Vuju Bulletin Board
- wetogether.info
- Free People Search - Find People - Wink
- WireFan Social Bookmarking
- Xilinus - Développement de Web Application - Consulting - Formations
- Yattle Online Favorites
- Zlitt Directory
- zurpy
Top tags: online, social, bookmark, com, bookmarks, manager, exchanges, free, web, news
Comments from carol at A Second Cuph
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Thanks Matthias. I don't really understand this aspect of blogging. The is
very very helpful.
Comments from Mar Matthias Darin
You're welcome. The most important factor that I have learnt is that not
all social networks perform the same and every individual will get different
results.
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Nice list of topic and actually nice elaboration in your marketing exchange
online.
Comments from Mar Matthias Darin
Thank you.
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Your helpful article made me look at this problem from another point of
view...thanks for sharing.
Comments from Mar Matthias Darin
You're welcome and thank you for reading it.
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