Increase your Alexa ranking with traffic links!

An often overlooked benefit of using Traffic Exchanges in your marketing program is that adding your sites to traffic exchanges is a great way to increase your Alexa rankings and improve your overall ratings in the search engines. Traffic sites rotate your links, which generate "hits." Plus, members surf and view your ads and sites in ways safe lists, ffa and classified ad posts don't provide.

Many affiliate sites “reward” you for promoting their site, ie your referral link, with credits and sometimes cash. This makes traffic exchanges, sometimes called “surf sites” a good venue for most affiliate programs. Program owners rely on affiliates to help increase their traffic and search engine rankings, so adding your affiliate program to traffic sites is a win-win situation for everyone.

The primary concern when adding your link, whether it be a your affiliate or your own site, is that it is “traffic” friendly. The majority of te programs no longer accept items attached to a site which disrupt the surf in anyway. Things which are typically not allowed are frame breakers (sites which stop the surf session), pop ups and/or exit pages (extra sites or ads which ride on the host site and “pop up” in a separate window on your computer or stop the surf,) and even slide-in ads are often not allowed.

The primary reason such “extra” sites are not allowed as they do not reside in the te’s database. The parent site will, and if the parent site starts to act up, throw off viruses or “re-direct” or otherwise misbehave, the te owner can track that site down and disable it. Not so with the “extra” sites like pop ups and slide ins. Those DO NOT reside in the te database, therefore when a problem arises nothing can be done about it until the actual parent or host site can be found.
This also holds true for “rotators”, and you will find the majority of te’s do not accept those as well. Outside of these issues, seeking out and adding your sites to exchanges makes good business sense.

They do require some of your time to manage. As they are “exchanges”, you view sites to gain credits to fuel your own sites running on the surf bar. Plus, most exchanges require you log in at least once monthly and surf to keep your sites current. In very active communities, you need to surf to keep you in credits. The other option is purchasing credits and or/upgrading.

When seeking out quality traffic, you want to keep in mind not only membership size and activity but also the kind of Admin involved with the site. Are issues resolved quickly, how does Admin respond to member emails, is the surf kept clean and safe. Communications is the key in all relationships, and just as relevant in regards to your membership in an exchange.

These exchanges are part of the XtreamNet.org network of marketing venues. XtreamNet is celebrating it’s first year in business on the net July 5, 2005.

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Review and join all their sites at: http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/XTRE1660/ there are currently 9,000 + members enrolled in all their marketing venues which also include a SafeAdList, safe lists, FFA boards and an Email Marketing Center.