Have you ever heard of a Traffic Exchange? The idea behind them is really quite simple. You set links to sites you want traffic on and other users do the same thing. Then you all visit each others sites to generate traffic. Why would you want to do this? Some people do it as a means of Search Engine Optimization. I’m not an SEO expert, but as I understand it the inorganic traffic that such services provide do not generally help get higher Search Engine results. Search Engines like Google are looking for organic click through traffic so I wouldn’t recommend a traffic exchange for SEO purposes. Other uses include getting YouTube views and ad impressions.
The only good thing I have found to make beer money from traffic exchanges are ‘Paid to Promote (PTP)’ sites. The only problem is that since traffic exchange traffic almost always come from the traffic exchanges own site most PTP sites can see that it is essentially fake traffic. Therefore they ban the user. Luckily I have found two PTP sites that work and openly allow the use of Traffic Exchange services. I’m going to show you how to set these up.
The Traffic Exchange
I recommend using HitLeap. It is easy to set up and has some customization features. Plus it offers premium subscriptions where you can actually change where it appears the traffic comes from. This can help you get around the problem I mentioned earlier where sites can easily see that your traffic all comes from an exchange and ban you. That part is interesting, but I’m going to stick to the free services for this post. I suggest you head over to HitLeap right away and make your account. That way you can start earning minutes to use on your PTP sites once we get those up and running. Once you have signed up will see the overview page, which at the moment won’t be real interesting to you. Here is mine as an example.
Here you can see your current total minutes as well as graphs that show how many minutes you are earning each day and how many hits your websites are receiving each day. I forgot to restart my viewer after restarting my computer a few days this week so my minutes earned have some dips. Usually I earn 996 minutes a day. The first thing we want to do is get the viewer running. Click on Traffic Exchange along the top bar of the site. There you will see the option to start the exchange in your browser as well as a download link to get the HitLeap Viewer application. I recommend using the application. I don’t notice any performance changes on my PC while running it and it has increased earning potential versus just running the browser version. OK, now that we are earning minutes to use to get traffic on a website, where should we direct it?
Paid to Promote Sites
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