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What''s the point of traffic exchanges? Are traffic exchanges any good?
A typical traffic exchange will work something like this:

You view a couple of websites and your website will then get viewed.

These traffic exchanges have a ratio like 2:1 or 3:1 as well as a time. The ratio is how many sites you have to visit and how many times your site will then be visited. This is often credited to your account as credits. So, if you view 2 or 3 websites, then you will get 1 credit in your account, which means you can get your website viewed 1 time. The timer is how long you will have to have the page displayed before being able to go on to the next site. Timers range greatly but you can expect 10 to 20 second timers.

There are also manual and auto surf programs. Manual being where the user must validate a response before going to the next page.

There are a few reasons for using traffic exchanges. One is to get others to see your site and hopefully they will be interested in it. This is NOT likely, but is a possibility. The reason it is not likely is because people are there to get their website seen, and are not typically interested in seeing others.

So, why do a traffic exchange then? For the simple reason of traffic. Just getting an increase in traffic or hits to your website can be good. Of course, you are wasting effort if you are not rotating your own website and are using some affiliate type of website, but I''ll save that for another discussion. Just know you are much better off having your own website or blog to put into rotation.

The other thing to consider is making a page for traffic exchanges. You can change it as you go and see if you get more attention and interest in your site by using different advertising means.

Do some research and find good traffic exchange sites. There are plenty that give more credits than can be used and this means surfing will stop and you will be stuck with all the credits you have accumulated.

Also, if you do not want to spend time surfing other sites, most exchanges have some low pay options that are worth considering.

Enjoy!
Posted: 12/9/2008 By: Free Backlinks

Bidvertiser Tips, Tricks and Questions
I started using Bidvertiser for posting ads on my blog site two weeks ago. (For some reason that I cannot guess I was banned by Adsense) Its a good alternative to Adsense. There are both advantages and disadvantages of using Bidvertiser. I have some tips as well as a few unanswered questions about how to post ads with Bidvertiser. There are a few things I read on other sites and some of the tips worked and some didn't. Also I have added a few tips of my own. Basically these are the points I would like to discuss and please leave your comments so that it would help us...

* First of all there is no control over what kind of ads appear on your site unlike with Adsense where the ads appear according to content. Here the ads are random.
* But you have the option to choose the type of ads you like and reject the type of ads which you wouldn't want to appear on your site. And you are paid according to the amount of bids placed on ads which means you can earn as much as $0.5 and as low as $0.05 for each click.
* I selected the Vertical Skyscraper template which shows 5 ads vertically. At first five unique ads appeared for a few hours. Then all of a sudden just one ad appeared 5 times one below the other which went by the title ''Your ad here for free''. This changed after a few minutes and two to three unique ads started appearing again but the ''Your ad here for free'' appeared regularly which was very annoying.
* Now according to Bidvertiser rules if a user clicks on the same ad twice in succession it doesn't count as a valid click. And with the same ad repeating 5 times with the Skyscraper template we will not be paid if a user clicks more than once on the same ad appearing at two different locations which is annoying again.
* With that in mind I started experimenting by rejecting all ads with low bids starting from ads that pay $0.05 to $0.18 and by approving only the high paying ads. But i stuck on to the same template and this is what happened. The more ads i rejected the less unique were the ads that appeared. They got more repetitive and eventually only the ''Your ad here for free'' appeared over and over again.
* Now I tried different templates at different pages. I found out that if we use the same type of template on two different pages the same ads would appear on both pages using similar templates. And the more you reject low paying ads the less unique the ads become.
* Its better to avoid the Skyscraper template if don't want your pages to look ugly with 5 ads of ''Your ad here for free''. I also found out some important things relating to site traffic but i may be wrong there. Anyway this is what I think happens...
* Sites having high traffic get the ads with high bids and therefore those site owners can afford to reject low paying ads. They don't have to fear about repetitive ads. Now if you're just starting a new website or a blog you wont have much traffic to play with like in my case. So for people like us its better to NOT reject ads at all till our traffic improves. And its better to use different templates at different pages.
* Surprisingly there could be a problem for high traffic site owners too. Since two clicks on the same ad in succession doesn't count as a valid click even if two different users were to click on the same ad at the same time the site owner wouldn't get paid a dime!
* With all these disadvantages one good thing is you can modify the appearance of your ads to suit the appearance of your web pages and there is no limit to the number of ads you can post with Bidvertiser. But stick to only a few ads if your site has low traffic else you'll only see ''Your ad here for free''.
* And there is something new but which hasn't worked in my case. There is an option for your ads to appear at the foot of your feed posts. I have tried doing that with various codes and settings available. I have also pinged but no ads have ever appeared under my feeds. If it has worked for any of you please let me know....
* Thats all I have to say. By the way I have earned $1.82 with 20 clicks. I don't know whether thats a lot since I am new to PPC. Pls post your comments and your experience. I'll be glad to improve my earnings and I hope that some of my tips were useful and correct....

Posted by Satish Iyer(myself) on my blog site http://satishmania.blogspot.com
Posted: 11/26/2008 By: Tips and Reviews