The Traffic Dilemma

Today with Search Engines and Pay Per Click Advertising such as Google Adwords, Yahoo and Overture the cost of online advertising has become increasingly expensive and unaffordable for most with limited advertising budgets. You can not even bid on certain keywords without having your minimum bid in the numerous dollar per click range ($1 or $2 per click as a minimum, for example).

Fortunately. there are more affordable alternatives to costly ad campaigns and this comes in the form of "traffic exchanges".

What are Traffic Exchanges?

Traffic Exchanges essentially are places where a website owner can exchange internet traffic with other website owners by viewing websites on the traffic exchange. You can accumulate traffic by clicking on a link for traffic credits.

What are the advantages of Traffic Exchanges?

With literally hundreds, if not thousands of traffic exchanges on the internet today, most offer the opportunity to exchange traffic for FREE. Some have been found to be useful, others have been just a big waste of time and then there are a few that deliver what they promise. For example, visitors to buy what you offer or signup to your business opportunity.

What are the disadvantages of Traffic Exchanges?

With so many website owners searching for ways to get traffic, often it is only people clicking to get traffic for their own sites. It can be considerably time consuming only to find out that you wasted hours and days just getting visitors that do NOTHING.

But, then there's TrafficSwarm!

When you begin with trafficSwarm as I did, you start out as a free member. They allow up to 10 free ads and give you 100 free traffic credits just for joining.

You will see on your member page, a link under the heading of Manage Your Site Promotions, Add a New Site Address.

Setting your ads - You type in a title, a brief description of your website and URL for your website. You can select up to 3 categories of targeted traffic from the 16 categories available. I recommend that you always set 3 categories for each ad.

You also have optional features when you create your ad such as maximum credits used each day and a check box to disable your ad, if your website in not ready for traffic. I recommend to leave the maximum credits box blank because I try to get the maximum credits for each ad per day.

Finally, you click on update and it is submitted for approval to TrafficSwarm. I found as a free member, it may take up to 2 days for approval. As an upgraded PRO member it can take a little as 1 hour to get approval.

When I first started TrafficSwarm even as a Free member, I was getting at least 1 signup to my business opportunity every day from all around the world. Once I started seeing results, I upgraded to a PRO member and have never looked back.

It only costs $30 US a month and these are some of the perks.

Each month as a PRO Member, you will get 2500 traffic credits every month, applied after each billing cycle.

You are not limited to ONLY 10 ads as a Free member. You can have unlimited ads and I currently have many ads (between 100 and 200 ads) running 24 hours a day, giving me multiple sales and signups to my business opportunity.

You will get paid $5 for each Free member that converts to a PRO member every month and it can grow virally! For example, if only 6 people below you convert to PRO members, your advertising is paid for each month.

You can get 12 months of Web Hosting and this alone is worth the $30 US a month.

There are many more perks associated with being a PRO member in TrafficSwarm and I highly recommend this traffic exchange.