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Banner Exchange Secrets

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Banner exchanges are not as effective as they once were but hey free advertising is free advertising. Especially when you don’t have to go out of your way to advertise it exclusively. What do I mean? Well I use banner exchanges only on traffic exchanges at the very bottom of my ads. For those of you who are not familiar with banner exchanges, they are virtually the same as traffic exchanges.I put banner exchanges on the bottom of my ad in the traffic exchanges and put a caption like, “Banner Exchange Sponsor Ad.” You are killing two birds with one stone here. You are clearly telling your visitors that you are using a banner exchange on your ad so they don’t click thinking you are the owner of the banner.

You are also don’t need to do any extra advertising to use banner exchanges. You can look at an example of a banner exchange on one of my traffic exchange ads here.

You can probably get away with putting two banner exchanges on the same page. This way you will produce credits in the traffic exchange and you will also be racking up banner impressions somewhere else on the web!

It takes some browsing and research to find the right banner exchange to match your business. This way you are more likely to get a higher click thru percentage (which is a good thing). You can see around a 1% conversion rate for your clicks with a good exchange. A huge banner exchanges usually have different categories to choose from to fit your business.

Best Banner Exchanges

I currently use the 3 best banner exchanges that distribute my banner impressions the quickest. I usually get a ratio for about 30 clicks on my banners from each three exchanges per month. Obviously you not going to light up the traffic charts but remember that banner exchange click thrus are of higher quality.

Here are the 3 best that I use and pleased witht the results…

* Banners Go MLM- this banner exchange is by far the fastest at showing your banner on other peoples pages. For some reason I also get a higher click thru ratio from them as well.

* Rx2 Super Banners- Rx2 is ranked very high as far as quality traffic and click thrus

* TDH Banners- I know the owner personally on this exchange and she does a really great job keeping your banners showing smoothly.

Simply put the banner html for each exchange into your traffic exchange ad. You can look at one of my ads for example (TDH Banners On Ad). Now that you have done that, make sure that you have your own banner uploaded on their server so that you can get click thrus. You can use a banners that a business you are promoting provides or you can create your own at Free Addesigner.

Autosurf For Hits

Thursday, March 9th, 2006
Autosurfs do not work! There I said it. If you are expecting to get a legitimate online business off the ground using autosurfs think again. Hey did you know there is a trick to get unlimited credits in… Ts25, Traffic Pods, and Hitpulse.

Ts25, Traffic Pods, and Hitpulse give you extra credits for showing their referral page. So having an autosurf show your referral pages with no work on your part is a great way to wrack up massive free credits. There are alot of autosurfs to choose from using these techniques but the problem is that most autosurfs have many frame breakers and errors that are counter productive. I have found several autosurfs that run smoothly so that you can run them overnight without any problems.

Before I show you the most productive autosurfs and that nifty trick I would like to show you the browser you should use. The best browser that I have found can be found at Opera.com Once dowloaded go to bookmarks and copy and paste your autosurf url into a folder labeled autosurf. This way you can open your bookmarks in all tabs across your browser.

Now for the nifty trick you’ve been waiting for. Now it is absolutely essential that you signup for Profit Rally for ts25 & Traffic Pods to work.

Next step is to signup for…

ts25

Traffic Pods

Hit Pulse

Now that you signed up for profitrally you can look around later but what you need to do is put your referral links for ts25 and traffic pods under the traffic exchange section. Next you need to click on codes/promote and scroll down till you see: Your referral URLs (special pages for individual programs). Copy and paste those two links for ts25 & Traffic Pods into a note pad. Also remember to copy and paste your hitpulse referral url into your note pad also as it is not part of profit rally.

Now the fun begins… you need to copy and paste those three links into the autosurfs and watch your credits soar.

ts25 - will give you .25 credits per page view

Traffic Pods - will give you one pod point per page view, you must surf traffic pods 1000 times to unlock half of your points for credits. The most I have ever gotten was 89,000 or so credits… it lasted a week straight so this is worth it!

Hitpulse - will give you 1 power point per page view and to convert to credits.

Here are the best autosurfs to use for these strategies…

126hits
216Hits
Mighty Hit
Auto Hits
autosurf.cc
autosurf247
website-traffic.cc
erohits.us

scambitalia
autovisituer
autovisitas

Online Groups

Tuesday, November 30th, 1999
Yahoo Groups: I see countless marketers on shoestring budges turn to traffic exchanges for free traffic. If they would spend the time creating online groups rather than clicking for traffic they would see much more quality traffic. By no means am I saying throw in the towel on traffic exchanges as I use a number of them.

Would you rather click a thousand times for 80 unique visitors daily or would you like to receive hundreds or more unique visitors daily. (not mentioning repeat visitors) I thought so…

With hundreds of thousands of people visiting the yahoo group directory you can’t help but get excited. I have 18 groups, each one in a different business category of the yahoo directory.

A great way to get your group noticed is to create a group description consisting of html. Don’t worry, there are numerous areas on the web where you can learn basic html. Take a tour and see what kind of resources yahoo groups offer. In addition to the welcome page and links, I encourage you to send a automatic file that goes out each week containing cutting edge marketing techniques and resources.

So what are the benefits of owning your own group? Heres a few for example, members who are joining you group to post their business are now part of you opt-in list. These same people come back daily to post their business or product creating residual exposure to your business. Most of the posters are in it for the quick riches which will never happen. With the proper training and exposure, these people will buy into you business join your down line just from the daily exposure of your business on the group.

When you start reaching several thousand members you will start working your way up the yahoo group directory since groups are ranked by the number of members you have. You will not only create residual traffic with your members but also with visitors locating your group in the yahoo directory. When you feel comfortable with your ranking open a new group in a different yahoo biz category. You can start your own yahoo group here. Remember to use the principles above to create a massive residual traffic flow.

Msn Groups: I would like to introduce another group to you, “msn groups.” These group are ranked by group activity which is not hard to achieve with what you have just learned. Take a look at different members groups to gain a feel for whata they are promoting and running things. Once again these groups are very friendly to posting your business or product. As you can see, link structures are setup different from a yahoo group. Links Are Uploaded to a link directory from your computer to the group site. You can get your msn group started by searching for msn groups.

You also have the option to e-mail members as much as you like with the msn groups feature. Remember that is important not to spam your members as it will lead to unsubscriptions which leads lower activity lower ranking. I usually e-mail my members twice a month at the most. I have found it very effective to release information on your latest articles and free e-books. Giving away free information will gain you respect and a good reputation which will pay huge dividends later on!

Once you get these two groups running you will be able to cross promote them with each group. You will be getting a majority of the same members in each of these groups which will bolster your ranking and create residual traffic.

The most effective ways to market groups are to promote them in traffic exchanges, classified ads, and forums.