I have long heard about people getting traffic from traffic exchanges and so I thought I’d try it out.
I spent $5.95 for 1,000 hits at http://www.easyhits4u.com.
My page that I was trying to get traffic to was http://free–web-traffic.com which is a squeeze page for a traffic guide I give away when people join my list.
I thought most people doing traffic exchanges have a need to get traffic and so I thought my squeeze should be well targeted and should convert well.
3 days after I purchased the 1,000 hits, easyhits4u said all my hits had been used up.
When I looked at my stats here’s what I found:
Google analytics recorded an increase of about 600 page views for those three days
Aweber recorded 3 signups during those 3 days.
So each of those signup cost me about $2 each ($5.95 / 3).
Not quite the return I was looking for.
What has your experience with traffic exchanges been?
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You should've done the free thing and you probably would've found out most people click through site without looking at them. They just look at the countdown tiimer to click through to the next web site for credit.
Same as yours lol. Don't remember how much I paid for the hits, but I bought 1000 and 600(or so) were recorded… and not in a few days, but in 2 hours
I'd vote for scam
I'm sending this to you & you can see about traffic exchanges
let me know what you think Ha ha
Norma Dyckman
lorri730@aol.com
Agreed on the tiny number and percentage of sign-ups through a squeeze page reasoned almost exactly as yours [ at my URL .com/free.html ]. My experience so far was of a comparable number of pages to yours, mine are free memberships at three traffic exchanges I've used so far.
There are people who as you probably know, offer the same type offer as you and I, but it's a guide to "Making Money Using Traffic Exchanges" "Average at least $20/hour". The premise of their free report is that buying an upgraded membership in the traffic exchanges turns out to be a worthwhile investment because the cost of the upgrade is more than paid for with the sales from the additional traffic. I am at least somewhat unsure of that, but I cannot tell you if it is true since I have not gotten a top-level/upgraded membership yet.
As an expert about website traffic and someone whose opinion I value highly, I would be very surprised if you did not agree with me that traffic from "organic SEO" is far more preferable than traffic from traffic exchanges.
And thanks again for your blog and insights and helpful information.
Organic traffic is better than traffic exchanges. In fact any traffic is better than what you get from traffic exchanges in my opinion.
Tried something similar some years ago and had the same experience as you. Good thing was, that I realised that it wil be a failure after the first 10 bucks.
Like they always say: there is no free lunch
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