The Good
This is my favorite type of exchange, and a great way, I’ve found, to test new pages of my sites. Once you get to the point where you don’t have time to suft, upgrade your membership and buy credits instead. When I did surf, I found some pretty interesting sites that I often ended up bookmarking and visiting later.
The Bad
When you’re still surfing for credits, you may find the exercise tedious, especially if you’ve joined several exchanges. In that case, you should think about getting Mozilla or the IE compatible Crazy Browser, so you can surf in multiple tabs without taking up all your computer’s memory.
Sometimes it can also take several days before you actually see return traffic.
The Ugly
Some manual exchanges are easy for people to cheat, which means no one will be looking at your page. When you sign up, test these like you would anything else. Do you find it easy to cheat? If so, chances are that someone else can – and will – too.
The Tip: You need Speed.
While it is possible with some manual traffic exchanges to put a particularly compelling ad page in rotation and get sales, the best way I’ve found these programs useful is to enter a page that has only one purpose – getting leads for follow-up.
Most people using a manual surf exchange are looking to get more traffic to their sites, just as you are. So the best thing to do is to respect the time constraint they are under – you have 15 to 30 seconds to make your point, then they’re off to the next site.
If you’re still convinced that your sales page should be in the exchange, test both methods. Copy your sales page to a second location and put that in rotation. Next, put up a page that gets people signed up to your free course or newsletter. Track the results of each.
TrafficSwarm is the one I find most useful – there’s no set time limit, so you’re free to explore a site if you find a good one. You have your choice of which ones you’ll view, the system is pretty cheat-proof, and the return traffic is the fastest I’ve seen yet.
There’s a list of some of the others I’ve been known to use here.
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