Manual Traffiic Exchange vs PPC The War Continues...
Added: (Sat Oct 17 2009)
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If you are serious about web marketing you know that promoting your affiliate programs or own websites is a must. By now you should also now how expensive PPC (pay-per-click) advertising is. Those one Dollar and five Dollar clicks add up very fast, and if you don't know what you are doing you are going to waste your hard earned money to your competition. At the end Pay Per Click companies like Google and Yahoo make a fortune and you end up ruined!
On the other hand there are also other advertising alternatives to Pay Per Click traffic and the best part is that you can advertise for free. I am talking about traffic exchange websites, that permit web marketers to promote their websites and programs to lots of members with no investment out of pocket. Traffic Exchanges let you earn credits that then you can swap to promote your websites, within the exchange program to it's hundreds or even thousands of users. Some traffic exchange programs even permit you to swap your credits for money. Furthermore; many of the new Manual Traffic Exchanges, are fun and a benefit for your business. Just earn credits surfing other member's web pages and put your own site's to the surf page so other members can surf it and see it too.
Other rewards you get with Manual Traffic Exchanges, is immediate traffic from users surfing. But the main reason you should use a manual traffic exchange is to create awareness and to brand your web pages, programs or business. The huge difference between Traffic Exchanges and other advertising formats like Pay Per Click, is that it is not a one break deal. So you have to be very convinced that when you use Pay Per Click you are exact on target and everything is faultless because it is a 1 chance. In difference traffic exchange user see your web pages more than once. How many times have you seen the little insurance creature (Gecko) this week on TV? Repetition is proven to be vital for generate alertness and branding any site and manual traffic exchange is KING of recurrence and consistency!
The benefit of having an big community of users and the opportunity of reaching them with cost free, just by building credits is a powerful benefit for your web page. Having in your hands the means to amplify traffic and if needed buy more hits for a fragment of what you may spend in a Pay Per Click. Yes, your only drawback is that you have to spend some time and work surfing other member's websites. But in today's bad economy it is well worth making small sacrifices in order to save money!
Pay Per Click owns a solid place on internet promotion, but Traffic Exchanges still represents a very practical option to the web business owner that don't have the big Corp. marketing budgets. Manual Traffic Exchanges are being criticized and dismissed as outdated by some of the SEO gurus of the net. But the truth is that Manual Traffic Exchanges, are evolving and adapting to the latest trends in order to fit the web marketer's needs. Even so increasing their memberships by the hundreds daily...