What's a Traffic Exchange ?
The easy answer is that it is a website run with software written to allow a member to sign up and add their site to their account. The member then surfs a rotation of the other members sites to earn credits to show their site in the rotation. In essence, you are exchanging traffic with other webmasters or affiliates with something to promote.
Traffic Exchange owners take a domain name and add their software and then start building up their memberships. At any given time there are millions of members surfing millions of pages on thousands of traffic exchanges every day. There is only one reason so many people use these traffic exchanges and more join every day, because this alternative advertising system works.
Traffic Exchange Software writers have learned a lot since the industry started. Today there are so many ways to advertise via traffic exchanges that new innovations are added in a constant stream. Banners, Text-Ads, Mini-Banners and Text-Links run in the surf bars on many traffic exchanges for added exposure and name recognition. We will try to educate you here with some of the terms and methods used in todays traffic exchange software. Jumping in can be confusing, we know, we did the jumping some 10 years ago and we are still learning something new just about every day.
Take a few minutes to learn before you jump in or just join an exchange, dive right into traffic.
