Webmasters Only

This is a continuation of resources available on how to build website traffic for FREE.  Since you are the webmaster you need to know about these resources.  Pick the ones most suitable to your needs.

One thing that you need to keep in mind about ALL traffic generating techniques is this: the visitors you get are from that particular pool of people.  For that reason, all of these programs are important pieces that fit together in an overall strategy. Combined they give you the broadest range of coverage across a number of different groups (types) of people.

Pop-up Ad Exchanges

Pop-up Ads are a great way to give your website traffic a big boost.  Once you are getting traffic to your site, you can use pop-up ad exchanges to quickly increase those visitors by 60 to 188 percent.  The way these services work is you register, get some html code to embed in the target page, and then when a visitor comes to (or leaves) that page an ad from the servicing company pops up in a new window.  The best offer further credits through their referral programs.

While any one of these programs offer a maximum of 1:1 exchange and don't allow you to put their exchange code on the same page as one of their competitors, by combining them across different pages you can maximize return on your existing traffic.  Let me illustrate by example.

With no use of pop-up ads.  Let's say you have a three page website that gets 1000 visitors a month on page one, 500 visitors a month on page two and 250 visitors a month on page three.  This totals 1000 unique visitors and 1750 page views.  (I only use a small number for illustration purposes.  If you are only getting 1000 visitors a month to see your website then you really really need to implement a traffic strategy).

When you use pop-up ads.  Register with SwapAPage (1:1 exchange, please use www.webloot.net as the referring url) and put their code in your page one so right away you have gone from 1000 to 2000 unique visitors.  On page two put the code you get from registering with BigHits (2:1 exchange).  Since you now have 1000 visitors coming to page two (half of the people who saw page one) the exchange will bring another 500 unique visitors.  That increases the total visitor count to that page to 1500.  Now, on page three put the code you get from ExitExchange (2:1 exchange).  Since the visitor count you get here is half of page two (750) this exchange will provide another 375 unique, bringing the page total to 1125.  Here's a table to show how it all adds up.

Pretty impressive isn't it?  A simply strategy yet it yields significant results.  This totals 2875 unique visitors and 4625 page views.  Oh, and there is one more thing.  Some of the new unique visitors coming in and seeing page two or three as their first page (you know, the ones coming in from ExitExchange and BigHits) will also go and visit the other pages.  What that means is your exposure on the other pages will in reality be higher.

From experience I can tell you the best of these sites is McExit.  The most widely know is probably ExitExchange but they have numerous problems--slow site speed (for months) which results in you getting less credits; their 2:1 ration is not really 2:1 (it is more like 3 or 4:1); and they have problems with tracking referrals correctly (they take the referral rather than give it to the site bringing the new webmaster). If you are a webmaster using ExitExchange then I strongly recommend you switch to McExit. Make no other changes and you will immediately see an increase in how many site visitors you get.

More Resources

There are a variety of other ways to get exposure to your opportunities as well.  These take different forms: just getting as many visitors as you can coming to see your opportunity (raw traffic); Ezines giving targeted visitors; posting your ad to classified sites; reverse marketing; submitting your site to search engines; etc. etc.  Here are some of my favorites, some free, some not.  Pick the ones that are most suitable to your advertising budget.