Free Traffic Bar Beats Instant Buzz Hands Down

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In My Opinion, Free Traffic Bar Beats Instant Buzz Hands Down

Free Traffic Bar and Instant Buzz are both advertising toolbars which sit just above your browser window pane showing product ads from other people. The ad changes when you open another tab.

Like standard traffic exchanges you either need to click on ads and view them for 10 to 20 seconds in order to receive a proportion of reciprocal impressions of your own ad – or you can purchase ad credits and get things moving a bit faster.

I’m not sure how effective these will be for my business, but I’m at the stage of needing to try different options which don’t cost the earth; Pay Per Click can be very expensive, so the free or low expenditure options are what I’m looking at.

Over the long Christmas weekend I had a go at setting up Instant Buzz. Do you think I could get the darn thing to work properly? It sets itself up via a Firefox add-on and was fine initially, but I couldn’t login, couldn’t get through to any meaningful support, so gave up and uninstalled it the same day. Now IB is a popular product, it seems, so it is very strange that it should be so ‘tricksy’. It’s not me or my system (I do know a lot about computers!)

Then I came across Free Traffic Bar through Dragon Surf , which in turn was from something else I was looking at – very clever this internet thingy! Dragon surf is a more of a traditional banner exchange service, but they both do much, much more than serve as banner and ad exchanges.

Free Traffic Bar has installed almost instantly and I already have two banner ads and one toolbar ad up and running. This took about half an hour, which includes the 10 minutes I took to walk my dog. The banners took 5 minutes to design in Instant Banner Creator.

Obviously it is too early to let you know if I’m making any money from this form of advertising, but it’s certainly worth a try and I recommend you go and take a look for yourself.

Here are the links:

Dragon Surf (they gave me the link to FTB)

Free Traffic Bar

OK, and you may as well have a look at Instant Buzz while you’re at it (but I’m not impressed).

All the best

– L