Four must-have traffic exchange tools

Four must-have traffic exchange tools

If you are advertising in traffic exchanges, you MUST use —

1.  SPLASH /SQUEEZE PAGES - here are my favourite page design programs

• Site Rubix – excellent WYSIWYG designing and straightforward uploading to your site by in-built FTP. There’s so much more to this than the page-building though, so it may be overkill for you right now. But it is definitely top of my list and something I can’t do without. Requires a monthly membership fee as it is part of Wealthy Affiliate University – CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.
• Instant Squeeze Page Generator - “takes the hard work of designing a professional squeeze page or Lead Capture page and makes it so easy a baby could do it. If you can point and click, you will be creating squeeze pages in minutes”. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.
• Instant MLM Squeeze Pages – not just for MLM programs, this one’s a bit different as the pages are 90% ready for you. You can add your main program as a link. Interesting concept and fantastic videos telling you all you need to know about desiging squeeze pages if you want to do your own. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.
• Lots of the traffic exchanges have splash page builders available to members – really easy to use and you get to promote that TE as well.
• Online free for ad hoc use – can be found through online search. You will want to host these yourself though.

2.   Rotators for your splash or squeeze pages - these also have tools to help you track your ad campaigns, so they are really essential. Here are the ones I use:

• HitsConnect
• PageSwirl
• FreeRotator

3.  Banners – here are my favourite banner design programs:

• Instant Banner Creator
• My Banner Maker
• Banner Generator

4.  Rotators for your banners – here are the ones I use:

• HitsConnect
• Intellibanners

Why the splash / squeeze pages? – see my articles here and here

…and make sure you have read my Squidoo lens – here

Why use rotators? – see here (you will need to scroll down the page a bit)

Why use banners? – Why not? You will be given credits (impressions) for them, so you may as well use them. In some traffic exchanges they are free too.

Why have rotators for banners? – see here (same link as above)

You can find the top traffic exchanges to use in AFFILIATE FUNNEL and TRAFFICHOOPLA. Both have free basic memberships and use a variety of methods to rank the hit exchanges. Well worth a look.

If you are looking for programs to promote you will find some of what I am doing here in my blog, but I must admit that my favourites are MY INSTANT BIZ and TRAFFIC EXCHANGE PROFITS/ONLINE BUSINESS ALLIANCE. Great systems and top-class support in these two.

All of the above recommendations have basic FREE membership options  and some are just there for you to use as and when without signing up. Or you may decide you would like to upgrade and receive even more benefits; I have upgraded in some, but not all of them.

To your success
– Lynda H

For a package which includes many of the above, you may like to look at Affiliate Funnel (basic level is free) – click here to visit Affiliate Funnel

Do Traffic Exchanges work?

Do Traffic Exchanges work?

Unfortunately for a large portion of traffic exchange users the answer to that question is no. The problem is though, that it’s not the exchanges’ fault. It’s not even the fault of the member.

You see most people are turned on to traffic exchanges by an upline member or the admin of some site or program that is going around the internet.

I know that is how I found them.

When they are introduced to them, people are told all you have to do is put your affiliate link in and start clicking and you will be rich in a matter of days.

This is a big mistake, actually it is more than that, it is a tragedy.

It’s a tragedy, because that person is not going to get the results from traffic exchanges that were promised and will soon move on from them.

They will say traffic exchanges don’t work, that TEs make huge promises that they can’t keep, when in reality it was an outside program that made those promises.

There is hope though, if you avoid making just the above mistake you could join the thousands that answer ‘Yes’ whenever they are asked if TE’s work.

There is a growing group of people that use traffic exchanges exclusively to build their business.

William Brant is one of those people and he is tired of others saying that the exchanges don’t work. He has broken down the most common mistakes that people make, mistakes that are keeping them from being successful, and written a report on how to identify and avoid them.

Before you answer no to whether or not exchanges work, make sure you read this report and see how easy it is to be able to say yes.

==>> Thirteen Deadly Traffic Exchange Tragedies

To your Success

– LyndaH

PS   If you really want to find out all about Traffic Exchanges and the really, really optimum way to set up your surfing etc, then pop over to my Squidoo lens: Make Money With Traffic Exchanges (As with all my links, it opens in a new window.)

PPS   If you would like to know how you can start making money simply by surfing for an hour or so every day, then read the lens and sign up either for Traffic Exchange Profits or My Instant Biz.

Easy Way To Get Twitter Followers

Easy Way To Get Twitter Followers

I recently posted this in the My Instant Biz forum, but thought it should go in here too, as I see a lot of new Twitterers are a bit lost when it comes to knowing where to start with Twitter.

Feel free to post more ideas or comments.

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There are several excellent and easy ways to get Twitter followers, but if you want to get them in style, you first need to set up an account in ‘TweetLater’ so that when people start to follow you in their droves, you don’t have to reply to each of them separately.

I’m all for automation, so automate your Tweeting – www.tweetlater.com (More about this further down)

Here’s a fairly new concept – TweeterGetter - tweetergetter.com

Now, it says you’ll get thousands of followers, but I can’t say that’s anywhere near what’s happened for me, but I’m up by 66 in 10 days. Not as good as I had hoped, but it’s really simple.

Although I’ve found its faster and better to do it another way:

• Go to twellow.com and login with your twitter details. Once you’ve logged in you see the categories – choose one you fancy, that’s similar to your Twitter profile eg marketing, in which there are more categories – choose one of those.

• You then see a list of people who are registered in that category. Click in their twitter name in the brackets: (eg Lynda Hill is acmeinfo on Twitter).

• That takes you to their Twitter page. Here’s where the fun starts.

• Follow them and then follow a page of their followers by clicking on ‘followers’ on the right and then go down the list clicking ‘follow’. Follow the whole page. Then go back to Twellow and choose someone else.

• You can do a couple of pages per person if you want to, but no more. Aim for about 200 max for the day; so, one page of followers per 10 you’ve chosen from Twellow.

By the way, these methods are all quite acceptable among the Twitter community. But what you don’t want to do is start selling anything straight off. So your auto reply in TweetLater needs to be something friendly like: Hi. Thanks for following me. I look forward to seeing your tweets.

Just to recap:
1. Sign up with Tweetlater and set up your replies etc.
2. Go to Twellow to find people.
3. Follow 10 those people and one page of their followers.
4. Sit back and watch the numbers grow in your Twitter account.

BTW, I have set my account to auto-follow anyone who follows me, wherever they come from, and I don’t un-follow any who leave.

There’s lots more to Twitter, and don’t let it distract you too much; but once it’s all set up it’s easy enough.

In case you missed it above, follow me on http://twitter.com/acmeinfo and I will (automatically) follow you.

Oh, and if you use a program called Tweet-My-Blog, whenever you post in your blog it will automatically be tweeted for you.

Happy tweeting.

–LyndaH

Here are those links again:

http://www.tweetlater.com

http://tweetergetter.com

twellow.com

Tweet-My-Blog

http://twitter.com/acmeinfo

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