The fun part is, if You’re also advertising your BannersGoMLM and BlogRush affiliate links then you can get people to sign up under you and build up your downline that can bring you even more traffic. In fact, even TrafficSwarm is set up so that you can earn credits from your downline. I know that MLM is considered shady in the eyes of most. It mostly just gets really bad PR. But that’s beside the point. All the free traffic programs I’ve chosen have MLM aspects, but they can all work fairly well without any recruiting. In other words, you can just do what you do and earn some traffic, or you can recruit some more people and earn a bit more.

Essentially what this article is about, is overcoming the shortcomings of traffic exchanges. Using this method in combination with traffic exchanges is very powerful. It’s at least worth a shot. The cool thing about banner exchanges and BlogRush is that they’re essentially “set and forget” traffic builders. You don’t really have to do anything after you’ve installed their scripts.

Hope this helps anyone interested in free traffic,
Type to you later,
~Nathaniel

Blogger specific suggestions:
Now, although this works well for certain websites, there are a few things you’ve got to think about when it comes to blogs. The first is that your content will change on a regular basis. Although you do want to advertise your main page with a general ad, you all want to make ads for specific high-traffic posts/pages. The reason is simple, I’ll give you an example:

My genreal homepage ad:
Nathaniel’s Art Gallery Fantasy & Scifi
A collection of my art. I have always believed the nature of inspiration to be infectious. Come, be inspired.

Now, the problem is that this doesn’t cover all my site has to offer, just a small chunk of it. So I also run ads for specif post:
Beware of the Flu Vaccine Scam *
There has been a long, on-going scam dealing with the flu vaccine. Don’t become a victim, you deserve to know the truth
The ADD/ADHD Excuse *
ADD/ADHD are real, but too many are using it as an excuse for bad teaching/parenting/behavior. Here’s what I think. ADD Tips.

The reason I’ve done this is simple, these two topics (flu vaccines and ADD/ADHD) are fairly universal. A great deal of people will want to read them. Do you know anyone who’s ever gotten the flu? Do you know anyone who’s got ADD or ADHD? I advertise these specific articles because they offer up content to the TS surfers that they might be interested in but would otherwise not know existed if they simply saw my main ad.

With this strategy, I spend a couple of minuets when I’m bored surfing my TS homepage and I get several hits to my site. You can’t get much easier than that. Also, TS has no shortage of people trying to get you to sign up for other traffic building programs, some of them are actually quite good. If you find yourself bored and surfing the net often, you might as well get some traffic to your website while you’re at it. If that interests you at all, go check TrafficSwarm out, it’s at least worth a peek.

Type to you later,
~Nathaniel