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The main problem is that list management software is fairly expensive. I’ve seen such programs run as much as $247! Even the cheaper options tend to be around $19 per month… and increase in price to as much as $147 per month depending on the size of your list.

This can be quite discouraging to those who are new to internet marketing or otherwise have low budgets. Often, it can take months before your career starts to take off. Until then, can you afford to pay a monthly fee for maintaining a list THAT YOU BUILT?

The only limitation to the GWA Autoresponder is that it is actually a plugin for the popular blog content management system, Wordpress. However, if you know anything about search engines, you know they LOVE BLOGS! In fact, I would encourage anyone and everyone to get a blog and start filling it with useful content. Heck, this entire site is run on Wordpress! So there’s not much of a reason to call this a disadvantage.

The plugin is in BETA right now, so it still has a few kinks in it. However, the programmer behind this is amazing. This plugin has come a long way since I first saw what it could do and I’m completely amazed at the development speed. Gary is a very intelligent person and he is very quick to fix bugs, add features, and offer support. Even in BETA, it blows the competition out of the water. AND IT’S ALL FREE!

1. Research, research, research the products you want to sell. Find good Click Bank products that are doing really well and have a low refund rate. A good indicator of a high refund rate is a product where the average $earned is lower than the $commission paid. CBEngine is great for finding solid products.
2. Make a unique landing/splash page. This should either be a short testimonial/review/comparison and an affiliate link, or a short testimonial/review/comparison and an opt-in form.
3. Target your market, because they won’t target you. Figure out what problems they have, and tell them how this product will solve those problems. As a good example, this website targets free traffic users, see our signup splashpage that specifically targets this demographic by clicking here (Opens in a new window).

You have to be unique to stand out, that’s why the landing page is an absolute must. There are a wealth of free hosts out there, not all of them require that you have ads on your pages either.
If you choose the opt-in feature, then you have the opportunity to continue to email them products that you suggest will “solve their problem”. If you have a blog, I suggest you use the GWA Autoresponder. Not only is it free, but it’s also very powerful.

Now, there is an honest and a slightly dishonest way to choose a product. Keep in mind that we’re not spending any money, so we can’t actually purchase a product to review it. Here you’ve got two options:

1. You can choose to review a free product, which has a One Time Offer (which you can earn from). The great thing about this is that you only have to review the free offer, the One Time Offer sells itself, a portion of the people who you refer to the free offer should buy.
2. The second (and a little bit dishonest) option is that you can choose a paid product, but not buy it, and fake a review based off of their testimonials. I suggest you go with the first simply to maintain your reputation. However, if you choose to go with this option, I suggest you think of yourself as a paid endorser and a salesperson. Not every salesperson or paid celebrity has actually used the products they endorse, they sell things because they’re paid to, that’s it.

It really is possible to earn income online without spending any money. However, you should expect to spend quite a bit of time. Nothing is free, ever. There is always a cost to everything that we receive. If you’re going to use free traffic services, then I suggest you work smart, not hard. The fact that you’re here on Free Traffic Works already suggests you’re interested in working smart.

If you enjoyed this post, have something to add, and especially if you have other methods of earning for free, then by all means, bombard the comment box below.

Advantages:

• Dynamic surf ratio starting at 2:1 for free members.
• Simple anti-cheating system insures that real people are looking at your pages.
• Very fast moving traffic, I was able to start getting traffic immediately.
• Banner and text link ads.
• Downline building tools.
• Pre-written promotions to help launch your referral campaigns.
• Video Training.
• Earn commissions on both upgrades and credit purchases
• Earn credits by playing the occasional game.
• They’ve got some really funny illustrations that pop up every once in a while. It’s a nice break from all the ads to just read a comic and laugh a little. Great feature.

Disadvantages:

• Untargeted traffic.
• The surf page resizes the browser window, that’s one of my biggest pet peeves. There’s no reason for it. No website should ever resize your browser window, ever. This is a very common problem with this particular TE line.

Those two disadvantages sure do look minor in comparison to the wealth of advantages there are to joining. I was very impressed with this exchange and I’ll certainly be adding it to my arsenal. Call me culturally biased, but I really got a hoot out of BootScootin Traffic.

Advantages to tabbed browsing:

• Faster credit accrual. You can earn credits in multiple exchanges at the same time. The average surfer can earn about 600 pageviews per day surfing only 5 exchanges for 1 hour.
• No waiting for loading pages or timers. You can quickly look at an offer, and if you don’t like it, move on.
• Some exchanges have promotions such as Super Surf, which gives you 10% more credits for surfing five exchanges at the same time.

Rules for tabbed surfing:

• While the actual accepted number of exchanges to surf at a time isn’t set in stone. The general consensus is that five is a generally acceptable number. More than that and it starts to seem a bit like cheating.
• Actually look at the websites that are being displayed. Otherwise it defeats the purpose. I’m not asking that you sign up for every one of them, but that you actually look at them with more than a passing glance.

Now, I mentioned earlier that the average surfer could earn 600 visits every day for just 1 hours worth of work. It’s totally true and here’s how I arrived at this conclusion:
pages surfed = (timer length)/3600 (which is the number of seconds in an hour)
Visitors = (pages surfed)*(exchange ratio)*(number of exchanges surfed at a time)
The average timer is 15 seconds and the average exchange ratio is 2:1 or 0.5. When you do the math, that comes out to 600 visitors for just one hours worth of work. Now, in reality, your results will vary, but the math is sound. Imagine if you did this every day for 30 days. That’s 18,000 visitors a month!

The strategy has real potential if you don’t abuse it. Remember, if you abuse it, the traffic exchange owners will become wise to the abuse and will ban you from their sites. They may also reprogram their exchanges so that they do not allow tabbed browsing.

Use tabbed browsing responsibly and keep up that surfing.

It’s fairly simple actually. All of these traffic exchanges have a special script in their surfbars that lets them know when you’re surfing the other Super Surf exchanges. If you surf all 5 exchanges at the same time, you can earn 10% more credits for every pageview!

The exchanges involved are:
Traffic-Splash
Dragon Surf
I Love Hits
Magnify Taffic &
Advertising Know How
All of which are excellent exchanges in their own right. Now more effective than ever.

You really can’t loose. This is an excellent opportunity to increase the number of credits you earn with each service with little more effort than you where before. If you’re not sure how to surf all these services at the same time, I would suggest you look into tabbed browsing. It can really make a world of difference.

Advantages:

• Super Surf
• Dynamic exchange ratio. Free members start out at 3:1. However, the more they surf, the higher the ratio. You can also set goals and get the next days ratio increased by a variable percentage. This is unbelievably powerful, and really encourages people to surf more.
• Strong anti-cheating measures. You actually have to do some basic addition to proceed to the next site. The answers range from 2-9, so it’s not that difficult.
• Contests and games to earn things from referrals, credits, and increased exchange ratios.
• Fast traffic distribution. I was getting traffic almost immediately.

Disadvantages:

• Untargeted Traffic

With all those advantages, it really dwarfs out the one disadvantage. Magnify Traffic is a good solid choice when it comes to traffic exchanges. They are certainly worth checking out.

Advantages:

• Super Surf
• Easy navigation, simply click where it tells you to, no matching or math required.
• Several Strong and varied anti-cheating measures. The visits to your site are definitely real people.
• Random referrals, even for free members. This means you can build your downline without even advertising your affiliate link!
• Very fast traffic distribution. I was able to get traffic from them almost immediately.
• Build your own list. Yep, you have the option to have your list building form shown to those who sign up under you. If you’re going to be building a list, why not build your own?
• Very fun. The owner, Robert Puddy, has a great sense of humor. I just played a game where I got to throw tomatoes at him while I waited on the timer. I didn’t earn any credits… but I must have lobbed at least 50. No offense Robert… but it’s a fun game.
• There are also games that allow you to win extra credits and they pop up fairly often… although I still wish I could earn credits for lobbing tomatoes. ^_^

Disadvantages:

• Untargeted traffic
• 3:1 surf ratio, which is a little low, but not terrible. The best thing is that the super surf feature does make this go up if you surf all of the five traffic exchanges in the group at once.

All in all, I really like this traffic exchange. It’s simple and easy to use and on top of that, it’s fun. Advertising Know-How is certainly worth checking out.

Advantages:

• 2:1 exchange ratio, this is fairly standard. You can upgrade to receive up to a 1:3 exchange ratio.
• I know this goes off the path of “free traffic” but I do think the cheap upgrades are worth mentioning. Also, until they reach 1000 members, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up with a lifetime speed racer account with a one time payment.

Disadvantages:

• Slow returns on traffic. I bet this is due to the fact that so many people are signing up with paid accounts and then not returning to actually surf. Once more free members join, the members should start receiving traffic much quicker.
• Totally untargeted traffic.
• One button surfing could theoretically lead to cheating.

There are certainly some kinks to work out of the system before it is perfected, but it is well worth getting in early. Speedway Hits. may be brand new, but it is certainly worth checking out.

The first number is what you must do, the second number is what you get. For instance, some banner exchanges have a 3:2 exchange ratio. This means, that for every three banners you show, yours is shown twice.

Why do we need an exchange ratio?
Why can’t we just get a 1:1 exchange all the time?
Well, it’s never that simple. In order to provide the best service possible, most exchanges NEED to make sure that you actually earn less than 1:1 ratio. In fact, I am always VERY skeptical towards exchanges with a 1:1 ratio… because it usually means it isn’t going to last. It’s very difficult to support an exchange like that, especially if there are bonuses on top of such a high exchange ratio. Here are some common reasons an exchange might have an uneven exchange ratio:

• To reward those who surf/earn credits more or more often.
• To reward people for referring others.
• To reward people for the credits earned by their downlines.
• To reward people randomly for contests/games/prizes/etc…
• To be able to offer better exchange ratios to paid members.
• To ensure that they can actually deliver on the exchange as promised.

The last point is very important. If an exchange has people earning more than they can provide, then they’ve got a big problem. Having lower exchange ratios allows them to actually deliver the traffic they promise to. This is why it is a good idea to be very skeptical of any service that offers a 1:1 ratio for free members.