The Effective Way to Use Free Traffic Tools
Many people spend hours that turn into days that turn into weeks and even months attempting to sell things using free Click Exchanges, Pay to Click sites, Safelists, Ads, and Auto-surf sites only to end up not selling one single item for all of their effort. These sites provide their services for free in order to get you involved so that they can hopefully sell you increased features. You should follow the same strategy if you use them.
Free traffic generators can be used to generate income on the Internet, but they are not in themselves, ways to sell products or create lasting, worthwhile website traffic. These free advertising sites are only good for creating downlines and mailing lists. The Pay to Click sites, where you can earn advertising credits to be used to place your ads or, in some cases, money, should not be confused with the publisher programs from search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN that pay you when people click on ads on your website. Some people in developing nations, where $2 per day is good pay, make a worthwhile income on Pay to Click sites.
The people using free traffic generating sites and viewing your ads are people who, just like you, are trying to sell things. They are not there to buy anything, but all people buy something. In order to use free traffic exchanges effectively, you have to offer something free. The exceptions are the free ad sites and safelists where you can occasionally sell something that doesn’t cost a lot. Only the credit-based safelists are effective and your effort will far exceed your income.
Some of the free things you can offer include a free affiliate program, a free newsletter, a free book, a free contest, or even just free advice. Whatever you offer for free has to have value. In order to receive these free things, people must sign up for them and give you their email address. Once they sign up, you can offer them things that cost money via email. If what you gave them for free actually had value, they will be more inclined to buy something from you. Most of what you sell will involve making money, somehow, online, but everyone buys clothes, services, food, beverages, insurance, and other items like flowers so it doesn’t hurt to have links to these items in your newsletter.
Whatever you sell or give away has to have value or people will opt out of your mailing list and not come back.
Whatever website you promote on these free traffic generators, the search engines will penalize you for using them, and the number of search engine hits, which is the most valuable form of traffic, will be reduced. If you happen to be a Google publisher, you will get your account suspended and may never get it back. Most of the top search engines will do this. The million hits per month that you generate with these free tools will stop as soon as you stop using the sites. The type of websites that you want to promote using these free tools include affiliate sign up pages and low cost websites of your own designed for the specific purpose of building your mailing list. If you have a blog or expensive commercial website that you are hoping to make a lot of money with from search engine traffic, do not promote it with free traffic tools.
Using free traffic tools to make money is a two-step process. First you build your mailing list by giving away something of value for free and then you sell things of value via email and newsletter.