05-18-2008, 12:39 PM
SageMother Wrote:There is no doubt that manual traffic exchange can be time consuming, unless you tend to just surf around the web as a form of entertainment. Taking that surfing time and running through about 50 to 100 page views on a manual traffic exchange can be a better use of your time.
I can honestly say that I have had people join my website's mailing list, and subscribe to my blog, from the traffic exchanges I have tried.
Thanks SageMother. I assume the gain in traffic is worth the loss of google revenue, I recall that you are not a google fan anyway. I have sitemeter on my blog and it tells me where people have come to my blog from, geographical location etc, but if I get regular readers from a traffic exchange I would have no way of knowing because the first time they would come in showing as from the traffic exchange, but if they bookmark me, subsequent visits would be shown as from their own ISP. So I would only know that the traffic exchange brought regular readers if the new readers told me.