HOW TO DRIVE MEGA-TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITE BY USING FREE BANNER EXCHANGES WITHOUT SPENDING A SINGLE PENNY

To make money on the internet is not a walk in the park...Many scam artists and TV infomericials make it appear that all you have to do is get an internet account and a website and all of a sudden...you’re rich. Well, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Building a business on the internet doesnt just happen. You have to WORK at it. If you want high listings on the search engines, you are going to have to work at it. If you want traffic, it doesn’t just show up one day by accident.

You have to have a daily step-by-step plan for driving more traffic to your site. The more traffic you have, the better...To develope major traffic at your site will take a knowledge and use of many different marketing tools. The first tool that you need to put to use of course is that of Search Engines...Many people receive over 95% of their web traffic from the search engines. I think that part of the reason that percentage is so high though is because many people don’t see any other type of advertising to do on the internet...

Just because you have your site registered on the search engines does not mean that you are done advertising by any means. I personally receive more traffic on my site now by E-Zine advertising and through banner exchanges than through the Search Engines. We have a Search Engine Report and E-Zine article both on our Free article section now at http://www.bizpromo.com/infomall/free/index.htm that you take a look at any time you like.

This specific article is on how to start producing MEGA-TRAFFIC through Banner Exchanges which are 100% Free! While many people just receive a small increase in traffic from banner exchanges, it is possible to start receiving more hits from the banner exchanges than from the Search Engines...Continue to read on to find the secrets of doing this EVERY day!

What are Banner Exchanges

Before I get too far ahead of myself, let’s make sure that everyone understands just what a banner exchange is. The biggest & most popular banner exchange is linkexchange.com (NOTE: I did not say it was the best). A banner exchange is where you sign up your web page as a member and place a banner for the exchange on your website. Then, the banner exchange will randomly place different people’s banners on your site (Some exchanges make sure the banners are targeted...Some are completely untargeted). In exchange for this benefit of having their banners displayed on your site, you are given credit for your site’s hits and they place your banner on other people’s sites. Some banner exchanges do this on a 2:1 ration (For every 2 hits your site gets, your banner is displayed once) and some of the banner exchanges are little more generous even providing all the way up to a 1:1 ration of hits to displays.

What makes banner exchanges extremely attractive is the fact that you can start receiving hits immediately from them and the banner exhange itself handles all of the details including tracking your web site hits, displaying your banner, etc.

How to Produce Mega-Traffic From Banner Exchanges

Now, this is where many people have stopped when working with Banner Exchanges. They join one of them. They create a nice banner. Then, they let it takes it’s course. Just doing this is good, but it will not produce MEGA-TRAFFIC. For example even if you produce an AWESOME banner and get 1 hit through your banner for every 10 times it shows (That is a great number of hits), you still are only getting 1/10 at best of the traffic at your site from the banner exchange. That is not nearly enough. To produce lots of traffic through banner exchanges takes a little thinking...

Here is the secret that I have learned: Join ONLY the banner exhanges which give you credit for other people who sign up in that exchange through your site. I personally am a member of 4 different banner exchanges. EVERY single one of them gives me credit when someone signs up for their Free service through my site. Most of them are giving me credit for hits equal to 10% of whoever’s site I referred to them In other words, when someone who gets 1,000 hits a day on their website joins through my banner on my webpage I will receive credit for 100 hits a day...That is EXTRA banners that will shown for me automatically EVERY day from now!

When I have 20 people joining a banner exchange through my site and each one of them averages 100 hits a day - Thats is 2000 total hits or 200 banner credits for me. That is extra hits I will get every day automatically. These referrals can begin to build over time until you are getting a whole lot more credits from your referrals than you are from your own website.

Now, multiply those banner viewings by joining 2, 3, or 4 banner exchanges and you can start getting the picture. A year from now (I didn’t say this was a get rich quick scheme) you can be getting thousands of hits daily from the your own credits and the credits of those you have reffered to the banner exchanges.

Which Banner Exchanges Should You Join

Let’s get down to the basics of which banner exchanges I recommend you join to start putting this plan into action on your website. As I said above, I am personally a member of 4 banner exchanges. I have joined and reviewed more of them, but I am most satisfied with these four exchanges...And I can honestly recommend that all my readers get involved with them as soon as possible.

#1 - LinkBuddies

The first site recommend that everyone join is Linkbuddies. I have placed them first on the list because for those who don’t have banners already, LinkBuddies will supply you with one. So even if you don’t have a banner yet, you can start getting involved in this plan. Go to their Link at:

http://www.linkbuddies.com/start.go?id=102525

Give it a minute, it sometimes takes a little while to load. Once you get there, click on JOIN NOW. Then, fill out the forms as provided. This banner exchange is FREE just like the others. If you do not have a banner of your own, select the option of having a pre-made one. Linkbuddies has actually created a nice selection of banners for most sites and their banners do pretty well.

Linkbuddies will give you a html code to place on your website. All you have to do is copy it and paste it right into the html of your website where you want the banner to go. I advise you to chose the longer one which is available in the Members Area because it includes the link to Linkbuddies while the shorter versions do not. Remember part of the key to this traffic building system is being able to refer others and you will need the code which contains a referral section so that you will be able to do this. Linkbuddies gives you a 10% credit on anyone you sign up to them.

Link Buddies gives a FREE Bonus of 500 extra banner showings just for joining. This along with the fact that they have good banners for those who dont have one yet makes it a good place to start.

#2 - Bannermation

Bannermation is an exciting site, because they have online editors and helpers so that you can build a Java banner to be displayed for your site...I have put them last because it takes a little time to get use to their banner editor although they have an online video (Which I highly recommend you watch). To join Bannermation, go to:

http://www.bannermation.com/

Click on SIGN UP and then input your information. You MUST place ID# 405381 in the Sponsor Id# section of the application or your application will not work. They do this to make sure that everyone is getting proper credit for referrals...

Although their banner editor takes a little time getting used to, you will find that you will make Your BEST banners with it. The fact that they use Java instead of a gif format like the other banner exchanges means that more text and options are available to you through their site than through the others.

#3 - Net-On Banner Exchange

Next, I recommend that you join the Net-On Banner Exchange. Net-On makes sure that you banner is highly targetted and they also offer 10% credits for all of the referrals you send to them. You can go to their site at:

http://www.net-on.net/cgi-bin/mpartner?mp10048

Go through their application there and make sure to target your advertising in the manner that will benefit your website the most. This is one more way to begin building a traffic jam at your website. It is really hard to imagine having too much traffic at a website...Use every one of these banner exchanges to their fullest extent.

#4 - GSA-Net Banner Exchange

The last banner exchange I am a member of is GSA-Net. They have well targeted groupings for the banners AND they have the HIGHEST ratio of hits on your site to showings of your banner. It is possible to have a ratio as high as 1:1 on their service. This makes them the best for people who aren’t going to take advantage of using referrals for awesome traffic. Go to their signup site at:

http://bs.gsanet.com/gsa_bs/referal.cmdl?referal=GSA1008557

There you will be able to sign up, get the code for your site, and upload your banner...GSA-Net doesn’t give a percentage of the traffic for referrals like the others I mentioned above. Instead, they give you a 250 banner credit for every referral. I personally do not like this as much as the percentage based referrals, BUT it can give you a quick boost for most sites you have referred. That 250 banner credit would be equal to 2,500 hits on other referred sites, and it is given to you one week after someone is referred to them by you.

BASICS of Banner Exchange Profits

Above you have a basic plan for getting signed up in each banner exchange. The next step is to start referring others to them through your website. For this, I recommend that you create a seperate section called "Creating Major Traffic through Free Banner Exchanges" or something like that.

On this website that you created, give a quick paragraph or two about why someone should one to join these banner exchanges. Then, place each of your banners and then quick instructions on how to join each one (Making sure to give the correct information so that you get proper credit).

There are two major advantages of this. First, you can give clear instructions on this page and get a lot of signups (Don’t forget to place this page on the Search Engines using keyword html with "Free internet advertising, free banners, etc."). Secondly, you get the extra traffic counts as the banner exchange for each of the banners on this page giving you extra banner credits so your banner is shown more often.

This banner exchange won’t give you immense traffic overnight or even by next week. What it will do is slowly and surely increase your traffic each and every week you are advertising online...

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