Been meaning to ask this. How do you feel about Traffic Exchanges ?

[Gabriel Sylar]

Back when I got started in marketing, traffic exchanges were thought to be a good way to get your product or service out there. I had accounts at like 20 and ran them for hours. I never really had any success with them and kinda phased out my usage. I saw the whole thing like a room full of used car salesmen, each having one car to sell. At the end of the day, no one would sell, or buy a car. Safelists rubbed me the same way.
So what do you think ? Any use for safelists or traffic exchanges ?

[epicresultz]

Ive found its useless for conversions, but its great for increasing traffic stats.

[ClintAButler]

Safelists and traffic exchanges do make sales, you just have to be patient with them. TE's are way better just for the traffic stats of your site, but occationally people do buy products off of them. As for safelists, if you looking to sell a product remember your marketing to marketers, so taylor the products that you are selling to them. They won't buy weight loss products but they will by traffic or traffic generation software/ebooks.

[Invader]

Safelists and traffic exchanges do make sales, you just have to be patient with them. TE's are way better just for the traffic stats of your site, but occationally people do buy products off of them. As for safelists, if you looking to sell a product remember your marketing to marketers, so taylor the products that you are selling to them. They won't buy weight loss products but they will by traffic or traffic generation software/ebooks.

This is very true.

Also traffic exchanges are great for pumping up impressions of an offer or even adsense.

[porkbelly2]

The one thing about these and banner exchanges is that they are ripe with people trying to infect people's computers.
Too many times have I gotten warnings when visiting a site with TE/BEs on them.

[raven]

only thing i have used were autosurfers and it increased overall views to raise my alexa rank but no sales.

[ClintAButler]

only thing i have used were autosurfers and it increased overall views to raise my alexa rank but no sales.

You'll find that auto surf TE's are ONLY for traffic generation, I use on just to boost my sites Alexa. I start it before I go to work and it runs all day long.

If you are looking for sales from a TE you MUST use a manual exchange.