How I Dominate the Exchanges

by Tim on March 8, 2010

There are 181 exchanges that are ranked on Traffic Exchange List. It's a miserable job to go in and manage your advertising in all those exchanges. Miserable.

So how do I dominate the exchanges? Well I don't. But I do have a few tricks up my sleeve.

What I do is go to Traffic Exchange List, go to the latest report, and start from the top. I then assign any credits in my account, and purchase credits when necessary. I make it a goal to get through the top 20 - more if I am feeling good about it.

Next I go to my TEtoolbox account and I view my tag stats for my rotator. I sort it by GTR (Goal Through Ratio). This tells me which exchanges are getting the most signups per hit. I'll then assign or buy traffic at the exchanges that are performing well for me.

Sometimes new exchanges end up on the list because they've only delivered a small amount of traffic. That's OK because they're bringing in results. It's good to support an exchange, no matter how small. But I'll only buy traffic if they can deliver the traffic I already have in there.

And finally for the secret sauce I use two coops. Well I'm lying because I just realized one of them my subscription seems to have failed me. They are Doctor Traffic (Jon Olson) and TE Blaster (Steve Ayling). These are great because I get a variety of traffic from them, and many times from exchanges I'm not currently using. So it helps me get seen on a variety of exchanges without having to do the business of managing them all.

{ 10 comments }

Willard Brown March 8, 2010 at 11:49 am: Thanks for the tips Tim.
Guy Lachapelle March 8, 2010 at 12:12 pm: Hi Tim,

thanks again for all the content packed information. I had it on my to do list to setup and use tetoolbox but you have just reminded me yet again how important it is.

Thanks again!!!
Don Cast March 8, 2010 at 12:37 pm: Excellent info – for new and “old” marketers. Thanks, Tim
Ivan Golemdzhiyski March 8, 2010 at 1:09 pm: Hi Tim, your updates keep me tight and motivated me to go further on and improve my advertising campains!
Thanks for your great content
Be well Ivan Golemdzhiyski
Frank March 8, 2010 at 1:14 pm: TE Toolbox is a great tool to use, I’ve tried different tool that try to do the same, however, none of them are as complete and as easy to use as TE toolbox.
Tim you are great man, you have constructive comments on those subject and I really appreciate reading you, I learn so much and I believe everyone who is serious about this business should do the same.

Someone has to stay focus when trying to spread their adverts around the Traffic Exchanges. What I do is I have set up an Excel file with all of them and I surf 5 a day and my partner do 5 a day as well so we are able to spread to 70 TEs a week, that’s a lot of eyeballs to see my promotions and the result is just fantastic!

Thanks again Tim!

Talk to you soon!

Frank
Eric Smith March 8, 2010 at 1:35 pm: How do I dominate the the traffic exchanges? I subscribe to this blog so I know what to pay attention to when I’m working the exchanges. I think we all have our favorite top 20 or so, don’t you think? You should!
Jon Olson March 8, 2010 at 2:30 pm: Thanks for the mention Tim, always appreciated. How’s this, if anyone subscribes to Doctor Traffic from this blog, I’ll double any order. Exclusive for readers to Tim Linden’s blog =)
Laura March 8, 2010 at 3:22 pm: Great tips inside again, Tim. And yes, you are right there. Even if it is a small exchange you have the advantage of diversifying your advertising.
P. S. Some people would write a whole book of all this content and sell it!
Mike Gartner March 9, 2010 at 1:13 am: Might have to take you up on that Jon … lol
Jon Olson March 9, 2010 at 12:45 pm: Mike….Absolutely man. I’m here when you need the traffic.