I am teaching my wife Diane several different facets of internet marketing. One thing Team-Schuman has not done much with in the past is Traffic Exchanges. That is changing. I have learned a bunch about this underused method for getting traffic to websites, blog, affiliate pages, etc. An interactive traffic exchange is actually a very easy way to get traffic.

I have even spent a little time surfing for credits and it can be quite addictive. Here are 3 keys to making traffic exchanges work for you.

1. Drive traffic to a landing page rather than a sales page. Because you only have a few seconds to catch someone’s attention they are not going to read your sales page, but they will read a short landing page.

2. Surf several traffic exchanges at a time. I personally do 3 at time which allows me to start with Traffic Swarm. They have 20 seconds between ads. In that time I can go surf on 2 other exchanges before returning to Traffic Swarm.

3. Do not use traffic exchanges to promote a web page with Google Adsense on it. Under the terms of service Google will ban you from their Adsense program if you are caught referring traffic to a page with their ads on it.

I bought a very good book and am offering it here for $7. It is titled “13 Deady Traffic Exchange Tragedies” and is for people who are not happy with they results they are getting from traffic exchanges. I learned several things from it and you can turn around and sell it and make your $7 back plus more.

So what makes an interactive traffic exchange?

The good ones get you involved. One I joined and like is called Traffic Splash. They offer free credits for every 15 pages surfed. To see how many you get on the 16th page you click on a button and they tell you. Then those are added to your total for the day. It might be 3, 5, 9 credits or whatever. You do not win everytime, but you do find yourself watching how many pages until you see how many you won.

Another traffic exchange I like is Soaring4Traffic. An internet friend of mine. Ray White, owns this and does a great job of making it interactive. He offers customer support if you need it, publishes a very good newsletter, and they offer a unique program called surf console, which I intent to look into more this week.

These are 3 I am having good luck with so far. They all offer referral programs to earn even more credits for referring people who surf.

O.K. Here are my 3 top picks so far for the best internet active traffic exchange.

1. Traffic Swarm- I earn the most credits with them.

2. Traffic Splash-This is a fun one and offers contests to earn more credits.

3. Soaring4Traffic- They offer great training and support.

One other thing to address is do you upgrade with one or more of these. I did after I saw some results and realized I could earn credits quicker as a pro member. You have to weigh the benefits of doing that yourself. I just know I would rather earn 2 or 3 times as many credit for one click when I do it.

But if you can not upgrade traffic exchanges can still be a very good way to get traffic coming in and all you do is invest your time and surf for ads.

Try them out. Get a system going for promoting your favorite website or program. Create a splash page or landing page to capture info for follow-up and you will really benefit.