Thinking of Using Hit Exchanges to Boost Your Adsense Revenue? Think Again!

So, you've added Adsense to your site and you are getting a few clicks. You could be thinking to yourself, How do I get a massive amount of visitors to bump up my earnings? If you're anything like me, you hear those stories about webmasters that have added Adsense and are already earning five figure incomes per month, and you start to see the dollar signs.

So you start brainstorming. You come up with a few ideas: email marketing, ebooks, trial software, etc. The thirst for Adsense dollars (and maybe a few affiliate dollars) is your main drive. Pushing massive amounts of traffic through your site can give you quite a thrill ride.

Then along comes the well known email that markets the traffic exchanges. If you aren't familiar with traffic exchanges, it's really very simple. You see, you sign up for their service (which often times is free) and your website is put in a list. The way the free traffic works is that you surf the web using their browser, browsing sites that are in their directory (or list) and every 30 seconds you can refresh to a new site. As you continue to do this, it builds up credits for your account that you use for other people who are using their browser to see your site.

It's a cyclical service. You see their site, they see yours. And since you can have as many browsers going (among the many traffic exchanges) as your computer can handle, you can theoretically build up a large quantity of hits on your site in a relatively small period of time.

It seems like a great thing, and for many it fills a very necessary niche, so I can't say that the traffic exchanges are a bad service. I would use them in anything else that I am doing. I would, however, make a very big distinction.

First, I know and respect the techs at Google and I know that when they make a new program for their visitors and webmasters to use, they make it for the benefit of everyone. That is the case with their Adwords and Adsense programs, both targeted to helping webmasters make money through advertising (albeit the opposite ends of the scale).

So when I put an ad on my website, I know that I am offering a service to the advertiser (through Google) to reach their target market. And ethically, I should only be paid when I provide that service (someone clicks through that ad to their site). There are extreme ethical problems if you were to use traffic exchanges with the Adsense program to try and cheat the advertiser out of his hard earned dollars.

Plus, if you haven't figured out by now, Google knows what you are doing. They have specific ways of knowing what a legitimate impression is, versus what is a hit generated by a traffic exchange. Your numbers quickly dwindle if you use a hit exchange and you run the risk of being kicked off the program.

Plus, often times you have to go through two websites wasting a full minute of your time before you get one hit directed to your website. Building up over time, it eventually it all adds up.

Take, for instance, the "surf contests". This is where they tell you who has racked up the most surfing in the week. These numbers are huge... up to 10,000 page loads. When you add it up, that's over 84 hours of one week that is taken up trying to earn an extra 1,000 hits on your site. Not very worth it to me.

The best way to use the Adsense program is with a website that you have that is established and has a constant stream of visitors going through it. That's the goal of the program, make money off of an existing site and its content.

Author and Creator of the SEO Journal Blog - Step by step instructions on making the most of your search engine submissions. http://seojournal.blogspot.com email: johnpwooton@gmail.com

---

Seven Superb Linking Strategies To Boost Traffic Stats

For all the seeming "intelligence" displayed by its system, Google... Read More

About Google PageRank

PageRank (PR) is Google's way of measuring the quality and... Read More

How to Build Web Traffic Daily..

How to Build Web Traffic DailyI - Introduction II -... Read More

5 Tips For Increased Website Traffic

There are lots of ways to get traffic to your... Read More

8 Breakthrough Ways to Bring Free Visitors to Your Site!

Many websites have great ideas, excellent content, brilliant deals and... Read More

Top Tips for Requesting a Reciprocal Link

While most webmasters agree that reciprocal linking is a very... Read More

A Million Visitors

Recently I came across a web site with the heading... Read More

Build Links, Build Business

Increasing your online business hinges on your ability to optimize... Read More

How to Build a Website that Get Free Traffic

How to get FREE traffic and vistors to your website... Read More

Search Engine Submissions That Boost Link Popularity!

"Submit to 10,000 Search Engines" or "Submit to over 200,000... Read More

3 Proven Free Marketing Methods Guaranteed To Improve Your Website Traffic

Why would you pay for advertising if you could just... Read More

Link Popularity and Your Add URL Page

With all the buzz going on about the importance of... Read More

Free Tips to Generate Traffic for Webmasters

Starting a new website and developing a traffic base if... Read More

Turn Content Into Traffic

As the saying goes in the business world "The Customer... Read More

How to Increase Backlinks and PageRank of Your Website? Bring Buyers Traffic on Your Website!

Search Engines Optimization:Your website must be good optimized by various... Read More

Web Site Marketing: Discover 10 Sneaky Ways To Prolong Your Visitors Stay At Your Website

The longer your website visitors stay, the more they will... Read More

Links to Success

Did you know that web linkage is responsible for a... Read More

My Website Needed More Targeted Traffic - Guess Where I Found It?

There's nothing new about using joint ventures to get traffic... Read More

Traffic Generation: The Number One Skill That Will Generate Cash Flow. (Part 3 of 3)

If you're feeling a bit of confusion and frustration about... Read More

How to Get Targeted Search Engine Traffic Quickly

Here's the "How-To-Do-It Guide" for driving search engine traffic right... Read More

8 Steps for Getting Free Traffic to Your Website

Want to Make Free Money on the Internet?One of the... Read More

Inter-Linking Articles Strategy ? What You Need to Know

Webmasters have so much information available to them on the... Read More

Satellite TV, Google, and a Stamp

Unless you're building a baseball diamond in the middle of... Read More

Website Traffic: 10 Blazing Secrets To Increase Your Sales

The more traffics you get at your website, the more... Read More

Web Site Monitoring Is A Global Necessity

Bill Huang sits down at his computer. As he connects... Read More

Catapult Your Traffic With These Web Site Add-Ons

Having a website is great but, if the site doesn't... Read More

8 Ways To Get People To Visit Your Web Site Again and Again

Getting visitors to your web site is not one of... Read More

Viral Marketing Technique Creates a Chain Reaction with One-Time Action!

Suddenly your site's traffic multiplies. You get "Money Waiting" emails... Read More

How to Get Customers for Free

There's no shortage of ways to spend money promoting your... Read More

Webmasters and Publishers: A Match Made in Heaven!

It's pretty well-known that one of the best ways to... Read More

Use Free Articles To Create High Quality Backlinks Part I

Nowadays, we have created numerous methods so as to bring... Read More

Reciprocal Linking Techniques

Building a successful web site is a process that works... Read More

Getting Popular Sites To Link To You

Links are important to you because of two main reasons:Google's... Read More