Secret To Increase Traffic From Banner Exchanges
Ronald Vyhmeister
Introduction
Banner exchanges allow you - as a website owner - to exchange
traffic with other website owners. There are many banner
exchange networks that provide a free banner exchange program.
The process to participate in one of this programs is like
this: sign up, upload your banner, add the HTML code on your
website (on as many pages as you want), start receiving free
traffic. So prerequisites are: your own website (because you
need to be able to edit your pages), and a banner (.gif or .jpg
file). There is plenty of help online for creating an attractive
banner, try using a free web-based banner creation tool.
Most banner exchanges offer a 2:1 ratio, which means that for
each two banners you show on your website (two impressions)
your banner is displayed once on another website.
Usually banner exchanges don't provide a great click-thru rate.
Even if you produce an awesome banner for every 1000 banner
impressions only one to ten will generate a click. So
traditional use of banner exchanges is not a great deal.
Strategy
Here is the secret you should know: Join banner exchanges which
give you credit for other people who sign up in that exchange
through your site. I personally am a member of 2 banner
exchanges. They give me credit when someone signs up for their
free service through my site. They are giving me credit for
hits equal to 10% or even 20% 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 up to 100 impressions a day (considering 20% from
referrals and 2:1 ratio)... 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 - This is 2000
total hits or 200 banner impressions 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 getting 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 wouldn't say this is a get rich quick scheme) you
can be getting thousands of hits daily from your own credits
and the credits of those you have referred to the banner
exchanges.
Now 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 2
banner exchanges. I have joined and reviewed more of them, but
I am most satisfied with these two exchanges: LinkBuddies and
Relmax.
LinkBuddies
The first site I recommend you to join is LinkBuddies. For
every member you refer to LinkBuddies, you will receive 20% of
that member's credits for life! LinkBuddies also gives you 500
FREE impressions just for joining. Other features include a
wizard-based banner creator and banner targeting.
To join visit http://www.linkbuddies.com/?ref=113644
Relmax Flash Banner Exchange
As the name states this is an exchange for flash banners, but
they accept non-flash banners too. Relmax has a two-level
referral program. You will receive 10% of your direct referral
impressions earnings and also 5% of your indirect referral
earnings. Relmax keep only 30% of the banner impressions you
generate, that is a good 10:7 ratio. Also you receive 1000
credits when you sign up.
To join visit http://www.rfbe.com/?refid=2589
Conclusion
Traditional use of banner exchanges is not a great advertising
tool, even when they are free to use. But using the right
banner exchanges with the right strategy they can generate a
lot of traffic to your website in the long run.
Ronald Vyhmeister is the founder of
http://www.tenbytes.com a website with
home based business
ideas and Internet Marketing section
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