Blog Traffic Exchange Report

by Sapphire (June 12, 2005)

I’ve been using five blog traffic exchange networks for a few weeks now, and I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re worth using, when your site’s new and you want to boost exposure.

Traditional traffic exchanges - not blog-specific ones - give you “garbage traffic”. Very non-targetted visitors who rarely click anything on your site, or even look at the displayed page for more than the required time. Good if (for some reason) you need a lot of indiscriminate hits, but they really kill your conversion rates.

With blogs, it’s different, because the quality of sites is higher, and that engages visitors. With normal traffic exchanges, you get scraper sites, search engines out the wazoo, and other stuff that’s obviously been thrown together in hopes of making money from pop-ups and ppc ads. Blogs, on the other hand, always have content. That alone makes a blog-specific exchange a stronger proposition.

I find myself checking out a lot of the blogs in the exchange program. As a result, I’m not clicking as fast as possible, and not generating as much traffic as I could. I rarely send my blogs more than 60 hits per week from traffic exchanges.

And yet, I’m getting bookmarked by other exchange readers, and I’m getting comments from them, and I think they’re generating at least some of my ad clicks. The most important component of that, for me at this point, is the bookmarking. I’m looking to raise the number of people who read my sites on a daily basis. That’s my focus at the moment, because that’s where selling ad space becomes practical.

The blog exchange networks I’m currently using are:

BlogExplosion, BlogClicker, BlogSoldiers and

Those are referral links, so if you sign up under me, I’ll get some extra credits toward my surfing. If you don’t want to be my referral, just take off the affiliate part of the link in your URL window and sign up from the site’s homepage.

Posted in Blogging, Traffic
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