Traffic is the bread and butter of any website or blog. Without traffic you cannot create a revenue and you will end up being the only person visiting. There are many different ways to build traffic, but what people tend to over look is that any real and legitimate traffic building ways takes time. You normally won't do something traffic related and see 2000 people show up to your page.

Some of the good ways to advertise includes:

Writing articles
Pay Per Click (PPC) or
Your link or banner on a popular website/blog

On the other hand there are many bad ways to try to get traffic. One of the worst ways is using autosurf traffic exchange. I don't like to make assumptions on anything so I tried a few of them out. The most I've tried all work the same way. You sign up add your website/blog/banner to your account and start surfing.

You have to look at other peoples pages for a set amount of time that varies depending on which autosurf you use. Generally it's 15-30 seconds you have to look at a page before you get credit. Everytime you look at someone elses page and get credit, that means that let's say you have 50 credits, then they will show your page to 50 people usually.

This sounds great but what you have to remember is you are there to get free traffic to your page and so is everyone else there. Most are trying to get a sale and unless you have a really great site, no one is staying there any longer than they have to. They will be moving on to the next page to get more credits to advertising their site. And there are two types autosurf and manualsurf.

They both mean exactly that. You have to wait the specified time then manually click to the next webpage. Autosurf you can set it and forget it, literally. You start it up and walk away or minimize the page and continue using your pc. Now think about that. If you are doing that, how many others are doing the same and how many are NOT looking at your website.

The worst I've found is one that gave me so much traffic I had to pause my account. Pausing my account means that my credits would keep growing but I wouldn't get any visitors to my website. Why did I do this? Well I have adsense and this is not real traffic. I put another non-adsense page in my account and had traffic go there. In two hours the account showed I had surfed 500 websites and had gotten 400 visitors. When I went and checked my webpage counter it shoes I had only 50 visitors and they were shown my page over and over.

So the major lists of reasons to stay away from these type of programs is:

1. No one is really paying attention to your site, when there really trying to advertise there own.
2. Using these programs when you have advertisers on your site, such as adsense or affiliate banners, can get you banned from them for fake impressions.
3. Not enough people so your not getting unique visitors each time.
4. Some will send you 100 visitors in a 1 minute. Which can make not only your advertisers ban you, but also get you in trouble with the search engines. This is called exploding your traffic and it's usually not a good idea. Even reputable places that can get you visitors won't send a 10,000 to your site in one day.

In all, I think there are much better ways you can spend your time building traffic than falling into this trap. Using autosurf to explode your traffic is a bad idea like I explained above, because traffic is something that naturally climbs. It can go fast if you know what to do or slow to non-existent if you don't. But it should just explode by jumping from 1 to a 1000 visitors in a few hours. Good Luck with your site and always be careful of the scams.

Written by Marsha James

Please feel free to add my article to your website, forum, blog, newsletters and other ventures if you leave it in full format. If used in a newsletter please send it to me that I may view where my work is going. Thank You.