Advertising thru Safelists and Traffic Exchanges – does it work ???
SAFELISTS
Free Safelists and Paid Safelists are becoming a very popular way of advertising websites and programs via e-mail. Safelists are lists which contain email addresses of individuals which have agreed to receive email from the other members of the safelist. Some safelists contain thousands of members. So, whether you join a free safelist, or a paid safelist, you too can email those members of the list about your website or offer.
Some safelists allow you to join free - but with limitations. Such as - if you join free, you might only be allowed to email a certain number of members only once a week. However, paid members are allowed to post every day or every other day.
A very important factor when using a safelist is to have your email opened. A catching subject line will do the trick. Look at all the emails you receive – study the subject lines and you can learn what it takes for an email to be opened.
Another important factor is not to use your primary email address when joining a safelist. You are bound to receive quite a number of emails from the other members of the list – so the best way is to set up an email address especially for that list. Gmail lets you open several email accounts for free.
• One of the best lists that I am a member of is ViralURL. I find this to be the MOST responsive list of all. I do not know if as a free member one can email other lists members – but as a paid member I can email 3,000 random members every 3 days – which adds up to 30,000 a month. The OTO for the Gold membership is very affordable and believe me well worth it !!
You can check ViralURL here.
• Also a NEW list builder has just been launched – this is Viral-List.COM. For a ridiculously low one-time fee – EACH person who signs up after you will be on your list. Also if you decide to refer other people you will be paid $3 or $5 for every member in your downline – 7 levels deep. An excellent way to build up your list and getting paid at the same time !!
You can check Viral-List.COM here.
TRAFFIC EXCHANGE and SURF SITES
A traffic exchange and surf website receives website submissions from webmasters that join traffic exchange networks. The person who submitted the website then has to browse other member sites on the exchange program to earn credits, which enable their sites to be viewed by other members through the surf system. This increases the number of visitors to all the sites involved.
Exchanges enforce a certain credit ratio, which illustrates the amount of websites the surfer must view in order to receive one hit through the program for their promoted website. Many sites offer the ability to upgrade one's membership level for a more equal credit ratio.
As the viewers are all website owners or affiliates, it is possible that some might find certain member sites interesting and thus make note of them on their own sites, sending more traffic their way. Most traffic programs also impose a time limit when members are browsing, ranging from 10 seconds to 60 seconds.
Some traffic exchange sites also offer payments for viewing the minimum number of websites imposed by the particular site. This in itself promotes a win win situation – getting paid and getting ‘eyeballs’ on your own websites and banners.
• One such traffic exchange website is Ad Ventures 4 U – when one joins and upgrades (minimum $10) – the upgraded member gets paid 14% of their upgrade (Ventures) every week – for surfing 26 websites (10 minutes) every day. A member can advertise both websites and banners on the site itself (included in the price of the upgrade). Ad Venures 4U is a very safe site situated in Panama !! And a 14% payout weekly is NOTHING to sneeze at !! Ad Ventures 4 U has been around for a long time and it pays revenue from earnings - so we will continue to see it around - do not worry !!
You can check Ad Ventures 4U here.
I hope that you have found the above information useful for your website and banner advertising. Your comments will be greatly appreciated.
Marianne R.
http://iblog.at/marianne/
PS On a very different note – a new search engine TAZOODLE will be launched in the coming months. This search engine will PAY members who are active thru searches. Membership is FREE and signing up has already started.
There are also excellent pre-launch only packages for Advertisers.
It is very wise to join Tazoodle now - both as a member and also as an advertiser. Should you wish to sign up it is free to do so here:
You can check TAZOODLE here
Free Safelists and Paid Safelists are becoming a very popular way of advertising websites and programs via e-mail. Safelists are lists which contain email addresses of individuals which have agreed to receive email from the other members of the safelist. Some safelists contain thousands of members. So, whether you join a free safelist, or a paid safelist, you too can email those members of the list about your website or offer.
Some safelists allow you to join free - but with limitations. Such as - if you join free, you might only be allowed to email a certain number of members only once a week. However, paid members are allowed to post every day or every other day.
A very important factor when using a safelist is to have your email opened. A catching subject line will do the trick. Look at all the emails you receive – study the subject lines and you can learn what it takes for an email to be opened.
Another important factor is not to use your primary email address when joining a safelist. You are bound to receive quite a number of emails from the other members of the list – so the best way is to set up an email address especially for that list. Gmail lets you open several email accounts for free.
• One of the best lists that I am a member of is ViralURL. I find this to be the MOST responsive list of all. I do not know if as a free member one can email other lists members – but as a paid member I can email 3,000 random members every 3 days – which adds up to 30,000 a month. The OTO for the Gold membership is very affordable and believe me well worth it !!
You can check ViralURL here.
• Also a NEW list builder has just been launched – this is Viral-List.COM. For a ridiculously low one-time fee – EACH person who signs up after you will be on your list. Also if you decide to refer other people you will be paid $3 or $5 for every member in your downline – 7 levels deep. An excellent way to build up your list and getting paid at the same time !!
You can check Viral-List.COM here.
TRAFFIC EXCHANGE and SURF SITES
A traffic exchange and surf website receives website submissions from webmasters that join traffic exchange networks. The person who submitted the website then has to browse other member sites on the exchange program to earn credits, which enable their sites to be viewed by other members through the surf system. This increases the number of visitors to all the sites involved.
Exchanges enforce a certain credit ratio, which illustrates the amount of websites the surfer must view in order to receive one hit through the program for their promoted website. Many sites offer the ability to upgrade one's membership level for a more equal credit ratio.
As the viewers are all website owners or affiliates, it is possible that some might find certain member sites interesting and thus make note of them on their own sites, sending more traffic their way. Most traffic programs also impose a time limit when members are browsing, ranging from 10 seconds to 60 seconds.
Some traffic exchange sites also offer payments for viewing the minimum number of websites imposed by the particular site. This in itself promotes a win win situation – getting paid and getting ‘eyeballs’ on your own websites and banners.
• One such traffic exchange website is Ad Ventures 4 U – when one joins and upgrades (minimum $10) – the upgraded member gets paid 14% of their upgrade (Ventures) every week – for surfing 26 websites (10 minutes) every day. A member can advertise both websites and banners on the site itself (included in the price of the upgrade). Ad Venures 4U is a very safe site situated in Panama !! And a 14% payout weekly is NOTHING to sneeze at !! Ad Ventures 4 U has been around for a long time and it pays revenue from earnings - so we will continue to see it around - do not worry !!
You can check Ad Ventures 4U here.
I hope that you have found the above information useful for your website and banner advertising. Your comments will be greatly appreciated.
Marianne R.
http://iblog.at/marianne/
PS On a very different note – a new search engine TAZOODLE will be launched in the coming months. This search engine will PAY members who are active thru searches. Membership is FREE and signing up has already started.
There are also excellent pre-launch only packages for Advertisers.
It is very wise to join Tazoodle now - both as a member and also as an advertiser. Should you wish to sign up it is free to do so here:
You can check TAZOODLE here
Add a Comment
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Comment by David Glassey on June 29, 2009 at 11:35pm - I've used both with some success. Down side is the amount of time spent surfing if you don't have the budget to buy credits. This could be a good alternative - more targeted
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Comment by Zsolt Pasztor on June 29, 2009 at 10:27pm -
Try this New Video Search Engine to get Paid for Watching Videos and Advertise your Products at the same time.
Best regards.
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Comment by Kristy Bassett on June 29, 2009 at 9:50pm
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I have tried them both and found them ineffective for my website. Traffic exchanges certainly brought traffic, but the visitor rarely left the landing page, it wasn't worth the time it took up.
I have had better success through social networks, alot less time with better results.
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Comment by damian wise on June 29, 2009 at 8:08pm
- complete waste of time....... they just annoy the hell out of all the people that get spammed
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Comment by Matt on June 29, 2009 at 7:12pm - I think safelists are another way to get traffic to your site. It becomes a problem when people spend all of their time on this traffic generation method. I think a nice mix of methods is best. Thank you for the post Marianne, keep up the great work my friend.
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Comment by Lisa Stadtmueller on June 29, 2009 at 6:48pm - I have never heard of these methods but I know that link exchanges don't help search engine rankings if the sites are unrelated content, they in fact hurt rankings....or so I've read. Is a traffic exchange the same as a link exchange? Why would a spike in traffic to ones site (via a traffic exchange) necessarily be a good thing? I guess I need more information.
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Comment by Greg Wight on June 29, 2009 at 6:14pm -
I use both TE's and Safelists. I have to admit that I have successes and failures with each of them, but they do work and can be effective. About the Traffic Exchange time of 20 seconds that is not current today. Many of the Exchanges are limiting the time that a page is displayed to under 10 seconds now.
I have found that through the use of these forms of advertising that the affiliate sales or direct sales are not the most important aspect or utility. I think that the viral effects of creating a Downline and the exposure that you gain by branding yourself is of much more worth.
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Comment by Fay on June 29, 2009 at 5:16pm
- Join free viral here http://www.freeviral.com/?r=283021
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Comment by Alex Wu on June 29, 2009 at 5:14pm - Traffic Exchange, not so much, because too many people are using auto surf, or cheat using bots. Email marketing, I find text ads exchanges that goes to contact emails works for me, even though opening rate is less than 4% on average. I run a free classifieds website http://www.jihoy.com, and managed to sign up over 2000+ members in the last 6 months with safelist advertising. I belong to about 4000 safelists, but I'd say only 5% brings in the results.
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Comment by M. Rita Metts on June 29, 2009 at 5:08pm - I am new to safelists. Where would I get started?
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