Do Not use Traffic Exchanges, Paid to Click sites for Promoting Articles
Traffic Exchanges and PTC sites are another good way of getting traffic to sites, blogs and referral urls, but do not use them to promote your articles posted on various article directories as you may risk your account suspended.
People join article writing websites like eHow, Associated Content, Bukisa, Xomba, Triond or Helium to make money or get backlins to sites. More money means more visitors to articles. So an article needs promotion. Article marketing can be done by submitting articles to search engines, social bookmarking sites or commenting on other articles but never submit to traffic exchanges or paid to click sites.
But why should one not submit articles to traffic exchanges or paid to click sites?
Recently Bukisa has reduced Bukisa Index to 3.19 and gave reason that there has been an high amount of illegal traffic exchanges. In fact, most of the article writing sites prohibit enticing users to click on ads. Bukisa and Associated Content filter visitors to their articles that are shown as qualified views. This may be the reason that most of the article writing sites prohibit enticing users to click on ads. So please read the terms and conditions of a article directory site first before promoting an article or rather writing an article.
Ad sites do not get real visitors to articles
Ad sites like traffic exchange sites or paid to click sites impose a time limit of 20-60 seconds for visitors. This means that to get as many credits as possible visitors will just stay for the required time only. This time is not enough to read an entire article. I do not think visitors at ad sites ever read the article content and hence are not qualified visitors. Moreover a person looking for a certain information will look in respective categories of article directories but not in ad sites. So my point is there is no use in adding articles to traffic exchange sites as your article won’t get genuine visitors.
Are traffic exchange and paid to click advertising sites total waste for members of article directories?
It is perfectly okay to post referral urls to traffic exchange and ptc sites so registered users of article directories can advertise their referral or networking urls to increase their network and make money from referrals too.
I have a friend that is using a paid to click advertisement program. He says he pays $1 dollar for 2000 views. And the site that he is advertising is paying him $1.20 dollar’s for 2000 views. So that’s a 20 Cent profit… I’m very skeptical, thats why I haven’t tried it. But my question I have for you is; how do sites like yahoo contributer, know when people are using these service’s? I read on one of the PTC sites that they guarantee unique visitor’s. Is that just a bunch of bullshit? And if that is true, how do these site’s get away with it.