subject: Text Ad Exchange Traffic: What are Text Ad Exchanges? [print this page] Text Ad Exchanges are excellent ways for new internet marketers to start getting some targeted traffic to their websites. If you are new to internet marketing, it's often very frustrating to figure out exactly what strategies to follow when you're learning about traffic generation.
So what is a text ad exchange anyway?
Basically it's a simple advertising tool that will allow you to post an ad for your website or business for free. You can then view other ads in the network to earn advertising credits, which will then show your advertisement faster and more which of course drives in more visitors to your website.
Experienced users often upgrade their accounts to get maximum exposure for their website and can literally get 10 times the traffic in the same time it takes with a free account. However it's not necessary to pay for ads in any of these types of advertising portals.
Text Ad Exchanges also normally have better traffic and functionality than traffic exchanges, since most traffic exchanges are the market are over-populated with auto-clickers and spammers. The text ad exchanges, for the most part are able to offer more real value for the advertisers.
So do you get anything else with a free membership?
Usually you won't get anything, except for free advertising. However, some of the newer text ad exchanges are starting to offer free internet marketing training courses and information. These premium ad exchange owners understand that adding value to your advertising experience will have you coming back and referring your business partners.
You can easily determine the success of the exchange you are on by viewing the total number of members that are registered users and also the overall look of the offer and site. Some relatively new text ad exchanges may offer great advertising value and also still have a low membership because they are growing. These ad exchanges are also good for you to use, because your advertising will grow with them.
So who is the target market for my advertising in a text ad exchange?
There are really 2 main types of people that will view your ad. The first is existing home business owners and people looking to join your business. The existing home business owners are a great target market to advertise to, because often you can attract them to your offer and if they join, you will get an experienced person in your business that will often bring lots of customers. And of course people looking to join your business will also be excited to look at what you're doing and come on board. These people need a bit more help when getting started with you.
So how do you get started?
Simply locate a few text ad exchanges to run ads for your business or website. Normally the great thing about these advertising portals is that they will often list other text ad and traffic exchanges in them for you, so you can double and triple your efforts very fast. Also, if you browse their ads in the member's area, you will earn credits for your advertising, but also you'll find other great resources to place ads with and get exposure for your personal website.
Text Ad Exchange Traffic: What are Text Ad Exchanges?