How to increase your TGP productivity

Put simply, traffic trading involves webmasters agreeing to place links on their web sites. Various TGPs employ different traffic trade schemes. Some TGPs would require a reciprocal link — a link to their site placed on your site — while others would not.
Others may require that their link contain their “button” or be posted on your main page.

Others make you register with their “traffic trading script.” A traffic trading script automates the process of trading traffic between web sites. The script will automatically figure out whom you owe traffic to and route the traffic appropriately. It can be programmed to go to any site you want when you have extra traffic — to another of your sites, a sponsor, a gallery, a top list, etc. So basically, the higher your productivity, the more hits your trade partners will return to you.

However, some scripts cut off a sizable percentage of your traffic to send to the programmer’s web sites. Also you will need to notify all your trade partners when you switch to a different traffic trading program to update their links, making you lose some partners in the process.

A threatening variant of traffic trades, known as CJ for “Circle Jerk,” is susceptible to massive cheating. A trader uses a so-called “hitbot” to create fake traffic from his site to another, in order to get good traffic in return.

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Once you get them to your site, you should keep your visitors click as many links as possible. This will give you more chances of sending another hit to one of your trade partners, who will then send more traffic back your way. This increases your out-clicks, thereby increasing your trade volumes.

Before you can trade effectively, you should optimize your site to the fullest. The following are some considerations:

1. Choose the Right Script

Ask or shop around for scripts. Compare and then decide what’s best for you. (See UCJ and Turbo Traffic Trader below.)

2. Design

Make sure your site is uncluttered and easy to navigate. Choose a color scheme that allows you to effectively draw attention to strategic places and links on your site.

Also, remind your visitors to bookmark your site, and give them reasons to do so. If a surfer bookmarks your site, that person will most probably click several links before leaving the site.

3. Content

Develop your own style or format. Make sure that your content is unique and isn’t overused. Whether you focus on a specific niche or you offer a variety of categorized content, be sure to capitalize on it. Trade traffic with other sites which maintains the same niche. If you plan to trade with general sites, try to get them to send you traffic from categories that either match or are compatible with your niche.

Make it a point to send your visitors to real content at least 70% of the time. The visitor more likely will click on multiple links on your site (seeing that you have real content), and will also trust the links you send him/her to.

4. Start Promoting

Making alliances and creating positive relationships can be very beneficial. You will be able to reference back to “friends” and create a whole new traffic flow for yourself and for your site.

Contact trades either personally, by email, or ICQ. Usually a webmaster will set the return percentage to a higher value than the default set for automatic sign-ups when asked for a direct trade. Ask him or her directly for some forced hits which will help get trades started.

5. Productivity from Other Sites

Trade only with quality sites that offers real content; and make sure your own site meets those same standards of quality. This way they will know that you are not trying to cheat them, blind link them constantly to poor sites or assault them with pop-ups.

While you may send visitors blindly to trades, throw in some real links, particularly static links. Evidently, the most common of these is the standard top list.

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