As the name suggests, Traffic Exchange sites are those sites which are used to get numerous hits or page views to your site, blog or any other web page by means of exchanging traffic. Let me make it more clear. It works on a very simple principle, which can also be mentioned as a mutual agreement between a web master and the traffic exchange site. Something like this – “If you visit my page, I will visit yours”. Sounds really funny. What’s the need of such traffic? Do you think this is a natural way of getting visitors to your site?

How Does A Traffic Exchange Site Work ?

The sites contain a lot of websites, blogs and other web pages of several hundreds of authors who pay for the owners of TE sites to advertise their site. They have adopted an easy way to gain traffic to promote their products or Affiliate links by paying a certain amount of money. Normally, this is considered as a method which saves time, as driving huge traffic in a short time is very difficult.

All you have to do in TE sites is, just surf the pages they provide, in a timely manner. These sites are equipped with timers counting for some 20 or 30 seconds. The count down may vary depending up on the sites, surf ratios etc. Whenever you surf certain pages of the site, you are not supposed to navigate away from the page until the timer reaches zero.

Surf Ratio :-

It is the Ratio of Total Pages Surfed to the Total Hits received.

For Example :-

1:1 Surf ratio means if you visit one page provided by the traffic exchange site, then your web page will receive a hit soon. Similarly,there are different surf ratios like 2:1, 3:1, etc. and they depend up on the sites, advertisers etc.

If you are using Google Adsense or programs similar to it, then you should never use traffic exchange sites as a source of traffic. Because Traffic Exchange sites really upset programs like Google Adsense, etc. Also, Never follow this way if you have an intention to apply for Google Adsense in future. If you do so, then your submission will be rejected soon. For the existing Adsense users, they will be banned from earning through Adsense ads. Once your account is deleted, retaining the same is almost impossible unless you spend a lot of time stating the genuine reason for the resubmission or request. So, don’t be a victim of A Banned Adsense Account.

You may be thinking why Google Adsense Program rejects or hates such practice. Right? The reason is genuine. Whenever you are using traffic exchange sites as your source of traffic, most of the hits or page views your web pages receive are not resulted from the natural traffic. Most of the time, robots or similar software are used to create impressions, page views, clicks etc. in your site. Google pays only for those clicks which are generated purely according to the genuine interest of the visitors or readers. They don't want to pay for robots. Here's nothing sophisticated to think about. Just a simple thing – Google always wants to be loyal to its advertisers as well as publishers. But due to the malpractices done by the publishers, they often experience really unpleasant events and that is of course not the fault of Google. Try to earn money online honestly and legitimately. That’s the message Google gives to its publishers. So, if you missed Google Adsense income, then you have missed a great passive income and an honorable way of making money online. So don’t commit such foolishness.

The right way  is the certainly the natural way of getting traffic. Natural way of getting traffic is unfortunately a slow phenomenon. You cannot find the results overnight. It needs patience. You need to write more and more quality contented posts regularly and must update the exisitng ones. You can find more of the useful topics and details from the link provided above this hub. 

Conclusion :-

Please don't run for meaningless traffic or page views that you get from Traffic Exchange sites. Let me ask you one question : Who must read your blogs - Intelligent Humans OR Senseless Robots ? If you want human readers, thers' no way other than trying hard to get more exposure to your page by following the legitimate ways. But once you achieved a good traffic, then everything will come on your way easily.