Traffic Exchange campaigns question

Traffic Exchange

[thetmz]

Hey guys,

What do you think of buying traffic exchange packages for new websites?
Is it worthless or it's good to get up and running with at least better traffic than almost no traffic.

Please give some advices (and if it's good, maybe you know some good campaigns i could use). I'm using Adwords too, but don't want to spend too much to get it started. Later, i definetely will.

Thanks in advance

[Lexur]

An absolute waste of money and time.

Please, do a little research on this topic here at WW and you will find how "traffic packages" are bordering the scam's level.

The traffic you buy is mainly composed by:
- machine-browsing pageviews
- popups and popunders
- 404 traffic in some east country
- ...

[edited by: Lexur at 8:55 am (utc) on Aug. 10, 2006]

[thetmz]

Ok thanks, then what is your proposal to start getting at least some traffic for a new website? (It's SEO optimized, doesn't have good position in serp's etc). Just a new one.

Thank you

[Lexur]

Get links.

Search for directories with some PageRank (even PR1 or PR2) and add a link (maybe you'll need to add a reciprocal link).

Open a text file with the sites you've/you're added and the date of the each step. Delete the links/submissions/exchanges without response in a week.

Do it for two months two hours a day and you will receive some hundred visitor, maybe a few thousand if your site and your content are good. In this time reviewing sites, browsing, exchanging links, talking with other webmasters, you will learn yourself enough to follow your own path.

[thetmz]

I've already did that (i know that this should be continuous process and i'm doing it). I have a PR4 myself, site has around 600 indexed pages and so on, but i get only around 100 unique visitors a day - so it's a pain to me. I did some research here about reciprocal links and text links. Is it worth buying them?
There are two opinions - no and yes. Don't know which one to follow.

[idolw]

buy links. buy more links. buy even more links.

[Lexur]

Then your problem seems to be in the content.

Review your site and think if it's the site you'll like to visit. Check the sites you browse daily and work in your content to have these things you like to find in other websites and not the same articles/dead-thread-forums/site-review/affiliate-product-description trash available all over the web.

[thetmz]

I'd say the content is kinda specific and unique. Only it's a problem that it doesn't have a brand. Ok i got your point.

To make it ontopic - here is another question.
What's the better link structure for better serps:
something / other / product - green - sweat - big - tasty . html
or
something / 20060810 / green.html

Or it's the same?

Thanks

[vite_rts]

Hi lexur,

What tool would you use to check that the reciprocal link had been made?