Is there value in a blog traffic exchange?

September 27th, 2009 Kevin Quinlan

There are many tools out there to help increase blog traffic such as blog explosion or blog soldiers. These tools work by creating a blog traffic exchange where you view a blog and in return you earn a credit. These credits are cashed in when someone else joins and views blogs. Each credit counts toward one blog traffic exchange.

In theory this is a great idea to get traffic to your blog but in reality I have found them of little value in my own experience. The reason I say this is that as a blogger I joined a few of them early on to get traffic and people reading my blog but I never really read other blogs I simply waited for the time to go by to earn credits. I am sure the other participants of the blog traffic exchange program was doing the same thing. So what in the end did this get me. It got me a one time increase in my blog traffic but since the reader didn’t really read anything on the blog in the long run it was useless.

Every now and again maybe a reader would come along and actually read the articles, maybe even leave a comment but on a whole I think blog traffic exchange programs add little value to long term success as a blogger. Perhaps when you are a new blogger it is good to get the exposure but don’t spend too much time on it. Spend your time getting backlinks to your blog or writing articles for article directories. These are much more valuable in the long run.

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Is there value in a blog traffic exchange?

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