Over the past few days I have started the active promotion of some of the sites I am working on.

One of the things this involves is experimenting with traffic exchanges. For those who haven’t come across them let me give you the run down. You submit your site to a traffic exchange, it is put in a queue and others who submit their sites will autosurf to your site before viewing the page for 10 seconds and being directed someone else(automatically). You can do the same, and each site you view gets you about half a credit. Visit two sites and you have earned a visit from someone else.

In other words it’s a great way of getting hits, but a terrible way of getting visitors. As I type this I have 5 of these autosurfers running, and obviously have not been viewing the sites on them. The reason I am doing this is to raise the number of hits my sites are getting, not because I expect anyone to take action while viewing. Why is this important? Mostly it’s not, but I have a few ideas as to how it could be, including alexa ranks, reselling pages and the like.

As it doesn’t cost me anything, I’m going to keep this going for a few days and see what happens.