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linked page. A click-exchange site operates in a rather simple fashion. Upon
creating an account, the user is able to surf the sites of other members
(via an online search engine, portal, or browser plug-in), earning a
credit for each site at which they spend more than thirty seconds. In this
case, each credit is good for one thirty-second visit to your site by
another member.
By their logic, you're earning 120 visitors to your site per hour. One
author even advocates signing up for multiple networks at a time, enabling
the user to earn even more visitors ("Open up four browser windows and log
into each network and begin surfing. While one counter is counting down,
switch to a different window and start the counter there. By the time you
get all for started, you first one will be nearly finished"... "In this
way you'll be able to capture 400-500 visitors to your site in an hour!").
With this kind of abuse going on, the question arises: What kind of
visitor are you really getting?
The odds are pretty good that the other members of the click-exchange
network are about as interested in seeing your site as you are in seeing
theirs. Rather than a useful destination or answer to a question, your
site becomes another obstacle to the visitor. Also, consider that the
visitor is probably working on developing his own business (and therefore
not looking for a job) or being paid to perform menial tasks like
developing traffic through click-exchange networks (and therefore a
gainfully-employed drudge of questionable competence and motivation, and
not nearly an ideal potential candidate).
The only possible way that this method of traffic development could
produce a paying customer would be if the registered business
owner/website traffic developer were willing to shuck out the dough to a
job board or recruiter in order to find a drudge of questionable
competence and motivation to perform the menial task of surfing the sites
listed on the click-exchange.
All in all, the amount of time required to develop and maintain a flow
of visitors to your site through a click-exchange network is money better
spent on real marketing efforts. Visitors are one thing - but paying
customers are entirely different.
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