What is the best way to evaluate Traffic Exchanges for SFI use?

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, () Top Author Forum Guru 9/12/2012 11:57 am
Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999
That’s really a good question. You never know which particular website is best for you. The best way to evaluate traffic exchanges for SFI is to register with many of them and keep track of the results for some time. Let the experience do the talking. You may continue with few of the best ones, as you never know which one will give you the desired results (active affiliates/ movers), as these results may vary from time to time.
You may look for more information on tracking @ https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/KeyCodeTracking
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Williams Ford, Aff (Georgia, US) Top Author Forum Guru 9/12/2012 11:32 am
Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers
Thanks for asking such a great question! The best way to evaluate traffic exchanges for SFI is to determine which produce the best results. Best results would be to get affiliates that are actively involved in their SFI business. They don't have to be 'heavy hitters' just responsive! Hence, you need to quantify the metrics that you are going to track for each gateway. What metrics are important to you? Let's say that you are testing 2 sites to see which produces the most hits to our free gateway.
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, () Top Author Forum Guru 9/12/2012 5:06 pm
Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999
First of all, make sure it's a manual exchange and not an autosurf. And that there are a good amount of members who will see your ads. Also look for broken banners and urls that aren't working. This is an indication that the admin isn't doing his job or the members are just signing up and not sticking around.

Who wants to exchange ads with no one at all, right?

The next thing you can do is go right to the support link and send a support ticket and see how long and 'IF"
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, () Top Author Forum Guru 9/12/2012 11:34 am
Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999
The best way to evaluate Traffic Exchanges is through experience. You can look at TrafficHoopla.com to see which ones are voted as the best ones... but, this is not a guarantee that these specific ones will provide you with the best results. Also, it doesn't mean you will like to work with these specific ones as well. You really need to register in many of them, work them out and TRACK YOUR RESULTS. Tracking will allow you to find out which ones work best for you and you will through experience find
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Stephen Sid Lico, Aff (Philippines) Forum Guru 9/12/2012 9:49 pm
Affiliate since: 08/04/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Stephen Sid's 11 other Ask SC answers
My checklist to evaluate Traffic Exchanges would be:

1. Is it cheap or free?

2. Does it deliver good results?
Best way to check if it does is to put keycodes in your affiliate URL to know which Traffic Exchange sites have a high sign-up ratio. Rank all traffic exchanges that you tested.

3. After ranking them all by sign-ups. Check the ratio between sign-ups and movers, its better to have one active sign-up than a hundred that just clutters up your genealogy
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David Hurley, Aff (Japan) Forum Guru 9/13/2012 12:49 am
Affiliate since: 04/24/2007, Power Rank: 480 | Read David's 7 other Ask SC answers
The best way to evaluate traffic exchanges is to use a tracker. I personally use TEToolbox.com. It shows me what percentage of my TE Credits actually result in people taking action on my page.
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Vijay Majethia, Aff (India) Top Author Forum Guru 9/12/2012 12:12 pm
Affiliate since: 04/29/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Vijay's 61 other Ask SC answers
There are many Traffic exchange sites, some of them can be found from the answer in "ASK SC" and register there and have a watch on the best performing sites. At first the result might be negligible but as the time passes, you may get results from some sites and you can mark them as "THE BEST" to use for SFI.
Hope this helps.
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Dhaval Majethia, Aff (India) Top Author Forum Guru 9/12/2012 12:22 pm
Affiliate since: 04/15/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Dhaval's 41 other Ask SC answers
I've given a list of Traffic exchange sites which allow to post classifieds at free of cost or very few charge at the question "How can I find good sites for free or low-cost classified ads? " in the "ASK SC". You can get registered to some or all the sites in the list and monitor the performance for a week and mark the top performing one as the best and focus placing your ads and have a taste of success.
Go for it. Hope for the best.
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Trameka Peterson, Aff (North carolina, US) Top Author Forum Guru 9/13/2012 8:41 am
Affiliate since: 05/09/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Trameka's 31 other Ask SC answers
The best way to evaluate Traffic Exchanges for SFI is to set up an SFI advertising co-op for each Traffic Exchange. Use the co-op URL instead of the gateway URL for the Destination URL when adding your banners or SFI site URL to the Traffic Exchanges. Using the Hit Tracking feature and the number of signups you receive from each Traffic Exchange will help you determine which Traffic Exchanges are worth your time. You may even decide to upgrade at a Traffic Exchange that provides you with good results.
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Richard Burger, Aff (Florida, US) Top Author Forum Guru 9/13/2012 12:50 am
Affiliate since: 07/02/1999, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Richard's 132 other Ask SC answers
I only have used one over the pass 13 years in sfi and it has over 55 million people on it so as you can see it has way more on it than sfi has so I am happy with it and if you want it send me a email at [email protected] put in subject sfi member wants exchange.
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