Downline Builders + Traffic Exchanges = Mediocre Marketing Plan for New Internet Marketers

Well with all of the recent conversations going on in the online make money niche I have recently caught flack from one of the more successful traffic exchange owners Jon Olsen and feel that I need to clear up my position on using traffic exchanges to make money online. The “flack” does not have negative connotations at all and I understand Mr. Olsen’s defense of the traffic exchange industry. Traffic Exchanges have made him a successful online marketer and my hat is off to him.

I too am a full time Internet Marketer, but my business is different from his. I use search engines to drive traffic to websites that display affiliate offers outside of the Make Money Niche. I don’t sell make money products as my primary business, for now. Yes in the very near future I will be jumping back into the Make Money Niche to market products and services to Internet Marketers desiring to learn to make money outside and inside the Make Money Online Niche. Personally, I did not feel I was ready to carry that message until I was really making a full time income online.

Traffic exchanges do provide a cheap form of advertising for people to build a list. Downline builders also will help people to build a downline in traffic exchanges and with all of the recent hoopla about downline integrity and the launch of the Downline Integrity Brigade I am sure that there has been a recent spike in activity in both venues.

I think that traffic exchanges do provide a good way for you to carry your message to the make money online niche. If you are already making money. It boils down to credibility. Why would a successful online marketer wish to get on Susie newbies list? Then again why would a successful online marketer even be surfing a traffic exchange? The time value versus credits earned negate each other.

Traffic exchanges are a good place to bring people onto a list if you have something to offer them. If you are just pushing a downline builder program or affiliate urls it is a poor marketing strategy. While over time it may bring benefit if done consistently for a long period of time. But at what cost? Time is money and spending several hours a day surfing traffic exchanges is counter productive unless you have a genuine message to carry with limited resources.

Traffic exchanges are an advertising medium for internet marketers, they are a tool in your box. To concentrate on using them to drive signups in a downline builder program is counter productive if that is the only reason you are using them. You may over time build huge traffic exchange downlines and referrals to a downline builder program. Neither should be your primary business unless you own the program.

Yes traffic exchanges do serve a purpose but clicking for credits for newbie internet marketers is like a rat running in a wheel.

In my opinion a newbie internet marketer is better off to spend the time that they would spend clicking traffic exchanges networking, learning how to make money online, developing a product or service, creating content and looking for a primary niche outside of the make money online niche. Steering clear of programs that spout downline integrity is probably not a bad idea either, but that is a story for another day..