The world of traffic exchanges have evolved to levels I never thought I would see in my lifetime. You know the Internet isn’t even 20 years old yet and I would guess using traffic exchanges, for a way of advertising, is probably half of that age. I do realize the Net has been around since the 1950′s, but people like you and me have only had access to it for about the last 20 years. During this time someone had a great idea of developing a thing called a traffic exchange. A place where you surf through other people’s websites; while you earn advertising credits to show your own website. This creates more visitors to your website and gives you the chance to establish more followers, customers, or just interest in your website.

The first ever traffic exchange was called Click Thru and they are still in business today. They have been going strong for more than 10 years now and have made a few changes along the way. Now there are about 100 good traffic exchanges that exist online today. I’m sure 1000′s of them exist, but really there is only about 100 good traffic exchanges that will help someone with their small business advertising or picking up new traffic to their sites.

I think the best traffic exchange online today is EasyHits4U. You can get as much traffic as you want here (pretty much) since they do have over 160,000 members in their system. They also offer you cash for surfing every 1000 websites and with a low cash out amount of $3, you don’t have to wait long to see the cash show up in your Pay Pal or Alert Pay accounts. They are a honest paying website too, so you don’t have to worry about not getting paid. Building up your downline at Easy Hits 4U is wise too, so you can get a percentage of all the pages your referrals surf for you. If you haven’t joined EasyHits yet, you really should add this to your arsenal of online weapons you use to generate more traffic and visitors to your websites.

Logiscape’s new website called Hitsilo is getting a lot of attention right now, but the feelings seem to be mixed if this will be a winner or not. I really like the TS 25 and Trafficera websites that Logiscape has created over the years. Traffic Pods is another good TE that people like a lot and it remains to be seen if Hit Silo will be as good as a Traffic Syndicate 25 or not. Logiscape Technologies is a big heavy weight in the traffic exchange industry and they have helped to get us to many of the advancements we see today.

Another good way to take advantage of traffic exchanges is by becoming a member of the Elite Surf Club. This is a system built around 3 manual traffic exchanges and if you surf 50, 100, or 250 websites in 4 days out of the week at each one; then you have the chance to win some really cool prizes. They even give out $50 at each traffic exchange each month, so you could win $150 one month for simply surfing and advertising your websites here. I highly recommend all serious advertisers online today to join the Elite Surf Club. It is completely free to join and you may already be members at some of the 3 TE’s that participate in this special surfers club. This is a great example of how the traffic exchange industry has evolved today and we see lots of traffic exchange owners working with each other, so they can attract as many new members as possible.

Don’t forget to use the auto traffic exchanges too and this traffic is good for higher search engine listings. You can pick up more sign ups and referrals from the manual traffic exchanges, but you need 1 or 2 good auto surf traffic exchanges to maximize your efforts of promoting and advertising online. It should be interesting to see where the next 10 years of traffic exchange technology goes and if EasyHits 4U is still my favorite TE a decade later.