Traffic exchanges are business-to-business opt-in "clubs" where you look at members web pages and they look at yours. If you have DSL, Cable, or any other type of high speed connection and don't have a lot of money for advertising, traffic exchanges are a must. They will also work with dial-up connections.

There are two types of traffic exchange pages: those that allow you to automatically have the pages change in the web browser (called "autosurf") and those that require you to click on a top banner-like control to change pages (these are called "manual"). Obviously, to prevent repetitive stress injury, you might want a mix of both. If you have a web host that charges you for bandwidth, you might join these autosurf sites in increments to see just how much you might be charged month-to-month.

Almost every traffic exchange will give you 1000, 5000, or even 10,000 or more free hits just for signing up. The ones that promise more often don't work. Manual traffic exchanges do not give away as many free hits as the automatic ones. Many exchanges give you a daily bonus in free hits just for signing up. This list here is very important because you will find many large lists of traffic exchanges on the Internet which contain many exchanges that no longer work. This list is dated and all the lists on this site work (except in the ones that we are currently about to phase out at the very bottom of the page).

Our philosophy with traffic exchanges is the same as with our approved safelists -- if we found the system could not set me up or log us in properly, after three tries we dropped the service. It's faster to sign up to new services by cutting and pasting your information from a text file that you multitask with than it is wondering if these sites really work or not. After signing up with over a hundred of these kinds of sites, we have seen all kinds of bad behavior on parts of owners. We are putting the ones here that have not done any of that. You also don't want to have too many of the autosurf ones going to your web page if the web server your web host uses can't handle the traffic. This would mean that your pages would load slow for hits by customers who might be coming to your site from a search engine or other market segment targeted methods. From what we've seen, traffic exchanges are the free Internet marketing resource where one has to be especially careful one doesn't waste time on a bad site. We have had to stop using about five sites that were really bogus. One way of telling if a site is fraudulent is if they keep showing the same sites over and over again. This means there is little chance that they are showing their members pages.

Many traffic exchange programs will give you free hits when you sign up but usually those will not be given until you surf a certain amount of pages, which should be a small number, like 25 or at the most 50. Even if the exchange does not state this, if you don't surf and return to the site in two weeks or so you will see you will still have a large amount of free hit credits left. Surf and those should be used for your site. You also usually have to "allocate" credits from your hit "bank" to your web page.

Most traffic exchanges are also banner exchanges, in that they allow you to upload a banner for your website and then will show the banner on the website while people surf.

Traffic exchanges get you into international turf easier than safelists. Some we've seen display web pages in European or Asian languages which makes me realize that there are probably traffic exchanges in most larger countries and language groups. There could actually be traffic exchanges for specific types of sites, like music websites, much like the way Web Rings operate, but I do not see anyone implementing this idea.

About what you'll see on traffic exchanges: a lot of what you will see are actually scams. Many other pages on traffic exchanges are legitimate free marketing programs. Sometimes, you'll see an artist's website or an authors, or any number of people or associations looking for free marketing that might have charitable, altruistic or educational purposes for their sites.

This is a good page to bookmark or add to your favorites if you want to continue to log in to them. You will be able to get to the join sections now, or login by going back to the home page link by only showing the domain name in the top URL bar of your webbrowser.

Once you have an account, you can come back here to log into several of your accounts. You may have to go back to the login prompt at the home page (the .com page you can find by backspacing up in the URL bar).

We do not recommend anyone using Traffic Exchanges without some skill in getting rid of spyware. You absolutely need to use a spyware/adware checker as well as a virus checker when you use these accounts. The only two that we've used with consistant success are the freeware Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy . All other checkers we've tested, including AOL and Microsoft ones, are inferior. Most of the others are actually themselves spyware. The AOL spyware checker actually did not find over 90% of the spyware the other programs found. Good freeware virus checkers are Avast and AVG. They are completely free and update themselves automatically. Several trojans have been spotted on these sites, and while they can be a great way to market and communicate your ideas to the world, like anywhere else, there are unscrupulous characters who spread these kinds of problems.

The Best Manual Surf Traffic Exchanges

I have put the top fifteen or so below in order roughly from those that give you the most back for your effort. The rest of the sites are not in any order.

HitSafari -- One of the bigger and older manual surf traffic exchanges.
AdlandPro -- One of the biggest and oldest online marketing communities.
Traffic Roundup -- One of the oldest and most respect manual traffic exchange.
Webcentresurf -- This is a major traffic exchange that has many games to win credits and is very international.
Clicks for Education -- A nice new manual surf traffic exchange. Lot's of additional programs, information and features here.
Surf for the Earth -- One of the surfs that gives you the most for referrals. A nice newer manual surf traffic exchange.
Rainforest Clicks -- One of the surfs that gives you the most for referrals. A nice new manual surf traffic exchange.
Magnify Traffic Manual Surf -- You get one hit for your site for one surf that you do. Most other sites give you a fractional amount. Also gives free members a commission when others upgrade.
Pulse Clicks -- Gives you free hits upon signing up. Requires you to surf ten sites a week to stay active.
4ProfitHits Manual Surf -- A nice traffic exchange that gives you 50 free hits every month for just logging in.
TopSurfer -- One of the biggest member sites. This one has a little chat room feature while you earn credits, or you can play games like bingo for credits.
Soaring4Traffic Manual surf -- A high quality site that gives you great benefits if you bring in referrals to their website.
Click Voyager Manual Surf -- A nice new manual surf traffic exchange.
Hit Magik Manual Surf -- This one has a great game of hangman you can play while you surf that gives you extra points. A nice new manual surf traffic exchange.
Emerald Clicks Manual surf -- A great new site.
Traffic Muscles Manual surf -- A great new site.
Flaming Fast Hits Manual surf -- A great new site.
Lord of Traffic Manual Exchange -- A new concept in a manual surf in which you don't have to click, just hover the mouse over the next image. Prevents tired wrists.
Surf 100 Sites Manual Surf -- One of a family of new sites of manual surf traffic exchanges.
Royal Surf -- A nice new manual surf traffic exchange.
Max Traffic Pro Hits -- A nice new manual surf traffic exchange.
Rodeo Hits Manual Surf -- A good traffic exchange that pays you well for surfing and bringing in referrals.
WebBizInsider -- One of the oldest and most frequented traffic exchanges. Must surf a certain number each month to stay active.
Startxchange -- Has 26,000 members. One of the oldest and most frequented traffic exchanges.
Funny Farm Traffic -- A manual surf traffic exchange with a comedy theme. This traffic exchanges is one of the oldest running.
Hitgusher -- A nice surf that requires you to surf a few sites every ten days to have your site stay active.
Bart Surf -- A new Bart Simpson Traffic Exchange. Do Homer and Marge know about this?
Traffic Heroes Manual surf
Blue-Surf Manual surf Their surf credit to banner ratio is very high.
Generalen Traffic Empire Manual surf
Firestorm Hits Manual surf -- A nice traffic exchange with attractive graphics.
Traffic Bunnies Manual surf -- A huge site with chatting online while you surf and other features.
Lords of Traffic Manual surf -- A nice traffic exchange that offers the hover technology so one doesn't have to click.
Advertising Knowhow Manual surf -- The webmaster here does a Web 2.0 blog.
Pooh Bear Surf -- A nice looking, very professional manual surf traffic exchange.
Presidential Surf Traffic Autosurf -- A good manual Traffic Exchange we are just starting to test.
Traffic Echoes Traffic Autosurf -- A good Traffic Exchange we are just starting to test.
Manual Surf Wizard Traffic Autosurf -- A good Traffic Exchange we are just starting to test.
Hit Pirates Manual Traffic Autosurf -- A good Traffic Exchange we are starting to test.
Savvy Clicks Manual Surf -- A nice new manual surf traffic exchange.
I Love Hits Manual surf -- This site has been around for about three years.
WebMasterQuest -- A well established, very professional manual surf traffic exchange.
Dollar Trex -- A new manual surf traffic exchange.
Emarket Traffic -- A new manual surf traffic exchange.
Traffic Pods -- This one shows the creativity of the exchange owner/creator. One of the older manual surf traffic exchanges.
Beach Party Surf Traffic Exchange -- A manual surf traffic exchange with a beach party theme.
Flaming Fast Hits Manual surf -- A generous surf. Having good results with them.
TrafficG -- One of the older and larger manual exchanges.
ViralClassAds -- This and the next three are a family of sites.
LemmingRun -- Each one of these four have many free points given for doing a certain amount of clicks.
Clickaholics -- They are among the biggest advertised traffic exchanges.
Gaming House Hits Manual Surf -- Has games associated with it that you can play for free.
Viral Visitors -- They also have some of the best graphics.
Big Ben Hits Manual Traffic Autosurf -- A good Traffic Exchange that has very generous contests. (Site may go down due to health of owner).
Trafficswarm -- Has a different manual surf process than the other and can be more interesting. Heavily promoted.
Share-Traffic -- Has a poker game where you earn free credits that comes up from time to time.
EternalHits
Web-biz-solutions -- This one is a little hard to see how it converts credits to page hits.
Bionic Hits -- one of the older and more stable manual traffic exchanges.
Global Hits Autohits -- You have to surf 20 sites a week for this one. A Traffic Exchange we are just starting to test.
FastFreeway -- One of the older manual surfs.
Teddy Bear Traffic A newer site we are testing.
Viral Express
Hit Vortex
Traffic at the Races Manual Surf -- A nice new manual surf traffic exchange that gives you little animated horse races every ten sites you surf.
Traffic Tornado Manual surf
Majestic Hits Manual surf -- Also gives away free credits just for starting to surf.
Traffict Troll Traffic -- This site often sends out emails with free credit linkes.
Fast Easy Traffic Manual surf -- Has big contests in which it gives away money and other prizes.
Mystical Maze -- Uses a system of mazes for ocassional bonus points.
Pro Hits Plus
Traffic Planets Manual Surf -- Does not give referral based bonuses, and does not look like it's even given any free credits at joining.
Dragon Surf -- Does not give referral based bonuses for free members who make referrals. Almost every other traffic exchange does.
Dragon's Surf Gold -- A different site than the one above.
Genie-traffic Manual Traffic Autosurf -- A good Traffic Exchange we are just starting to test.
Traffic Splash -- Another site that doesn't give very much for your efforts. Perhaps they want you to surf often. Does have good contests.
Crazy Traffic Surf -- A large manual surf traffic exchange. This site sends out emails with free credit linkes.
Gladiator Hits
Traffic Exchange Twist
Blue Surf -- A nice new manual surf traffic exchange.
24 7 Traffic Pro Manual Surf -- Another new manual surf traffic exchange that does not give you very much for referring people if you have a free account.
Manic Hits -- They require a large amount of surfing for your site to be seen. A Traffic Exchange we are just starting to test.
Fontoon
HitPulse -- A well designed site that has been around for over four years.
Trafficwonderland -- Another interesting new traffic exchange.
NY City Exchange --
Surf and Text Exchange -- This surf's owner creates a lot of contests to build up membership to his sites.
Traffic Dynamite
Explosive Surf -- Has a funny little character whose head explodes and gives you more points.
High on hits --
Lots More Hits
Clickin Fingers
Jacktenforty

The Best Auto Surf Traffic Exchanges

Downgraded Sites: These sites may show porn (supposedly by accident), only rotate a few listings, forget your login details, or are just otherwise less high quality than the ones above. It's ok to support sites that only have a few listings if you want to do that for a reason, otherwise, it means that only a few people are seeing your website.

Hit Buddies Autosurf -- Doesn't seem to be much here.
Lighthouse Hits -- This one has not even validated sites yet. A Traffic Exchange we are just starting to test.
Super Fast Hits -- A good Traffic Exchange we have used for over a year without any problem.
True-Blue Manual Traffic -- Does not work properly -- icons don't match at times when you surf. Need to manually surf many pages to stay active.

Autosurfs that have gone down recently.

It is important to have a section like this because a user can waste much time signing up for a site that is no longer operational. Some of these site owners do not bother to take their sites down, but will let people sign up, set up sites and so on. Instead of list them on here, which might have some sign up to them who aren't reading carefully, we've taken them off over time.

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These are the same as autosurfs; you use them to gain exposure for your website, they are not recommended to earn money from. Probably all of the paid autosurfs as we knew them were Ponzi schemes that relied on other Ponzi schemes. There were the administrators who knew they were setting up Ponzi schemes, and the ones who didn't but relied on administrators who they thought were investors. (Actually, a later note added about two years after the fall of the major paid-to-surf autosurfs: there are still many out there just like before, so this information is important. Do not give any of these sites any money).

The definition of a paid autosurf is an autosurf that gives you a percentage on an amount of money for every day you surf. Some of these were free, that is, they gave you $10 in a "bank" to start with, and then paid you a percentage for each day you surfed a number of pages. Your websites would also get seen for the number of credits you surfed. But then in time the $10 would disappear because it was only given for 60 days or something like that. They then wanted you to pay them to keep your website going on their site. The fact is, the paid autosurf idea could be a good idea as an advertising incentive only, that is, an incentive to autosurf everyday, not as a get rich quick scheme, which it is clearly portrayed as, nor is it good as any kind of "investing" scheme. If you want to learn about investing, go to our links page below for many links to free online investing audio websites.

Do not give any of these sites any money. There is too much fraud involved with the paid autosurf industry as a whole even if they are allowed to run their sites outside the U.S.A. You can join a few of them for free website exposure. The SEC closed them all down in the U.S. The ones that are still operating are therefore not regulated. Do not believe any of the "Autosurf Watch" websites that supposedly regulate them.

Literally, hundreds of these sites have come and gone over the last two years. We did not lose any significant money by upgrading any accounts -- the accounts were very long duration which means that one could get comissions and additional benfits by paying only $5 or $10 for a year. This model should be followed. If the administrators want to invest to support this, that's fine. But it should all follow the one-level commission model and not the high interest model. Whatever amount of normal affiliate commission the administrator pays can be bettered by their personal investments behind the scenes, but they do not need to run these traffic exchanges as investment clubs.

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