Traffic Trades and Getting accepted

[Stephan]

Ive signed up, but dont get any activation there end. Ive given 15 credits just to show I can send traffic, but 3/4 have not activated the trade.

This is normal if you just start trading, it’s happen to all of us.
After my first trade site I found out what sites approve quick and not. Now If I setup a new site I just signup on sites I know they will approve and I don’t lose my traffic. After you trade more per day the signups come to you, you just need to show a link in your forum signature with the info you looking for trade partners. Look at the sniperflashgames.com stats 85 trade sites, I signup maybe 20 – 25 the rest came to me.

[lfhost]

I know its quite normal as I used to do it actively with my other sites.

I just find it annoying lol, it would be good if there was an email sent if they deny the trade so I can move on and not give a link back, even if its through an out.php link.

Im thinking of just giving 5 credits to new trades I setup, so I dont lose so much.

Ive seen one or two signups through being found on other sites, but cant find alot that do alot in the driving niche, or they are way to big and dont accept or want small new sites.

Which is why I started with a few select trades and built up some traffic to the site.

It helped having the adwords voucher come through lol, so I know theres top tier traffic coming through.

Just want more bang for the buck without wasting it,

[Stephan]

You trade with this one?
racing-games.com/linkstats

They always approve and send a lot back

[lfhost]

Hey,

I thought I had as I recognise the script/trade page style, but I dont seem to have them, but have added them now.

Thanks

[gubugnet]

OK look at the guys who you have traded with before and write them letting them know that you are going to push some traffic to your site and you want to trade. This will help U get leverage on your ad budget and remove signing up on many sites without getting anything back. Now this is not automation but it is rather leveraging the networking you have already done + another good idea is to mention other sites in your network on all your signup success pages ( I am not doing this yet ) but I will start as soon as we update the sites. Again not really automation but it leverages that 1 guy who signed up at one of your sites into MAYBE 1 guy that signs up at 2- 3 of your sites.

Also when you start the site by first trading with the top guys who have networked with you before then you will build numbers faster and success breeds success. This is what playhub used to do after building a network of friends on meltgames. This is what guys in MLM used to and still do ( they start the network at the top with guys they know will work with them ) and then success breeds success even outside of arcades I have done that many times back in my old MLM affiliate marketing days. I know you have heard the money is in the list and that is true so you make a list like santa of who is naughty and who is nice.

This is what I do before even setting up an adwords campaign. I will be setting up my site and getting a network of partners together who are willing to work with me. You dont need a large variety of guys just a few good men like the marines LOL and this will help out. You see without the large variety of guys you are not running all over trying to get plugs for a bunch of different sites instead you are trading with sites on games that you already know they have. Again not automation but leverage that is sometimes overlooked and nothing special just a good fundamental part of doing any business.

[lfhost]

Heya,

On my older sites, alot of the trades I setup were added manually so I dont have all there email addresses, others have been sold off.

So other than the new people I network with, I dont really have many to invite, but I will look into doing that with ones I do know/have contact data for. Good idea.

Adding other sites on the trade signup page is a good idea to, think I will write an addition to my backend to manage this (or modify/duplicate the link management system).
That way its not hardcoded on every template.

Ive also just noticed, sites I thought had sent an initial hit had accepted the trade, but found it was just the admin checking the site, but not approved the trade.