Surfing Rate: 1 site for 1 credit, 20 seconds each.
BlogAdvance is also one of the smaller exchanges and runs a very simple interface. No games, no frills, just surfing for credits. There is also a click for credits feature where sponsors can pay for clicks for a higher amount of credits given to users. It gets a fair amount of traffic but the number of visits to a member blog seems to be quite small given the traffic. It has the annoying feature of trying to resize the web browser from time to time. However, it is still worth putting a few credits worth of effort into this site for those distinct visitors.
Surfing Rate: 2 sites for 1 credit, 20 seconds each.
BlogAzoo is currently the smallest of the traffic exchanges but manages to still drive a respectable amount of traffic to member blogs. It's also a no frills service but does include what is called gAzoos. What that is, is a URL link that is usually left in comments of member blogs that when clicked by BlogAzoo members gives them bonus credits. It is designed to bring people to blogs for more than the minimum time and encourage reading of blogs. It is a site that deserves more traffic than it's getting.
Blog exchanges are a good way to see what other bloggers are saying and help with bloggers block. At the same time, it drives readers to your blogs. To get the best results, find blogs that you are interested in and leave comments to encourage discussion. Good use of blog exchanges can help under-appreciated blogs get the readers they deserve.
Article comments
1 - Elvira Black
Nice piece, John. One question--what about BlogClicker? Didn't that used to be a fairly big service?
2 - John Bambenek
Last few times I checked blogclicker, they were down. I assumed they've been out of operation. I've tried from a few different places... am I wrong?
3 - Tom Bailey
This is all very interesting stuff driving traffic. I never really thought it mattered if you had decent content. I have heard the traffic follows.
My blog still has quite a bit of time to go. I would appriciate any advice on improving mine.
4 - RJ Elliott
John -
I signed up for your blog exchange several months ago. I was supposed to receive 25 free credits for signing up (or something like that...I don't recall exactly).
Well, I never got those 25 free credits, but I gotta say your blog exchange is great otherwise.
I have gotten thousands of hits from Blogexplosion, which is a great service...although the site owners can take weeks to answer a simple question. Otherwise, it's wonderful.
Blogmad is okay...I obviously like their clicks-to-hits ratio, but the site itself is relatively difficult to navigate.
I haven't tried the other two you mention in this article.
Anyway, just thought I'd give you some feedback.
Best,
RJ
5 - John Bambenek
RJ-
send me a ticket from inside BS and I'll get you those credits.
6 - RJ Elliott
Thanks! :)
7 - mobile depot
Thanks for the links.
8 - IludiumPhosdex
For the record, Blogazoo was wound up over the summer, citing the unprofitability thereof.
Hence, you may want to delete Blogazoo from the list and replace such with something equally viable.
9 - Afam Uzoechina
Thanks for the hints.Its expository and informative.
Afam
10 - rjjrdq
Hmm, blogazoo.com isn't loading right now.
Blog Explosion is offline right now.
Blog advance has never sent any traffic
Blog Mad is "coming soon"
Blog Soldiers has sent a total of 4 visitors in 2 weeks.
Haven't tried Blogazoo
That's my personal experience.
11 - Mar Matthias Darin
Along for the Ride! (AFTR) is a new and innovative blog traffic exchange that works differently. Rather then being owner driven as the ones in this excellent article, AFTR is user driven. Which means no clicking or spending all day busting your backsire with little gain. Check it out, its 100% free so there is nothing to loose.
12 - Chris
BlogClickers is back up and they are the first exchange I ever used. I think that they must have gotten hurt when they went down because it's a lot of repetition and not many members.
13 - Simon
Some great links in this post, I had no idea that there were specialist blog traffic exchanges. I've just been marketing my blog in standard traffic exchanges.
Thanks
14 - Fran
Thanks, very nice article. I too hadn't given this a lot of thought. I tried to go to blogsoldier but for some reason couldn't get there, maybe you are having a 'slashdot' effect?
Will check it again later.