Is there such a thing as a "clean" traffic exchange? Yes, actually there is and hopefully you'll find these tips useful in generating more traffic for your blog.

Note that I'm not going to cover banner and link exchanges.

There are plenty of traffic exchanges all over the internet. Most are junk and aren't worth the time to sign up for. Lets start by covering the types of traffic exchanges floating around.

First is the AutoClick style. These are perhaps the worst of them all. You sit in front of your monitor from 15 seconds to 30 seconds looking at worthless "get rich quick" trash sites all offering the "holy grail" of traffic generating techniques. These sites do absolutely nothing except rip you off, ruin your page rank, drive your bounce rate sky high, and drive most, if not all, advertisers away from your blog.

AutoClick exchanges are the trash of the trash and should be avoided at all costs.

Second is the Manual Click sites. These site work just like the AutoClick ones, with the exception that you have to click on a number or picture to get credit. Manual click exchanges are just as bad as AutoClick, but requires you to participate in them ripping you off.

The third type of exchange, if this can even be called an exchange, is more passive. This type really doesn't have a name or classification because it doesn't fit the standard exchange definition. Its not incentive based as the first two, its not blog owner driven (you don't spend hours clicking or watch worthless sites rotate) but rather visitor driven, and there are quite a few of them.

These are the ones that could be considered "clean". Here's a few of these clean exchanges.

Twitter, Facebook's Network Places, BlogCatalog, Blog Top List, Top Of Blogs, BlogFlux, Bloggernity, Loaded Web, and "Along for the Ride". These are an excellent, but slow, way to build traffic.

You'll note the most in the above list I gave are directories. The thing that make each of these work well is they require very little work from you and they are not incentive based (you have no reason to visit a link unless you WANT to). Yet, they are, by definition, considered traffic exchanges. If you were to put a name to these, it would most likely be the "non-incentive exchanges".

Every social networking site fits into this third category and I know of 131 of them. The list will be at the bottom of this post.

There are a lot of ways to generate clean traffic through exchanges. Also, bare in mind that not every exchange will work well for every person.

The only way to know what will and won't work for you is to try them. Here are a few thing to look for though:

1. Transparency. This is important. Look for a members list or a public directory. This is a good example of the type of traffic you could get.

2. Make sure they explain how they work.

3. Make sure their rules are public. Any site that requires you to sign up BEFORE they show you the rules is not playing on the level and will most likely be slanted in THEIR favor, not your.

4. Above all, always use the free services to evaluate performance. Any site that requires you to pay first without having any idea how well they work is a scam.

That's really it, simple and to the point.

Have fun exploring this list:

de.lirio.us/
del.icio.us/
ma.gnolia.com
spurl.net
tr.im/AlongForTheRide-traffic
www.backflip.com
www.barksbookmarks.com
www.bibsonomy.org/
www.blinklist.com
www.blipoo.com
www.blogbookmark.com/
www.bluedot.us
www.blurpalicious.com
www.bmaccess.net/
www.Bookkit.com
www.bookmark-manager.com
www.bookmarkall.com
www.bookmarktracker.com
www.Bookmax.net
www.buddymarks.com
www.bukmark.net
www.chipmark.com
www.citeulike.org
www.claimid.com
www.clipclip.org
www.cloudytags.com
www.complore.com
www.connectedy.com
www.connotea.org
www.contentpop.com
www.corank.com
www.crowdfound.com
www.digg.com
www.diigo.com
www.dropjack.com
www.easybm.com
www.enroll.in
www.ez4u.net
www.facebook.com
www.favoor.com/
www.folkd.com
www.freelink.org
www.freezilla.co.uk
www.fungow.com
www.furl.net/learnMore.jsp
www.gather.com/
www.getboo.com
www.google.com
www.hanzoweb.com
www.hyperlinkomatic.com/
www.icio.de
www.ikeepbookmarks.com/
www.iloggo.pl
www.jigg.in
www.kaboodle.com
www.kinja.com
www.lifelogger.com
www.lilisto.com/
www.linkagogo.com
www.linkarena.com
www.linksnarf.com
www.listerlister.com
www.markaboo.com
www.marktd.com
www.memfrag.com
www.memotoo.com
www.mister-wong.com
www.mixx.com
www.mobleo.net/
www.multiply.com/
www.murl.com
www.mybookmarks.com
www.myhq.com
www.mylinkvault.com
www.mysitevote.com
www.myspace.com
www.myvmarks.com
www.mywebdesktop.net
www.newsvine.com
www.newsweight.com
www.oyax.com
www.philoi.com/
www.plugim.com
www.propeller.com
www.quickieclick.com
www.rambhai.com
www.rawsugar.com
www.reddit.com
www.searchles.com/
www.segnalo.it
www.simpy.com
www.sitebar.org/
www.sitejot.com/
www.sk-rt.com/
www.slashdot.org/
www.socialdanger.com
www.socialogs.com/
www.sphinn.com
www.spotback.com
www.squidoo.com
www.startaid.com/
www.stumbleupon.com
www.stylehive.com
www.syncone.net
www.tagfacts.com
www.taggly.com
www.tagne.ws/
www.tagtooga.com
www.tagza.com/
www.technorati.com
www.tedigo.net
www.thinkpocket.com/
www.thoof.com/
www.totalpad.com
www.twitter.com
www.urlex.info
www.uvouch.com
www.voteboat.com
www.votelists.com
www.vuju.com
www.wetogether.info
www.whitelinks.com/
www.wink.com
www.wirefan.com
www.xilinus.com
www.xlmark.com
www.yattle.com
www.zlitt.com
www.zurpy.com

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