A traffic exchange normally works by you clicking on a button or image, which then displays a web site in a browser window.

You are credited with the ‘hit' and you then have to wait an average of 15 seconds or 30 seconds before you can view again, earning another hit.

Earning two or even four hits a minute is a slow way to build up the necessary ‘hits' to get the exchange to send you traffic in return, because not all of them give you a 1:1 return. Most give you a 1:2 return, meaning for every two times you view a site, you get one return view back.

Here is the most intelligent method of maximizing those unproductive seconds between views.

Use a Traffic Exchange launcher, which at the click of a button, launches a number of separate browser windows instaneously. Ten exchange windows is a good number and shouldn't slow your browser down. You then R/Click on the taskbar and click on ‘Cascade Windows' to have all the open windows listed across the screen.

This allows you to immediately click on one exchange to score a hit, then ‘minimise' that window, and then move on and click on the next traffic exchange afterwards.

By doing this you earn 10 hits in a thirty second period overall, and all your open pages will finish minimised in the taskbar. All you do is R/Click the taskbar icon and again select ‘Cascade Windows' and do it all over again.

It won't take long to generate 1000 traffic hits using this method, but you will have to spend about an hour joining at least 10 exchange sites and entering your site URL into each exchange. Each exchange will do its best to persuade you to upgrade to more traffic for around $100 a year, you just have to be ready to resist that temptation. You are there for free traffic, not to spend several hundred dollars, or to become distracted and read too many of the sites.

It's not necessary to actually use a Traffic Exchanger launcher. You could for example list all the login or start pages in the browsers ‘Favourites' and open each window separately in a new tabbed browser window, and then cascade the open windows from there.

Personally I like the one click does all method of the launcher, and it does save a couple of minutes waiting for all the pages to load.

For those people interested in driving traffic to a new web site, or to a squeeze page to build a list, this is a good way to make a start.