by Mukunda Modell

Hello, in this article I am going to tell you about a wonderful marketing tool that you can use to drastically boost traffic to your Web site.  My method is not expensive, it will take almost no effort on your part to implement and the results can be absolutely amazing!

Here are some questions you should ask yourself:

Can you think of anything that would benefit your business more then having hundreds of Web sites marketing for you?

Getting your link placed on other Web sites has been proven to be one of the most effective traffic-generating tools available to an Internet marketer.  If you want to drastically increase the amount of traffic to your Web site, get a link to your site placed on as many other Web sites as possible!  Not only will this drive traffic to your Web site but it will help to boost your rankings in the search engines too since one of the criteria that search engines use when ranking Web sites is the number of other sites that are linked to them.  Keep reading because I am about to tell you how you can enlist hundreds or even thousands of Web sites to do your marketing for you and it will take little or no effort on your part!

What I am about to tell you is actually nothing new, in fact the biggest software company in the world is using the same technique that I am about to describe at this very moment with great success!

What is this incredible technique that you can use to get hundreds, even thousands of Web sites to link back to you and publish your ads?  It's called a banner exchange.  I am not suggesting that you go out and join 10 banner exchanges and place ads all over your Web site in with the hope that it will bring you some traffic, what I am suggesting is that you start your own banner exchange!  You will be amazed at the results that you can achieve and how easy this can be accomplished.

The idea is pretty simple.  Start a banner exchange that is targeted to specific kinds of Web sites (preferably sites that are similar to yours) and get other webmasters to place your banners on their Web sites in exchange for placing their banners into the rotation.  You can place as many banners into the rotation as you want to since it's your banner exchange.  Your banners then get displayed on your members' sites along with the banners of other members.  Underneath the banners that get displayed on your members Web sites is a text link pointing to your banner exchange, inviting other webmasters to sign up which will help your banner exchange to grow automatically.

Once your banner exchange is properly implemented and submitted to the search engines you will have a virtually limitless promotional tool at your disposal that will work automatically, 24 hours a day, to constantly drive business to your virtual doorstep and since you can sell ads on your banner exchange, you should be able to pay for all of your costs and even make a profit.  The possibilities here are absolutely amazing.

To help you get an idea of how you can use the banner exchange concept to benefit you I am going to give you a real life example.  I am the owner of a small Web site design and hosting company in the Southwest Missouri, USA and we have designed and implemented a banner exchange like I just described for one of our clients and the results have been incredible!  Since we started the 417Exchange for our client about a month ago, our client's Web site (www.search417.com) went from getting 500 hits a week to getting over 10,000 and climbing.  This incredibly effective marketing tool only cost our client $250 to set up + $30 a month for web hosting and since we did all of the work, our client was not out any effort.  Don't hesitate, if you do not take the following steps to start your own banner exchange you will be missing out on an amazing opportunity to promote your Web site and make lots of money.

There are 4 simple steps that you need to take to start your own banner exchange and they are as follows:

If I have you convinced that starting a banner exchange can really benefit you, please don't wait, do it, you have very little to lose if you do and so much to gain if your banner exchange is successful!