I finally thought someone finally created the ultimate free traffic link exchange. Boy was I wrong!

The eye candy Spottt website has a cute adorable puppy that no webmaster could ignore until you bring it home and it starts barking viciously at you!

What exactly do I mean? Everyday I would log into this blog to see how things were going and to my horror Spottt would be running completely irrelevant banners. Then it clicked - if my website is showing irrelevant banners then my banner must be appearing on a completely irrelevant websites generating very low clicks.

So I dashed over to my Spottt account and to my horror found that I had 7 measly clicks for the over 10,000 page views I have generated for them. I do not even want to take the time to figure out the click-through rate on that but I know it ain’t gonna look pretty.

Part of this blog’s purpose is to show the readers what does and does not work in terms of bringing quality traffic. At this point Spottt does not bring any traffic let alone quality traffic. But - who knows this could always change!

Until then Spottt is in the dog house!

Came across this video today on Tech Crunch. The post itself is a few days old. I had a strikingly similar idea a few years ago but did not take the proper steps to execute the idea. I did how ever send a synopsis to a Marketing Experiments Back-of-a-Napkin Business Plan contest and was one of the finalists.

You may notice on the right of this blog I have added two non-profit widgets to help bring in some traffic to this website.

The widgets are Entrecard and Spottt. These two widgets were not apart of my marketing strategy but some other bloggers were mentioning the amounts of traffic they were getting. I was intrigued so I signed up! I am starting to see a  surge of traffic from Entrecard. Not from Spottt yet because they need to approve this website.

Unfortunately the traffic from Entrecard is questionable. My statistics are showing very low readership and time spent on the website but that is besides the point. I am getting “free” traffic and even if any of those visitors convert it is worth it. Plus I earn credits which I can use to get an advertisements on websites like JohnChow and ProBlogger.