LinkReferral is a large directory of websites plus a traffic exchange. Wait, it’s not like any other traffic exchanges which are auto surf or manual surf and open websites in a frame. LinkReferral is different. You can visit other member’s sites, review them, and others will do the same in return. You can browse up to 30 websites, review up to 5 sites and post once in the forum per day to earn credits. Alternatively, you can pay a fee of $30 a month to get listed without having to do the reviews. So far, by only browsing around 20-30 websites a day (and not reviewing any websites or having referrals or posting in forums), I get around 10-20 hits to this blog every day.
Different forms of traffic that you receive from LinkReferral are:-
1) Members directory traffic – Your site gets listed in LinkReferral’s directory, and that way when other users browse the directory to actuallyincrease traffic to their websites, you get traffic.
2) Referral based traffic – 5 levels of referrals can be created, which means potentially 10,000s of visitors/day all viewing your link.
3) Search engine traffic – By registering, you’ll benefit several ways, including,
- having your webpage listing indexed more quickly – Major search engines continuously spider LinkReferral’s directory.
- Improved search engine rankings and SEO optimization.
4) LinkReferral forums traffic – By participating in their forums, you earn credits as well as build relationships, both help in increasing traffic.
The Downside:
First downside of LinkReferral and a big one is LinkReferral can get you banned from Google Adsense. Yes, you read it right. I personally think Google will ban you if you use Adsense and LinkReferral together as it violates Google Adsense TOS. If you are using LinkReferral and Adsense, odds are you are a newbie trying to make money online. So newbies, I tell you this, just putting Google Adsense Ads on your blog/website is not going to rocket your earnings if you don’t have decent traffic. So newbies, dump Adsense for traffic, for LinkReferral to be precise. In the beginning, monetize your website with AdNetworks that allow LinkReferral. I assume other AdNetworks like BidVertiser, FairAdsNetwork etc. allow LinkReferral. And after your blog starts receiving decent traffic, gains more RSS subscribers and is more known, you can leave LinkReferral and get back to putting Adsense ads on your website.
Querblogger had the following view after getting banned by Google Adsense for using Adsense and LinkReferral together : -
At this time traffic is much more important to me than the money earned from Google Adsense. I get around 20 unique visitors each day from LinkReferral and some of them even have a deeper look at my blog. This is by far more important, because building a fellow readership will bring me more benefits for the future.Google Adsense brought me nearly nothing so far, only around $0.30 since starting this blog. I think there are definitely better advertising systems especially for blogs like Blogvertise and that kind. So I´ll keep an eye on new advertising programs like contextual ads or text link ads.I have more space for my blog posts. This will be helpful to my readers, in fact, advertisements can really be annoying sometimes.
So this is my opinion about this ban from Google Adsense. I personally want to promote LinkReferral and traffic exchanges in general anyway, they can bring you a fast start up amount on daily visits to your sites and blogs. But I’ll also warn all my readers who have integrated Google Adsense on their own blogs, be careful with those traffic exchange programs, you may risk a ban from Adsense!
So learn from Querblogger, and if you are a newbie and looking for traffic, dump Adsense and use a AdNetwork that allows LinkReferral.
Similarly, Tiberius Burciu said the following after getting banned by Google Adsense for using Adsense and LinkReferral together : -
Link Referral is a traffic exchange program, but not an autosurf site. And also, it is a web directory, were people come and list their websites, so they can get free traffic and valuable reviews from other webmasters and bloggers. But Google doesn’t like it..Fine. But when you list your blog in other web directories, such as DMOZ and you generate traffic to your blog or site, they won’t ban you. Now, I really don’t get the picture.. I mean, DMOZ is a very big web directory, where 100s and 1000s of sites are listed and which will help you get some visitors to your blog and it’s ok to be used, while LinkReferral has the same features as DMOZ, but you’ll sure get banned from Google Adsense for using it.. What’s the point? LinkReferral, a web directory; DMOZ, the same. You are banned by Google for using LR, but not for using DMOZ or other directories…
Tiberius has a point, doesn’t he?
Second downside is LinkReferral seems to have No Quality Control
It seems like any blog or site can become a member, including blatant sales pages. Although, LinkReferral states about quality control in its website, quality control does not seem to be implemented. However, don’t bother, you can pick your websites to browse and review, I have come across some really nice blogs with some great info at LinkReferral and I have gotten some RSS subscribers to my blog via LinkReferral as well.
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