Posted by Ray White on February 1, 2010 Comments (1)

Traffic exchanges can generate great traffic to your web sites. Where have you heard that before? Oh, from me. Sorry, I can’t help myself sometimes. Traffic exchanges are a magnificent venue to showcase your marketing products and services to a targeted audience. Like with all professional tools, when used correctly you get outstanding results.

So one would think that Google AdSense account holders would be all over traffic exchanges since the traffic generation is so fantastic. DON’T DO IT! Sites with Google AdSense ads are banned from traffic exchanges. Why? Well it wasn’t our idea. The traffic exchange industry decided as a whole to do that to protect your AdSense account.

If you go to Google AdSense Program Policies, scroll down the page to Traffic Sources and click on the Learn more link, you will see that sites with Google ads may not use “third-party services that generate clicks or impressions such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, autosurf and click-exchange programs.”

“Click-exchange programs” means manual traffic exchanges. If you are caught rotating AdSense ads in traffic exchanges, your Google AdSense account will be suspended, and you will be banned from ever using AdSense ads to monetize any of your web sites. We’ve seen it happen. It ain’t pretty.

So please know that traffic exchanges are NOT trying to curb your AdSense revenue when we reject your sites that display AdSense ads. We are trying to protect your AdSense account so that you can continue to monetize your web sites with Google Ads.