The Best Places to Advertise – The Numbers Don’t Lie

Happy September!

I started last month by writing a post about all sorts of paid advertising sources I was going to try out during the month of August. To read that post you can click here.  I thought I would review some of those sites today and decide where I want to spend some of my advertising dollars this month.

One of the sites I joined last month was HitConnect which is a popular link tracker service. I have been using free link trackers for years but the big advantage of using HitConnect to track my ads is the ability to track the number of sign-ups I received from each of my ads. As you will see below, that is a huge feature that most other trackers are lacking.

HitConnect was well worth the investment and I plan to keep my subscription going there for quite awhile.

I also bought the List Builder Mega Pack from Advertising Know How for $60.  The list builder adds opt-in subscribers to your autoresponder automatically.  So far I have received 20 new subscribers to my list and I have only used up about 1/3 of my credits.  I cancelled my subscription until all of my credits are used up.  I will report again when they are all used up but it looks like it was a really good value.

I bought 12,000 hits to my squeeze page from TE Blaster.  I have recevied a little more than half of the traffic so far and have received 11 new sign-ups.  Not bad but somewhat expensive.  I will wait until I receive the rest of my hits before I decide if it is worth buying again.

Finally, I bought a Platinum upgrade at TS25 traffic exchange for $25.  That seems to have been the best investment.  Yes, I had to surf a lot to take advantage of it but I generated 22 sign-ups during the month of August and I still have several thousand credits waiting to be used.  Naturally, I just renewed my membership for at least another month.

Here are some of the top sites I used during the month of August along with the number of sign-ups I received from my Traffic Success Formula squeeze page found at: http://www.trafficsuccessformula.com/splash01.htm

Traffic Exchanges
1. ts25 – 22
2. TE Blaster – 11
3. Traffic Splash – 10
4. ILoveHits – 6
5. Dragon Surf – 5

Safelists
1. AdSolution – 20
2. ListJoe – 15
3. FreeSafelistMailer – 8
4. AdTactics – 6
5. Elite Safelist – 5

AdSolution never fails to impress me. If they had a pro option I would buy it in a second. Until then I will be content with all the free sign-ups they are bringing me every month.

Text Ad Exchanges
1. Ad Exchangers – 20
2. Muscle Mail – 16
3. Traffic Swarm – 15
4. Mega-Traffic – 5
5. My Daily List Builder – 5

People are really missing the boat when it comes to trying out these new free text ad exchanges. I should really say those results are just from the first 3 weeks of August because I didn’t post any ads last week.

Traffic Swarm is sort of it’s own thing but I included it here anyways.

Please note that these are my personal results and the results you receive may not be the same.  Also, I am not saying these are the only places worth advertising.  These are just some of the places that I tried last month which worked best for me.

All tracking stats were provided by HitConnect. Start tracking your ads today by getting your own HitConnect account. Click the image below for more details.