For every person that tells me top sites are a worthless, non-effective form of proxy promotion, there will always be another person to tell me the complete opposite that top sites are a solid, effective form of proxy promotion. Promoting your proxies through top sites is the most debated method of proxy promotion out there and people’s opinions about them are very mixed.

The real issue with top sites is it provides you with a significant amount of inconsistent traffic. Basically, you submit your link to all of these top sites, and post their link on your website, and for about a few days the top sites will give you a couple hundred visitors a day for a few days depending on how many top sites you submit your proxy to.  After a few days, the traffic starts to shoot back on down.

A more effective way to promote with top sites is submitting to a couple every day. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of them out there. If you submit your proxy to a couple every day then you will see consistent traffic for a longer period of time.

Once you run out of top sites to submit to though, your traffic will fall right back on down. And thats why people say it is an non-effective method.

Now my opinion and response to that argument is that with all that traffic you were getting from those top sites, chances are at least 10% of those visitors will return to your proxy and use it again, so you are not totally loosing all of your traffic. Also, once you are done submitting to top sites, and you have run out of top sites to submit to, that is when you move onto another promotional method. Sometimes you need to use multiple promotional methods to get consistent traffic.

So when I am asked the question whether top sites are effective or not, I strongly believe they are. My opinion can be summed up into 3 words which are, “TRAFFIC IS TRAFFIC”. Why do we market websites through things like top sites? In order to get traffic. And these top sites do provide good amounts of traffic. I would love to hear your opinions and comments on top sites, which you can submit in the comment form below!