But it’s true, most people are just surfing for credits. Yet, even in those cases, sometimes they may see something of interest to them, and actually read it.

You have to accept low rates of “real visitors”, though - perhaps 1 in 100.

As for differences between the several services… To this day, I didn’t get the impression that “this network has more blogs like this, and that network has more blogs like that”. And a lot of blogs are in all of the exchangers. But I’ll try to pay more attention to this matter.

I found a couple others to be far better. Blogadvance looks to have a better class of blogs and visitors. Still getting started with Blogazoo but it looks good so far.

So, skip Blogexplosion. You’ll get visitors but the traffic is worthless (in my experience).

Note also that I didn’t say not to use these services - much the opposite, I think they’re great, not only for getting more visits to your blog(s), but also for discovering new, interesting blogs. But visitors don’t equal readers - much less regular readers.

I’ve noticed that the average staying time overall is over 2 minutes per visitor so some people are staying in there for a long time, if most are only dedicated to getting the credits.

I’ve noticed also, that Blog Advance members are leaving comments in posts that aren’t the most recent and I’ll not be leaving this service.

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