Free Traffic System Review

The verdict is in: Free Traffic System works... pretty well.

I tested the free version of the system on three different sites for three different sets of keywords. One set of keywords was ridiculously competitive, one moderately competitive, and one not so competitive. I did no other link building during the month that I used Free Traffic System.

The results:

• Highly competitive keywords -- I spewed 20 articles over 30 days, theoretically generating between 600-1,200 one-way inlinks. Results were not expected to be great because the top player for these keywords had 96,000 backlinks and a well aged domain. Spot 10 on the front page of Google had 75,000 backlinks. Tens of millions of competing sites and hundreds of thousands of direct competitors hurt my chances of cracking the front page. The hoped-for result was to snipe some long-tail search action. The actual result was no search action whatsoever (UPDATE 9-20-2010: The site has started to see some traffic from Bing and Yahoo! but none from the Big G) -- but I did get a little traffic just from people clicking links on the blogs where the articles were published. Not bad. If I kept at it for a year or so, I might even touch the first page for a few terms in that ridiculously competitive and highly profitable niche.
• Moderately competitive keywords -- Results were much better than expected. I did this for a client (who hadn't paid me for ongoing SEO -- I figured they had nothing to lose) whose competitors were obviously paying SEO experts hundreds of dollars a month to stay on top. All I did was submit two articles into Free Traffic System and I hit the second spot for a very valuable keyword combination that gets 1,300 searches a month. The client did not know what I had done, but they were pleased when their phone started ringing. Now I need to charge them to stay on top because after the articles stopped flowing, the position of the site fell to 11 -- first spot on the second page which is almost worthless. Anyway, I was surprised at the results, especially with such obvious and skillful competition and so little effort. (Update 8-25-2010 -- the site bubbled back up to the top for its keywords. Theory: It took a while for all the FTS backlinks to be indexed and counted.)
• Not-so-competitive keywords -- total domination with just one article. These phrases were not totally uncompetitive (i.e., "Tina Sarducci's vegetarian lasagne recipe") but there were fewer than 300,000 competing sites and fewer than 10,000 competing directly. These terms are easy to dominate but Free Traffic System made it quick and painless.

It broke down like this:

	High Competition	Moderate Competition	Low Competition
Number of Direct Competitors	millions	~50,000	<10,000
Number of Inlinks (competitors)	96,000-75,000	2,000-1,500	<100
Actions	Twenty articles over 30 days	Two articles over two weeks	One article
Results	Nowhere to be found in search results, some traffic	Number two spot on front page of Google for main keyword (for a couple of weeks)	Easily obtained first position

One thing I like about Free Traffic System is that it is not black-hat, at least not in my opinion. Two levels of human editorship are built into the system. First the Free Traffic System editor has to approve your articles, then the blog owners have to approve them. Basically this is a way to distribute content with links. The content has to meet certain standards. Nothing wrong with that.

Just as importantly, it works. You can't beat the price, either -- free! I am actually going to go pro. This is a pretty neat tool.

I hope you found this Free Traffic System review helpful. Give it a whirl!

(Disclosure: I am an affiliate of FTS and stand to gain if you try it after clicking the links in this article.)