Here's a little trick that's quick and easy to excecute and will get your banner displayed thousands of times across the web. Putting this tip into action requires no big commitment on your part - in most cases you just do it and forget about it.

Here's how it goes...

You're probably familiar with the concept of banner exchanges. In a nutshell, banner exchanges facilitate having your banner displayed on other people's websites in exchange for you displaying those other people's banners on your site.

The problem with banner exchanges is that you have to display banners on your site that you may not want to have there, and with banner click-through rates continuing to get smaller, you may be asking yourself if it's worth it.

The good news however, is that you can take advantage of banner exchanges WITHOUT the need to have banners displayed on your site.

You see, there are lots of banner exchanges out there that will give you free banner displays on their member's sites just for signing up. That means that you can go around to these exchanges, sign up for an account, get your free banner displays and then forget about it.

Here are a few of the exchanges that offer free credits when you sign up:

http://www.fusionbanners.com (600 impressions) http://www.1bannerexchange.com (500 impressions) http://www.surfitfast.com/signup.html (2500 impressions) http://www.thebannertrader.com (2000 impressions) http://www.ragingbanners.com (1000 impressions) http://www.go-banner.com (25,000 impressions!) http://www.trademytraffic.com (2500+ impressions) http://www.searchengine-tactics.com (600 impressions) http://www.submit2engine.com (200 impressions)

That's a total of 34,900 banner displays for your site! And this is, by no means, an extensive list of exchanges that offer free impressions. Run a few searches for 'banner exchanges' on the search engines to find more.

NOTE: Please note one thing, some exchanges will manually verify that you've added their banner HTML to your site before your account will be activated. If this is the case, you have the choice of either (1) displaying their banners temporarily until your account is activated and you've earned your free credits, or (2) just forgetting about them and finding another that has no such requirement.

And there you have it - free banner displays without the pain!