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Old 08-08-2010, 02:29 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Jakez View Post
What sherm said, statistics statistics statistics (Google Analytics)!

Find out what trades are sending traffic that clicks on banners and sends sales, stop trading your quality traffic (SE), have the traffic from your quality trades land on random hosted galleries (you may lose some overall daily traffic but if you make more sales who gives a damn?) or ones that have converted in the past, find or experiement with new sponsors with better converting tours, use Analytics to drop trades that send high bounce rate traffic - low time on site traffic - low page views - etc and send your traffic to your better trades that also send more traffic, if you statistic the shit out of your site(s) you will easily quadruple or more your sales in days. You will need some programming knowledge and cleverness though.

I bet I could have that shit sending at least 20 sales a day if not 50 or more.

Trading traffic will piss off an interested buyer more than anything. He wants to see what he clicked on. The surfer just looking for more free content does not give a shit. You have to find something very special to flip him. Same goes for people traded to you. If I walked into a shop and found myself in a different shop to the one I wanted I would be out of there immediately and never go back

Also look at the galleries you have. How many are getting people to go to the site, how many of those sites are really performing for you. No traffic numbers don't guaranty sales. It's just the first step.
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