How much $$ would you spend on traffic etc.
 

Hey,I need to estimate a value
to make a new project successful,

So I want to know how much you guys are
calculating with.. what make sense and whats
a waste?

Continuously, as long 100units make 110units.

What are you guys investing daily on traffic?

You need to know Google Analytics, if you dont, there is at least four good books about it on Amazon.com. After that you start buying traffic, and testing what is working, and what is not (bounce rate, time on site, number of pages visited, goals / conversion funnels that you set up). If something looks like it is making sense, you can start optimizing it further on site too. In general, common sense, you want to make profit. If something does not work, dont spend money, and start looking for a different way to get what you want. I am not sure how much money to invest in testing (could be 1,000, 5,000 or 10,000 visitors, lets say, this is somehow up to you too). Talk to people who sell you traffic (advertising companies), they can tell you what is what too. There are people who spend $10,000 a day on this, or more, could be $100,000 too.

OK smart guy... I have based on Google analytics the following:

My bounce rate is 25%
My time on site is about 7 minutes
My number of pages is about 8
My conversion is about 0.5 %
My daily uniques is about 2,500
My return visitors are about 35 %

So where do I go from here :helpme

You forgot the most important metrics: How much did you make, and how much did you pay for the traffic?

my average item is 22 Euros... ( that was missing from my post) no memberships just tangibles... So @ 2,500 K per day and conversion of 0.5 % you can add that up?
But i see it at about 12 x 22 Euros per day... Call it 250/ day.... 7,500 Euros/ month so about USD 9,000/ month.

I do NOT pay for any traffic its all organic or thru my affiliates.

My point was that I have a good content and related stats but want to get to 10,000 uniques/ day... My math shows me that at 10,000 I would be doing just short of $$$ 40,000 per month, " a nice retirement wage"... :). So now what.... How do I get there ???

hey celandina,

is there anywhere I can contact you to? I would like to share with you a proposal and maybe it helps with growing your traffic.

Realize that organic traffic is probably much better than purchased traffic, so you likely will see less that 0.5% conversion from purchased traffic.

How would I proceed? Set up a few tests with some paid traffic sources. Minimum $200/source spread over 3-4 days, and keep CLOSE track of the CTR, page views and (mostly importantly) the conversion ratio of each source. The goal (obviously) is to pay LESS than 22Euros per sale. Keep the sources that meet your criteria, drop the ones that don't.

There's a lot of trial and error involved, and test, test, test.

Spending time on ways to get traffic is better than spending money.
Although you can usually spend through our signatures

I will answer quotes within quotes.

As much as you can as long as you are making a profit

Are you still about....:2 cents:? I did miss your post.