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Originally posted by DangerDave
All of which differ vastly from current mainstream thinking and practice.
I too would like to know your secret
DD
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Dave,
Im not an average webmaster, and I know what are the opinions of most webmasters, Im here to tell them, they everything can be better for them than it actually is. Nobody else does.
I dealt with tgp, mgp, avs, se, LL and mailer traffic(my own opt-in lists) for the last years. I know that each surfer needs smt else. The tgp/mgp guys are most tough, but when you know what they want, how to get them to subscribe, its a gold mine, because the traffic from this sources is huge. With some good paid spots you can reach easily 1M of traffic each day. Its not a problem to make a gallery with 15-25% CTR for me and still have a good ratio, I dont use any blind links. But as for second page clicks, everything worse than 1:300 is bad, because when you get the people to visit the paysite and then to go even to the 2nd page, which is mostly pre-filled join page, and you dont get a sale from 300 people, then smt is wrong with the join page. A good join page is at least 50% of the success but not enough sponsors get it. Im promoting only sites with good theme, high quality content, good tours and good join page. There are not as many out there, and mostly smaller sized or middle companies own them. Sometimes I wonder what crap some top companies produce, but people still keep promoting them just because of the fact, they are famous. And then complain that they dont convert. That was all what I tried to say in the previous threads.
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relax and take it easy
oh and BTW, Jim: as for the hosting, yes, you have a bigger bill from tgp/mgp traffic, but you can also make much more sales and when you do high volume, 10-20-30Tb, the price per GB is few cents, so when you compare that to other traffic, there is not such difference, 5-10% of the income should be hosting expenses.