Anyone else having a suck week?

[Alphawolf]

...or is it just me?

I did much better while away on vacation and not submitting any new sites. LOL.

[Useless]

I'm mired in other projects, so yes, I'm having a suck week. My problem is, once I skip building for a couple of days, I find it very difficult to get back in the groove. And we all know how important the groove is.

[kristian]

Record week from search engine traffic (so far). Great week from other sources.

Key is to give it time for your new free sites to get listed. I don't submit free sites anymore, but I remember that some would list me within minutes, while others might take weeks or months. If you haven't already started, you could also begin submitting to tgp for a quick traffic-boost.

This should be a great time of year and will only get better from now and into the new year. Now get submitting you lazy bastard!

[Porn Princess]

Yep, same here. Traffic is up a little even though I haven't submitted any sites this week, but sales are down. My own fault, I've also been doing other projects this week. There is just not enough time in a day.

[Cleo]

Having a good week.

I did have a few sucko weeks but I think that was do to me not building anything for almost a month while I was in home remodeling hell.

[Alphawolf]

I'm not worried. Just odd like things seemed to shut off. I guess my old sites finally fell way down on lists.

Most of the lists have listed the new sites I submitted last 3 days.

tgp traffic is still not something I want to test the waters with.

I decided to build at least 3 (maybe 4) freesites per paysite in order to get enough uniques to make judements about it's conversions.

I'd rather go into tgp having a fair idea of what sites actually convert rather than just blowing a load on bandwidth and seeing poor results.

[Alphawolf]

Originally posted by Cleo
Having a good week.

I did have a few sucko weeks but I think that was do to me not building anything for almost a month while I was in home remodeling hell.

Yeppers. I think not building for a while caught up to me this week.

I must rebuild the snowball of 'new' sites out there- which is what I'm doin'.

I don't have nearly enough out there yet to keep sales flowing. The snowball melted.

[grzepa]

Well I cant complain, actually the last 2 weeks were quite amazing for me, the best since I started. But I feel like Im quite burned with building freesites, Im going to 3 week vacation soon and when I come back I plan to build my own traffic pump
Then get back to building/submitting.

[stuveltje]

i have to say while the normally sites dropped in sales for me the extreme sites are still doing well its nice to have a balance i only dont know how long that balance will stay............but then i keep building and doing my thing, this bizz has its up s and downs

[miracle]

I have been away for about 3 months! and started back 3 weeks ago. Things realy suck for me. I work with galleries and delivered 15k uniques to sponsers without any sales yet. I had better sales when I was not submitting last month. Never happened to me before last couple of years in the biz. I have heard same complains from many other webmasters too since late October. Hope it's gonna roll again.

Mark

[Greenguy]

I think everyone in here knows when I had my "suck week"

[CybrFire]

Same here too about the sales. Although Oct. was very good to me, seems since Nov. came in everything went dead. I know it's because of the holidays and everybody is trying to save their $$ for X-Mas and all that.

Although, since that moron bush|raygun| was re-elected, I wonder if that didn't have anything to add to it...pretty coincidental it went dead about the same time.

[stuveltje]

i love the christmas months, good trafffic and a big surprise from me soon

[Fonz]

Read the "Tips & Tricks" of this weeks newsletter
http://www.greenguysboard.com/newsletter.html

[miracle]

Thank's for the ref Fonz. That could explaing things. It's a long time till after xmas though isn't it?

Mark

[Lunatic]

Sales are down for me too in November. In my short time in the biz September, and February thru April have been the best for me.

[f69j69b]

Very bad for me at the rate its going I will only make half what I did last month
I am still building 5-6 free sites per week

[krki]

Suck week for me too, last one was great but this |goodnight

[Mishi]

Traffic up, sales down. 'Tis the season.

[stablehand]

and i thought it was only me. Glad i'm not alone, well sorry, but you know, misery loves company. Had a coupla suck weeks. Din't know what caused them, cuz been having a little more traffic than normal, and better quality than normal.

I ascribe it to the season as well, haven't been around for a full year to know, but my thinking is: family guys too busy with other things + saving money. tho as the holidays come closer, i figure lots of guys feeling lonely and want to spend some cash on that SPECIAL girl. Is this the time for babes-niche?

BTW, i know it was asked in another thread, but never saw where to look. Is there any demographics charts on adult surfers somewhere?

[Mateusz]

Whole november sucks for me but newsleter made me think optimistic

[Alphawolf]

I guess complaining helped (it broke my dry spell this week).

I checked my stats and traffic is down about 40% what is was last month.

Guess it pays to build and submit and repeat always.

[Jan Barnes]

November has been pretty bad for some reason. Christmas usually is a bad period as well, thus let us hope that things start kicking from now until December 15 or so.

[docholly]

after an in depth analysis of our traffic/submit stats for the last 3 months, i can see why some weeks suck more than others. Too much time on the GG&J board not enough time SEO'ing.

|rasta|

[Alphawolf]

Actually, the 1st 2 weeks of November were really good for me.

No biggie- need to build the traffic back up.