A Year In The Life of TDW: A Cautionary Tale

[Preacher]

Originally Posted by Carrie

Preacher just curious, about how many different sponsors are you running on TDW, and have you considered lessening the amount to send more traffic to each individual sponsors and therefore avoid the "scattered $15s" syndrome?

Yes, I believe this was an issue in the beginning. After browsing some other linklists I for some reason or another decided that I should have 10 paysites/niche sponsor links per page. I liked pretty tours like those on Pimproll so I avoided most CCBill sites -- at the beginning. I now call this the shotgun approach becuase I have many pellets of sales scattered all about.

I believe it was GrandmaScrotum who put up a post about having too many choices scares off potential purchasers, and so on my second linklist I only display two sponsor links at a time. (example: Depraved Pornsites-Hardcore. It seems to be doing Ok for me, so I did a very similiar thing with the new design of my templates on TDW.

Yes I have a paysites tab page, but at the top, are two sponsor screencaps which are but graphical listings of one of the 5 or 6 sponsors that I am putting the most effort into converting for. I threw in a couple CCBill's also.

I don't expect the paid tabs to receive the most traffic, but I figure those that do click will be highly targetted for a sale.