Mass traffic vs raindrop traffic

[justbondage]

Originally Posted by Greenie

EDS - it all depends on what the surfer typed into Google that bought your page up. If they were looking for watersports for their trip to the beach & found your pissing blog, that traffic is not going to convert

(I love extreme examples)

Haha great example!

I used to think when I was at 1:300 when I first started out - Happy days, get 10 times the amount of people on my site and $$$ but then it went to 1:500, then 600, then 700.....

Gah! Like people have said, it SHOULD roughly stay the same, but don't start counting chickens etc etc.

[bDok]

Yea I never think my traffic when increased is going to keep conversion of 1:200 or 1:300. I generally look at the type of stats people like greenie, mb, jay, etc. release and can compare across the board what kinda of numbers they are doing with their traffic as I believe that the sample size they are using is a better estimate as to what to expect and if you aren't doing in the ball park of their numbers something is going wrong.

Originally Posted by justbondage

Haha great example!

I used to think when I was at 1:300 when I first started out - Happy days, get 10 times the amount of people on my site and $$$ but then it went to 1:500, then 600, then 700.....

Gah! Like people have said, it SHOULD roughly stay the same, but don't start counting chickens etc etc.

[justbondage]

Originally Posted by bDok

Yea I never think my traffic when increased is going to keep conversion of 1:200 or 1:300.

Heh, I suppose I always knew it wouldn't either, but it doesn't hurt to dream eh?

[Toby]

Originally Posted by justbondage

...it SHOULD roughly stay the same...

That's an erroneous assumption that many would make. In reality the 1:300 was based on a statistically insufficient data sample.

All those math and statistics classes I took in college are useful once in a rare while.