Free Sites - High Traffic, Extremely Low Conversion - Help?

caringneo · 2005-09-01, 05:44 AM

Your sites are nice. But you need to work on your sales text. Just a text link like "Visit Cartoon Copulations" or Join for $... will not get you much click throughs and signups. You must evoke an interest in your surfer about the sponsor site.
You didn't mentioned the exact conversion ratio. You said 30-50/day to sponsor with one signup /week. That is around 1:350 Ratio? If that's the case it's not bad. You need to get more surfers to visit your sponsor. Work on your sales texts to improve click throughs.

Pipboy · 2005-09-07, 03:53 AM

Hey all,

Would you mind checking out my next freesite and letting me know how you feel about it? I've added more 'flavour text' to butter 'em up around the ads.

Blonde and Beautiful

Thoughts?

Halfdeck · 2005-09-07, 04:21 AM

Hey Pipboy,

I wouldn't start the warning page off with the warning text. You want to put sales text up top and an eye catching graphix to try to get a click to the sponsor. Even just a preselling text up top telling your visitor more specifics about your site or getting him horny helps increase conversions.

On main, your gallery links were so small, to look for them I ignored your banner text. I'd make the gallery links bigger, and change font color/size of your banner text there to attract more attention.

On the gallery page you got only one link to sponsor and a huge 2257 link on the bottom you don't need. Since your banner's positioned at the end of thumbs, some people might ignore it.

Also, your gallery1/2 layout is the same. Change it up and put a banner in a surprising spot to increase clicks.

BTW, your thumbs on gallery2 page has the wrong aspect ratio. Also, I'd add a third link to your domain root to build your own traffic.

2005-09-01, 05:44 AM	#1
caringneo Oh! I haven't changed since high school and suddenly I am uncool Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: PLANET EARTH Posts: 259	Your sites are nice. But you need to work on your sales text. Just a text link like "Visit Cartoon Copulations" or Join for $... will not get you much click throughs and signups. You must evoke an interest in your surfer about the sponsor site. You didn't mentioned the exact conversion ratio. You said 30-50/day to sponsor with one signup /week. That is around 1:350 Ratio? If that's the case it's not bad. You need to get more surfers to visit your sponsor. Work on your sales texts to improve click throughs. __________________ Anal Gays

2005-09-07, 04:21 AM	#3
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	Hey Pipboy, I wouldn't start the warning page off with the warning text. You want to put sales text up top and an eye catching graphix to try to get a click to the sponsor. Even just a preselling text up top telling your visitor more specifics about your site or getting him horny helps increase conversions. On main, your gallery links were so small, to look for them I ignored your banner text. I'd make the gallery links bigger, and change font color/size of your banner text there to attract more attention. On the gallery page you got only one link to sponsor and a huge 2257 link on the bottom you don't need. Since your banner's positioned at the end of thumbs, some people might ignore it. Also, your gallery1/2 layout is the same. Change it up and put a banner in a surprising spot to increase clicks. BTW, your thumbs on gallery2 page has the wrong aspect ratio. Also, I'd add a third link to your domain root to build your own traffic. __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

2005-09-07, 03:53 AM	#2
Pipboy A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 56	Hey all, Would you mind checking out my next freesite and letting me know how you feel about it? I've added more 'flavour text' to butter 'em up around the ads. Blonde and Beautiful Thoughts?