What does it take to be lucrative in the freesite game nowadays?

Halfdeck · 2005-10-14, 02:38 AM

I made my first sale on October 10 of last year off my first free site I made I subbed to LOR and 2 other places.

Looking back, most of my sales aren't free sites related, so I wish I could say free sites are lucrative but I really don't know. The last free site I built a few weeks ago made 4 sales in 2 weeks, but that's from pouring on my own traffic besides submitting it to 6 LLs.

Some of my mini sites turn 400 clickthrus into 4-5 sales a period, and others do 1:1000 but I just hammer it with traffic...the bottom line is more pages out there, the better your chances are, but to make it easier on yourself, link to a good tour, offer bookmarkers a good product that sells themselves (do a little research on what you're actually selling), and avoid "selling shoes to people looking for boots." Usually, when I run into a site that makes me want to enter my credit card info, that's the site I promote and usually it'll make money for me.

I'm working on a bookmarkable site now... Although the site isn't getting anywhere near what I want in terms of uniques/day, and its indexed but not placing at all in the SEs, I am seeing a few sales with ratios like 1:2 and 1:60s off inside pages and it sells sites I hardly promote, so it has potential, just a pain in the ass to work on it every day..

One thing I've found about ratios like 1:800 is when it's that bad, I need to filter it and make it harder to get to the paysite. Send surfers who REALLY want to go to the tour to the paysite, keep the rest of the traffic and sell them something else.

2005-10-14, 02:38 AM	#11
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	I made my first sale on October 10 of last year off my first free site I made I subbed to LOR and 2 other places. Looking back, most of my sales aren't free sites related, so I wish I could say free sites are lucrative but I really don't know. The last free site I built a few weeks ago made 4 sales in 2 weeks, but that's from pouring on my own traffic besides submitting it to 6 LLs. Some of my mini sites turn 400 clickthrus into 4-5 sales a period, and others do 1:1000 but I just hammer it with traffic...the bottom line is more pages out there, the better your chances are, but to make it easier on yourself, link to a good tour, offer bookmarkers a good product that sells themselves (do a little research on what you're actually selling), and avoid "selling shoes to people looking for boots." Usually, when I run into a site that makes me want to enter my credit card info, that's the site I promote and usually it'll make money for me. I'm working on a bookmarkable site now... Although the site isn't getting anywhere near what I want in terms of uniques/day, and its indexed but not placing at all in the SEs, I am seeing a few sales with ratios like 1:2 and 1:60s off inside pages and it sells sites I hardly promote, so it has potential, just a pain in the ass to work on it every day.. One thing I've found about ratios like 1:800 is when it's that bad, I need to filter it and make it harder to get to the paysite. Send surfers who REALLY want to go to the tour to the paysite, keep the rest of the traffic and sell them something else. __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.