Money with Free Sites?

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by TekAngel

You regular free site builders, are you making any money? I mean is it worth it? It seems like I suck at selling or my free sites are that bad that I get about one sale every 5 free sites. I do get listed just about everywhere I submit, I do get the hits, but no sales.

How are you doing with your free sites?

Tek, for me converting freesites is much harder than it used to be. In 2003-2004 it seemed like I usually got 1 sale per freesite on the initial LL traffic. In 2007, I would say my numbers are more like yours. I might get 1 in 5 off the initial LL traffic to my freesites. But, I also get them for freesites I made and submitted many months ago. The more you have floating around, the better chance you have at making an extra sale.

If you do it right, building and submitting freesites shouldn't really take all that much time leaving you free to work on other avenues like your own LL,hub, or blog.

[ponygirl]

I'll agree with Lowry - I see sales off of older sites more often now, it seems almost as if they have to 'season' before they make a sale anymore

I'll notice when I go on a submitting spurt I do tend to see more $$ a couple weeks down the road (then I get sidetracked and don't sub for a week, which sucks lol) I also switched to mainly revshare not too long ago and am very grateful for that now.

I've been doing a lot of work on my LL, and am starting to see revenue from that too, but it's taken me 3 years to get here, so don't get discouraged. Everyone always says it here, but it's true - just keep building stuff and it'll pay off

[plateman]

exactly what lowry said, the week of thanksgiving has always been low for sales for me, and look for dec THIS year to really be bad for converts...

If it wasnt for revshare I couldnt pay my bills anymore, and I am loosing trust in the popular PPS sponsors

[LD]

My sales seem to come in spurts. I'll get 4 or 5, and then have a long dry spell. I've done a few AVS too, without much luck. I've noticed too that some of my submissions do not get listed till weeks, sometimes months after the initial submission which adds more delay to the whole process.

I have thought about going back and doing some mirrors on my old sites to spread them around a little more, since now I have a better feel for where the best traffic originates. Would this be worthwhile?

[papagmp]

Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

I have thought about going back and doing some mirrors on my old sites to spread them around a little more, since now I have a better feel for where the best traffic originates. Would this be worthwhile?

I've done this on a few FS's - if I'm not up to creating a new FS, I may just create a doorway page or two and submit it to another dozen LL's.