I know this is a difficult to predict, but I really need to improve my traffic's productivity, so I would greatly appreciate some suggestions.
I've recently redesigned the index of my site in hopes of boosting productivity, but to no avail thus far. Could you take a look at my site, by
CLICKING HERE, and recommend some possibilities to improve the visitor to click ratio?
I've taken several factors into account: surfer origin, server speed, gallery placement, etc. I don't understand why my productivity is low...it's usually around 90-120% overall...but my trades (and I've tried many) seem to stay in the range of 20-70% productivity.
I'm hoping to get my trades up to around 200% and an overall of about 250% productivity.
Here are some ideas I've come up with:
Possibly adding pictures to increase clicks (downside: I'm trying to stay away from pics to help avoid 2257 issues)
Deleting top banner to move galleries up (downside: Less sales)
Changing color scheme (downside: I don't know if this will help...anyone know if light bg colors outperform dark bg colors prod-wise?)
Adding More Categories (downside: Takes a lot of time...which would suck if it wasn't part of the problem)
Having Categorized Sections on Main Page (5 or so galleries per category, sorted alphabetically)
So, as you can see, I have given this some thought...and yet my productivity remains fairly low. If you have any suggestions/relevant links/etc, I would appreciate hearing them.
Thank you,
c-lo