I have been trying the strategy below on a few (free) sites i use to promote my pay site
http://zgasm.com and im seeing positive results.
You need Google analytics.
The "strategy" is this....
- Collect stats for a while
- After a few weeks (i use months) goto Traffic Sources > Referring Sources
- Sort by visits
- Change "Show Rows" to 100
- You should now have a list of your top 100 referring sources sorted by the # of visitors they have sent you...
- From here i eye ball the sites that send the highest % of new visitors.
I then force traffic to sites that match this criteria:
- 89% or higher new visitors
- High "Ave time spent on site"
- High pages/visit
The whole thing takes like 2 min max and i do it 100% by eyeballing. I suppose its just a productivity measurement, but the past 3-4 times i have tried this, i noticed increased sign ups over the next couple days.
Does anyone do anything similar/along those lines? Got any suggestions?