I like to look at the overall trade quality that are users experience to judge how well the tool is functioning. In the beginning I always figured that anything over 25% request -> to live trades would be an acceptable number.
Currently, as of this posting
We have a total of 1288 Webmasters, with 37545 Pages that have initiated
121,935 Trades.
38,852 active ,accepted or awaiting links, approx
32% of all trades.
64091 declined or stopped trades, approx
52.5% of all trades.
18992 in limbo request status, approx
15.5% of all trades.
Factoring in spam, non niche trades, language barriers, strategic deployment preferences, webmaster practices and having over 1200 traders running their own strategies, I would say 32% of all trades going active is quite good. We can also tag minimum 25% of the trades in limbo as soon to be active which would easily bring it up to over 35%.
Perhaps some of the new features will help bring that trade index quality up higher and still allow for the amount of requests to go out.
Maybe we should incorporate this type of 'trade index' on profile pages, how many requests a user sends out that turn into active trades, and come up with a particular trader index number based on their activity. For example if a guy sends out (or gets) 2,000 requests and only has 40 live link trades, we can assume something is up compared to a guy with 2000 requests and 600 live trades.
Anyways, just a little post about where we're at at
www.linkspun.com and what our users are up to.