Anna, here is my take on it. I'm by no means a master at this, but started with ZERO traffic, absolutely no feeder traffic at all and am now at almost 70K a day.
I started out,
www.cousindirty.com with TM3 and thumbsmanager, youve got Comus and UCJ, so far everythings a push. For the first 6 months, I had skim ratios like this: 80 (top section of thumbs) 70 (next section) then the rest were 60. All Gallery TXT links were 50, and remain at 50.
Remember, I didnt buy any feeder traffic or anything. For 6 months, I had built the site up to 25-30K a day in traffic, and according to TM3 almost 10K a day was bookmark traffic. 1 week ago while talking to some friends with much bigger sites, I decided it was time to drop skims to 60% on all thumbs.
My site is now close to 70K a day. Trades that were dieing before are alive, PROD and OUT CLicks are WAY UP! What did I do? Lowered skims, nothing else. Im currently sending almost 100K clicks a day to galleries, and 60K to trades (which is more than active trades have sent me)
So, for me... starting out a site, HIGH SKIMS will get you lots of bookmarkers, and help feed trades. After you get a decent amount of bookmark traffic and have some nice trades setup, lower skims and watch the site grow!
Hope this helps you out!
