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I usually don't skim on my sites. I have found that this makes me way more money than skimming like crazy.
I only skim when I start new sites and want to make them grow, and in that case I usually skim very low (near 75% or more to galleries). After all the surfer comes to see porn and signup for my sponsor. If I jerk him to my trade he could signup there, so I lose that money. Skimming is a good idea and I love the whole traffic trading idea, but I remember about a year or two ago there was always a gold rule on almost all TGPs (No less than 60% to galleries). Now this rule appears to be gone. A 10% to galleries and 90% to trades site is just a CJ site witouh a popup, so it burns bandwidth like crazy, has 200k visitors per day and makes 2 sales per day if there is any luck. I doubt on a thumb TGP those sales even give enough to pay the hosting bill. This is probably because lots of people think that $500 per month is a complete success. I personally think that $500 per month is just the hosting bill (at least my bill), so after these $500 there must be at least $750 more to make it rentable as a part time job and fun. Of course I don't look at how much traffic I have, I prefer to look at the hits to my sponsors. A surfer is productive if he buys on your site.
Now all of you will jump on my head with a question like "If you promote a trade script in your sig why are you posting this here?". Well, it's not a problem in the script or the idea, the problem is how do you use it. The tech is there, the tools are there, the dicision on how to use them is yours. You can make bank with less traffic and less skim to your trades or you can make nothing with only skim to your trades and nothing to real content.
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