Originally Posted by swami

Six years in the business and it seems you have learnt jack shit if you think there are no outside influences on the trends of sales.
I do mainly mainstream and I can tell you sales fall for most things at this time of the year every year.
But I also do enough adult to know that adult sales are also affected by outside influences.
It is actually quite productive when webmasters confer on these trends to see that they are trends and not the normal daily fluctuation.It stops them worrying about what they have done wrong and waste time on thinking what they have to do if they know that most peers are in the same boat.
I think I have seen you posts your stats somewhere and its obvious that your are a ppc man.
Me, I rely on free traffic so when I post my stats you know that it is mostly net profit and no employess help me earn my income.
This is my stats for Nastydollars this month.You can clearly see the downward trend.I also have comparable sales with Bangbros.Again the same downward trend of sales.

Traffic / Signup detail for xxxxx 2005-04-01 2005-04-15 Date Hits Signups Earned Ratio
2005-04-01 9906 29 $1160 1:341
2005-04-02 9224 37 $1480 1:249
2005-04-03 8242 33 $1320 1:249
2005-04-04 9672 33 $1320 1:293
2005-04-05 9616 27 $1080 1:356
2005-04-06 9620 14 $560 1:687
2005-04-07 10436 21 $1050 1:496
2005-04-08 9368 18 $720 1:520
2005-04-09 9256 25 $1000 1:370
2005-04-10 8952 36 $1440 1:248
2005-04-11 10663 17 $680 1:627
2005-04-12 10855 21 $840 1:516
2005-04-13 10633 23 $920 1:462
2005-04-14 10723 28 $1120 1:382
2005-04-15 8328 20 $800 1:416
Totals 145494 382 $15490 1:403