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Choker-- I'd put it another way. It isn't the traffic... *and* it isn't the site. (After all, if I couldn't convert 7,500 hits into a few sales, I wouldn't still be doing this!) Rather, the problem was with the combination. Your traffic converts well, my site converts well... they just don't do it together.
Also, our site isn't so deeply embedded in the niche that only gothis traffic works. If you check out the sites, you will see that they are far from what people consider "pure goth". We get a lot of softcore art-porn traffic that converts well. Fetish traffic, and even amateur traffic, works pretty nicely as well.
Keeping in mind that my sites pay my bills with 1000 hits a day, and that my affiliates who sent any sales at all this month averaged 1:180, I don't think our site converts badly, nor that it requires highly-specific traffic. However, even the sex.com spots I bought did not convert... $50 of traffic from them netted us no sales. Why? Because filtering general traffic down to the people who might like something goth-related is still using general traffic.
I will keep expirementing. So far, it looks like my affiliates are better at finding good traffic for my sites than I am... Except the strong google traffic we get.
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