Trading strategy

[Steamy]

Hi,
I'm newbie in traffic trading. I started trade a week ago and noticed that I have only 2 good trades (with over 100 trade productivity) The rest 5-6 are not as good as I would like to.
My site gets about 1k hits per day from galleries, bookmarkers etc and only 400 from trades. I have few questions:

1. Should I spread my traffic among as many trades as possible or it would be better to setup only 2,3 trades with big click prod and trade prod.

2. I noticed that click prod. (=clicks/in) was changing from day to day for the same sites in wide range (for example 50%-150%). I don't know how to stabilize this value by setting 3 parameters: max return ratio, min click prod. and "force hits".

I use Arrow trader lite. I'm waiting for your comments and advices

Andy

[Devilporn]

First....read the Arrow Trader Lite documentation.
Also,you should at least have 10 trades to start.
Let the trade script do his work and do not play too much with forces.
Your prod will change a lot from one day to another as long as you have low traffic....but you should try to have at least over 200% prod and return above 120% overall on your site if you want it to grow.

[blazin]

From the sound of things it seems you have a really unproductive design - you should tweak it until you get good productivity from your bookmarkers

[fusionx]

Add 10 trades a week, spread throughout the week. Delete the worst five each week. Keep doing this until you have 30+ good trades. Then, start working with the percentages until you max out that 30 and get their percentages as high (and stable!!) as you can.

Then, keep adding new and deleting the worst, but more slowly and more carefully.

Also, work with the skim on your site to find the right balance for your surfers. I have different skim levels for different sections of my site. Archive pages skim the most - 60%. The top section of my main page is where I put my own galleries. That skim is at 80%. The next section is at 75%, the next 70%, then the text links are at 65%. Something like that - I'd have to check to be sure.

I'd never go below 65% on my main page - not if you want bookmarkers.

[Basic_man]

First....read the Arrow Trader Lite documentation.
Also,you should at least have 10 trades to start.
Let the trade script do his work and do not play too much with forces.
Your prod will change a lot from one day to another as long as you have low traffic....but you should try to have at least over 200% prod and return above 120% overall on your site if you want it to grow.

Right, you need a productive design to return much of the traffic !

You can use traffic feeding once you have nice etablished trades too !