Tips For Increasing Productivity?

[c-lo]

I know this is a difficult to predict, but I really need to improve my traffic's productivity, so I would greatly appreciate some suggestions.

I've recently redesigned the index of my site in hopes of boosting productivity, but to no avail thus far. Could you take a look at my site, by CLICKING HERE, and recommend some possibilities to improve the visitor to click ratio?

I've taken several factors into account: surfer origin, server speed, gallery placement, etc. I don't understand why my productivity is low...it's usually around 90-120% overall...but my trades (and I've tried many) seem to stay in the range of 20-70% productivity.

I'm hoping to get my trades up to around 200% and an overall of about 250% productivity.

Here are some ideas I've come up with:

Possibly adding pictures to increase clicks (downside: I'm trying to stay away from pics to help avoid 2257 issues)

Deleting top banner to move galleries up (downside: Less sales)

Changing color scheme (downside: I don't know if this will help...anyone know if light bg colors outperform dark bg colors prod-wise?)

Adding More Categories (downside: Takes a lot of time...which would suck if it wasn't part of the problem)

Having Categorized Sections on Main Page (5 or so galleries per category, sorted alphabetically)


So, as you can see, I have given this some thought...and yet my productivity remains fairly low. If you have any suggestions/relevant links/etc, I would appreciate hearing them.

Thank you,
c-lo

[amateurcanada]

Hmm, when I quickly load your page I do not see any sex appeal, any reason to stay around. It just looks like a link list - while this does well for sites like green guys linkorama and thehun and old school places perhaps you can tastefully display some thumbnails. maybe one row per day or something with US2257 compliant programs.

Vary up the banners your using, the same color scheme applies to them all which means people won't click any.

[c-lo]

Thanks for the suggestions, amateurcanada. I've been considering adding some thumbs for a little while now. A lot of my submissions come from autosubmitters though and I don't know how well I'll be able to control the content of the thumbs submitted. I'd like to just have face shots to comply with 2257, but I know submitters are stubborn and won't follow the rules.

I'll also consider switchin up some banners.

Thanks for the help...I thought this thread was dead.


later
c-lo

[Jon Clark - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Build another site to the level the one in the link is at..... then repeat!

Put some blogs into the mix also

[pornlounge]

maybe you should make some experiments with your design. at the moment it is just dark, add some nice graphics and eye catchers

[c-lo]

Jon Clark: I don't think adding more sites will increase PornMessiah's productivity. It may increase traffic, but what good is that if I can't get them to click links?

pornlounge: Someone else recommended that I change the color scheme, so I do plan on switching that up a bit.

Thank you both for your suggestions.


later
c-lo