Worst sales week in awhile! - GoFuckYourself.com

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 08:24 AM

Anyone else have terribly slow sales this week?

My income and ratios have been cut in half from just about every sponsor in every niche I promote.

Fuck, porn is too inconsistent. What can I do to make serious mainstream money?

cranki · 04-30-2006, 08:25 AM

no, everything alright over here...

Choppa · 04-30-2006, 08:34 AM

things going along ok here but march and the start of april were slow
hope your sales and conversions pick up

xxxfeetxxx · 04-30-2006, 08:37 AM

The start of April was terrible for me but sales have actually picked up again recently. Hope things get better for you soon.

Sosa · 04-30-2006, 08:41 AM

adult was a little slow, mainstream was great.

camuseeme · 04-30-2006, 08:43 AM

First part of the week was great.

The last part sucked.

Pretty much evened out.

Trax · 04-30-2006, 08:53 AM

ive had better weeks

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 09:10 AM

It's just too bad I couldn't see this week coming before it happened, I could have shut off my adwords campaigns and actually saved money.

I also tested out new sponsors and webcams on some of my landing pages, which will probably be removed by tomorrow unless they really start to convert. I gotta stop reading these forums however and seeing sponsor reps talk about how great their sites convert. It lures me into trying them, and then I get to waste 500-1000 paid hits on a sale or maybe two.

FunForOne · 04-30-2006, 09:10 AM

bad week here also

madawgz · 04-30-2006, 09:14 AM

see sig for better conversions

Furious_Male · 04-30-2006, 10:06 AM

Seeing a slump with certain sponsors. Others are about average.

KitA · 04-30-2006, 10:47 AM

sales are very slow for me too on paycom

Spunky · 04-30-2006, 11:07 AM

About average here

amandaspost · 04-30-2006, 11:13 AM

Sales have been low for me too

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KitA

sales are very slow for me too on paycom

I wonder if that's the problem because most of the sponsors I promote are with paycom.

nexcom28 · 04-30-2006, 11:58 AM

mwah... It's not often I can boast but this last week I had my 3rd best week ever!!
I was dead happy yesterday and thought things would continue as they did last week but it's very quiete.
I have an inkling that my site has been down or very slow cos I only have a 3rd of the hits of normal... hope that's all it is anyway. It's always the way I have a great week and one of the search engines fucks things up..

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 12:06 PM

I have a general questions.. do webcams actually convert with anything but specific webcam traffic? I've been putting them on my niche specific landing pages with SE traffic, and was roughly 0:250 with clickcash (I dropped them after only 250 hits because of how horribly slow their site is or at least was), and 0:230+ with webcams.com. I know they're extremely small samples, but i've dabbled with cams in the past with cams.com and pussycash and have had no luck with them either.

Is there a trick to converting cams i'm missing? I hear of people having ratios under 1:100 with SE traffic. Is that most likely keywords like 'black pussy on webcam'?

I'm going to try webcams.com for a few more days, but may end up scrapping that type of content all together. At least with paid SE traffic.

DutchTeenCash · 04-30-2006, 12:09 PM

15% up so no

DutchTeenCash · 04-30-2006, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanillaice

I have a general questions.. do webcams actually convert with anything but specific webcam traffic? I've been putting them on my niche specific landing pages with SE traffic, and was roughly 0:250 with clickcash (I dropped them after only 250 hits because of how horribly slow their site is or at least was), and 0:230+ with webcams.com. I know they're extremely small samples, but i've dabbled with cams in the past with cams.com and pussycash and have had no luck with them either.

Is there a trick to converting cams i'm missing? I hear of people having ratios under 1:100 with SE traffic. Is that most likely keywords like 'black pussy on webcam'?

I'm going to try webcams.com for a few more days, but may end up scrapping that type of content all together. At least with paid SE traffic.

theyre nice for aside traffic, I still focus on paysite with SE and esp with purchased

Bluecircle · 04-30-2006, 12:12 PM

my sales were amazing yesterday, shit today. Go figure.

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by thinkx

theyre nice for aside traffic, I still focus on paysite with SE and esp with purchased

Yea, I may have to pull them. I've made some changes to my landing pages earlier in the week, unless I have an amazing sales day (0 so far today - long way to go), it's time to revert back which means no cams, and dropping a few other sponsors who haven't converted. I tried out one this week because they bragged about great ratios (i'm not going to name names), but i'm currently at 1:475 with them.... yea, real great. I'll go broke in no time with those ratios.

Of course things could change with just a few sales, but i'm not optimistic

Dirty F · 04-30-2006, 12:35 PM

Having a great week and a great day.

Dirty F · 04-30-2006, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanillaice

Yea, I may have to pull them. I've made some changes to my landing pages earlier in the week, unless I have an amazing sales day (0 so far today - long way to go), it's time to revert back which means no cams, and dropping a few other sponsors who haven't converted. I tried out one this week because they bragged about great ratios (i'm not going to name names), but i'm currently at 1:475 with them.... yea, real great. I'll go broke in no time with those ratios.

Of course things could change with just a few sales, but i'm not optimistic

Dude 1:475 is fucking great! Wtf you smoking.

thricer · 04-30-2006, 12:44 PM

no sales this week for me

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Franck

Dude 1:475 is fucking great! Wtf you smoking.

With adwords, it blows

Dirty F · 04-30-2006, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanillaice

With adwords, it blows

Oh i missed that part. Yes that blows.

Dirty F · 04-30-2006, 12:50 PM

I stopped my adwords campaigns 2 days ago. Gonna start them again in 1 or 2 days.

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 12:53 PM

I wish I did the same

Now i'm in a tough situation.. keep them going and hope I pick up late sales to break even, or just take the loss and reduce the damage.

TheSenator · 04-30-2006, 01:00 PM

I am having an average week. My bread and butter webcam rev share went down big time this past week but my blog has been getting crazy sales, whick even out my week.

I would have had a really good week of my cam rev share was producing. Maybe next week.

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 01:10 PM

I think my new ad text for google, etc will be

'Pay To See Porn Here'
'Click Here Only If You Expect To'
'Pay $$$ For Hardcore Porn'
www.domain.com/dontexpectfreebies

crockett · 04-30-2006, 01:12 PM

This month started out as the best month I've had in a long time.. Then this last week turned into the worst week I've had in a very long time. Sales went to shit this week.

studiocritic · 04-30-2006, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanillaice

I think my new ad text for google, etc will be

'Pay To See Porn Here'
'Click Here Only If You Expect To'
'Pay $$$ For Hardcore Porn'
www.domain.com/dontexpectfreebies

I went 1:1200 this week on adwords running ads on a [sitename] keyword.. 14% ctr. THAT, is bad.

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 01:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crockett

This month started out as the best month I've had in a long time.. Then this last week turned into the worst week I've had in a very long time. Sales went to shit this week.

That was basically my month as well. Great last 3 weeks, suck suck suck this week

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by studiocritic

I went 1:1200 this week on adwords running ads on a [sitename] keyword.. 14% ctr. THAT, is bad.

[sitename]?

Like [Bang Bus] going directly to the site or a landing page leading to the site? Yea, that does suck!!

studiocritic · 04-30-2006, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanillaice

[sitename]?

Like [Bang Bus] going directly to the site or a landing page leading to the site? Yea, that does suck!!

correct. direct to site.. sponsor has 10 day cookies, still only 1 sale from the 1200+ hits

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 01:19 PM

Fuck... I think I may revert back to all my 'pre-panic' tweaks to my landing pages tonight and hope the new moth starts fresh back to form. I thought it was just my sites, but it does sound like a sucky period for a lot of people.

Btw, finally 100 posts after almost 2 years registered here lol

studiocritic · 04-30-2006, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanillaice

Fuck... I think I may revert back to all my 'pre-panic' tweaks to my landing pages tonight and hope the new moth starts fresh back to form. I thought it was just my sites, but it does sound like a sucky period for a lot of people.

Btw, finally 100 posts after almost 2 years registered here lol

i own some mainstream sites and they have been converting poorly with adwords this week too.. like 1:120 instead of 1:80. We're diversifying by expanding our campaigns on other PPC engines.

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by studiocritic

i own some mainstream sites and they have been converting poorly with adwords this week too.. like 1:120 instead of 1:80. We're diversifying by expanding our campaigns on other PPC engines.

I am going to start doing that as well, soon as I get a 'system' down with adwords. I'm still tweaking my ads because i'm never satisfied. I hate doing that, I should just accept a 150% or so type of profit and move on looking for new sites / niches instead of trying to tweak it to 200%+ ROI

studiocritic · 04-30-2006, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanillaice

I am going to start doing that as well, soon as I get a 'system' down with adwords. I'm still tweaking my ads because i'm never satisfied. I hate doing that, I should just accept a 150% or so type of profit and move on looking for new sites / niches instead of trying to tweak it to 200%+ ROI

unfortunately with adult, this week, i'm not wrestling between 150% and 200%.. more like 200% and -100%.

I usually at least make a 200-250% ROI, and this week i've lost money on every adult campaign.

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by studiocritic

unfortunately with adult, this week, i'm not wrestling between 150% and 200%.. more like 200% and -100%.

I usually at least make a 200-250% ROI, and this week i've lost money on every adult campaign.

Yea, i'm looking at that this week as well. I was talking about normal weeks. This will be the second time my ROI was under 150% this year, and first time it is under 100% since last December.

jimmy-3-way · 04-30-2006, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Franck

Dude 1:475 is fucking great! Wtf you smoking.

We're seeing 1:487 overall average (which includes some bulk, tgp and P2P traffic) this week and 1:107 with our AdWords traffic this week.

I'd say we're right where we want to be and after some changes to the site tour we've been able to drop our conversion ratio by about 100 uniques per conversion.

SwirlsGirl · 04-30-2006, 02:21 PM

Been a fantastic week and month for us. Record conversions and rebills! Could be our enticing Free Hosted Galleries, combined traffic sources of tgp,ppc,linklist,website referral,hard trades,etc.
SwirlsGirl

nexcom28 · 04-30-2006, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Franck

Dude 1:475 is fucking great! Wtf you smoking.

No it's not, last week I was converting at 2:75 for 3 days running my average overall (all time (4 years) stands at 1:220)) promoting webcams specifically..

jimmy-3-way · 04-30-2006, 02:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SwirlsGirl

Been a fantastic week and month for us. Record conversions and rebills! Could be our enticing Free Hosted Galleries, combined traffic sources of tgp,ppc,linklist,website referral,hard trades,etc.
SwirlsGirl

Thanks for the thread spam.

Babagirls · 04-30-2006, 02:34 PM

im gonna fuck u someday.

vanillaice · 04-30-2006, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Babagirls

im gonna fuck u someday.

word yo! ;)

Screaming · 04-30-2006, 03:58 PM

Ok week, nothing special.

tony286 · 04-30-2006, 04:01 PM

i have found the higher gas prices get it slows down sign ups

Tom_PM · 04-30-2006, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by studiocritic

unfortunately with adult, this week, i'm not wrestling between 150% and 200%.. more like 200% and -100%.

I usually at least make a 200-250% ROI, and this week i've lost money on every adult campaign.

So if you spend $100 you normally make $300 to $350? Thats killer.

This week has been pretty ok. Not great, not horrible. I'm not satisfied with it. I'll just work on adding more rather than changing existing.

Violetta · 04-30-2006, 05:16 PM

It has been a bit slow yes, but that's just the way it is. Ups and downs!

04-30-2006, 08:24 AM	#1
vanillaice Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 512	Worst sales week in awhile! Anyone else have terribly slow sales this week? My income and ratios have been cut in half from just about every sponsor in every niche I promote. Fuck, porn is too inconsistent. What can I do to make serious mainstream money?

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04-30-2006, 08:25 AM	#2
cranki Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Café del Mar Posts: 5,162	no, everything alright over here...

04-30-2006, 08:41 AM	#5
Sosa In Tushy Land Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nebraska Posts: 40,149	adult was a little slow, mainstream was great.

04-30-2006, 08:53 AM	#7
Trax [----------------------] Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 14,486	ive had better weeks

04-30-2006, 09:10 AM	#8
vanillaice Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 512	It's just too bad I couldn't see this week coming before it happened, I could have shut off my adwords campaigns and actually saved money. I also tested out new sponsors and webcams on some of my landing pages, which will probably be removed by tomorrow unless they really start to convert. I gotta stop reading these forums however and seeing sponsor reps talk about how great their sites convert. It lures me into trying them, and then I get to waste 500-1000 paid hits on a sale or maybe two.

04-30-2006, 09:10 AM	#9
FunForOne Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: USA Posts: 8,704	bad week here also

04-30-2006, 10:06 AM	#11
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04-30-2006, 10:47 AM	#12
KitA Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 338	sales are very slow for me too on paycom

04-30-2006, 11:07 AM	#13
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04-30-2006, 11:13 AM	#14
amandaspost Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,935	Sales have been low for me too

04-30-2006, 11:58 AM	#16
nexcom28 So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 3,716	mwah... It's not often I can boast but this last week I had my 3rd best week ever!! I was dead happy yesterday and thought things would continue as they did last week but it's very quiete. I have an inkling that my site has been down or very slow cos I only have a 3rd of the hits of normal... hope that's all it is anyway. It's always the way I have a great week and one of the search engines fucks things up..

04-30-2006, 12:06 PM	#17
vanillaice Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 512	I have a general questions.. do webcams actually convert with anything but specific webcam traffic? I've been putting them on my niche specific landing pages with SE traffic, and was roughly 0:250 with clickcash (I dropped them after only 250 hits because of how horribly slow their site is or at least was), and 0:230+ with webcams.com. I know they're extremely small samples, but i've dabbled with cams in the past with cams.com and pussycash and have had no luck with them either. Is there a trick to converting cams i'm missing? I hear of people having ratios under 1:100 with SE traffic. Is that most likely keywords like 'black pussy on webcam'? I'm going to try webcams.com for a few more days, but may end up scrapping that type of content all together. At least with paid SE traffic.

04-30-2006, 12:09 PM	#18
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04-30-2006, 12:35 PM	#22
Dirty F Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 59,204	Having a great week and a great day.

04-30-2006, 12:44 PM	#24
thricer Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 5,324	no sales this week for me __________________ None So

04-30-2006, 12:50 PM	#27
Dirty F Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 59,204	I stopped my adwords campaigns 2 days ago. Gonna start them again in 1 or 2 days.

04-30-2006, 12:53 PM	#28
vanillaice Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 512	I wish I did the same Now i'm in a tough situation.. keep them going and hope I pick up late sales to break even, or just take the loss and reduce the damage.

04-30-2006, 01:00 PM	#29
TheSenator Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 13,340	I am having an average week. My bread and butter webcam rev share went down big time this past week but my blog has been getting crazy sales, whick even out my week. I would have had a really good week of my cam rev share was producing. Maybe next week. __________________ ISeekGirls.com since 2005

04-30-2006, 01:10 PM	#30
vanillaice Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 512	I think my new ad text for google, etc will be 'Pay To See Porn Here' 'Click Here Only If You Expect To' 'Pay $$$ For Hardcore Porn' www.domain.com/dontexpectfreebies

04-30-2006, 01:12 PM	#31
crockett in a van by the river Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 76,806	This month started out as the best month I've had in a long time.. Then this last week turned into the worst week I've had in a very long time. Sales went to shit this week. __________________ In November, you can vote for America's next president or its first dictator.

04-30-2006, 01:19 PM	#36
vanillaice Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 512	Fuck... I think I may revert back to all my 'pre-panic' tweaks to my landing pages tonight and hope the new moth starts fresh back to form. I thought it was just my sites, but it does sound like a sucky period for a lot of people. Btw, finally 100 posts after almost 2 years registered here lol

04-30-2006, 02:21 PM	#42
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04-30-2006, 03:58 PM	#47
Screaming I can change this!!!!! Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 18,972	Ok week, nothing special. __________________

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