Question For Affiliates - What do you consider a good conversion ratio?

[SteveHardeman]

Affiliates, what do you consider a good conversion ratio? Let's ignore free trials. I'm just talking about hits to a sponsor and the related paid conversions.

Would you mind detailing if your traffic is blog based, tgp traffic, submitted gal traffic, other.

Basically, at what point are you generally happy with your sponsor conversion rate and at what point do you decide to drop them?

I do understand that a $100 PPS that converts at 1:1000 is better than a 50/50 revshare on a $30 join that converts at 1:300....in the short-term anyway.

I'm just trying to find out what conversion level, in general, excites you guys and what level doesn't.

Thanks.

Steve

[Barefootsies]

See sig nig.

[fuzebox]

Your own conversion ratios are meaningless to anyone other than yourself. Too may variables otherwise.

If I told you I convert at 1:27 would you be impressed? If I told you 1:6000 would you be horrified? All that would prove is you don't know anything about my traffic or my business.

[Peter Romero]

I consider www.POVPorn.com to be a great conversion ratio.

Hundreds of hot young Amateur girls no-one has ever seen before. Because I discovered most of them all myself and the porn industry has never and will never meet 90% of them.

Ever seen this girl shot for anyone else but me? In my opinion Amateur porn with undiscovered girls like these will take over the market based solely on user preferences.

http://www.povcash.com/hosted/abby/?ccbill=XXXXXX

[SteveHardeman]

Fuzebox, I do understand the answer to the question is a subjective one. I just wanted to get some recent insight into what information an affiliate uses to make informed decisions.

Fuck, I didn't really even think affiliates worked on saturdays anyway. :-)

[fuzebox]

Originally Posted by SteveHardeman

Fuck, I didn't really even think affiliates worked on saturdays anyway. :-)

Saturdays are for people with dayjobs

oh btw:

0000 - brokeamateurs.com/ $30.00 2 2,123 1:1061.5

Given my traffic I would call that about average and on par with other amateur sites I promote, but then 2k hits from my sites isn't enough to really judge.

[AaronM]

Originally Posted by Peter Romero

....Hundreds of hot young Amateur girls no-one has ever seen before. Because I discovered most of them all myself and the porn industry has never and will never meet 90% of them.

Ever seen this girl shot for anyone else but me?........

That's what happens when you lie to models and promise them the world then don't deliver. They vanish before their careers can even start.

I suppose that's great for your site but I just can't see treating models that way.

This thread is discussing ratios. Not only did you not provide any ratios, you also failed to answer the question at hand.

You did successfully spam your site though....Congrats on being a thread jacking douche bag.

[baX]

Everything below ~1:500 on TGP and blog/SE traffic is fantastic for me.

[spacedog]

For me, I have some sponsors doing better than 1:300 but find it acceptable for those doing 1:1000 or even 1:1500 but usually go to drop them once it goes higher than 0:1500, then there's those few where I am seeing ratios like 1:50 +/-

I promote in various manners such as TGP, blogs, link lists and rss splogs.. so the results are from a combination of sources

[Shaze]

here's a very loose guide:

above 1,500+ ratios I start to hate
1:1,000 average
1:800 above average
1:500 excellent
anything below that is top-notch!!

[SteveHardeman]

Interesting stuff. I knew this post would kinda look spammy so I didn't care that POVPorn tried to hijack it. I'm easy to get along with. Whatever.

We are making some tweaks to our tour. We've had the same tour since we first started the site 4 months ago and we have had some people tell us it appears like the site never gets updated so we're adjusting it accordingly to show recent girls added to the site. That will be done within the next 5 days. Hopefully that'll help your ratios, fuzebox. We do update every Saturday...brand new scene....for the record.

Myself, I started a series of 10 blogs in October. Real blogs, hand-written posts. It's sort of tough lining up girls, shooting, editing AND doing some blogs but we've got enough material to last us thru the end of January so I figured I'd give this blogging a go.

I started the blogs with the intent to promote my own site but I signed up for 10 other sponsors as well figuring the traffic that comes in to my blogs that I can't sell on my own site, I'll at least have alternatives for them and can maybe make a couple extra bucks anyway. Now, my blogs are literally 45 days old so these ratios are 100% meaningless but I'm converting at 1:264 uniques for November, thus far, which adds up to a whopping $83 in my pocket. :-) But, that's not bad for 45 day old blogs, I don't think. So, even if I don't do another sale this month, I'll end up around 1:530 which isn't bad for brand new blogs. Based on what I'm reading from others above, I should be pretty happy if I'm able to keep that ratio going.

And then, another question, do you analyze the number of people who enter your site compared to the number of people who click on a sponsor link? If you get 10,000,000 hits a day but only 5 people click a link, your sales ratios will look great but your overall cost/benefit ratio will suck donkey ass. It appears I'm getting about 7% of my incoming traffic to click on a link to an affiliate. Is that about average for you guys? Since my blogs are so new, the majority of my traffic is from blog listing services and some purchased backlinks. My thoughts are that once my blogs age a bit and get some SE traffic, that ratio will improve.

Anyway, just wondering. Saturdays are my days for inflection and brain-storming. :-)