traffic trade question
 

When I am trading traffic. Should I drop lower prod trades even though I am getting more traffic from them than sending back.

Say I have a trade sending me 100% prod, which sucks (my average is 300%)

but i am getting 75 in for 25 out, should I kill it or keep it?

What script are you using?

lana

That sounds like a productive trade. You just need to get bigger ones like that and you'll be set.

ok so does anyone second this opinion:

"I should keep lower prod trades as long as I am getting more in than am sending out."

or

"I should only keep trades with good prod"

keep it

ANYTIME your trade is "CLICKING" more than your sending to him, KEEP IT!!!

Even if you send him 500, but he sends back 350, and has 650 clicks

i should worry about the ROO right, beeing:

ROO stands for Return On Outs and is the overall value of a trade. It takes how many you have sent OUT to a trade, how many you have received IN and how productive (# of clicks) that trade generated

A ROO of 100% means you are just breaking even with a trade. ROO only goes to 999% and will display a >999% for trades above that

BOTH are wrong!

What if you send him 300, he sends you 500 but has 200 clicks?

Your losing 100 in the mix



What if you send him 300, he sends you 100 but has productivity of 200%?

Dump it, your losing 100 in the mix ...

Catch my thinking here?

That's 75 clicks still, same as 25 in and 300% prod.

Keep it, maybe try forcing some extra to see if it grows. :2 cents:

Disagree. If your skim is 70%, then out of those 650 clicks only 195 will go out to trades... and you've sent him 500 clicks out.

yea. thats pretty much what to look at

So basically you guys are saying look at "clicks in" vs "clicks out" rather than the raw and unique stuff?

For instance, if a trade has 300% productivity, but isn't sending enough traffic back to equal the clicks I'm sending them, then I'm getting hosed.

And if a trade sends a truckload of uniques, but those uniques produce less clicks than I send to the trade then I'm getting hosed?

LOL, I just posted this on my board ...

1. Trades are a dime a dozen. Don't waste your time fucking around with any single trade. If a trade wants to die let it. It's no big deal.

2. Don't force to trades other than to send them a few hits to get the trade started. If you send 100 hits and they don't return any, just turn the force off. Forcing to trades other than for starting trades is the biggest mistake you can make. If the only way to keep a trade alive is to force to it, then it's not worth keeping.

3. A trades productivity is not as important as you may think. The "Q" factor is most important. IE

Trade A you sent 1000 hits to him, he sent 1000 back and 1000 clicked on your site. His productivity would be 100% and His "Q" is 1.00

Trade B you sent 1000 hits to him, he sent 250 back and 750 clicked on your site. His productivity would be 300% and his "Q" is .75

I would take trades like A over B any day all day long. What really matters is how many hits did you send a trade in order for him to send back enough traffic to produce X amount of clicks on your site?

4. Don't sit on your stats all day refreshing them. Sheer will is not going to make your stats any better. Spend your time making more TGP's , galleries, or whatever it is you do best.

5. Don't delete trades because their traffic has low productivity. Go back up and read item #3 above. I only delete trades that do not send me any hits in a 24 hour period.

thanks
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Are you trading based on uniques or based on productivity?
For instance if a guy sends me 1000 hits and only 300 clicks, if I'm trading based on uniques I'll send him 1000 (or more) back to get 300 clicks, and those are hits that could have been sent to other trades that are more productive.

Yup I have to totally agree on this,and have been using this type of logic for about 5 years.Too many production hounds that panic and drop you if you arent over 100%.Yes that would be great in the real world but locating such fantastic ratios is very rare nowadays.I drop trades constanly and just find new ones daily.If they send me traffic and somewhat decent they are in until they decide not to send me any.As long as they are somewhat productive then no problem..Let em ride...Yea you get "well your traffic is shit that you need bla bla production to be sucessful in order to grow" Then all the power to them finding those productive trades,yes they are out there but I dont have time to search for weeks on end just for a trade.I would rather have a small site then.

I always trade on productivity, did not even put in the option in TTT to trade uniques, simply no reason for it really.