How much traffic do you invest in a sponsor before dropping them?
 

how much traffic would you send to a certain site/sponsor before deciding to stop using them. been submitting quite a few different sites lately and havent had any luck with any of them.

10k or so

2-3k of SE traff
25...30k of TGP/CJ traff

Min 8000 uniques

5k mgp traffic

10 to 14K (which is 1 day's worth of traffic)

keep in mind this is tgp traffic...when you guys say 14K uniques, you mean uniques to the tour right? I get a respectable amount of traffic from tgps but sending 14K would take quite a while

You might try the new Stiffycash sites and with few hundred hits you should see some good results... :)

do they offer good content? my tgp traffic comes from other sites, not my own tgp. So I need quality content in order to get listed on my major sites...getting about 75K-80K a day and im not fairing to well....ccbill this month is like 1:1300...

We usually dump them after 8 to 10 k.

But with our own sites, we seem to do pretty damn well.

I send a day's worth... I know right away if it will convert with my traffic or not.

10k .. then they are dumped

whats your best converting site?

20k "click on a link with telling the price"

ya i go about 10k

2.5k highly targetted SE.

depends on the traffic source and type of program

i sent 5k search engine hits to "twistys.com"
only 900 hits ever were counted..... running a conversion ratio of
0:900

blah blah blah.....
can you say dropped......

5k of SE traffic you say...what search terms or phrases?

To many people say SE traffic not knowing how to use that traffic.

Be specific on the type of SE traffic with regards to terms and phrases or your post means nothing.

it really depends on the sponsor. You can somewhat expect what type of ratios you'll see just based off the layout of the galleries adn the tours.

i dont go by how much traffic, i go by ratios and how long the ratios have been bad then usually drop'em if it gets too bad or if its just "bad" for too long.

here you go...
Feb 2005
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- Yahoo 2151 2292
- Google 749 749
- AltaVista 168 168
- Unknown search engines 52 52
- MSN 46 46
- Search.com 27 27
- AllTheWeb 13 13
- AOL 13 13
- Netscape 10 10
- Dogpile 6 6
- Baidu 6 6
- Earth Link 4 4
- InfoSpace 4 4
- Hotbot 3 3
- WebCrawler 2 2
- Lycos 2 2
- Virgilio 2 2
- Excite 2 2
- AOL (de) 2 2
- Go2Net (Metamoteur) 1 1


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465 different keyphrases Search Percent
free twistys 413 12.8 %
inside twistys 258 8 %
twistys.com 228 7.1 %
twistys 205 6.3 %
twsitys 194 6 %
twistys sneak peak 138 4.3 %
twstys.com 136 4.2 %
justaverage.com 69 2.1 %
twistys sneak preview 54 1.6 %
www.avery.com/gallery 47 1.4 %
Other phrases 1465 45.6 %

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309 different keywords Search Percent
twistys 1993 30.7 %
free 524 8 %
inside 390 6 %
twistys.com 340 5.2 %
sneak 322 4.9 %
peak 210 3.2 %
twsitys 194 2.9 %
twisty 162 2.4 %
s 137 2.1 %
twstys.com 136 2 %
preview 113 1.7 %
peach 71 1 %
justaverage.com 70 1 %
gallery 70 1 %
video 60 0.9 %
previews 58 0.8 %
kyla 56 0.8 %
niki 48 0.7 %
www.avery.com/gallery 47 0.7 %
devon 41 0.6 %
hardcore 38 0.5 %
eve 38 0.5 %
julliet 38 0.5 %
babes 37 0.5 %
nika 37 0.5 %
Other words 1258 19.3 %
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march 1-10

- Yahoo 685 702
- Google 173 173
- AltaVista 49 49
- Unknown search engines 20 20
- AllTheWeb 14 14
- AOL 7 7
- InfoSpace 2 2
- MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 1 1
- MSN 1 1
- Dogpile 1 1
- Lycos 1 1
- Excite 1 1
- Netscape 1 1
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218 different keyphrases Search Percent
twistys 116 12.3 %
free twistys 111 11.8 %
twistys.com 100 10.6 %
inside twistys 42 4.4 %
twistys nika 32 3.4 %
twistys sneak peak 27 2.8 %
twstys.com 24 2.5 %
chloe twistys 21 2.2 %
avery.com/gallery 18 1.9 %
peach twistys 16 1.7 %
Other phrases 429 45.8 %
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188 different keywords Search Percent
twistys 602 32.1 %
free 157 8.3 %
twistys.com 137 7.3 %
inside 65 3.4 %
twisty 64 3.4 %
s 60 3.2 %
nika 43 2.2 %
preview 34 1.8 %
chloe 33 1.7 %
sneak 33 1.7 %
peak 31 1.6 %
peach 27 1.4 %
video 27 1.4 %
twstys.com 24 1.2 %
clips 19 1 %
avery.com/gallery 18 0.9 %
previews 16 0.8 %
clip 14 0.7 %
devon 13 0.6 %
10000 12 0.6 %
pic 12 0.6 %
videos 12 0.6 %
www.avery.com/gallery 10 0.5 %
zuzanna 9 0.4 %
pass 9 0.4 %
Other words 394 21 %

This makie no sense.
I go by traffic value per unique. If I am getting 1:1000 at sponsor A, and 1:500 at sponsor B with sponsor A getting me .05 a unique, and sponsor B getting me .04 I know who I should be pushing more. Conversion ratios mean jack shit way to often and to many sponsors count them differently.

Hi Xxxmaster. You may want to get your facts straight.

First up you are 0:682 going by unique hits.

Secondly you make it sound like we aren't counting all your hits. I challenge you to find another sponsor that counts as many hits as we do. We don't down count hits to boost our signup ratio.
The reason your page got 5000 hits and your twistys account shows only 682 uniques is because you only sent 682 uniques to our tour. You took that search engine page and sent it off to Twistys hosted galleries which then sent them back to the tour. So obviously the number isn't going to be 5000.
Anybody who's been in this business for some time knows this is a numbers game. Sending 10 hits a day to a tour and 680 hits total is hardly enough to pass judgement on.

Thirdly, you came to me asking if I would be interested in hiring you to do some work. I said possibly. I told you I was busy setting up our new office and would contact you when things calmed down. Then you come on here dogging us the way you did in the post. You did post some facts but my feeling of your post was that you were also somewhat attacking us

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i sent 5k search engine hits to "twistys.com"
only 900 hits ever were counted..... running a conversion ratio of
0:900

blah blah blah.....
can you say dropped......
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Now tell me why would i want hire you?

And lastly you are stealing Twistys content on your new site rategirlsbutts. You are breaking our TOC not to mention using content I OWN without even linking or mentioning us. Please either follow our TOC or remove all Twistys content immediately.


Now aren't you glad you made your post :winkwink: