Question ...
 

... I am running my sites now since 1.5 years, but not have been involved in TGP. I always read about productivity. What does that mean? Mabye somebody can give me some idea :-)

Thanks,

Michelle

When you run a TGP or any free site for that matter, you want productive trades. Essentially when another site sends you a visitor, they need to click on something for it to be productive. Most scripts track the productivity of the visitors that other sites refer to you and convert it into a percentage.

An example would be if I send a visitors to sites and they consistently click on at least two links that are tracked with some sort of script, then my overall productivity would be 200%.

Productivity increases and decreases depending on your site. If you "skim" a lot of traffic (send users to sites you're trading with rather than the gallery/thumb they were clicking), your productivity drops dramatically.

Hope this helps....

i want to help, but i cant, Chris covered about everything already!

thanks, that makes sense. I recently bought some traffic for my site and I think most was coming from TGP or something like that. I use Google Ananlytics and I could see that the time this visitors spend on my site was 5 seconds max. Other traffic usually stays an average of 2 minutes... so what is TGP traffic good for? Do the visitors actually join some where finally?

That depends greatly on just how targeted your TGP traffic is. 90%+ of my income is from my 4 TGP's. My aggregate conversion ratio from that traffic this year is just over 1:700. So to answer your question, yes some visitors do actually join sites.

maybe my site is too much niche focused ... the join rates I usually have is 1:200, but the traffic is from boards, pic posts and banner exchange, so it is very targeted...

well, Michelle, traffic from message boards is usually the worst traffic, so if converting at 1:200 from those then you'd probably be shocked at how well tgp and SE traffic will do for ya ;)

tgp traffic is looking for free galleries, sending it straight to a paysite tour is a waste. Instead try filtering it through your own pseudo tgp site. More work but better ratios

well, I thougt 1:200 is not bad as an average...

Heron: So you think I should set up a TGP galerie and submit it to TGP's?

Sorry for all that newbie questions :-)