The Prod Booster Technique.
Re: The Prod Booster Technique.
Well, it will still produce good prod right? Should I use a different prod booster when using that many gals? Seems like my prod hasn tgone up and steadied since changing to this new temp. Let me know thanks!
Re: The Prod Booster Technique.
Well as always it depends on all sorts of things coming together.
Unquestionably though, the prod booster does work.
It stands out more on high volume sites than small ones, because they have larger sample rates to work with.
This month I did a traffic sampling of our network, and found these numbers.
The average Comus site is doing about 20k clicks and 255% prod.
The top 10 Comus sites average around 400k and 310% prod.
Choker reported to me some time back that there were 80k clicks per day coming in from a 1% skim on the TTT network of 4000 sites, that means the average TTT TGP site is just 2k clicks.
I recieve about 60,000 clicks per day from a 2% skim of 900 Free Comus TGP sites. That means the average Free Comus site is doing 3.33k.
I think this indicates Comus sites are bigger and more productive than the average TGP.
Also the top sites report that upon reseting all the counters in their database, and pulling purely random galleries, the site productivity will drop from 300+% to around 150% and then climb as the database sorts itself out.
Other guys have reported they tried to out think the prod booster, and develop their own schemes, but every time prod and traffic drops.
There is a subsititute to prod booster though, and its called hard work. You review every single gallery, screen everything, hand crop everything, spit and polish for about 10 hours per day. You mettle out your galleries day by day, and you can compete, driving your prod up over the best there is.
If you combine a little bit of both of these things though, review and quality control your content, delete all the ugly stuff, and allow the best stuff to stay and rotate. Get yourself to a point that you have 3000+ nice looking galleries. And then let them spin using prod booster to create your hall of fame. You get better results than using either system alone. And this is how the very top sites work.
But by far the best investment in your time, is to expand your trade network. Getting people to trade with you, is where your growth comes from.
There is only so much the script can do for you, it will give you a slight edge, and in trade circles that will accumulate into a winning advantage, but that is the caveat 'in trade circles'.
The guys who constantly seek new and good quality trades, are the guys who grow and do the best.
My opinion on the TGP game is that it is a chaotic system, based upon a balance of what you contribute to the network.
Picture it like this, there are 100,000 free TGP sites out there, and you are about to plug yourself into the middle of them.
Your contribution is nothing more than your content and your bookmarkers.
Trading is not a perpetual traffic accelerator, (I admit when I first started I thought it was), it will only allow you to leverage what you contribute to the network.
The average site seems to have a total click count of about 10 times more than their bookmarkers. So I keep a rough rule that total traffic is going to be 10x bookmarkers, and your prod allows you to more or less float at a certain level, or in the case of really bad prod, sink.
Bookmarkers themselves only seem to click on average about 15 times per session, this might be across multiple sites, and it is important that people begin their session with you, because they will click a few times on your site, before going on to feed other peoples sites who will send you back more surfers. Getting the bookmarker first then is most beneficial because his 15 clicks will drive both your site up, and your trade partners, who will love your traffic. Bookmarkers consititute your traffic feed to the network.
The only other thing you have to contribute to the network is your content quality, and your design. When you get this right, you will attract bookmarkers, and you will also generate clicks from people who stop and click around.
So when you combine these things, content quality, productive and attractive design, niche targetting, prominent bookmarker buttons, and anything you can do to convince surfers that your place should be the starting spot of their adventures, your cumulative contribution will drive your traffic up.
We have been enjoying a growth phase where many of us have been able to get by, almost purely by a contribution of quality, which has allowed us to capture the surfers and grow bookmarkers. Perhaps this will continue, but I doubt it.
TIP: Did you know also that removing target=_blank from your anchors can drop your prod more than 100 points?
One last thing, dont be afraid to make use of Video. Our Thumb surfers are mostly broadband users, and they have the ability to watch streaming video. Video sites have been the quickest to grow, and occupy 40% of the very top Comus spots. Also pretty Teen sites do very well for collecting clicks.
Examine the more comus sites lists, they begin with the biggest sites, they will tell you volumes about what is working.
Unquestionably though, the prod booster does work.
It stands out more on high volume sites than small ones, because they have larger sample rates to work with.
This month I did a traffic sampling of our network, and found these numbers.
The average Comus site is doing about 20k clicks and 255% prod.
The top 10 Comus sites average around 400k and 310% prod.
Choker reported to me some time back that there were 80k clicks per day coming in from a 1% skim on the TTT network of 4000 sites, that means the average TTT TGP site is just 2k clicks.
I recieve about 60,000 clicks per day from a 2% skim of 900 Free Comus TGP sites. That means the average Free Comus site is doing 3.33k.
I think this indicates Comus sites are bigger and more productive than the average TGP.
Also the top sites report that upon reseting all the counters in their database, and pulling purely random galleries, the site productivity will drop from 300+% to around 150% and then climb as the database sorts itself out.
Other guys have reported they tried to out think the prod booster, and develop their own schemes, but every time prod and traffic drops.
There is a subsititute to prod booster though, and its called hard work. You review every single gallery, screen everything, hand crop everything, spit and polish for about 10 hours per day. You mettle out your galleries day by day, and you can compete, driving your prod up over the best there is.
If you combine a little bit of both of these things though, review and quality control your content, delete all the ugly stuff, and allow the best stuff to stay and rotate. Get yourself to a point that you have 3000+ nice looking galleries. And then let them spin using prod booster to create your hall of fame. You get better results than using either system alone. And this is how the very top sites work.
But by far the best investment in your time, is to expand your trade network. Getting people to trade with you, is where your growth comes from.
There is only so much the script can do for you, it will give you a slight edge, and in trade circles that will accumulate into a winning advantage, but that is the caveat 'in trade circles'.
The guys who constantly seek new and good quality trades, are the guys who grow and do the best.
My opinion on the TGP game is that it is a chaotic system, based upon a balance of what you contribute to the network.
Picture it like this, there are 100,000 free TGP sites out there, and you are about to plug yourself into the middle of them.
Your contribution is nothing more than your content and your bookmarkers.
Trading is not a perpetual traffic accelerator, (I admit when I first started I thought it was), it will only allow you to leverage what you contribute to the network.
The average site seems to have a total click count of about 10 times more than their bookmarkers. So I keep a rough rule that total traffic is going to be 10x bookmarkers, and your prod allows you to more or less float at a certain level, or in the case of really bad prod, sink.
Bookmarkers themselves only seem to click on average about 15 times per session, this might be across multiple sites, and it is important that people begin their session with you, because they will click a few times on your site, before going on to feed other peoples sites who will send you back more surfers. Getting the bookmarker first then is most beneficial because his 15 clicks will drive both your site up, and your trade partners, who will love your traffic. Bookmarkers consititute your traffic feed to the network.
The only other thing you have to contribute to the network is your content quality, and your design. When you get this right, you will attract bookmarkers, and you will also generate clicks from people who stop and click around.
So when you combine these things, content quality, productive and attractive design, niche targetting, prominent bookmarker buttons, and anything you can do to convince surfers that your place should be the starting spot of their adventures, your cumulative contribution will drive your traffic up.
We have been enjoying a growth phase where many of us have been able to get by, almost purely by a contribution of quality, which has allowed us to capture the surfers and grow bookmarkers. Perhaps this will continue, but I doubt it.
TIP: Did you know also that removing target=_blank from your anchors can drop your prod more than 100 points?
One last thing, dont be afraid to make use of Video. Our Thumb surfers are mostly broadband users, and they have the ability to watch streaming video. Video sites have been the quickest to grow, and occupy 40% of the very top Comus spots. Also pretty Teen sites do very well for collecting clicks.
Examine the more comus sites lists, they begin with the biggest sites, they will tell you volumes about what is working.
Re: The Prod Booster Technique.
I switched from the old best-no click prod booster to this new one, before I had 200% avg prod.....now I cant seem to get back to that and goes up and down from 150-210 and stays more so on the lower end.....any clue why this would do this? Should I re reset certain things to record the clicks from a better start? HOpe this makes sense, thanks again!!!!!!!
Re: The Prod Booster Technique.
Follow up: Puffyz got hold of me on IRC, and I went over the site, repairing a few things that were out of place.
His site was running pretty much at random, due to some macros failing and replacing all his thumbs with the random fill ins.
The main problem being shortages of galleries.
Its important when using prodbooster that you really have more than ample galleries in the database, THUMBED and APPROVED and ready to go.
1000 minimum is a nice easy number and will cover most of you.
Remember 10 minutes = 144 per day = 1440 in 10 days.
Rotation plays a key: 75 for spin% means you will hold 750 galleries in display and release 25% of the galleries. So a 1000 minimum will mean you have 250 at any one time that is released from your site.
If you only have 500 galleries, then you might choose to half the refresh rate of your site, set it to 20 minutes, so you only pull 72 galleries per day.
Maybe if you only have 500 galleries, you can raise the spin% to 80% so the site will keep 400 galleries on your site, and release 100 for re-use.
His site was running pretty much at random, due to some macros failing and replacing all his thumbs with the random fill ins.
The main problem being shortages of galleries.
Its important when using prodbooster that you really have more than ample galleries in the database, THUMBED and APPROVED and ready to go.
1000 minimum is a nice easy number and will cover most of you.
Remember 10 minutes = 144 per day = 1440 in 10 days.
Rotation plays a key: 75 for spin% means you will hold 750 galleries in display and release 25% of the galleries. So a 1000 minimum will mean you have 250 at any one time that is released from your site.
If you only have 500 galleries, then you might choose to half the refresh rate of your site, set it to 20 minutes, so you only pull 72 galleries per day.
Maybe if you only have 500 galleries, you can raise the spin% to 80% so the site will keep 400 galleries on your site, and release 100 for re-use.