Originally
I started this site for my own personal use. When I started out in
1998 it seemed only too easy to make a little pocket money, I realise
now that I wasted so many years of big money making opportunities
and it is only recently that I have started to reach a position that
I should have been at several years back.
Every
year I learn something new and more recently I have learned that signing
up to nearly every new sponsor that I stumbled across is not the right
way to do things. It is also wrong to try and have a little in every
niche, conentraing your efforts over just 2-3 niche areas are far
more rewarding. I was trying to have a large mix of sponsors to throw
into the bowl for my blogs, giving them as much eye candy and appeal
as possible, then I started to take more notice of conversion rates.
Why had
I been spending months sharing my traffic between 12-15 sponsors when
one was converting at 1:350 and another 0:5500. A long and tedious
plan was launched to weed out sponsors who were not performing for
me, I know I was probably promoting some of them wrong, but at the
end of the day, not making a sale when you have sent over 5000 clicks
to a site is a major traffic leak, one which required blocking.
I am
not going to write reviews for those selected below, as I said at
the beginning, this site was actually started for my own personal
use so I will provide the links and you can do some homework.