50K clickthroughs, few earnings

Sorry for being annoying, I already posted this some time ago, but I still don’t understand how is it possible that I make 50.000 clickthoughs a month and, beside the fact that I’m not sure where the hell do they come from, I don’t understand why I earn only 100-200$ a month with them: is the same amount I was earning with 3-4000 clickthorughs…

Does anybody have an idea? is descouraging for me..I took a lot of time to market my files all around but it doesn’t seem to work very well… I’d like to know some opinions of others making many clickthroughs a month..thanks again

The clickthroughs really does not earn you any money, because the referral program does not pay for clickthroughs, what matters is the “Deposits” by “Registered Members”. The clickthroughs increases your chance of someone registering to buy something, but not all clickthroughs lead to registrations or deposits, in fact most don’t (I wish they did)

Example of A good month:

7683 Clickthroughs 61 Registered Members 46 Deposits $224.40 Earnings

What could be happening to you is that a lot of people are looking at the product, but they are not registering to buy, or they may be waiting to buy??

You aren’t targeting the right niche traffic my friend. You’re advertising condoms to 50,000 monks.

Like loswl said, the referral program is based on the deposits. Unless the click-through sees a recurring opportunity within the marketplace for himself, he isn’t going to deposit money. He’ll either just buy an item and leave or, worse yet, just leave

Your demographic are generally younger people within some creative field.

Yep I’m pretty expert about this stuff… I know what you mean guys, the fact is that I’m sure the niche is absolutely correct. I jumped from 3K clickthroughs to 50K in like a month and it’s weird, because I’ve checked my stats in the social networks I have, and they are not able to generate that traffic. The conclusion I reached is that Google indicize me a lot more than it should at DeviantArt and then my files appear when searching unrelated things.

I should probably try to present better my profile? Probably I’m not clear when marketing myself, I design mainly Actions and Add-ons, so probably the fact that “is not clear what I’m selling here” just scary out all the people that are not expert in PS, even if they could something of mine. I mean when I show to my friends what I sell, the say “what the hell is that, and WHY ” but then when I explain in detail, they agree in saying that it could have sense to buy sth like a set of Layer Styles for example.

I mean this is my same reaction when I go in CodeCanyon…I think “what the hell is that” just because the language is too technical, too specific to involve a new user (and create a new necessity for him).

So probably I should present myself in a different clearer way.. and try to explain better what I’m selling.

what do you think?

JinWook said
You aren’t targeting the right niche traffic my friend. You’re advertising condoms to 50,000 monks.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA

You jumped from 3k to 50k in one month? That’s like paranormal activity. I assume it must be Google, as you mentioned. Perhaps someone is link farming? That number defines natural numerical progression, unless you spent an awful lot of money on advertising last month.

You brought up another interesting point about item previews. I am aware that internet users are particularly visual and have particularly short attention spans. Preview images, irrespective of the marketplace, must indicate immediately what your item is and how you can use it in your own projects. That has got to be communicated in a very simple way I think. I’m trying to improve preview images for my own items to see if they have a significant impact on sales.

But as for that 3k->50k jump I have no idea, thats unreal. If you find out what you did, let us know.

I took a look at the descriptions on your items and they are pretty good. Where I think you could improve is in adding more keywords to your items. I would use 30 keywords, since we are allowed 30. A good place to find great key words that we would not usually think of is Google AdWords Keywords Tool

Another problem I thought of that could be happening, which also happen to me is that some or all of your items might be on sites that give your items away for free (we are not allowed to discuss these sites in the forum). These sites usually give a link to your item, but they also give a link to the free download, so you may be getting high clickthroughs from these sites, but no purchases, just a thought.

Yeah, a 3k->50k jump is unreal unless you are doing something really special

I don’t know much about deviant art, but do you get any analytics information from them? Do you have any way to know where all the refferral traffic is coming from? Then you can try and find out what landing page they enter GR through.

EHEH maybe loswl spotted the right solution!

@CRSDesign, no unfortunately I don’t have any tools wich allow to check where the refs comes from with precision.

@JinWook yep it’s huge.. and also they’re new every month, I mean 50K every month where the hell do they come from, because they’re new people or wouldn’t count as clickthroughs…

I will try to figure out where they come from, may be when we’ll have some tools to check our refs I will understand it My objective is to transform that number of visitors into a nicer income …

Amrhamza said

JinWook said
You aren’t targeting the right niche traffic my friend. You’re advertising condoms to 50,000 monks.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA

I did exactly the same thing HAHAHAHAHAHA !