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Originally Posted by Rcourt64

I understand about similar site trades for targeting your niche
But key-wording your link? is it as effective to SE"s as they say?
and wouldn't this in a trade might possibly help partner site with S.E's rankings instead of your own sales?

If it's a text link you want it worded such that it will attract the attention of the desired surfer. If you have a MILF Facials site something along the lines of Sexy Cumslut Mom's might be an effecting link. Understanding exactly what your target surfer is looking for is critical.

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

More please about GEO Traffic.... "if your willing to say?"

Geo targetting can be as simple as filtering out Chinese traffic, or as complex as redirecting to alternate language versions of the site. Cost increases with complexity, so it make little sense to do a lot of geo filtering unless you have a large quantity of traffic that you can't otherwise convert.

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

I can't manage whats not analyzed?

1. How do I determine where these generated traffic sales are coming from?
2. On rebills, Only sponsor gets to know where that traffic sale originated from, (...HURRY, HURRY FOR YOU & SPONSOR ON RECHARGE ) ...But again they're also unaware from where did you obtain this traffic from either?
So then..."How is retention traffic obtained or kept?

1. The best you can do is get the referring URL's from your sponsor stats, and unless you can include a code that identifies the specific traffic source it's pretty tough to track back from the sale to the traffic source. I'm not so concerned about analyzing all of my sources to that degree. I'm more concerned with how adding/removing/changing things effect total traffic in, total traffic out, and number of clicks to the sponsor tours.
2. Unless you're promoting a sponsor site as being something that it is not, there is little you can do to to effect retention. That's really up to the sponsor. Over a period of months lets say sponsor A and sponsor B both generate an average of 100 new sales per month, but sponsor A rebills 65 sales a month and sponsor B rebills only 20. I'll probably start sending more traffic to sponsor A and a little less to sponsor B.

Don't get overly caught up in the details, or short term fluctuations, you're really looking more for trends.

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

Did you know I learned HTML before those Google Guys existed..I just felt that was important to point out here.

OK, and I took my first programming course before many of the guys working for Google were even born. Your point?

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

How can you determine this until you find the source of your sales traffic?

If traffic from source A increases significantly and sales also increase it's reasonable to conclude that the additional traffic from source A was the primary reason. If you also increase traffic from sources B, C & D at the same time then it's a more complex problem. Unless you have control of the surfer through the entire transaction from arriving at your site until he/she has purchased there is no way to consistently know the specific traffic source for each of your sales.