Comments on: Tales of The Unexpected Traffic Sources http://www.agilemicroisv.com/2009/07/tales-of-the-unexpected-traffic-sources/ Small fish. Big pond. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:12:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: timhaughton http://www.agilemicroisv.com/2009/07/tales-of-the-unexpected-traffic-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-190 timhaughton Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:04:05 +0000 http://www.agilemicroisv.com/?p=119#comment-190 I will continue to experiment, but as usual, Andy is spot on. For Home Document Manager at least, anything other than laser targeted traffic is worthless. I will continue to experiment, but as usual, Andy is spot on. For Home Document Manager at least, anything other than laser targeted traffic is worthless.

]]> By: Javier Rojas http://www.agilemicroisv.com/2009/07/tales-of-the-unexpected-traffic-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Javier Rojas Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:11:49 +0000 http://www.agilemicroisv.com/?p=119#comment-189 Regarding Andy's comment, maybe untargeted traffic can perform better if your product is more massive (I mean less niche). Regarding Andy’s comment, maybe untargeted traffic can perform better if your product is more massive (I mean less niche).

]]> By: timhaughton http://www.agilemicroisv.com/2009/07/tales-of-the-unexpected-traffic-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-157 timhaughton Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:25:16 +0000 http://www.agilemicroisv.com/?p=119#comment-157 Totally agree, but shortage of bandwidth is not a problem for me. I guess I'm happy if a thousand untargetted visitors arrive at my blog - maybe a few of them will mention my app to their friends/wife/boss/butler. But yes, untargetted visitors are not something to be actively chased. Experiments I've done with things like StumbleUpon would agree with your findings. Totally agree, but shortage of bandwidth is not a problem for me. I guess I’m happy if a thousand untargetted visitors arrive at my blog – maybe a few of them will mention my app to their friends/wife/boss/butler. But yes, untargetted visitors are not something to be actively chased. Experiments I’ve done with things like StumbleUpon would agree with your findings.

]]> By: Andy Brice http://www.agilemicroisv.com/2009/07/tales-of-the-unexpected-traffic-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Andy Brice Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:56:30 +0000 http://www.agilemicroisv.com/?p=119#comment-156 Targeting is everything. Untargeted traffic just wastes bandwidth. I have the stats to prove it: http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/06/07/the-importance-of-targeted-website-traffic/ Visitors to my software blog convert to PerfectTablePlan sales at about 0.0005%! Targeting is everything. Untargeted traffic just wastes bandwidth. I have the stats to prove it:

http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/06/07/the-importance-of-targeted-website-traffic/

Visitors to my software blog convert to PerfectTablePlan sales at about 0.0005%!

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