I wrote once or twice about an aff site of mine that is just going *nowhere*. I’m starting to get some nice, targeted traffic (top 10 in both MSN and Yahoo! - nowhere in Goog of course :???:), yet I just don’t see *any* sales. Ok one or two, but that’s it!

My visitors are poking around the site (about 6 page views/visitor), bookmarking pages, clicking off to merchants (around 2,600 merchant clicks last month), yet *nothing*.

So what’s a super aff to think?

I want to say the merchants royally suck (all six of them).

But that’s too easy.

The average EPC per merchant is around $10. Just for me it seems to be $0 :lol:.

I’ve been tossing and turning, thinking hard, and I have come to a conclusion.

My traffic is swarming with *browsers*.

Not *buyers*.

My keyword traffic is too generic.

Ick.

I have some decisions to make. Do I slap on adsense and become Google’s bitc*? I *hate* that. I’m the type of affiliate that doesn’t want an aff site *owned* by any one merchant or ad network. If I give up and throw adsense on it, Google owns that site because that’s the only method bringing money in.

But when does being stubborn and determined become a fool’s game?

So I can try drawing in more specific keyword traffic, but damn that’s going to be tricky. Without giving details on what I’m selling (errm, trying to sell), the items are several hundred dollars to $1,000+ and oh, about 666 different varieties.

Do I just need to be more patient because that niche is a tougher sell?

Do I need to scrap most of the merchants and try different ones?

Do I scream for mercy and take the easy way out and let Google become the boss of the site with adsense?

And the most pressing question:

Will I ever be able to write about super successful affiliate sites of mine on this blog?

Conclusion: I don’t have any answers for this site yet.

Stay tuned.