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Computing A TGP's Potential Earnings
by TGPFactory Staff, 2005
If you have the patience to grow your TGP, then stick to it.. the money's there and you can use simple math to forecast your earnings:
(# Hits daily) * (Productivity / 100) * (Skim/100) * (Tour Ratio) *(Conversion Ratio) * (# Days In Month) * (Sponsor Payout)
I know it may not seem simple, but it is. I'll explain:
# Hits Daily is obviously the size of your site. We'll use 2,000 for this example.
Productivity/100 is the decimal version of how many clicks to galleries you're getting. Let's say you're at 110% overall productivity, the decimal is 1.1. This means your site is seeing 2,200 clicks each day.
Skim/100 is the decimal percentage of clicks that are getting to galleries. Let's assume you're skimming 65% to galleries, so this value is 0.65. Multiply 2,200 clicks by 0.65 and you'll see that 1,430 clicks are getting to your galleries.
Tour Ratio is how many surfers at your galleries click the "See More" links. Since most surfers just want free porn and close the gallery after viewing, this number may be significantly lower - you'll have to find out for youreslf. Check your daily stats at affiliate programs and compare to your overall gallery clicks. Let's estimate a generous 10%, or 0.10, for this example. Multiply 1,430 by 0.10 and find that 143 surfers get to your join page.
Multiply that number by your conversion ratio. This will vary from sponsor to sponsor (check your stats for your own conversation ratio(s), then average them out to one ratio if you have multiple sponsors). I think a healthy industry average is 1 in 400, meaning for every 400 people that get to the join page, 1 signs up.
1 divided by 400 is 0.25%, or 0.0025. Multiply 143 by this ratio, and the result is 0.3575. That means that, on average, 0.3575 people are signing up through your affiliates on a daily basis.
This may not seem like a large number, but when you multiply this by the number of days in the month (31 for October), you get 11.0825. That's 11 sign-ups per month.
Lastly, multiply this number by your sponsor payout - let's say $35 per join, a relatively average payout. Assuming my calculations are correct, you could be making $387 per month, or $4,654 per year.
Now of course each value will vary - your productivity could be horribly worse, your conversation ratio could be significantly better. Each of these will affect your estimated earnings, so my recommendation is to compute a buffer range - take values from both the best possible scenario and the worst possible scenario, and compute your earnings with each. This will give you a relatively accurate range of what you could expect.
