It depends on where and when I advertise. I have Google Analytics, and where I get the bulk of my traffic with the least amount of effort is where I buy the advertising. For example: when you're on a site where there are a MILLION girls and you still get the most traffic from that site,(for me that's Punterlink) I would step up my game and get a featured listing. If I'm on a site, and I don't get very much play at all, say a local review board, and I only get spikes of inquiries when I post something, and they offer banner advertisements, I would buy the banner placement for a month, and post as much as possible, and if it doesn't do well, or you don't get ANY bookings, I dump it.

It's not about what other ladies are doing. Just analyze your own business, and set goals to do better than you have been. Compete against yourself. If you need any help, just pm me.



Happy hunting!

I get lots of hits from Google and have just put a free ad on the Google Maps Local Business bit (where you get a brief, clickable listing page with a little map with a pointer on - obviously shift it a few streets away from your actual location), although it is still 'Pending' and apparently has to be checked - does anybody know how long this takes? And does anybody use Adwords?

I agree that the figures don't matter - my site is pretty well ranked Google-wise and gets a fair few hits but I live in the arse end of nowhere and am not competing with ten squillion other ladies for local traffic. Plus, the numbers don't always reflect actual business - I get tons of hits from my profile here and a huge number from my blog which I know is read by lots of different people including other ladies (and ditto theirs; I often spend the odd free hour catching up with folk  ). The cash in the bank at the end of the day is what matters.