I’ve just checked my stats for my Free Backlinks Generator site and found I’d had

20181 visitors since July last year:

Total Visitors

and 5446 in the last 2 weeks!

March Visitors

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However I’ve only had 5256 total optins or 26%.

I was on a coaching call with Jip Uppal and Adam Spiel last Wednesday and Jit said our optin rate should be 50% or more.
That implies with the same traffic I can now get an extra 5000+ Subscribers :)

I’m using the butterfly script because it has powerfull features including easy upsells/downsells membership area and built in affliate program that all members automatically belong to.
I have also added my own plug-in feature to drip feed monthly membership content.

My old signup page has a link that goes to a sign up page which asks for first name, email address, and also they have to tick a box to agree to terms and conditions.
This is too complicated. The simpler the better to get the maximum number of signups.

I got rid of the link and placed the optin on the squeeze page.
I tried to change it to only ask for email, but the script gave an error and the submit button didnt work.

I ended up using view souce, and created a new html page, bypassing the butterfly script homepage.
I edited out the check box and the first name form and simplified the pafge down to just a few sentences.

This won’t work well for Google traffic (which has been 1,800 visitors) but I will change so I have one on the root domain for search engines and a different ones for squeeze pages for adswaps and giveaways.
I will be split testing these and continually improving them.

If I can double my optin rate I will also double my sales, and with a bigger list can adswap with larger lists and grow even faster.
I’m recording all my stats – visitors, optins etc and will report back in a month or so.

If you are starting out get your sites setup fast – it’s better to have something working than to spend ages trying to make something perfect that never will be.

I will stick with the butterfly script because I know how to set it up, but if you are new just use something simple. Don’t spend time looking at ten different scripts with various different features just use straight html pages.

Keep improving and testing to make the most out of what you have.

I’ll be posting again soon with my improved results :)

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