well April for me with epn was OK (fluke?) around the same as with CJ, May however is turning into a disaster. Earnings around 80% down on avergae earnings taken over a seven month period. Looking at my stats, April was good now I see primarily because I had three purchasers that brought multiple items on the same day from the same niche as my site. Now with CJ consistently around 25-30% of my sales were from products completely outside of my niche, whereas for April and May products brought outside of my sites niche account for 0.5%. This would indicate to me that the 7 day cookie is not working and that the only sales credited are those that occur during the session that occurs after the initial click. ie if the user logs out after clicking my link then returns later no sales are credited. Is anybody else experiencing this sort of behaviour? ie sales appearing outside of niche? It would certainly explain the big dip in sales.
The majority of my EPN sales have been 'out of niche' - so I'm guessing that the cookie is working across sessions. At least for me. I don't think we'll ever find out exactly what's going on with EPN, but there's definitely something wrong - my sales are still WAY down (by at least 50%) from what they were back in the CJ days.
Well that blows that theory out of the water! As I said last month was OK for me but this month is turning into a disaster and thats after at least five months of steady growth, it does not make sense. Whats that saying about ..... eggs in one basket
This month has been like I was a newbie all over again. The sad thing is this month I am on pace for the most clicks I have ever had in a month. If you take out one abnormally large day it should still be a top five finish for me. But the worst month in the last twelve months for earnings. Color me dissapointed in EPN.
I haven't switched all of my CJ links to EPN links, so at least I made normal earnings for my last month as an ebay affiliate. My ebay niches are for guitars and baseball memorabilia but I don't get many winning bids outside of my niches so I'm just going toreplace my ebay affiliate stuff with CJ product feeds from Musician's Friend and MLB.com because EPN is already banning publishers for "low quality traffic" without giving any details as to what they consider "low quality".... Sounds like EPN is going to end up being as evil as Adsense. mcjp6 , you're so right, "don't put all your eggs in one basket"..
Have you tried PepperJam and CJ product feeds yet ? Also, Amazon has some very good solutions for publishers/developers.
have'nt heard of pepperjam, I will check it out, cj feeds yes, setting up some with popshops which seems quite good. kept clear of amazon todate because commissions quite low but maybe now they can't be as low as epn I might give them a go as well. some diversification is what is called for I think. slowly but surely.