I'm looking for ebay affiliates that are still up and running after the change from commission to EPC. How is this working out for you? I have been away from eBay for a few months now and don't think i'm ready for the most recent changes to the program. Seems like it may be a lot of work for no reward. Maybe not? You tell me Any info would be helpful
I've been up and I've been down with EPN since their quality click pricing pament system started up. I run simple ecommerce sites, using a heavily modified version of the McJiffy script (eg. http://epn-auction-site-demo.pmnova.com/ ). At one point I was getting up to $1 a click with my sites under QCP. Currently I'm down, but that was due to my own stupidity. Due to financial difficulties, I had my sites set up on Byethost's free hosting service, and Byethost suspendied all my hosting accounts and redirected the traffic to their MyBookFace site, when the sites started to get good results. Since then the sites have gotten very little traffic. A good example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. A few tips:- Thin affiliate eCommerce sites seem to do well under QCP. If you have a content site, then it might be best to add an auction site backend to it, rather than depending on ads embedded into the content pages. Try to get as much targeted search engine traffic as you can. In particular, try to get consumer oriented traffic. For my sites, I found adding the word 'buy' in front of the auction page keyword where it appears in the title tag and page title, resulted in search engine traffic that was 4-10 times more productive than my original traffic. Write out the affiliate links to the eBay auctions using Javascript, and encode the links where they appear in the Javascript source code. This will still pass referrer information for the links, but will stop unfiltered spider and scraper bots from click-bombing your links. Don't be too impatient with the results you get. It will take time to get good keyword targeted results from the search engines. It will also take time for the Quality Click Pricing algorithm to build up a history for a campaign, and start to give you the click pricing your campaign really deserves. Allow at least a month or two for any meaningful results to occur.
This is some fantastic information. What a great response to my post. I was never expecting to see the extent of the content in this post. Your great! Thanks for taking the time to provide me with this information. My only question is in regard to the McJiffy script. I did see the demo site you have posted and like it very much but how do you drive traffic to this site. I have a hard time understanding how you get the traffic to the site that doesn't creat post like wordpress. If you know what I mean?
Sounds like solid advice Bill, but is it even worth the effort now for people to build up eCommerce sites specifically for eBay anymore? Maybe, since the changes, it is only worth pursuing as an add-on to an already existing big quality traffic generating site?
It sucks, I was making $10+ a day and growing from good SE traffic, and out of the blue all of my clicks are suddenly worth $0.00 because they were not bidding enough.