fish

I'd like to chat (pm) with anyone who use the EPN with regards QPC, not wanting to know your earnings! but more about how it's working for you, your EPC ratings and general swapping of ideas.

This month has tanked spectacularly for me, I'm not sure why but I'm getting a 'titanic' kind of feeling

If your using the a2p plugin as well I'd be especially keen to chat!

TIA

Fish

fletchbog

Im using both on a couple of sites mate, earnings started really well this month now dropped to less than £1 a day at the moment

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WestHamFan

Not using A2P although I do mainly use RSS based scripts. QCP earnings have generally trended upwards during this month (including during the tracking issue 13th-16th) so absolutely no complaints from me.

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Fabster

Hmm...it's apparent that I do something wrong. I can't seem to generate much from EPN. What niches do you feel work the best?

fish

My QPC has gone from 11 - 15 down to 4 - 8 this month. I have added new sites so this may be why, anyone have experience of this?

fish

My personal thoughts:

Not sure you'll get folk telling the world what their best performing niche is

If you take the time to research and find a vertical that is not covered by 1000s of other affiliates, build a useful, informative site around the subject then you're on the way to earning regular amounts.

It sometimes pays to choose a subject that you have a personal interest in since this makes it easier for you to write articles about it, and you'll be more inclined to keep it updated and spend time on it.

Don't just pick a niche just because it has high value sale items, also try to avoid something that's seasonal (for your first sites), be totally transparent in your site telling visitors they'll be buying from the eBay platform.

And, unless you have a 1st class domain that gets natural type in traffic don't think you can just build and forget it whilst the $£ roll in, you reap what you sow.

Note to self; take two large tablespoons of your own advice twice a day until you retire .....

DeanS

This month has been really bad for me also. Even August was better. I'm wondering if something has changed in the QCP algorithm. By any chance is anyone else displaying 'buy it now' listings only? this might be the cause

WestHamFan

I ignore the EPC number as it simply seems to be calculated by dividing a % of eBay's revenue by clicks generated over a period of time.

I keep checking to see that I'm consistently earning 60-65% of eBay's revenue over the longer term which is fine by me. The daly EPC stat is all over the place just as the daily click numbers are.

If ever I fall below 50% of eBay's revenue on my sales taken over a fair sample period (3 months +) then I will bitch.

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fish

is that a bit of cavalier attitude especially when they can drop you from the programme altogether for epc values of 6 or less?

fish

Continuing on the EPN theme, I put a question to them about the EB Motors program and the issue of off EB motor sales, interesting to hear their response, even if they did somewhat skirt the question ..... view it here