EPN is going to fuck us! QCP Preview Available
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Ebay replied on their forums, Click Forensics apparently is not providing that service. Someone is full of crap, I am tempted to believe it is Click Forensics and not Ebay because Ebay is very careful about what they say, and they pretty clearly denied these claims.
I killed one campaign yesterday after letting it run for ~3 months or so. It was doing lousy - a dozen or so clicks a day and nearly zero revenue for ebay.
My EPC jumped to $0.05 for yesterday. That's a 150% increase
I was sitting at $0.02 and I am starting to get worried about the low EPC so I'm killing sites and adding new ones. I have 10 waiting in the wings for exactly this purpose- I think I am going to bring them all online and see what works.
My EPC jumped to $0.05 for yesterday. That's a 150% increase
I was sitting at $0.02 and I am starting to get worried about the low EPC so I'm killing sites and adding new ones. I have 10 waiting in the wings for exactly this purpose- I think I am going to bring them all online and see what works.
Set a (QCP) record 0.61 EPC for 1/11. Pulling the transaction report I see I made a fairly large sale which was on the exact topic of the site that referred it. This site really only does well in spring/summer, so I'm excited to see if this continues.
Lately about $10-$12 across 3 sites (only 2 of which contribute very much traffic). However, just one of those sites was pulling in $25/day before QCP. However, since QCP started around the time of year that those products go out of style, I won't have a real baseline for QCP until August or so.
From what I recall, your products should be pretty seasonal too, right? Do you have a good base for comparing QCP yet?
Lately about $10-$12 across 3 sites (only 2 of which contribute very much traffic). However, just one of those sites was pulling in $25/day before QCP. However, since QCP started around the time of year that those products go out of style, I won't have a real baseline for QCP until August or so.
From what I recall, your products should be pretty seasonal too, right? Do you have a good base for comparing QCP yet?
i make between $10-$25/day with EPN across 5 sites. i have been using EPN (and the old programs) for years now...and it's still paying off.
Just an FYI -
I killed one campaign last weekend - it had been crap for the 3 months since I started it - I figured that was long enough. It was at like $0.02 forever.
Since then my overall EPC has jumped from an average of $0.04 to $0.19. It's only been a week so it might be a coincidence - but I just had my best two days ever in a row.
I killed one campaign last weekend - it had been crap for the 3 months since I started it - I figured that was long enough. It was at like $0.02 forever.
Since then my overall EPC has jumped from an average of $0.04 to $0.19. It's only been a week so it might be a coincidence - but I just had my best two days ever in a row.
lol grammar fail
My gut feeling tells me that the QCP is just a fuck-job but when I go look at 2009 the numbers don't lie. Ever since QCP has been instated I've seen 3x the EPC so I really can't complain.
It might have to do with me having to disable my larger campaigns due to the no-trademark-domain rule that they put in. I'm not sure.
If you get a new domain name, you could 301 that traffic I think. Don't quote me on that I haven't done it myself, but off the top of my head, I can't see why it wouldn't work.
That's true, I've done this before with OK results for a smaller site but just didn't want to risk the rankings for the sites in question (one around 2k uniques daily) since I'm kind of a fraidy-cat.
At the time it was a good excuse to start diversifying my income. I can't sleep well at night with a huge chunk of my monthly change coming from EPN.
IF I were going to do such a thing, I'd just have a parked tm domain pointing to me non tm domain and perhaps make use of the canoncial tag and/or a 301 redirect
4th record day in a row going on - killing that underperforming site seems like something I delayed far too long...
For the A2P old timers here...what EPC would you consider "too low" and kill? And how long would you wait with a new site before killing it? I waited 3 months - the site bounced wildly during that time from $0.14 to $0.02 and back - but after I killed the worst site things seem more stable (granted, it's only been 4 days...)
For the A2P old timers here...what EPC would you consider "too low" and kill? And how long would you wait with a new site before killing it? I waited 3 months - the site bounced wildly during that time from $0.14 to $0.02 and back - but after I killed the worst site things seem more stable (granted, it's only been 4 days...)
This is kind of funny - I have one site which I did some light SEO for - it's now my second worst site money-wise (but not bad EPC).
The only SEO I did for it was a Zimbio + Squidoo RSS submit and one set of Red_Virus' backlinks.
I haven't even looked at it in like 3 weeks - and I checked today and it had hit #3 in the SERPS. At first I thought personalized search was on - but it wasn't.
I probably need to do something with this...
The only SEO I did for it was a Zimbio + Squidoo RSS submit and one set of Red_Virus' backlinks.
I haven't even looked at it in like 3 weeks - and I checked today and it had hit #3 in the SERPS. At first I thought personalized search was on - but it wasn't.
I probably need to do something with this...
On the site that you killed, how many impressions a day were you getting. I have a couple of really old sites, like back from the Build a Niche Store days that have 0 EPC, but they're only getting like 50 impressions a day and no clicks. Wonder if shutting those down would do anything productive.
I killed it on 1/9 - as in completely blew away the Wordpress installation so I know there were no impressions after that.
The stats for that site were 62 impressions and 9 clicks.
Now you know why I killed it
My overall EPC was $0.02 on site at the time I killed it. I just ran a report and I had 308 clicks up through and including the 9th - so like 2% of the clicks were dragging down the total a HUGE percentage. Literally it is 9X higher - I've been averaging $0.18 since then. AND I just had my best day ever.
Makes you wonder about that algorith...
The stats for that site were 62 impressions and 9 clicks.
Now you know why I killed it
My overall EPC was $0.02 on site at the time I killed it. I just ran a report and I had 308 clicks up through and including the 9th - so like 2% of the clicks were dragging down the total a HUGE percentage. Literally it is 9X higher - I've been averaging $0.18 since then. AND I just had my best day ever.
Makes you wonder about that algorith...