Making money with the Auction2Post Plugin



Interesting notes on my eBay sites:

Bounce rate is very low < 40%, on one it's around 25%
Time on site is over 2 minutes
Pageviews are averaging around 3 or so
Getting traffic from Google Images for a lot of long tails

Found a new plugin that is super cool: WPtouch: Mobile Plugin + Theme for WordPress ? BraveNewCode Inc. For the iPhone and other smartphones / PDA's, it displays a very simple easy to use / read interface. I checked it on my iPhone and it works flawlessly.

Twitrobot and Twitter feed have helped bring in some Twitter traffic. Don't forget stumbleupon, reddit, propellor, etc.

Hope everyone is having fun and making a little money with their sites. My "main" one is up to about $115 this month, so in 2 1/2 months, it's made about $265. According to the EPN Quality Click Pricing Preview, if this were QCP priced it would be at $212 instead of $115. So, apparently EPN likes my traffic.

I did lose a lot of clicks recently (last couple weeks) because I moved the site twice, but clicks are coming back up. Going to start doing some SEO and seeing what works and what doesn't. I'll let you know.

So, how are your sites doing? Anything cool to report?
 
Don't know where else to ask. Getting into whole EPN craze, building sites using a2p.
Question - how much content do you guys have on these sites? Thinking to put a nice article, pictures and maybe video on store's home page and have categories pages. Is it a right approach? :1zhelp:
 
SEO_Mike said:
Tips on getting accepted with eBay Partner Network (ePN)

Great thread on getting accepted to EPN.

My favorite is the Squidoo trick. ;)
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I have this same problem and I'll look into this because frankly - inasmuch as fool-proof schemes go - this one seems bullet proof.

The real problem I had was that the EPN got me into a catch-22. I couldn't update my application because I wasn't accepted and I couldn't make a new one because I was rejected.

Can I be part of the EPN without a regular ebay seller account? And before you flame away this IS the n00b forum (and I am a dumbass in the realm of AM still).
 
guerilla said:
You should have PM'd this. If you want discreet info, be discreet when requesting it.
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I LOL'd because it's true. :)

Actually though, radio has some sites set up for people to see what an A2P site could look like. You don't need to see mine, and I don't want to post them anyhow. If I did, there would be a bunch of people that assume it's a money making site and copy the theme, categories, keywords (product) and even try to buy a domain similar to it. THEN if they don't make money with a clone of my site they get discouraged and upset that they couldn't make a go of it.

So, it really doesn't help anybody if I did post one of my sites. Just look at radio's sample sites to get an idea of what an A2P site looks like (or could look like)
 
SEO_Mike said:
Actually though, radio has some sites set up for people to see what an A2P site could look like. You don't need to see mine, and I don't want to post them anyhow. If I did, there would be a bunch of people that assume it's a money making site and copy the theme, categories, keywords (product) and even try to buy a domain similar to it. THEN if they don't make money with a clone of my site they get discouraged and upset that they couldn't make a go of it.
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^^^ this. But I've never been able to articulate it quite like this. Nice.

People have shared great ideas of uses for a2p with me. However, I don't incorporate those into my sample sites. I keep them to a site that's a basic keyword search and a standard wp theme install. Forces people to come up with their own ideas and implementations and those are going to be the ideas and sites that are more successful than a simple copy and paste duplicate site. Sure there are ideas out there that can improve an a2p site... but it doesn't mean those ideas come from other a2p sites!

Get creative! Good luck!
 
Mike / Radio,
Thank you both .. I do see more now what you are talking about as I looked around the boards a bit more than I did before. Thanks for the help and the direction about how your site will get cloned.

Back to the lab again for me to put together some of my own creative ideas. :)
Have a great weekend.
 
now you got it! good luck - take some risks, try something new, implement something you see on another site, experiment. doing this builds 'big picture' thinking and you'll be able to take what you learn in new directions and be more proficient in doing so.
 
Another question - is this plugin licensed on a 1 per site or is it able to be used across multiple sites?

Man - I am so pumped to try this - waiting for EPN approval before buying it (props to the links above on how to get approved).
 
one license does it all! unlimited site license (for domains you own). forget approval. use some of the tips above for monetizing other methods and then just add the campaign ids once you get approved by epn.

:D
 
radio said:
one license does it all! unlimited site license (for domains you own). forget approval. use some of the tips above for monetizing other methods and then just add the campaign ids once you get approved by epn.

:D
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Working on it already - I had an auto-blog site that was getting 3000 or so visitors a month (not so awesome) with 300 or so clicks per month that had zero - literally zero - income for the past few months.

Just this discussion illustrated a few things. I registered a new domain and I am basically trying the same thing BUT using much more targeted auto-blogging and a few other things.

I'm alone with my toddler this weekend (wife is visiting a friend) and after the toddler's bedtime tonight I have been working non-stop on this. Just got the "revised model" up and running. This is using the Amazon AM program and very highly targeted traffic with some SEO.

It's not perfect yet - need a day or two more on it - but for now it's a good start.

I will definitely be buying the auction2post plugin as soon as I am approved for the EPN. I talk a LOT with other business owners and I have seen a great opportunity I want to try this with. I have a demographic + product line just itching to test.
 
I think I have worked out some of the bugs that ebay bitch slapped me for. A new more specific domain name with an extended life, the site is more than just the plug in and I have gotten out of the whored up niche I was looking at before.

Traffic to the site is going to be easier because of the great advice on both lenses and some extra plug ins. I am also starting to get some back links to it (other sites I work with) and will know more as time progresses.

Thanks again everyone and please keep the ideas flowing. This is one of the most comprehensive threads I have ever been a part of.
 
I FINALLY got approved for the EPN after my 4th try. Here's a tip for everyone else who may be trying - make some niche specific blog that is heavily dependent on some type of expensive gear and then make up 20 or so posts + the Squidoo trick. And do NOT try to bug them first.

Every time I check on an application I was turned down for the EPN within 1 hour. Even though it's supposed to only take 72 hours they sat on this last one for a week and I made sure I posted every day - sometimes as often as 4X a day.

Look for an order soon :) Probably later tonight....er...well, the Sharks are playing so maybe way early tomorrow morning....
 
Bought it + theme pack. Working on having first site up by noon. I had a non-performing site on a good domain and niche. It's ranked #8 WITHOUT any posts. Let's see how it does by Monday or so :) I'll post results.
 
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