Making money with the Auction2Post Plugin

I bought this plugin and my hosting is on GoDaddy (move in progress) - initally the plugin would not activate.

Fortunately it just took some nuts and bolts work to get it fixed. Here's what I did - but you have to be on Linux hosting.

Go here and download the x86 zip version for Linux:
PHP Encoder, protection, installer and performance tools from ionCube: Loader Download

Unzip it. Inside will be a folder named ioncube. FTP this to the root of your GoDaddy account (not the install directory for whatever domain you happen to be messing with).

Rename your php.ini file to php.ini.old

Create a new file named php5.ini. Put these contents inside:

register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = off
expose_php = Off
max_input_time = 60
variables_order = "EGPCS"
extension_dir = ./
upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
precision = 12
SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="
[Zend]
zend_extension=/home/content/1/2/3/MyUserID/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
zend_extension=/usr/local/zo/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension=/usr/local/zo/4_3/ZendOptimizer.so
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You need to change your...

zend_extension=/home/content/1/2/3/MyUserID/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so

...line to match your account - the portion that has /1/2/3/MyUserId - if you can't find it just try activating the plugin w/o doing any of these steps first - you'll get an error with the full path.

Then upload this file to the root of hosting account and everything should be fine.

This slowed me down a bit today but I should still have a site up later today.

EDIT: This obviously assumes you have PHP5 as well. But at this point you should anyway....
 


Reading through this thread, I actually feel like I'm being productive on Wicked Fire. Thanks guys.
 
Read this post thought "this looks cool, wish I had an ePN account"

Then had a poke around in my old email address to find I reg'd for an EPN account about 18 months ago last time i was playing with this stuff. Still active - RESULT.

Have bought A2P and going through this tutorial now - thanks a bunch mike!
 
Okay - so here's a noob review after just under a month of owning A2P.

Short version: buy it.

Long version: I don't know jack about Radio - or didn't prior to this. I had no previous reason to say he's awesome, etc, etc, etc.

I bought the plugin and put in on 4 sites so far. My n00b ass fucked up everything imaginable and Radio's support on his forum was very good. He replied fast (usually within the hour, often WAY faster) and I got all the stuff figured out fast. Not counting the first site (which took a little nuts and bolts work from me on the host, see prior posts) this installs/configs very fast.

I think I ordered this on 10/10. I got my first commission of....drumroll please.....$0.26 on 10/16.

It was at that point that I figured I was doing something wrong and I took a good hard look at each site in turn, playing with their templates, etc. CTR to ebay and commissions have been steadily increasing ever since. I made major changes to all sites late last week. Once I did that I started to consistently start to get higher commissions (although it's waaaaaay too little data to draw broad conslusions from).

I expect the commissions to keep increasing and I'll start pruning the non-performers within a few weeks. I'll be VERY surprised if I do not get 200% ROI in the month of November alone.

Also, I have like 20 domains I want to register for this thing.

Here's a great tip though - if you are starting out google "powered by auction2post" and find some sites to get ideas for layout, etc.

Another obvious follow-up tip (sorry Radio - I know you want the backlinks....) - you probably want to edit the footer.php (or whichever) to remove this once you have a profitable site....
 
nice review... thanks.

and fwiw - i took out the footer links from all themes in the a2p theme pack months ago AND sent out an email to everyone to upgrade to the new themes so that they didn't have my calling card on their site. many of the backlinks to auction2post are from the lpdesigner's review theme that i coded up.
 
I am really excited about what I have read regarding auction2post here over the past couple days. I have definitely decided that it is going to be my first major foray into affiliate marketing (day job has gotten in the way of doing so before now :( )

I just have one question:

I understand it can be kind of tricky getting into ePN, and even if you are successful, it can take a couple weeks. I want to start NOW!

I have read and understand how other AM networks can be used with the plugin. But even if I am pushing Amazon products, the eBay description content is still going to be my main content on each post, right?

And I assume that if I am using eBay's product description, I have to keep their sales link in there too. So does that mean if I go this route the first link visitors will be presented with is to an offer I will get no commission from?

Thanks for the help and the great plug-in!
 
ryaninzion said:
And I assume that if I am using eBay's product description, I have to keep their sales link in there too. So does that mean if I go this route the first link visitors will be presented with is to an offer I will get no commission from?

Thanks for the help and the great plug-in!
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I believe that the ebay API TOS (not that I ever read those...) requires the link to the auction left intact. That doesn't mean it has to be the most prominent link in the post. Think colors that don't contrast all that well, like light blue on silver. And then make the link you want them clicking high contrast with a strong call to action.
 
SEO_MIke, what kind of scheduling do you use for posting the content? Do you post hundreds of pages right off the bat then start dripping content more slowly after that? Or do you keep it slow and consistent right from the start?
 
mulitple domains and multi registrants

hi,

Has anyone had experience with using this with multi domains where the domains may not all show the same reg?

the FAQ says "You can use auction2post on any number of domains that you own and have registered to you."

Like quite a few peeps I often try to keep domain reg non traceable - though its quite understandable why the producer might want to enforce this.
 
johnboyseo said:
Has anyone had experience with using this with multi domains where the domains may not all show the same reg?
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Don't worry about it, you should be fine. Just use an email that you sometimes check in your a2p registration in case there's a question in the future.
 
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