Bobbi Brown Make-Up Site Launch
Posted on September 30, 2008
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I have just launched another new EPN affiliate site. This one is www.bobbi-brown-make-up.info and advertises Bobbi Browns makeup line that is available on eBay. I did some basic keyword research and found that this should be a profitable niche with very little SEO work. I will keep everyone posted. EPN keeps generating me money month in and month out even though I have not worked with it in a few months. The potential with EPN is enormous if you dedicate the time needed to get it up and running. Unfortunately I have been busy with some other projects and have neglected my EPN business more then I wanted too.
EPN Cancels About 200 Affiliate Accounts
Posted on August 26, 2008
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Talk about an EPN shake up… everyone is in fear of losing their accounts. They recently canned about 200 affiliates for sending them traffic they felt was not ‘good traffic’. Although some of these affiliates were making big money from the looks of it. The talk over at the EPN forum is going crazy on this topic.
Thankfully I did not lose my account. August is not over yet and I am having my best month ever on CJ or EPN. I have about $250 in earnings so far this month just from EPN. My EPC this month is 36.33 so far. I am actually down a little in traffic but way up in commissions.
I have been focusing my efforts in other areas recently and have not created any new EPN sites in the last 30 days. I need to get back into the swing of things and create some more EPN sites if the ones I have currently are performing this well.
Anyone that is interested in an EPN site can contact me and I will create you one for $47 bucks. It will look like my rare-guitars.info site. That price includes a domain name but no hosting. I will host the site for you for 4.95 per month or you can provide your own hosting. Just throwing the option out there for anyone interested. The best part about these sites are the related search terms on the right hand column, which create several keyword rich pages for google.
I am slightly scared for my EPN account just like everyone else, but I figure that whatever happens happens. There are other affiliate programs out there that I can change these sites over to. If my performance continues to climb and my EPC stays high I don’t think I have much to worry about. You never know though.
Market Leverage Commission Check
Posted on July 14, 2008
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I joined Market Leverage last month and have not done much promotion with it yet. Although I did play around a little with zip and email submits. These are when you get paid if someone enters either their zip code or email address. I managed to get one person to do this and it earned me $1.25. I figured I would do some more with them later and get enough built up for a check. Well to my surprise today I got a $1.25 check delivered to my house via FedEx and it even required a signature. I felt like I was getting a huge check or something. I thought they would have held my check until I got to fifty dollars or something. Maybe there is a setting in my account or something to control the payout amount. Regardless it is nice to see prompt payment on behalf of Market Leverage. Thanks!
Let’s Talk EPN EPC
Posted on July 10, 2008
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My YTD EPC on the eBay Partner Network is sitting at $9.13 currently. The EPC is my earnings per every 100 clicks that I send to eBay. On average I send about 1250 clicks per month to eBay. So divide 1250 by 100 to get 12.5. Then multiply 12.5 by my EPC of $9.13 and you get $114.13. This would be my approximate earnings based on my EPC if I send eBay 1250 clicks. This is pretty acurate. Last month my EPC was higher and I made about $175.
So I am not making any huge money yet with EPN but I have figured out a working system that I can now just continue to duplicate.
I love playing with numbers. So lets say in the future I could send eBay 10,000 clicks per month and I maintain my EPC at $9.13. To figure out my approximate earnings we just divide 10,000 by 100 to get 100. then multiply the 100 result by my EPC of $9.13 to get my estimated earnings of $913.00.
I can deal with $913 per month. So to get to that point I would need about 8 times more traffic then I get now. Or 8 times as many niche websites that generate the same amount of traffic as I am now.
This does not sound that hard to me. I have about 5 sites now so I would need about 40 total to hit this mark. I do not spend anytime marketing these sites so that is my own fault. I am sure they could perform better if I built backlinks and more content. I just don’t enjoy doing that so I don’t. I like to create the sites, let them work through SEO, and move on to the next project.
Play with your EPN EPC and set yourself a goal. Have fun with it, I know I do.
CustomAffiliateSites.com Goes Live
Posted on July 8, 2008
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Welcome. I have decided to dedicate this site to discussions about EPN (eBay Partner Network) and niche websites. I recently have become pretty successful in creating niche sites to promote affiliate sales through the EPN network. Every month since the April launch of the EPN network my income has increased. In June I brought in about $175.00 in revenue from 4 sites. I am continually adding niche sites and hope to continue increasing my revenue each month. On average each of my sites earns aroung $30 - $50 per month. This is with no promotion of the site other then a link to it from this site. All the traffic comes from Google through targetted keywords I picked when creating the sites. These sites have much more potential if I would promote them more. Unfortunately I hate doing promotion type work. I enjoy creating the sites and forgetting about them. So my idea is to continually make myself these sites that make $30 - $50 per month and at the same time offer my services to others doing what I enjoy, creating niche sites for EPN.
I will be sharing my success with EPN on this site frequently along with tips and tricks that I find. I hope to make this an active site for all things EPN and niche site related.