I am only a small EPN publisher. I have never really bought into it, and it has never made me big bucks. However, some of my established sites are best monetized with Ebay auctions as they are physical product related niches. Anyway, lets look at an example site for the new floating PPC pricing system, i.e. the we will pay you however much we want to system.
The site is fairly low traffic about 80-150 visitors a day. It is very specific traffic though, from google and is targeted. The site ranks first on google for a range of keywords relating to these very specific products. These products are hard to buy on the high street, and are mainly purchased online, so I have a pretty good conversion .i.e. most of my visitors are looking to buy stuff, and I am sending them to Ebay.
The numbers
Looking at the 15 days in this month so far here are my figures:
I have sold $385 worth of product…this was calculated by adding the unique figures from the “eBay Total Sale Amount” column of the transaction download file. Under the old system this would have made me $33.87 in commission. Sounds pretty fair, it’s a small site. It pretty much runs on auto pilot, so about $70 a month seems alright to me. Like I said above, not big money, but a nice little earner that runs on auto.
And how much did they pay me for the first 15 days of the month? $16.00
I have given it a few months, but essentially, PPC for EPN has halved my earnings.
So in conclusion, EPN PPC Sucks.
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