1) Do You Still Use ePN and eBay?

Yes but no more new sites, moving across the the big “A”

2) If so, are earnings Up or Down?

Up by about 25%

3) Do You Miss ePN and the Old eBay Affiliate Program?

Absolutely. You knew exactly where you were with the old model

4) Do You Use Adsense?

Yes, on all sites.

5) If so, are earnings Up or Down?

Up again. Adsense provides about 12% of my income.

6) Overall, Is Traffic “from Google” Up or Down Across your Network of Sites?

I would say down.

7) Overall, are Earnings Up or Down across your Network of Sites?

Up.

8) What is Your Most Profitable Niche?

MYOB :p

2) If so, are earnings Up or Down?
Down about 30% from last year at same time

3) Do You Miss ePN and the Old eBay Affiliate Program?
Heck yes, just when I think I am getting something figured out…there goes the rug

4) Do You Use Adsense?
No, they dropped me my first 3 months into using adsence about 3 years ago.

5) If so, are earnings Up or Down?
$0

6) Overall, Is Traffic “from Google” Up or Down Across your Network of Sites?
Down, they seem to be changing on a regular basis.

7) Overall, are Earnings Up or Down across your Network of Sites?
Down around 30-40% from last year.

8) What is Your Most Profitable Niche?
Fashion, which is strange since I know nothing about it. I just have good writers and must have captured a few good keywords.

Thanks Mark for the questions you posted here. It is always good to see how our friends are doing.

2) If so, are earnings Up or Down?
WAAAAY down.

3) Do You Miss ePN and the Old eBay Affiliate Program?
Yes. But, on the flip side, I’ve been forced to look for alternatives, and this has brought me to Amazon, which is a great affiliate!

4) Do You Use Adsense?
Yes, now on just about every site I create.

5) If so, are earnings Up or Down?
Down, but what’s weird is my click-through ratio has actually gone up.

6) Overall, Is Traffic “from Google” Up or Down Across your Network of Sites?
Down, but, like Mark said, I think it’s the state of the economy.

7) Overall, are Earnings Up or Down across your Network of Sites?
Some up, some down. Just depends on the type of earnings.

8) What is Your Most Profitable Niche?
It’s in the dessert niche, which is all I’m gonna say about that!

Yes, but I now try to focus on Amazon

2) If so, are earnings Up or Down?

Hard to say. Earning actually went up when I had to switch to EPN.
But usually is is one good followed by a bad month

3) Do You Miss ePN and the Old eBay Affiliate Program?

No

4) Do You Use Adsense?
Yes
5) If so, are earnings Up or Down?
Down a little
6) Overall, Is Traffic “from Google” Up or Down Across your Network of Sites?
Down a little
7) Overall, are Earnings Up or Down across your Network of Sites?
Up a bit
8) What is Your Most Profitable Niche?

Yes, but in developing sites I now focus mainly on Amazon, and use eBay as an add-on and for long tail bait. I construct sites so that I can dump eBay in favor of Amazon if need be.

2) If so, are earnings Up or Down?

Down due to shift in focus, and what I believe is a trend under QCP ultimately to erode affiliate earnings. I believe the algo is designed to chip away at partner revenues over time.

3) Do You Miss ePN and the Old eBay Affiliate Program?

Yes, Yes, Yes!!

4) Do You Use Adsense?

Yes

5) If so, are earnings Up or Down?

Declining some over the last two months.

6) Overall, Is Traffic “from Google” Up or Down Across your Network of Sites?

Up

7) Overall, are Earnings Up or Down across your Network of Sites?

Down in spite of an uptick in traffic. Could be seasonal. Should know soon, if that’s the case.

8) What is Your Most Profitable Niche?

It’s in certain sports equipment. Home improvement runs a close second.

Nothing new, just what hasn’t been converted.

2) If so, are earnings Up or Down?

Down. EPC isn’t bad most days, but still blows most of the time. I really miss the ACRUs.

3) Do You Miss ePN and the Old eBay Affiliate Program?

Yes, but I miss my dead dog too. EPN is dead to me and I have no hopes of seeing it flourish in this lifetime.

4) Do You Use Adsense?

Yes, but sparingly.

5) If so, are earnings Up or Down?

Up.

6) Overall, Is Traffic “from Google” Up or Down Across your Network of Sites?

Traffic is down, but probably due to seasonal niches. I need to do a better job of niche distribution across seasons.

7) Overall, are Earnings Up or Down across your Network of Sites?

Earnings are DowN from the hay-day by roughly 50%. Yeah, I know … Ouch. I have a full time career though, so the web is my part time passion. I have struggled to react effectively to the changes, but will keep at it.

8) What is Your Most Profitable Niche?

I really don’t want to say specifically, but it is an outdoor-related niche that I am very passionate about.

Great thread Mark.

Here’s what I posted on the BANS forum a few days ago:

“Even though March has 62% MORE Total Sales and 42% HIGHER Winning Bid Revenue than January the commission for March is 24% LESS.

What also doesn’t make sense to me is the Gross Merchandise Bought (GMB) is much different than eBay Total Sales Amount.”

The only thing that’s down slightly is epc.

The main thing that jumps out at me from EVERYONE, is that we ALL wish ePN had not taken ther moves it did with the affiliate program!

Shame they could not create some kind of hybrid system – that an affiliate could opt for system 1, or system 2, based on how their business model is set.

High volume sites could stick with QCP – low volume, much more niche focused sites could opt for a sales revenue split type system based on a dated cookie (The old system)

Thanks to everyone for jumping in with answers for sure! Will be interesting to watch for the weekend.

Mark

Yes but slowly transitioning away from it.

2) If so, are earnings Up or Down?

Up over a year ago but unstable on the whole.

3) Do You Miss ePN and the Old eBay Affiliate Program?

Yes very much.

4) Do You Use Adsense?

Yes-extensively where appropriate.

5) If so, are earnings Up or Down?

Up

6) Overall, Is Traffic “from Google” Up or Down Across your Network of Sites?

Up across all sites I’m actively developing. Down on static ones.

7) Overall, are Earnings Up or Down across your Network of Sites?

Earnings are all over the place even on my best niches. It’s like every time I have a great month on EPN, for example, they find a way to screw me out of it the next month. See question 1.

8) What is Your Most Profitable Niche?

Musician related sites.