New Content Every Week…
I’ve only viewed the first two lessons on Traffic Secrets…had a hell of a regular work week last week, four 24 hour shifts in 8 days…one was actually 26 hours! Now you can see why I want this to work…
In spite of a bunch of EPN “beheadings” in which ebay terminated many affiliates for apparently no good (stated) reason, I am continuing to develop my BANS sites. This is my best month yet, with about $280 of earnings, mostly from 2 stores. If I could take the success of those 2 stores and multiply it, even by just 5…that’s my mortage and student loan payment monthly!
Of course, no one wants all their eggs in one ebay basket. For a new site I’m workign on, I’ve found 2 good affiliate programs in the industry on Comission Junction…both physical retail stores with a large online presense and affiliate programs of about 8% sales for items retailing for around $300 or more. That’s about $24 per sale which is fine with me if I can get the traffic.
Currently, in addition to developing a few domains that I have laying around, I’m trying to add content to existing BANS stores, to keep up the good SEO traffic rankings. I have a few different methodologies and trying to figure if one works better than the others. The best performing site is a basic BANS site, in a hot market, with no fancy integration with wordpress or fancy BANS mods at all.
The next best site is an ugly WordPress integration…but people love to browse the ebay listings and I’ve got about $150 commissions from that store alone this month.
The remainder are BANS/Wordpress integrations with some havning BANS in the root folder, and others having WordPress in the root folder. My newest site has been really slow to get traction off the ground…I think I picked some bad keywords. Well, I’ll keep plugging away, and today posted another new content item…hopefully the traffic will start coming!
Maybe I need to read up more on Traffic Secrets…
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Hi Suzanne, I haven’t noticed you being expired from EPN..so congratulations. Unfortunately I was one that got the axe…so I can kiss those beautiful BANs and phpBay earnings goodbye.
I’ll be interested to see how you do with the CJ programs. And as a backup I’d recommend you sign up to Pepperjam, it can give you at least a longer window of more than 7 days if they do decide to expire you. That’s currently where I’ve switched over my BANS and phpbay sites.
It’s probably best to keep things stright-up, if you want your site to make money in the long run. Getting banned from anything is a sickener, unless you’re a hard-core black-hatter and you’ve got 10 more sites to replace the one you lost.
Not suggesting those that were banned were up to jiggery-pokery, just that you’ve got to consider the goals of whoever is paying you your commissions.