EPN affiliates...is the new payment structure working out?

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I set up a mid-sized network of phpBay sites back in May-June and was doing pretty well on them with organic traffic. All of a sudden about 80% of my sites got de-indexed by google and the traffic stopped, and right about at the same time EPN closed my account with them. I think this was sometime mid-July, a lot of WF members had their accounts closed as well.

When I was doing well with those sites, EPN's payout structure was $25 per signup plus something like 60% sale. I know now it is $1-50 a signup, but I stopped working with them before they made that switch.

Basically, I completely forgot about my network of sites after EPN shut me down and my sites were de-indexed. Last night I logged into my google analytics account for the first time in a few months and had a big suprise...3x,xxx uniques in the past 30 days, looked into it, and all of a sudden, mid-Nov I started getting big traffic on these domains from MSN and Yahoo.

I have 2 businesses, so today I reapplied to EPN with the business that I had never used with EPN in the past. I was just curious though to those who have been with them for a while, how were your earnings affected by the switch in their payout structure? For a lot of my niches I could go to Amazon which I am considering, but it'd be far easier on my end to just replace my partner id# in phpBay and be done with it.
 


BeerNuts said:
All of my sites are still getting $25 acrus through PepperJam. So I am still doing just fine and dandy.
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I have spoken with people from PJN at least 3-4 times in the past, and it seems I always get nowhere with them. I still don't even have an account after all that phone time. If you can get me approved thru your AM quickly, send me a PM and I'll use you as my ref. My traffic is still climbing at this point, about 2k uniques today and I still have phpBay (with my now invalid parter id) + adsense on these domains. Huge waste of traffic.
 
If you can stay in the middle/medium quality tier then the ACRU payout is $28 which is the same as the second tier of the old system. It was a lateral move for me.
 
I got shit on a bit, i had a very high score for most of November and was getting 40-50 bucks per signup (i only got 5 acrus), December comes it goes down to low and now i'm getting 3-4 acrus a day. Sucks.....
 
mberman84 said:
this is the best month i've had in a while...and i haven't touched my ebay sites in months...awesome chirstmas bonus.
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Same here. At $750 so far with just 2 sites. Plus another $50 from CJ. Best part is i havent touched the sites in months, so it's all free money at this point.

Actually, i lied, i DID add red buttons to all my listing to test how that would affect earnings. Hopefully at the end of the month i'll post the case study on phpBay Pro Tips - Tutorials, Tips, SEO, Niches, Themes, and more for phpBay Pro! Just because i'm at my best month so far, doesn't mean it's from the buttons. I'll let you guys know...
 
I'm getting 40 right now. I don't really count on it lasting too long. I really need to learn ppc badly or learn anything other then how to do epn phpbay and bans sites. I have been waiting on pepperjam to approve my application for 2 months I think. In my book a flat 25 is better then this new system that they have.

Edit: I did not put an affiliate link or even a link at all in my post. That is a neat plugin whatever it is that does that.
 
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xd1978 give them a call or send them a message from their website, they approved my application right away.
 
I called them after the first month of waiting. I spoke with two of the women who work there I don't remember their names, but what I was told was that they were trying to get ebay apps approved as fast as possible and that they had a lot to do. So I just have been waiting. I will call again on Monday.
 
Any comment on what gets you de-indexed. I too am seeing some epn traffic - haven't touched the site in months either. I just added some articles when I saw the increase in $$ to ride the wave. The cool thing about EPN is you can make money off of just a few visitors. One day I made about as much off of lik 10 visitors as I did with a site that regularly gets 450+ visitors - go figure...
Anybody here using the Amazonfeed plugin for monetization??
 
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