February’s income: $3,358 from ePN and $431 from AdSense
Posted on March 3rd, 2011 by Tony H in EarningsTotal income $3,789
Average EPC: $0.20
Average clicks per day: 596
Average earnings per day: $108
Earnings per $1 of Winning Bid Revenue: $0.60
The total is about $100 less than I earned in January–I’m happy with this, especially since Feb is three days shorter than Jan. However, my daily EPC has been steadily declining.
On Feb 10 my daily EPC reached a high of $0.27. On Feb 28 it was $0.14. If I would have been able to maintain January’s average EPC (0.266) throughought all of February, my eBay earnings would have been about $1,000 higher. For March, my priority is to get my EPC back to January’s level. Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?
Here are the statistics:
For each statistic listed below, the second number is the change from last month’s number.
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*** February 2011 Statistics ***
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Websites: 96 (+10 more than last month)
Impressions: 270,861 (+73,179)
Clicks: 16,688 (+3,674)
ACRU–Active Confirmed Registered Users: 12 (-5)
Winning Bids: 1,041 (+152)
Winning Bid Revenue: $5,633.88 (+702.52)
GMB–Gross Merchandise Bought: $88,732.91 (+24,230.24)
EPC–Earnings Per Click: $0.201 (-0.064)
Earnings: $3,358.29 (-97.77)
Clicks per Impression: 0.0616 (-0.0042)
Earnings per Winning Bid Revenue: 0.60 (-0.10)
Average Clicks per Day: 596 (+176)
Average Earnings per Day: $108.33 (-3.15)
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your clicks increased by 22%, and your GMB increases by 27%, that’s good. should be good enough to sustain epc. but other factors like CRU, ACRU, numbers matter. It’s good if those numbers increase with clicks. In your case it looks like they dropped a bit. And also, the categories that are converting matter. If you send someone to ebay from blue guitar site, and they end up three days later buying a coffee mug, that will effect EPC value. Bottom line it is tough to figure out what EPN is up to, so just keep scaling up with your formula.
Tony, its so great of you to share your stats! Curious – how are you hosting your 96 sites – are they on VPS and if so, how much memory/storage? I’m nowhere near 96, have about 50 sites now and running into performance issues already (slow response times on Servint VPS). Just wondering how much more resources I will need at your level.
Cheers
Hi KC. I presently have about 30 of my sites on SerVint’s VPS hosting. The remaining ~70 sites are divided up among 9 shared hosting accounts I have with BlueHost, HostGator, and some others.
Most of the 30 sites on ServInt are “thick” sites with 100-500 pages created by Auction2Post. Each site is set up to run hourly A2P automations which add 5-20 pages per hour to each site. This is definitely slowing the response time of all of the ServInt websites, but is still tolerable. Last week my VPS memory maxed out and every single site would not open due to not enough memory. I turned off the A2P automations and had a ServInt tech restart Apache in my hosting account. Since then, things are working better than before, but I have yet to restart the automations.
For my ServInt VPS hosting, I think 20-30 of these thick sites (running A2P automations) is the limit.
For my other shared hosting accounts, I think 10-15 of these thick sites is the limit.
For thin sites (not running A2P), I think these numbers would probably double or triple. Probably 50 or more could be hosted on ServInt VPS and 30 or more on good shared hosting accounts.
I like BlueHost shared hosting because they have CPU Throttling which will protect you from unintentional spikes in resource usage. I have had accounts on other hosts suspended because of this.
Let me know if you need help with caching….. I’ve seen great returns lately with enabling this through apache on ServINT.
Thanks for your posts….. you are an inspiration to many that I mentor.