Gangbusters! January is my best income month ever.
Posted on February 4th, 2011 by Tony H in EarningsMy income summary for January 2011:
$3,456 from eBay Partner Network
$433 from Adsense
$3,889 Total Income
This is about $1,200 more than I made last month.
Even though my avg number of clicks per day dropped by about 20%, my total number of winning bids and my GMB both increased by about 50% over last month.
Why the increase?
I’m not sure, but here are some of the things I’ve been doing differently lately:
I’ve been implementing the ideas in the OneLung Thin Site Master Course.
Starting with my most-visited sites, I’ve been retrofitting each one of my sites.
I added Search Engine KeyWord (SEKW) phpBay listings to my pages, particularly to my 404 error pages.
I’ve been blocking traffic from non-eBay countries.
I’ve taken measures to block more bots.
I’m beginning to consolidate all of my my ePN campaigns into one campaign for all sites.
For each statistic listed below, the second number is the change from last month’s number.
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*** January 2011 Statistics ***
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Websites: 86 (+12 more than last month)
Impressions: 197,682 (+52,164)
Clicks: 13,014 (-3,015)
ACRU–Active Confirmed Registered Users: 17 (-5)
Winning Bids: 889 (+258)
Winning Bid Revenue: $4,931 (+2,203)
GMB–Gross Merchandise Bought: $64,503 (+29,080)
EPC–Earnings Per Click: $0.266 (+0.136)
Earnings: $3,456 (+1,383*) *not including holiday bonus
Highest Earning Website: $1,293
Clicks per Impression: 0.0658 (-0.0443)
Earnings per Winning Bid Revenue: 0.70 (-0.06)
Average Clicks per Day: 420 (-97)
Average Earnings per Day: $111.49 (+44.61)
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hey great job, iv’e been following your progress for awhile…
How do you block traffic from non-ebay countries? how many pages does your biggest earner have? Thanks
Hey Tony! Congrats man! You are doing awesome. I wish I could say the same… my EPN earnigs have tanked since May (Mayday). Did Mayday effect you at all? It looks like you dropped a little in July but then came back around. I desperately need to get my EPN earnings back up. Do you have any tips for me… I know you read my blog a while back I am not sure if you still do. Are you doing a lot of back linking and content creation? Do you ever share any of your sites or layouts? I know my blog was like an open book but that is not always the best as people will try and rip off your ideas. Just looking for some tips if you have any… Thanks! Joe
Hi Ryan!
To block traffic from non-ebay countries, I use the Quality Click Blocking plugin from the OneLung Thin course. Quality Click Blocking (QCB) is a easy to use WordPress plugin that uses a free IP-to-Country database to check the users country location before allowing them view your eBay listings. It will also allow you to selectively block people from viewing your Amazon, CJ and other affiliate listings. More info: http://www.onelungthin.com/quality-click-blocking/
My biggest earning site is a WordPress blog that currently has about 300 posts and 3 pages.
Regards,
T.
Hi Joe! Congrats on the release of your All In Scraper! I do still read your blog–reading about your early EPN successes inspired me to give EPN a try. As I recall, I don’t think Goog’s Mayday had much of an effect on my EPN earnings. Joe, the best tip I can think of is this: go to http://www.onelungthin.com/ and read up on the OneLung Thin method of creating “thin” WordPress EPN sites. Jump in and create some new thin sites. I’ve created about a dozen sites in the past few weeks and they are starting to generate some clicks and bids/sales. Furthermore, I’ve incorporated many of the OLT features into my existing “thick” sites and those old sites are definitely doing better because of it.
I don’t do any back linking (except for using Twitterfeed to turn my RSS feed into tweets on Twitter–is that back linking?) and I don’t do any content creation.
Here is one of my retrofitted “thick” sites: http://jazz-music-cds.com/
Last month this one generated $23 from EPN and probably a couple bucks from Adsense.
Shoot me an email if you have any specific questions or want to see a few more of my sites.
I thought I might have inspired you to get started with EPN. I did not want to say that as I was not sure. I remember when you first started this blog after mine and used this them which I was initially using for many of my thin sites.
Man you have answered all my questions. I will dig into OneLungs thin method and see where that takes me. I can honestly say that MayDay really did hurt me but I also can say that since then I have not been as focused as I once was.
So it is now time to take a a step back and look at this again. I mean for you to pull in almost $3500 from EPN this month is so cool. Once again congrats and thanks for all this info to look into!
It’s my pleasure Joe. While I am by no means an expert, I am always willing to share what works, or is not working, for me. Just reply with a question here on the blog, or ask for my email address and shoot me an email. Thanks, and good luck!
Congrats one the outstanding month you had. I’ve noticed that my ePN earnings have doubled each month since I started revamping a few of my websites, but looking at your stats I can see that your EPC doubled from last month to this one which is great in and of itself.