I have been out for a couple of holidays with my family and couldn’t write much as I forgot to pick my laptop as result my last minute mistake. Anyways, it was a good trip and all had a lot of fun, I went with my family after about 2 years, couldn’t get time for that and my family had to wait for 2 years : lol, I wish it would never happen again.

Most of the times am busy dealing with different nature of clients, it can be SEO, Programming, Designing and sometimes with my one-to-one training student. But for the last couple of days, I could only access my email through my PDA Phone.

While I was away, I have received a couple of emails from YOU about the site availability, the site was down for long periouds of time, I can only apologize and do nothing, my website is currently hosted with one of my friend (Ali) at Clixint Technologies, I have just made a phone call to their support and asked for details, they said they have had some problems in their servers and the problem is resolved (hopefully that’s right). I don’t know since as I am writing it means the site is up :).. I will get back to you guys with some good tips tommorow.

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As we already know that eBay is no more affiliated with commission junction. Well, I can tell you by my personal experience that with CJ, it was a lot easy to make money with eBay, but now at EPN it look a lot more easy to trick them. But you should know that when you mess with big companies you have to face big problems, anyways that’s not much related to the topic, I am writing about.

eBay affiliates’ commission with Commision Junction was higher !

A lot of people were using Commission Junction for promoting eBay products and were getting extremely good results, but since they moved to EPN, the revenue dropped dramatically. Personally I have seen a few of websites earning $700-$1000 from CJ were now earning $300-$400, and that’s a big drop, almost 50% drop in revenue. You can find out in the forums that a lot of people are reporting the same, because the EPN stats were not updating or there can be any problem with their tracking system as site used to earn $1000 form CJ (where CJ also cuts their commission) were now getting half of that. 

The month April was a disaster for many affiliate marketers with EPN, but in May I personally have noticed a slight increase in the revenue again but its no where near to what the sites were earning from eBay when associated with CJ.

eBay - Commission Junction (CJ) Alternative

There is one more interesting news that has made me think more about EPN is that eBaY has partnered with PepperJam Affiliate Network. wow - that’s a very good news for marketers like me and you, we can now join PepperJam, promote products and earn some more commission, I hope (as I have just started, I will post my results with pepperJam soon) it will have more advance tracking system than the current EPN solution.

pepperJam eBay Highlights: Make up to 75% of all the transactions and up to an additional $35 for every new active user you send to eBay. Pepperjam has in place a dedicated eBay affiliate management team to work with you in real-time to maximize your eBay revenue.  read more about their partnership with eBay.

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Well a lot of people talking about AdSense not working these days, including me that I earlier blogged, but I would like to tell you a few secrets that actually work all time. It doesn’t matter if these were implemented back in 2006, these are still the same buta most Gurus are diverting our attention to other things. Why ? simple, they don’t want you to make more money in the same niche.

Anyways, we can still ask good use of AdSense. The plan is to find which advertisers are placing their ads on your website, there are 2 kind of advertisers, one are those who have targeted your website for their ads and of-course if they are targeting your website, it means they are making a lot from those clicks, and other website displayed in the AdSense are those advertisers who are actually unaware about their websites are being published on your website, so here you have to think wisely which advertisers to contact and which to not.

First just browse through your website pages and write down all the URLs that are being displayed in AdSense ad spots, visit those website and try to find any authorized person’s name, well that’s optional, otherwise locate their “contact” form, and send them a message and tell them that you are about to remove AdSense from your website and that’s why you are giving them an opportunity to grab a vital spot on their website and place their text/image ad there and it will benefit them in search engine optimization as well and list a coupe of other benefits as well. You can write something like this.

Hi name (if you found from that website),

We have noticed you have been placing Adwords ads on our website www.blahname.com. We hope you have had great success from the ads displayed on our website. We are in the process of removing Adsense, and contacting business owners to avail this opportunity of placing their Ads on our website on prominent spots. This will not only help you get more targeted traffic but also help in your search engine ranking, positioning and increase in pagerank. Please do let me know if you are interested, the I will forward you our currently available spots and pricing details.

regards,
Your name

Its really effective, you will get some quick sales and also earn form adsense at the same time. I have already got some quick Ad sales on some of my website, set your own pricing but dont ask them too high price, this way you will hurt yourself, you know what I mean :)..

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