Mony Tree

Quick Update

Google is updating page rank so all of the A list bloggers are holding their breath. I hope to receive an increase and PR but by all means don’t care one way or another. So far I have noticed one of my sites increased from 0 to 3 and is actually receiving about 100 visitors per day. The site is based on Australian Shepherds and isn’t earning anything at all (despite being monetized by AdSense and an affiliate offer). I need to look at optimizing the site a bit more I guess.

My earnings from the eBay Partner Network for the month are right over $100. Nothing earth shattering, and a significant decrease from my commission junction earnings last month. I am hopeful that the decrease in earnings is due to the transition to EPN and that May will bring a $300+ month.

Here are my EPN Stats for the month:

Total Clicks: 4,328

Total Sales: 25

Total ACRUS (eBay registrations): 1

Total Sites: 12 Mony Tree Sites, 1 Build a Niche Store Site

The nice thing is that I still haven’t done any significant promotion for any of these sites.

My goals for May are to finally start my promotional work for each site. I am going to promote 2 sites at a time starting with the first two I built. I intend on submitting a minimum of 20 articles per site for article marketing and continuing to bookmark them using Bookmarking Demon. I will keep you all updated.

That is all for now.

Regards,

chris bradberry

Tim Nolan - Wow

First $10 day with AdSense, First Ebay Partner Commission

Today was a day of a couple of firsts for me.  The first is I hit $10 / day from AdSense (with a couple of sites) and I had my first commission from EPN (eBay Partner Network).  I am most happy about the EPN commission, even though it was only $2, it confirms for me that everything is properly tracking.

Hopefully my eBay sites will continue the momentum and my earnings will continue to increase.  I just wanted to give an update, that is all for now.  Have a great weekend.

Regards,

Transition from Commission Junction to eBay Partner Network

As most everyone should know by now eBay decided to bring their affiliate program in-house and left Commission Junction.  Affiliates were given until the end of the month to change links to the new network.  I contemplated on waiting until the last week of the month to ensure all the kinks were worked out, but after another member of Mony Tree made a sale and said that everything is tracking well I decided to go ahead and bite the bullet and change all my sites (11 total, 10 Mony Tree and 1 BANS).  I made the change on April 5th

The actual process of changing the sites, both Mony Tree and BANS, from CJ to EPN was absolutely painless.  Thanks to the hard work by the staff at MT and BANs, all that was required on my end was to change the unique ID for each site.  I had all 10 of my sites changed within 15 minutes.

So, I am a stat junkie and of course logged into my EPN account 5 or 6 times the first day to make sure it was tracking properly.  The first day I didn’t notice any clicks at all but was told that it takes a while for the system to update.  Long story short, today is the 4th day since I made the change and clicks appear to be tracking fine (568 clicks in 4 days).  I haven’t made a sale yet though!  So we shall see.

These sites are always lagged a bit due to the nature of the auctions on eBay.  The only way to receive an immediate commission from one of these sites is if the visitor to your sites uses “Buy it now” or if they win a 1 day auction (not many 1 day auctions).  So according to my stats I should hopefully see some sales come in over the next few days.

I will post an update soon.

Regards,