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		<title>Comment on ePN Moving To Quality Click Affiliate Payout System, Ebay Affiliate News by chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In the era of Internet transparency, so many individuals can see first hand how a company like Ebay changes their rules to simply maximize their bottom line.  They are slaves to their shareholders and their stock price, and that will be their undoing.  As of this year (2010) their new total fee is 15% which is still competitive with a local auctioneer, but can they continue to raise this percentage?  Of course not.

New alternatives to selling online are emerging all the time...back to listing things on MY web site.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the era of Internet transparency, so many individuals can see first hand how a company like Ebay changes their rules to simply maximize their bottom line.  They are slaves to their shareholders and their stock price, and that will be their undoing.  As of this year (2010) their new total fee is 15% which is still competitive with a local auctioneer, but can they continue to raise this percentage?  Of course not.</p>
<p>New alternatives to selling online are emerging all the time&#8230;back to listing things on MY web site.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Connecting A Cell Phone To Your Laptop To Access The Internet by Aaltje</title>
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		<dc:creator>Aaltje</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wonderful well this reading.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wonderful well this reading.</p>
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		<title>Comment on ePN Moving To Quality Click Affiliate Payout System, Ebay Affiliate News by Brad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>EPN is a joke.  When they changed from CJ to EPN I lost about 50% revenue, and now that they are doing this quality click junk I&#039;ve lost another 50% of my revenue.  I&#039;m going to be re-working most of my websites that run epn to amazon or something else.  

the people at feebay have lost there minds when it comes to making everyone happy.  They have gone away from the original model that made them what they are today.  I would not be surprised if this new move made a huge difference in the traffic at eBay.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EPN is a joke.  When they changed from CJ to EPN I lost about 50% revenue, and now that they are doing this quality click junk I&#8217;ve lost another 50% of my revenue.  I&#8217;m going to be re-working most of my websites that run epn to amazon or something else.  </p>
<p>the people at feebay have lost there minds when it comes to making everyone happy.  They have gone away from the original model that made them what they are today.  I would not be surprised if this new move made a huge difference in the traffic at eBay.</p>
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		<title>Comment on ePN Moving To Quality Click Affiliate Payout System, Ebay Affiliate News by tom</title>
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		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Quality Click Pricing is designed to do one thing only - allow ebay to pay affiliates less and make more for themselves. Why? Because they can and there is nothing you can do about it as an affiliate.

Example, I earned 92.00 for sept. Quality Click Pricing predicts my payment would be 32.00 for the same traffic.

What is wrong with that?

The 92.00 is based on actual earnings for auctions won by people who come to ebay through my links. Quality Click Pricing is based on Voodoo

Why is it ok for ebay to now claim that traffic that last month was worth 92.00 is worth only 32.00?

There can be only one reason since the 92.00 figure was based on actual auctions closed, a verifiable metric. ebay now simply wants to be able to pay affiliates less for the same amount of auctions closed. ebay is trying to claim the traffic is not performing but the fact is the traffic is performing exactly the same but will be paid out at a much lower rate. A rate that is about 2/3 lower then before.

I will be removing every ebay auction link I have and replacing them with affiliate links from a source who sells something from my site&#039;s niche or adsense. Anything is better then dealing with a company who just wants me to be happy being screwed.

ebay, you suck!

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quality Click Pricing is designed to do one thing only &#8211; allow ebay to pay affiliates less and make more for themselves. Why? Because they can and there is nothing you can do about it as an affiliate.</p>
<p>Example, I earned 92.00 for sept. Quality Click Pricing predicts my payment would be 32.00 for the same traffic.</p>
<p>What is wrong with that?</p>
<p>The 92.00 is based on actual earnings for auctions won by people who come to ebay through my links. Quality Click Pricing is based on Voodoo</p>
<p>Why is it ok for ebay to now claim that traffic that last month was worth 92.00 is worth only 32.00?</p>
<p>There can be only one reason since the 92.00 figure was based on actual auctions closed, a verifiable metric. ebay now simply wants to be able to pay affiliates less for the same amount of auctions closed. ebay is trying to claim the traffic is not performing but the fact is the traffic is performing exactly the same but will be paid out at a much lower rate. A rate that is about 2/3 lower then before.</p>
<p>I will be removing every ebay auction link I have and replacing them with affiliate links from a source who sells something from my site&#8217;s niche or adsense. Anything is better then dealing with a company who just wants me to be happy being screwed.</p>
<p>ebay, you suck!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Number 1 Way To Make Money Online E Learning Training Course by Ethan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ethan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great to know that you are achieving something on the internet. I&#039;ve done it on the internet myself too. I wouldn&#039;t say it&#039;s great income but able to sustain my monthly expenses. I&#039;m now venturing into cellphone market. This give me slightly better income. I would recommend anyone to go for it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great to know that you are achieving something on the internet. I&#8217;ve done it on the internet myself too. I wouldn&#8217;t say it&#8217;s great income but able to sustain my monthly expenses. I&#8217;m now venturing into cellphone market. This give me slightly better income. I would recommend anyone to go for it.</p>
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		<title>Comment on ePN Moving To Quality Click Affiliate Payout System, Ebay Affiliate News by Brad Charles</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brad Charles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>EPN isn&#039;t worth signing up for anymore, so I wouldn’t waste your time. They just converted to a “pay per click” model, that pays less than Google Adsense. They word it as their Quality Click Pricing, which is basically a system to change your earnings to whatever they want to pay. EPN is going to pay about 1/4th of what is was paying before. This was verified with not just my account, but hundreds of other Affiliates, and 90% are being paid only a fraction of before, even though everything was white hat and quality traffic that converted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EPN isn&#8217;t worth signing up for anymore, so I wouldn’t waste your time. They just converted to a “pay per click” model, that pays less than Google Adsense. They word it as their Quality Click Pricing, which is basically a system to change your earnings to whatever they want to pay. EPN is going to pay about 1/4th of what is was paying before. This was verified with not just my account, but hundreds of other Affiliates, and 90% are being paid only a fraction of before, even though everything was white hat and quality traffic that converted.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Google AdWords Updates Interface, Campaign Management Faster and Easier by Priya Iyer</title>
		<link>http://richskibum.com/adwords-news/google-adwords-updates-interface-campaign-management-faster-and-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-793</link>
		<dc:creator>Priya Iyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yah this new interface has made many things easier. But for few things I feel old features should have been retained in this new interface. For example in previous interface you can switch to next ad group in the way you sorted it but in this new interface you have to come back to ad groups tab and click on the next ad group if you want to continue checking sorted ad groups by clicks, cost or impressions. I sometimes skip 1-2 ad groups in this process.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yah this new interface has made many things easier. But for few things I feel old features should have been retained in this new interface. For example in previous interface you can switch to next ad group in the way you sorted it but in this new interface you have to come back to ad groups tab and click on the next ad group if you want to continue checking sorted ad groups by clicks, cost or impressions. I sometimes skip 1-2 ad groups in this process.</p>
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		<title>Comment on New SEO Methods Needed as Google Search Is Changing by Walter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Walter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s hard to rely on search engine alone. All of your efforts might go down the drain. It&#039;s better to find the most reliable approach to keep one&#039;s site on the ranks.

Google will always evolve, let&#039;s keep that on mind. :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s hard to rely on search engine alone. All of your efforts might go down the drain. It&#8217;s better to find the most reliable approach to keep one&#8217;s site on the ranks.</p>
<p>Google will always evolve, let&#8217;s keep that on mind. <img src='http://richskibum.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Connecting A Cell Phone To Your Laptop To Access The Internet by Yann</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The most thorough and informative information I have found. Enjoyed it immensely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The most thorough and informative information I have found. Enjoyed it immensely.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Number 1 Way To Make Money Online E Learning Training Course by kevin</title>
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		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brilliant post, I’ve been doing affiliate marketing for some time now and have also done a couple of good reviews like the CB-Cash System and more recently the Resellers-Heaven Review Feel free to drop me a comment on any of my blogs for quick approval and I will comment on your blog as well. If you have any tips for quick SEO rankings with google please email me. As I said before Great post! I’ll subscribe right now with my feedreader software! Keep the blog updated and keep up the good work. Cheers</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant post, I’ve been doing affiliate marketing for some time now and have also done a couple of good reviews like the CB-Cash System and more recently the Resellers-Heaven Review Feel free to drop me a comment on any of my blogs for quick approval and I will comment on your blog as well. If you have any tips for quick SEO rankings with google please email me. As I said before Great post! I’ll subscribe right now with my feedreader software! Keep the blog updated and keep up the good work. Cheers</p>
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