I recently launched my new product: Niche Stores Unleashed since
eBay has changed the way they pay affiliates I’ve received a few
emails asking my thoughts on this recent change.

In case you’re not aware as of 1st October, all eBay ePN affiliates
will be paid under the Quality Click Pricing (QCP) payout structure
for all eBay programs.

Previously ePN was using a CPA payment structure. Under the CPA
(Cost Per Action) payment  structure we were paid based on the
action of the visitors we sent to eBay. If they bought
something…we received a commission from that action.

Quality Click Pricing rewards affiliates based on the value of the
traffic they send to eBay. We also now get a taste of the
incremental transactions and incremental high lifetime value users
that result from the traffic we send eBay.

Personally I don’t believe my earnings will be negatively impacted
because my underlying mantra of Niche Stores Unleashed has always
been quality.

By creating niche stores that offer value and quality
to our visitors we are ensuring the traffic being sent to eBay is
quality traffic therefore I’m concerened about these recent changes.

I’ve made it very clear on my report and training videos for Niche
Stores Unleashed. You need to setup eBay niche store fronts that
offer quality. Setting up a niche store with no content and just
links will not get you too far. Especially now with this new
payment structure. And that is why eBay has done this.

If you’re just going to setup a site that offers nothing more
than affiliate links to your visitors…they don’t want you.

Harsh but that’s the facts of the affiliate marketing business (not
just eBay).

Goolge, eBay, and other major players are trying to squeeze out
affiliates that don’t add value to the end user.

It makes no different if you’re setting up thin sites under the
guise of a review site, an AdSense site without valuable content
or an eBay niche store front with nothing but links to auctions.

Luckily it’s not too hard to build quality niche stores as I detailed
step-by-step in Niche Stores Unleashed.

So in case you were wondering the driving principles of Niche
Stores Unleashed are even more relevant now with these changes from
eBay.

I will need to update one tiny section that covers how we’re
paid–since that has now changed. But everything in the report
and the training videos is solid and still RELEVANT.

It’s actually even more important now! So I have don’t have to
make any major changes to my eBay niche store report or training videos.

Here is the low-down straight from eBay:

https://ebaypartnernetwork.com/files/hub/en-US/qcp.html

I blogged about how I had outsourced my eBay niche stores directory submissions to someone who would manually submit my sites to 1,300 directories.

Although it’s only been a week, my traffic has increased, and I’ve made a few sales so I know it’s working. Here is the video update.

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I just read an article about dangerous domains.  According to McAfee the most dangerous domains to navigate to are “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info” (information).

The same reason that many BANS users are snatching up .info’s is why they’re so popular with spammers.  .info’s are cheap.  Right now they cost .99 cents for a .info vs. $7-$10 for a .com.

I’m using one .info for one of eBay niche stores to see what happens.  But I’ve read that many BANS folks are having their sites de-indexed by Google.  If the site has quality content that helps the end user, I don’t believe that Google will lay the smack down just because it’s a .info.

Because of the bad rap .info’s are taking, I’m holding back using a lot .info’s for my eBay niche stores.  The savings make it hard to ignore.  You would save over $600 picking up 100 .info’s vs. com’s.   But if in the end your .info’s end up de-indexed and folks can’t find your niche store then the $600 savings is not worth much.

An important part of your eBay niche store post-building activity is getting visitors to your stores.  Getting back-links to your stores is imperative.  A good tactic is to submit your store links to the thousands of directories out there.

Obviously this is labor and time intensive process so I decided to outsource it.  I found someone on the Digital Point forums who will manually submit your sites to 1,300 directories for $22.  If you have multiple sites you get a discount.

He had good feedback so I hired him and so far I’m happy with his work.  As evidence with this video he’s been busy submitting five sites to the directories.

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