Comments on: R.O.EYE Guest Blog Post – Quality Click Pricing: tips for success

By: Cherie

Cherie — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:39:22 +0000

It would be useful if we could have “Features such as showing the average selling price and plotting the location of “pick up only” items on a map added to the user experience” made available in the widgets section for everyone.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:57:19 +0000

We have a few niches and they’re all at least double, which is nice as there has been a lot of effort in the past put into developing themed sites, not just a few product pages.

Oddly the 2p per click on the large, low volume sales has now shot up to 42p !
Here’s hoping for October…

Perhaps the poor algorithm is getting thoroughly confused, but as long as its confused upwards, I don’t mind

By: Stratoblogster

Stratoblogster — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:44:15 +0000

I’m relieved to announce that my QCP earnings currently exceed my “old” earnings for September. I also spoke to someone else in my niche whose QCP is actually double. Although we don’t totally understand the new program, and are not being paid to report this, I feel a lot better about the change now.

My only optiimizations have involved consolidating poor performing campaign links into higher performing ones (by replacing ID’s). Otherwise, I’m just trying to provide relevant and interesting posting content at my blog for humans– as opposed to applying bot targeted SEO gimmicks.

By: Stratoblogster

Stratoblogster — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:42:13 +0000

In the interest of optimizing for QCP, I hope that we will soon be able to delete poor performing campaigns. Archiving them does not prevent those campaigns from affecting your average. For a blogger with nearly 1500 posts, finding and replacing poor campaign links is no easy task.

Does anyone in the Partner Network Team have an ETA on the campaign disable option?

This should have been facilitated well prior to the QCP switch.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:06:57 +0000

Hello Alice,

Paid search campaigns are ok if they are directed to your own site. Direct linking to eBay through paid search campaigns is not allowed.

Best,
Amanda | eBay Partner Network Team

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:05:24 +0000

I don’t understand the comment on paid searches… I thought those weren’t allowed in EPN??

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:43:27 +0000

I have niche sites that receive quality, organic traffic mostly from Google. My sites have original content and text links within the content directing visitors to a specific auction or search. My QCP earnings are much less than my current earnings. I am especially getting killed on my ACRUs even though the majority of the time the person has signed up and purchased an auction I sent them to! I have never sent a visitor to the eBay homepage. To me that is a no brainer. I appreciate you posting these “success stories” and I am hoping eventually one will be posted that will actually help my situation. So, keep them coming.

By: ValueDining

ValueDining — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:02:31 +0000

I agree with the above post. The time period used to calculate QPCX’s is really important and should be transparent.

On our site, we are affected by outside factors. We drop click throughs when football games start, except for our Pizza Sections!

I think other sites will be VERY influenced by the upcoming holiday season. How the spike in seasonal or external influences will affect QPC’s is critial to budgeting and planning.

We are open to QPC, but the more information the better!

Thanks

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:12:04 +0000

Hi,

Is the QCP assessment algorithm (or whatever Ebay are using) likely to be in a continuous learning curve about affiliate clicks ? Or do Ebay have some sort of time period in which they expect it to settle down.

Only we’ve seen some wild swings both upwards and downwards in the QCP within a week.
Particularly with low frequency, high value items which used to earn for example £10 every 3-5 days. Some of those have plummetted rapidly to 1p in the QPC system, after having for example a 4 day gap with no sales, but they are just infrequent high value purchases on very well targeted traffic.

We’ve now had a sudden 3 consecutive days of over £10 on the old system – so is this likely to kick the QPC back up ?

A few clues about the high value, low conversion vs. low value, high conversion factors might be useful if its possible.

Bob.