EPN is the Ebay program where website publishers are paid to send traffic to Ebay. If the visitors buy something the publishers is paid part of the final value fee as a commission. In the past it has made some nice commissions for us.
Ebay is continually "improving" the program and some big changes are set to take effect Oct. 1, 2009. They have published a tool that is supposed to show how much you would have been paid under the old system as well as the new one.
We are getting mixed messages. In Sept. we would have earned about 1/3 of what we actually did. During the first few days of Sept. the new way was better. That changed on the 7th. and we are now doing better with the old system. In other words it's hard to impossible to predict how things will change.
In view of the undertainty we will certainly not be implimenting any big expansion plans until we know better how our sites will do with the new systems. On the other hand, there isn't much point to taking sites down or shifting to another advertising network until we have better numbers.
The Ebay Partner Network has been especially useful in generating income from keyword rich domain names that exactly match items which are popular on Ebay. For example, AntiqueHummels.com attracts visitors who are trying to identify and/or get a value for Hummel Figurine(s) they have inherited or purchased.
