I need some clarification.

On the "Referrers" tab  under "Domains", do I need to regerster the 2 forms of URL for each of my sites, e.g.: http://MyDomain.com AND http://www.MyDomain.com?

I have tested it and it will take both, but are both required?  If I only register the first version (without the www.), are there any adverse consequences?

"You can register any site (I could put any site as a referral domain in my account - I won't get any credit unless my campaigns are on that site). Only sites that you have access to add a file to can you validate."

I think that is how it was intended to be used, but I have not uploaded any .txt documents to any of my domain root directories, or any website for that matter, and I show earnings.

That is my point: It is obvious that Ebay can track mobile users that originate at an unregistered or unvalidated domain, so why have the customers go through the extra step to see any earnings?

Last but not least, I have noticed that the earnings vary depending on channel.  For example, I may be making $.30 a click through "classic" channel, but I only make $.04 through the mobile channel for the same domain.

Okay, for others, here are my observations.

When I look at mobile traffic, I see that i had roughly 1,000 clicks in the last three months.  I show zero revenue.

Yesterday, I went through the "register" process (please see below) and suddenly I see clicks AND earnings.

The moral of the story, is that you will not receive any earnings UNLESS you register (once again, see below) each domain.

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For clarity sake, I am going to define each action, as I believe people are using different terminology:

Register:

to register a domain, you simply add the domain name to the list, select a business model, and category.  Then click "add".

Once the domain name is on the list, the "confirmation Status" will read unconfirmed. You must select the domain and click "confirm selected" at the bottom.  Now your domain is registered.

Validate:

The validation process is defined as taking each activation code (unique to each domain), pasting it in a txt document (must have a specific title), and uploading it to the root of each domain.

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I am disappointed that Ebay, which as evident via my ability to see mobile clicks over the last 90 days when my domains where not registered, can track mobile activity, yet chose to have the customer (that would be me) go through the additional step of registering each domain to receive earnings.

e-bay-monster wrote:

2.  Do you enter each domain name, a business model, and category and you will immediately (regardless of "Confirmation Status" listed on the referrers tab"?) be compensated for all traffic, as well as be able to see it broken out via report format.

 

Look at replies 4 and 12 in this thread.

Confirming your domain is different from registering your domain.  Confirming = validating your domain which you've done (bravo!).  But, you need to register your domain to get paid for mobile traffic.  This means you need to select the Business Model and eBay Category for each of your domains.  Once you do this you'll start seeing your mobile traffic.

pawnshopsnet wrote:

I have had an iPhone look like both classic and mobile, same for an iPad)

That's interesting. Reviewing my history I see no ipads/iphones tagged as classic, though I did find these:

Opera/9.80 (Android; Opera Mini/6.5.27452/26.1235; U; en) Presto/2.8.119 Version/10.54

Mozilla/5.0 (PlayBook; U; RIM Tablet OS 1.0.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.11+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.1.0.7 Safari/534.11+

Ivanka:

I have a few questions:

1. You wrote:

"If you do not register your domain, you will continue to be compensated for all classic traffic.  However, when you run your mobile traffic report you won’t see any clicks, impressions or transactions."

Question: But the question was, more specifically, if you do not register AND validate your domain, will you be compensated for mobile traffic (as opposed to classic traffic, which is a given)?  I am not really interested in a report break out (I don't care where the money comes from), as long as clicks/impressions are factored into my overall compensation numbers, and more specifically, based upon the QPC model, that the clicks are factored into the CPC compensation.

2.  You wrote:

"Please note: in order to be compensated for mobile traffic, you only need to register your domain, it does not need to be validated. Even if you are seeing your confirmation status as “invalid”, your domain has been registered."

then you wrote:

"Happy to help!  Just a quick heads-up...I recommend you both register and validate all your domains."

Question: Which is it:

1.  does validation (which, as far as I can determine, requires that you:

a.  You enter each and every domain name that (I assume) one has in the current EPN program.

b.  You choose a business model and category for each item.

c.  upload a .txt document that includes an activation code

or

2.  Do you enter each domain name, a business model, and category and you will immediately (regardless of "Confirmation Status" listed on the referrers tab"?) be compensated for all traffic, as well as be able to see it broken out via report format.

Please clarify?

netzone-services wrote:

Wow, that's a crazy amount of money, more for a corporate entity than a single person working out of his/her home trying to make a decent epc while on the epc roller coaster. I don't even know how epn can even suggest that.

 

Quite reasonable for corporations starting from scratch with no in-house skills though. It's always a red flag when canned versions have no pricing posted.

Here's a free but limited edition for website development:

http://www.netbiscuits.com/developer-edition

I haven't tried it, but I'm leaning toward jQuery mobile for some consistency with jQuery.

I've used the eBay Android App and it is very good. I'm not as thrilled with the eBay mobileweb version, but it does the job.

Dear Netzone-Services,

Here's the short and sweet answer: you can validate domains in advance of putting ePN affiliate codes on the page.  Let me know if you need more info.

Ivanka

Thanks again Helios825.  I only brought it up in this thread because the announcement mentioned in the OP spoke of the 7-day cookie.  My ePN account manager is out on vacation until the end of the month so I thought I'd ask here.

Oh, and I knew you weren't a paid employee... let's just call it a failed attempt at sarcasm due to sleep deprivation.

I'm an old timer/fart as well... been doin' this since the CJ days.  I think I've just been slacking on keeping up with ePN matters lately.  I've made a ton with ePN but the more my revenue drops (without an easy way to figure out why), the more I focus on my "better paying gigs."

Consider me a member of the "about had it" club.

And need I point out that pricing was in a 2007 post, so the pricing there may even have gone up. Could have gone down, but what would a hundred dollar drop difference make when the starting price for the lowest entry package, 4 years ago was quoted at $649 US?

I would guess a very small portion of affiliates could test this system out, as they would consistently have to be earners way above that to take on that monthly cost to test if that platform is even any good, or makes a difference for more clicks/bids to justify the expense.

webjustice911 wrote:

My friend Google tells me:

 

http://www.netbiscuits.com/forum/-/message_boards/message/29372

 

 

Wow, that's a crazy amount of money, more for a corporate entity than a single person working out of his/her home trying to make a decent epc while on the epc roller coaster. I don't even know how epn can even suggest that.

Not having even seen the cost, my thought was if I want to make my sites mobile friendly, to use any of the free templates out there for converting your site to mobile traffic, and then making a subfolder of my site just for mobile visitors.

But right now the traffic I am getting doesn't justify any kind of work, free or otherwise. I contemplated this before with adsense, and could not justify the work, as mobile users still come to my regular html pages and manage to navigate around them okay.

I've spent 30 minutes looking over the netbiscuits offer and have found a lot of information EXCEPT how much after it is no longer free. Can anyone point me to that information without actually having to sign up for it?

Arggg.  I tried finding where I *thought* I originally read that and now all I am finding is what you say.  Soooo... either I misread/misinterpreted something... or... it was a matter of wishful thinking.

My apologies for adding to the already ridiculous amount of confusion regarding all things ePN.

Thanks for taking the time to respond - even though, FAIK you are not on the eBay payroll. I would think it would have been simple for a pink to come on and say, "No that's not true... here's a link to the policy regarding this."  That would have been WAY better than passing up my post completely.