Affiliate news

What’s going on at eBay? I just got an email offering me an extra 30% for April, if I can beat my eBay Partner Network earnings for March (which should be easy enough)…

This April we’d like to offer you a unique opportunity to earn a significant bonus on top of your regular earnings. If you can increase your eBay Australia April earnings over your March earnings, we’ll add a 30% bonus on top of whatever you earn in April. As an example, if you earn $500 in March, and $600 in April, you’ll be paid $780 for April instead of $600. We’re only offering this incentive to select publishers and it may not come around again for while.

Is this just for Australian affiliates, or is everyone getting it?

I made it onto ShareCash’s top earners page a few times last month. And although it’s not exactly a huge amount, they certainly pay a lot better than any of the other uploading programs I’ve tried. And to think, just a few months ago I was actually looking to BUY more hosting to cover the bandwidth on my most popular files. ShareCash are hosting my files, and paying me as well. It’s win-win.

Simply upload files and get people to download them, and earn from 20 to 60 cents per download!

After QubeCash went under, I moved back to Uploading.com for a while… but now I’ve moved again – this time to ShareCash. I’ve only been using them for about a month, but so far I’m really impressed. The payouts are much higher, the speed and reliability is better than Uploading.com, but best of all – ShareCash pay for downloads from ANY country! Check them out here.

Uploading.com is paying less and less, especially for small files – so I did a bit of hunting around today, and have found an alternative – QubeCash. They pay $20 for 1000 unique US downloads, and $15 for 1000 EU downloads, along with various different rates for other countries (including Australia and New Zealand). They don’t appear to have a minimum file size limit, so it looks promising for those of us that get a lot of small file downloads.

UPDATE
QubeCash seem to have gone out of business. I never received a single payment, and have switched over to ShareCash instead.

eBay’s new Quality Click Pricing preview report is now available, which allows you to see how your new payouts compare with the current CPA payment structure (look under Reports > Report Type in your ePN account). I’ve just had a look at my report, and I’m not impressed. My Quality Click Pricing total is less than half my current CPA earnings for this month. Looks like Quality Click Pricing isn’t going to be much fun, but I think we all knew that didn’t we?

EDIT – September 22nd, 2009
I’ve just had another look at the QPC preview report (for September), and it appears that I will in fact be earning more with QPC than I am now. Which makes a nice change from the way things have been going with ePN for the last 12 months. Humble pie tastes good.

I’ve finally found a Qantas affiliate program. It’s run by Affiliate Future, and offers a commission of $15 USD for every flight booking you generate departing from North America to Australia or New Zealand. $15 doesn’t sound like much to me, but if you’ve got a US targeted travel site about Australia or NZ, then it might be worth a shot.

More info at Affiliate Future.