One of my projects that have kind of kept me away from blogging is my ebay twitter case study. Still not enough data to say if its a good fit or not but I just want to explain what I am doing to run this case study.
Over the pass 2 weeks, I have had 3 of my twitter accounts and my girlfriend’s twitter account post content and ebay auctions on autopilot. The only thing I have been doing is growing my 3 twitter accounts.
I used google alerts rss feed, ebay rss feed, and twitterfeed to set up each of my twitter accounts to post on autopilot. So far I am getting around 80 – 160 clicks a day to my ebay links. Very few bids. I think once the twitter accounts reach 10,000 followers each and over 1,000 clicks a day. I am sure the money will start rolling in. It’s only a matter of time and building the twitter accounts.
Recap:
Google alerts (This is to provide useful content for your niche)
eBay (This is to make money)
Twitterfeed (This is to post the google alerts content and ebay auctions on autopilot)
What do you think of my case study and my set up?
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Are you providing rover link from Twitter to auction directly? If so, this is a violation to one of their recent rules (Code of conduct Section D item 1). Also, I would be checking your QCP report to see how you’ll be fairing under the new system. They’re really trying to get ‘targeted’ traffic, so you might take a hit here.
hanji
They’ll probably bust your account. Let me find the CoC section on this.
Code of Conduct Section D, Item 1:
D. Unacceptable Placements.
1. You will only place Links or Promotional Content on sites you own.You will not place Links or Promotional Content on third-party sites, including classifieds sites (including but not limited to Craigslist, Netlog, MySpace), newsgroups,, message boards, blogs, comments, link farms, forums, classified ad services, counters, chatrooms or guestbooks.
This was discussed on the EPN forums, and Twitter, WordPress and Blogger sites were included in the ‘third-party sites’ group. Basically, any site that you do not own.
As far as the URL shorter.. that violates Section C:
C. Middle servers and URL Cloaking Services.You will not redirect any traffic to middle servers for the sole purpose of masking your referring source of traffic. This includes the use of URL shortening services (including but not limited to tinyurl.com, short.to, and cloakedlink.com).
I personally use Twitter to generate EPN earnings, but I use it to direct traffic to my EPN sites, not to eBay directly. Users will then have to click on my rover links from my site.
HTH
hanji
I just posted a reply to your replay, and it didn’t show up here… guessing it was caught as SPAM?
hanji
Thanks for the information. As you can tell, I didn’t read the COC.
Yeah, I went in and approved it.
I wanted to clarify the WordPress sites.. this is WordPress hosted sites (something.wordpress.com domains). If you have self-hosted sites, this is fine.
This sounds like a cool idea. I can’t wait to see the end results. Greg Ellison
Honestly Deneil I love the case study, it is just too bad it’s a direct violation, now with that being said it doesn’t mean doing the same case study on a lower profile with “test accounts” instead of accounts you actually care about.
This way if you get banned it won’t effect the real things you have going on.
Deneil,
Still, good on you for getting out there and being inventive. I can tell you got some kind of fire underneath you. Very cool!
Keep on tryin’.
George
Case studies are always good. Good luck with it hope you don’t jack up your twitter account. It’s all about trial and error.
I would only use Twitter to point traffic to a site that hosts the links for Ebay. I have about 30 twitter accounts that did this, and now it’s killing my QCP with sudden spikes in traffic with no clicks.
Trust me, while this was allowed, I did it, and it drove 10′s of thousands of clicks to the auctions, with very little return though. It’s not worth it in my opinion.
I used a url shorter for all my links. I just started 2 weeks ago so there isn’t any sales yet. The traffic is very targeted but they didn’t win the auction. I guess I should focus on buy now items?
These changes are fairly new.. in the last couple of months or weeks. They’re really trying to focus on quality traffic from sites that are niche specific.
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