eBay Partner Network partners with Pepperjam

May 30, 2008

The eBay Partner Network, eBay’s in-house affliate scheme, is to partner with affiliate network Pepperjam to bring EPN to more affiliate marketers. The move comes just months after eBay left Commission Junction, which won’t do the acrimonious relationship between the two networks any good.

Via Affiliate Tip.

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eBay affiliates’ deadline extended

April 26, 2008

The eBay Partner Network has given affiliates an extra month to move their links from Commission Junction to the new network. CJ links will now cease to be valid on 31st May. This applies to Half.com and all eBay countries except Belgium, Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore, which will still switch on 30th April.

eBay say that more than two-thirds of traffic has already moved to the new system. However, switching earlier rather than later should benefit affiliates, because clicks on the CJ system during May which convert into purchases or registrations in June will *not* be paid out. Dull though it is, don’t put off changing your links til the end of next month!

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Can I link to my own auctions with the eBay Partner Network?

April 16, 2008

This question seems to come up quite a lot, and the short answer is yes, unless your auctions are French.

Historically, the affiliate user agreement under Commission Junction used to say that affiliates could not promote their own listings. No one’s ever satisfactorily explained the thinking behind this rule to me, but we’ll let that go because the eBay.com affiliate program decided to allow self-linking. That is the same under the new EPN, and the introductory video even suggests that affiliates do so.

However, that goes only for the .com program. Two other programs, the UK and French ones, currently have clauses in their user agreements that forbid self-linking. The good news for UK affiliates is that this is changing. From an email just received from EPN Support:

Very recently, the UK team has recently decided to allow this behavior going forward, however, we haven’t updated the terms of service to reflect this change yet.

Anyone currently linking their own listings is probably not receiving any affiliate payments for doing so, but this will change shortly. There’s no word on similar changes to the French network.

Affiliates in all programs should remember that clicking their own links and registering, buying or bidding is not permitted.

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PHP affiliate links with eBay’s EPN

April 6, 2008

If you’re a member of eBay’s new Partner Network and you use text links to send traffic to eBay, it’s probably pretty important to you to be able to create those links quickly. But if you’ve used the new link building tool on the EPN site, and especially if you opted for geotargetting, you probably looked in horror at the pile of javascript it produced, and wondered how you were ever going to be able to create a text link without running through the tool every single time.

Fortunately a thread by SlightlyUnhinged on the UK Affiliates’ Board dissects the anatomy of an affiliate link, and has allowed me to create a new PHP function to make the text links in TameBay. If you make a lot of text links to eBay, then this might prove useful.

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