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The generous people at eBay Australia have recently increased their pricing for the eBay.com.au affiliate program.  You can now earn up to A$26 for every new Active Confirmed Registered User (ACRU) you deliver to eBay.com.au and up to 52% of the revenue generated by the Bids and Buy it Nows you drive to the site.  The program currency has also changed from US Dollars to Australian Dollars.   To take advantage of the increased commission, apply today or find out more about the new pricing structure.

Hi all,

The eBay affiliate teams around the globe have been out and about lately, spreading the word about the eBay Partner Network and having a great time. In April we had a very successful run at AdTech San Francisco, one of the premier events in digital marketing. We had the opportunity to meet a number of you and are pleased to report that feedback on the new eBay Partner Network has been very positive. (more…)

While many of you reading this blog are already familiar with the new eBay Partner Network, we wanted to remind you that with eBay’s new in-house platform, for most of our programs eBay sellers can be affiliates, too – which of course means sellers and merchants can earn extra money by driving traffic to their own listings as well as other listings on eBay. (more…)

*Updated 4 June 2008 – Bot Filtering being put in place

Nobody’s perfect! We are hard at work enhancing our new platform.

In order to keep you up to date, we want to let you know about a few known issues with the platform that we’ll be working to address over the next few weeks. As additional issues are identified, we will keep this list as current as we can. (more…)

We wanted to thank all our affiliates for your effort in switching your links to the eBay Partner Network. We’re off to a great start and we are happy to report that in the three weeks since launch, more than two thirds of our affiliates’ traffic has already moved over to the new system.

Several of you have asked for a bit more time in migrating your links. Because we know there are some special circumstances that may require this, we have arranged to extend the migration deadline until May 31st. This will apply to Half.com and all eBay countries migrating EXCEPT Belgium, Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore, which will still expire on April 30th).

Note that because of our contractual obligations, as of May 31st, you will no longer be able to receive any commissions through Commission Junction. This will include commissions from clicks in May that convert into purchases or ACRUs in June. So please switch all your links as soon as possible to eBay Partner Network to ensure you receive all your commissions and begin to enjoy all the new benefits of global registration, new creatives, and better reporting on the new eBay Partner Network.

If you have any questions about migration, please check out our help section, where you can also find links in each help topic to reach our customer service group. You can also find more info in our getting started post, our migration guide, and our FAQs.

We really value your support and look forward to a long continued partnership together!

– Updated 21st April : placement ids by tool

– Updated 20th April : url encoding.

Hi all,

I thought it would useful for us to post some of the common mistakes people are making when creating their updated links. The best way to avoid this is to regenerate your link via the Tools section in the interface but if you are building your own then watch out for:

1. Be careful of putting spaces in your link either within the id fields or in the destination url.

2. Make sure you ‘url encode’ the eBay destination url (after mpre= ) and if you are using the customid and you have any special characters within it, this will need to be url encoded too.

* Url encoding by the API and unicode escaping will be addressed asap.

3. In the link you need to put your campaign id after campid= . Make sure you are putting the number rather than the name of the campaign. You can get this number from the ‘Campaign’ tab in the interface.

4. The default toolid is 10001 for the link generator. If you are using 1 or 0 then please update to 10001. The toolid will be different for the links created by the API, RSS etc.

5. Ensure you are using the right placementid for the country you want to promote. Note the placementids will vary by tool within the program but the list of placementids for the link generator can be found in the migration guide.

As we find out more common errors we’ll post them so keep checking back; don’t forget we really appreciate all your hard work during this migration period!

First, thanks to everyone for the helpful feedback and questions since launch!

A few questions keep coming up, so we thought it would be helpful to re-capture our answers here so that they’re easily accessible to everyone. As we continue to get more feedback on eBay Partner Network, we’ll update the list (and Help).

More detailed help is available in User Manual within the “Help” section of eBay Partner Network (login is required), but the FAQs below should give folks a good start and address any questions/confusion. Thanks again for the feedback and for supporting eBay Partner Network!
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Getting started on the eBay Partner Network is quick and easy – within 30 minutes you could be driving traffic and earning commission! All it takes is 4 simple steps: (more…)

Hi all,

We are really excited to announce that eBay’s new global affiliate platform, the eBay Partner Network, is now live and ready for registration – so register and start migrating your links from CJ to the new platform!

During April 2008, you can receive an additional 5% bonus for all traffic sent through eBay Partner Network in April 2008 (bonus applicable to traffic sent to Half.com and US, UK, Australia, Canada, Italy, India and Spain eBay sites). The sooner you migrate, the more you’ll earn, so get stuck in. (more…)

Getting paid is very straight forward on the eBay Partner Network.  You will be paid monthly on around the 25^th of each month, in one of the 5 currencies we support: US Dollar, Euro, British Pound, Australian Dollar or Canadian Dollars.  We offer two methods of payment – you can choose either Direct Deposit (available in 11 countries) or Paypal.  Both options are free and please note that for Paypal no premier / business account or cross border fee will apply!   Check the FAQs for more information.