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Squidoo Helps Its Lensmasters Make Money with Their Passions and the eBay Partner Network

September 30th, 2008 | eBay Partner Network Team

Every now and then, we like to share an affiliate success story to help inspire and offer ideas to other affiliates. We are planning on creating a series on this topic featuring new publishers each month.  This week we spoke to Squidoo, to learn more about how they’re using the eBay Partner Network. 
 
Squidoo is a hand-built collection of … Read more…

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Campaign Quality Score Report Information

September 16th, 2008 | eBay Partner Network Team

As you know, we released a new Campaign Quality Score Report as part of the newest Sept 10th release of the eBay Partner Network.  The report is only available for the US, and only affects ACRUs (a glitch at launch of the report meant you could select countries other than US and metrics other than ACRUs – but this will … Read more…

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Sept 5th-9th Reporting Revenue issue

September 13th, 2008 | eBay Partner Network Team

We have identified an issue that affected reporting of eBay Revenue, Earnings, and EPC in the US, UK, AU, and CA programs.  Some of these metrics were double-counted in our system. The issue affected publishers from Sept 5th-Sept 9th.

We have been able to calculate down to the individual publisher level what the correct revenue should be for those days. … Read more…

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A Content Publisher’s Guide to Making Money with Affiliate Marketing

September 10th, 2008 | eBay Partner Network Team

Copyblogger.com editor Brian Clark provided a three-article series earlier this year that offers helpful insight into how online publishers can overcome issues associated with traditional advertising methods and make money with affiliate programs:

Why Affiliate Marketing Will Save Free Online Content

Three Killer Content Strategies for Building Affiliate Marketing Assets

Five Effective Copywriting Tactics for Affiliate Marketing

Clark notes that … Read more…

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Announcing New eBay Partner Network Release on Sept 10th, 2008

September 6th, 2008 | eBay Partner Network Team

We are working hard to continue to improve the eBay Partner Network platform and are excited to announce our newest release, which will go live Sept 10th.  Some of the most consistent feedback we have been getting from you has been in the area of reporting.  You have given us many tips and suggestions about how we could expand the … Read more…

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Tips for Sending Engaged Buyer Traffic to eBay Sites

September 5th, 2008 | eBay Partner Network Team

Our philosophical approach at eBay Partner Network is to pay generous commissions for quality traffic that drives incremental buying activity on eBay, i.e., purchases that occurred due to the affiliate’s actions.  Thus, we’ve looked closely at how engaged the traffic is from our affiliates and in the interest of eBay’s sellers and the overall health of the program, we made … Read more…

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