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Successful Search Engine Marketing – 1. Selecting and Organizing Your Keywords

October 30th, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

Many of you will know that Chris Howard leads the European eBay Partner Network team, but what you may not know is that in a previous life he spent five years running eBay UK’s Search Engine Marketing team.  In this article and in subsequent posts, he will be sharing some of his top tips for optimizing SEM traffic to your … Read more…

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ToolUp Sale – Up to 74% Off through 11/2/09

October 27th, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

Today the Tool Up eBay store just launched a huge tool sale complete with name brands like Makita, Skil, Dremel & Milwaukee, all up to 74% off retail. These brand new products all come with Free Shipping, including this highly sought after Makita 18v 7 piece combo set for only $589!

This sale runs from now through November 2nd … Read more…

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Guest Blog Post from R.O.EYE: Optimising your Custom Banner and API integrations

October 22nd, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

James Skelland is the Technical Solutions Manager at R.O.EYE, the agency that supports the in-house eBay Partner Network team with account management and recruitment in the UK and Ireland.  James has been working extensively with publishers across Europe to help them optimize the products they showcase using the API or Custom Banner and here are his top tips to help … Read more…

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eBay Down Under – Australia on the Rise

October 22nd, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

Local Knowledge

Recently I’ve been working quite a bit with publishers promoting eBay.com.au and have noticed some interesting things, especially with the launch of QCP, Quality Click Pricing. One aspect of the program I discovered, and not to my surprise, is that Aussies know Aussies best. While many of the top performing large volume publishers for eBay.com.au are located … Read more…

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Important news for affiliates on UK program – Royal Mail strike October 22nd and 23rd

October 21st, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

Hi all

We wanted to let you know about planned Royal Mail industrial action in the UK and the potential impact it could have on our sellers and affiliates.  For those of you based outside the UK, the Royal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom. 

The Royal Mail workers’ union (the CWU) have announced plans for … Read more…

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European team at the London a4uexpo – check out their presentation

October 21st, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

Last week, the European eBay Partner Network team and the eBay team at R.O.EYE attended the a4uexpo in London.  As usual, it was great to meet lots of our affiliates face to face and get their feedback.  There was a lot of buzz about Quality Click Pricing and we lost count of how many questions we were asked about … Read more…

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Massive GPS and HD TV Sale until October 26th

October 20th, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

eBay Power Sellers eCost and Beach Camera just kicked off a massive liquidation on TVs and GPS systems and have offered up excellent deals on new and refurbished units from now until October 26th. To see the full list of products, check out this deal file. All of these electronics are offered with Free Shipping and are well below … Read more…

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Implement Geo-Targeting and be in with a chance to win $2,000!

October 20th, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

Hi all,

As we mentioned in a recent post, we highly recommend implementing geo-targeting as soon as possible.  Not only will geo-targeting result in higher revenue for you, it also gives customers a better eBay experience. Thus, geo-targeting is one of the fastest ways to improve the quality of your traffic.

Therefore, we’ll be giving out ten prizes of … Read more…

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eBay Partner Network Best Practices

October 19th, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

With Quality Click Pricing, it’s more important than ever for you to continually optimize your traffic in order to maximize its quality and therefore your earnings.  As mentioned in an earlier post, we’re planning a series of blog posts to highlight best practices and give you tips on how you can improve your traffic quality.  A number of these posts … Read more…

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Implement Geo-Targeting Today

October 16th, 2009 | eBay Partner Network Team

As we mentioned in an earlier blog post, we are posting a series of articles that highlight best practices and give you tips on how you can improve your traffic quality. This article covers geo-targeting – a sure fire way to increase your EPCs, if you’re not doing it already!

The results are in from an internal eBay Partner … Read more…

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