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Happy Holidays from the eBay Partner Network!

The whole eBay Partner Network team would like to wish our publishers a very happy Holiday and a Happy New Year! We hope you all enjoy a well deserved break and come back fresh in 2010 ready to continue our partnership and keep on driving quality traffic to eBay.

We’re also taking a break from writing articles for the blog … Read more…

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Go Green with Eco-Friendly Products in 2010

With a new year quickly approaching, for many a smart, responsible and admirable New Year’s resolution is to find ways to ‘Go Green’ and become more environmentally friendly in 2010.

eBay is passionate about constantly finding ways to be more eco-friendly, and we want to share with you some of the things we’re doing and offer ideas on what you … Read more…

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10 Tips to Improve Your Social Media Strategy

Although eBay Partner Network does not allow our partners to directly promote eBay through social media arenas, we want to make sure you know that you can drive traffic to your own website(s) through appropriate social media strategies.

Today it is easier, and more important, than ever to implement a few simple social media tactics to increase traffic to your … Read more…

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Monetize Your Blog with eBay Partner Network

We know that it takes a lot of effort and creativity to compose unique and insightful articles to build a valuable blog today.  Once you are in a stride and producing quality content on a regular basis, you might be asking yourself how you can finally turn your hard work into revenue.  Whether your blog is entirely focused on one … Read more…

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Successful Search Engine Marketing – 3. Landing Page Optimization and Design

In this third post in the ‘Successful Search Engine Marketing’ series, I’ll be providing some tips on how to make the clicks you send to your website convert better for you by optimizing your landing pages.  In 2010 we’ll be following up with a post on how to choose the optimal pages on eBay to which to direct your traffic.  … Read more…

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eBay Partner Network wins eConsultancy Innovation Award for Quality Click Pricing

Hi all

We’re proud to announce that eBay Partner Network has won the Affiliate Marketing eConsultancy Innovation Award for our introduction of Quality Click Pricing.

It’s great to see that we’ve been recognized for our efforts to better and more fairly reward our best affiliates for the quality traffic they’re driving to eBay. eConsultancy also mentioned our aim to “elevate … Read more…

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Meet Us at Affiliate Summit West

It’s that time of year again, we’re making our plans to head out to Affiliate Summit West next month! Several of our team members will be attending the show and hosting a Meet Market table at the conference. If you’re planning to be there, drop by and say hello! Here are the details of the show:

Where: Rio All-Suite Hotel … Read more…

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November 21st site outage makegood

As many of you know, on November 21st eBay had some problems with the search functionality on the eBay sites. This affected some search results to queries on the site, as well as affected a number of affiliates that use the RSS feeds and the API through eBay Partner Network. The issues began around 5am US Pacific Daylight Time on … Read more…

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Top 10 Firefox Add-Ons for Internet Marketers

Firefox has so many useful add-ons, it can be daunting to find ones that might be helpful to an internet marketer. Whether you are a blogger, specialize in Search Engine Optimization or utilize other internet marketing promotional methods, you should find one or more of the below add-ons helpful in your daily tasks.

  1. SEO Link Analysis – Enriches the link
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For US Publishers Only – Review the Accuracy of Your W9 Information for 1099-Tax Forms

We wanted to notify US Publishers of some important tax information.

You will receive a 1099 tax form for the year 2009 from eBay Partner Network if:

• you are a United States citizen or legal resident and
• you had $600 reportable tax activity for the year 2009

eBay Partner Network Forms 1099-MISC will be postmarked via US Postal … Read more…

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