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Publisher Spotlight: Chris Hedgecock

Updated January 11th 2010

 Hi all,

We chose to work with Chris as an example of an eBay Partner Network publisher who has done a great job of promoting and building a brand for his site. One example of this was the road trip he took across the US with a car he bought off his site for $1000.  He made … Read more…

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Publisher Spotlight: StangNet.com

Michael Raburn knew that when he retired from the Army in 1998 that he would have some time to pursue various hobbies and ultimately, his passions. One such passion is that of the Ford Mustang and the plethora of custom styles, add-ons, designers, and racing support the car has sustained over the years. The desire to do more with the … Read more…

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Successful Search Engine Marketing – 2. Creating Appealing Ad Text

In this second post in the ‘Successful Search Engine Marketing’ series, I’ll be providing some tips on how to make the most of the impressions your ads receive by writing compelling ad text.  Some of the recommendations in this post build on topics that were covered in the ‘Selecting and Organizing your Keywords’ article – if you haven’t done so … Read more…

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Murray Newlands' Top Ten Tips for Writing Product Reviews

Murray Newlands is a reformed lawyer, who began his internet marketing career in 1999. Murray’s impressive career includes working with leading agencies, advertisers and networks. In addition to founding the affiliate network Affiliate Heat, and author of eBooks such as Carbon Footprint Ebook and Twitter Ebook, Murray is an evangelist of green affiliate marketing. You can find out more … Read more…

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

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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R.O.EYE Guest Blog Post – Quality Click Pricing: tips for success

While the announcement of Quality Click Pricing was only made recently, R.O.EYE, the UK based agency that supports the European team with account management in the UK and Ireland, already has a few months experience working with the model, liaising with a number of publishers from different business models to fine tune activity. During this time we have been able … Read more…

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Affiliate Spotlight: EarthLink

Shannon Lisecki, Senior Strategic Partner Manager of EarthLink, one of our long-time affiliates, took the time to share some of her insights with us on various industry related topics.

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As a leading national Internet service provider, Atlanta-based EarthLink has earned an award-winning reputation for outstanding customer service and its suite of online products and services to facilitate a safe … Read more…

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Five SEO Mistakes Guaranteed to Lead to Your Failure – Wil Reynolds, Part 3 of 3

Mistake #1 – You Get Involved in SEO Drama

Be very wary of getting dragged into the trap. There are some SEOs who @ people all day long in lengthy back and forths. Every minute you spend chiming in and reading their banter is one less minute you spent on scouring delicious for links or digging though analytics to improve … Read more…

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R.O.EYE Guest Blog Post – Taking the plunge into the API

Many publishers can be put off by the thought of the API, but when promoting a site such as eBay, with its dynamic catalogue of millions of products and constantly changing prices, it really is too good a tool to be overlooked.

So what is it?

Good question – API stands for Application Programming Interface, which is a facility to … Read more…

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eBay Partner Network Affiliate Wins The 2009 Star Developer Award

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We are proud to announce that at this year’s Developer’s Conference, our very own Jake Becker of WatchCount.com has taken the 2009 Star Developer Award! We want to take a moment to get to know Jake better, and share his thoughts and success story with you. First, a few fun facts about Jake so that we can get to know
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