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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 be addressed shortly – we apologize if this has created any confusion).

For those of you who have not yet gotten a chance to run the report – it’s easy to do following these steps:

1. Log into your account and click on the Reports Tab
2. Select Report Type: By Campaign Quality
3. Period 8/31
4. Program: US
5. Actions: ACRU (more…)

– 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…)

*Updated with Placement ids*

So you are an existing eBay affiliate and want to migrate your links and banners as quickly as possible? Hopefully this guide will help you through the steps needed.

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