Comments on: eBay Partner Network Policy Updates Effective July 20th

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:56:43 +0000

We are getting in some great questions both here on the blog, and in our forums. In order to keep everything centralized and consistent, we are going to point you to a thread on the forums where we have been and will continue to answer questions: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Ebay-Partner-Network/New-38-Updated/520136786?start=30&#msg522723012.

Also, we are unable to respond to answers specifically about your account. If you have a question about your individual account, please contact ePN-cs-english@ebay.com.

We will continue to approve comments on these posts, but please check the forum for responses to your questions.

Thank you,
Amanda | eBay Partner Network Team

By: paul

paul — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:16:38 +0000

“This includes, but is not limited to, using a third party trademark (or a term confusingly similar to it) in your URLs.”

Does this mean if I write a post about, say, my son playing his Bakugan. And I call it – My son thinks his bakugan are cool. My url would be paulsplace.com/mysonthinksbakuganarecool. This isn’t allowed? That limits 99% of any publicher if they can even say something about a brand in a post title.

What about people with say camera blogs, they can never say the brand name in their review post title? strange.

By: Shawn Collins

Shawn Collins — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:35:44 +0000

Re: “Third party redirects for the sole purpose of masking a referring URL are no longer allowed.”

I redirect affiliate links through a .htaccess redirect for the purpose of streamlining my links – if I post a link for the same product or category in many places and the link is later outdated, I am able to quickly update all instances with one change.

Also, many affiliates redirect to count the clicks for their own records.

Is this something you would reconsider?