eBay PartnerNetwork Blog
R.O.EYE develop Custom Banner Geo-targeting Solution
March 24th, 2010
Hi all,
Here at R.O.EYE, we’ve been looking at ways to allow publishers to add automatic geo-targeting capability to Custom Banner. The tool came about as there are a large number of publishers who are receiving traffic from outside of their primary territory, but are unable to monetise this traffic.
This R.O.EYE blog post has more information on the solution, including how to implement it, as well as samples of it in action. Because R.O.EYE has created this tool, eBay are unable to offer support for it, however, there is a support email address provided by R.O.EYE, should you need any assistance.
So make sure that you’re signed up to the relevant eBay Partner Network programmes for the territories you want to promote, otherwise you won’t get paid for the traffic you drive to these sites. Then get the code from R.O.EYE, drop it into your site, and start making extra revenue!
James Skelland, Technical solutions Manager, R.O.EYE
March 25th, 2010 at 7:24 am
I love its simplicity but… the code is dependent on that website working for the javascript to do its thing. Can EPN look into setting an official version of this up so that nobody has to spend a lot of time “re-doing” links if the 3rd party site goes down ?
March 25th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Hi,
Just to put your mind at rest, we have guaranteed SLA’s in place to protect the server’s uptime, however, in the unlikely event that the server should fail, all that will happen is that the your Custom Banner will revert back to the country which you created it for in the first place.
Thanks,
James