We are ——– to announce eBay’s new global affiliate platform: the eBay Partner Network.

The new platform will go live on April 1st, 2008 PST, at which point eBay will no longer be running its affiliate program through Commission Junction. Beginning April 1st, affiliates should register with eBay Partner Network and migrate their links from CJ to the new platform.

While CJ and ValueClick have been valuable partners to eBay throughout the years, we’ve decided to give our affiliate community a customized experience for eBay affiliates.

All the great tools and benefits of working with the eBay program will remain the same – access to the Editor Kit and affiliate API, the flexible destination tool, the great payout structure. In addition, the eBay partner network will provide several new features:
• Easy global registration to multiple countries simultaneously
• New, targeted banners and rich media creatives
• New landing page optimization and geo-targeting capabilities
• More detailed reporting capabilities for eBay’s programs

The eBay Partner Network and Commission Junction will run in parallel for one month through this process, so please plan to complete your migration by May 1st, 2008.

You can receive an additional 5% bonus for all traffic tracked through eBay Partner Network in April 2008 (bonus applicable to traffic sent to Half.com and US, UK, Australia, Canada, Italy, India and Spain eBay sites). The sooner you migrate, the more you’ll earn! Just:
• Register with eBay Partner Network on April 1, 2008
• Confirm your registration, and obtain your new identifiers
• Update your links with your new identifiers.
• Reminder: Please plan to complete migration by May 1, 2008.

You will receive more information and step by step directions for the transition on April 1st. A special help desk to answer your questions about migration will also be available starting April 1st. You can find more details, including a list of programs that will be affected, at http://affiliates.ebay.com.

Thanks for being a valued partner. We’re excited for a successful transition, and the opportunity to grow your business through even more innovations, information and communication moving forward!

Sincerely,

eBay’s Affiliates Managers

Great tool , but do you know about a “flexible” tool that can be adapted to other sources then only eBay? We all have datafeeds available thru many other affiliate accounts, a “universal” WP plugin would be great .

Hubpages already has an eBay datafeed scheme in place, however I believe they take a cut out of the profits. I’d recommend using your own blog to avoid sharing revenue. However, Hubpages is great for getting great search results for keywords and funneling traffic back to your own sites or sales pages.

Thanks for the compliment. Yeah, this is one of those easy to set up techniques that, after you set up the groundwork can run almost on auto-pilot. The trick is to choose a good converting niche within Ebay.

If you’ve got a domain with the keywords of your chosen niche in it, it will make driving organic traffic to your site much easier. Once you get some content on your page, it really boils down to driving traffic to it.

I don’t usually say this, but with this type of site its really a numbers game. The more targeted visitors you funnel to ebay the better your chances of sales conversion. With this philosophy, I’m keeping the amount of content to a minimum and focusing on building incoming traffic and creating pages with a lot of datafeed content only.

Keep me posted with how you new site does…

Matt

Thanks for another great post!

– Michael S. Copeland