eBay Affiliate Program Now Open to All eBay Sellers

[mandy]

**Affiliate Program Opens to All Sellers, Plus eBay “Promote It” Sweepstakes for PowerSellers*** 

Hi everyone...this is Edurne Jorda with our Seller Development team, along with Dan Serpico from our eBay Affiliates team. We've got some great news for our sellers and PowerSellers.

Many eBay sellers already drive traffic to their eBay listings through marketing on their own websites and other off-eBay pages. We're pleased to let you know that we've recently expanded our Affiliate Program to allow all sellers to join the program and get rewarded for driving traffic to eBay.com - even if it's to your own items!

If you are marketing your eBay listings online, we hope you'll consider becoming an eBay Affiliate. For more details about this program, please visit our information page.

PowerSellers -- Join the eBay "Promote It" Sweepstakes
As a special incentive for our PowerSellers, we've put together the eBay "Promote It" Sweepstakes. From May 15 through August 15, register as an eBay Affiliate and you'll have a chance to win one of 25 cash prizes up to $1,000 simply for using your off-eBay website, blog or online store to drive traffic back to your listings.

Here are the rules to be entered into our random drawing, to be held on August 20th, 2007:

   1. You must be a registered eBay PowerSeller throughout the entry period.
   2. You must be a registered eBay Affiliate throughout the entry period. (Not registered as an affiliate yet? Join Now!)
   3. Integrate eBay onto your website! Use eBay Affiliate Tools or the API to create ads and links for your affiliate campaign.
   4. Enter your site URL for a chance to win cash prizes – 25 sellers will be chosen to win!

Here are the prizes:

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      1st prize – 10 winners will each receive $1,000 cash
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      2nd prize – 10 winners will each receive $750 cash
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      3rd prize – 5 winners will each receive $500 cash

For complete details and Official Rules, see our promotion page.

eBay is proud of our PowerSellers, who rank among the most successful eBay sellers in terms of both product sales volume and customer satisfaction. To learn more about the benefits of being a PowerSeller and how you can qualify, please visit our PowerSeller portal page.

more info on eBay's affiliate program: http://affiliates.ebay.com/
contest details: http://www.ebay.com/promoteit

[sneakymagenta]

Many Only eBay sellers already who smoke crack drive traffic to their eBay listings through marketing on their own websites.  Smart sellers drive traffic from eBay to their own websites.

[mandy]

More changes:

eBay is increasing the payout to members of its Affiliate Program effective June 1, 2007, but is disallowing paid-search traffic purchased from Google, Yahoo and MSN for its US members. eBay's Affiliate Program allows third-parties to earn revenue for driving bidders and buyers to eBay listings.

Some affiliates generate traffic to eBay through advertising, but as of June 1st, eBay will no longer compensate affiliates for "paid search traffic purchased from Google.com, Yahoo.com, MSN.com, nor from any of their content networks, such as Google AdSense, Yahoo! Publisher Network, and MSN ContentAds, if it is linked directly to the eBay.com, eBay Express, or eBay Store domains." ...

full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m05/i17/s01

[bargainbloodhound]

eBay Ups Affiliate Payouts, Bans use of Paid Search

Those 2 changes mean eBay affiliates will be flooding the regular search results with even more spam than they usually do.



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Many Only eBay sellers already who smoke crack drive traffic to their eBay listings through marketing on their own websites.  Smart sellers drive traffic from eBay to their own websites.

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