Sunday, June 1, 2008

Epn Dose Allow Affiliates To Offer Own Listings

Its been two months since the Ebay Affiliate went in house from Commission Junction. What a two months its been. Reports of user being reject and even worse completely banned from the network. Its understandable that new users of ePN without a website or a blog be turned away and asked to re-apply once they have a blog or site. Of course Ebay needs to know a URL in order to track a user. They can't just let someone put there links anywhere on the Internet.
As for a few ePN Users that have been banned forever we really don't know all the circumstances, but from reading some threads on the Epn Forum we can conclude the users violated terms of service by have inbound link using black hat methods. One user reportedly had 1000s of links coming from Porn sites. There are other methods of linking back to EBay as well which where against CJ's TOS too. Such as rerouting links through proxies directly to Ebay from PPC. Its OK to use PPC, but you can't send buyer directly to the Ebay site. The traffic must be sent to your web site. In other words you can't set the EBay Cookie from a ad. The user need to go to your site browse then click on a ePN Ad , RSS Feed or whatever from there.
Basically you can do whatever you want with your links as long as prospects are given a cookie from a web site you own. Setting a cookie on a Ebay About Me Page is also a no no. According to Ebay TOS users can send other users off EBay using a URL from there About Me Page. This is one of my favorite technique for getting Back Links From Relevant sites. And what web site is stronger than Ebay for Back Links.

One more thing that has been clarified is Ebay sellers can promote there own items for sale on there websites and Blogs. This was worrisome for some who specifically purchased BANS
eBay Partner Network Blog » English: "While many of you reading this blog are already familiar with the new eBay Partner Network, we wanted to remind you that with eBay’s new in-house platform, for most of our programs eBay sellers can be affiliates, too – which of course means sellers and merchants can earn extra money by driving traffic to their own listings as well as other listings on eBay.While many of you reading this blog are already familiar with the new eBay Partner Network, we wanted to remind you that with eBay’s new in-house platform, for most of our programs eBay sellers can be affiliates, too – which of course means sellers and merchants can earn extra money by driving traffic to their own listings as well as other listings on eBay."
Always contact ePN what any concerns before starting a new promotional method to insure you are abiding by TOS

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