Ebay partner program

[Pommy - The DN Doc]

OK I know this is forum is for mainstream discussion not monetizing but google adsense/parking revenues have been dwindling recently and this may be a more mainstream topic therefore.

Has anyone had good experience of using the Ebay Partner program? How did you get regged? Was it easy? How is the cash?

 

[thebooksearcher]

OK I know this is forum is for mainstream discussion not monetizing but google adsense/parking revenues have been dwindling recently and this may be a more mainstream topic therefore.

Has anyone had good experience of using the Ebay Partner program? How did you get regged? Was it easy? How is the cash?

It took several weeks to get on EPN for me. It is a good affiliate program though I haven't been making as much as when it was through Commission Junction.

 

[DotWeekly]

https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com/files/hub/en-US/index.html

Considering there are so many things on eBay, I have always thought eBay was a Great choice for domainers. They offer several nice tools that update Live with the site and so on.

I have done my best with using BANS script, but you HAVE to hold a small niche like the script suggest. My site that does the best is www.ColorWax.com which I have set up for Color Car Wax.

A couple other good things, eBay tracks "cookies" for about 30 days and they are offering up new and improving tools often.

 

[Pommy - The DN Doc]

It took several weeks to get on EPN for me. It is a good affiliate program though I haven't been making as much as when it was through Commission Junction.

Thanks guys.

I had applied for the program and was knocked back

I was surprised as usually these sort of programs are inclusive and therefore I did not spend much time on the form. What sort of things are they looking for? What are the obvious pitfalls in the application form?

 

[yandig]

I got accepted within a few hours, but I've heard from people who got rejected that they had to try several times, and then got accepted.

I've been using the BANS software, and in 3 months it has more than paid for all of the expenses, except TIME

 

[Seabass]

https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com/files/hub/en-US/index.html

Considering there are so many things on eBay, I have always thought eBay was a Great choice for domainers. They offer several nice tools that update Live with the site and so on.

I have done my best with using BANS script, but you HAVE to hold a small niche like the script suggest. My site that does the best is www.ColorWax.com which I have set up for Color Car Wax.

A couple other good things, eBay tracks "cookies" for about 30 days and they are offering up new and improving tools often.

Hey Yofie...... your site.....I believe will eventually get banned or deindexed b/c you have no "content"......meaning a guide to color waxes, or how to use the polishes, history or color waxes, or whatever you want to write. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is what I had been reading some time back. eBay had gone on this "customer engagement" tear whereby they want your sites to be more engaging and not "thin sites". They canceled some accounts where the users had only one page sites or only ads on them.

Also, the cookie is only for seven days......unless they have changed the rules recently. I am not up on the scene like I was a few months ago.

Thanks guys.

I had applied for the program and was knocked back

I was surprised as usually these sort of programs are inclusive and therefore I did not spend much time on the form. What sort of things are they looking for? What are the obvious pitfalls in the application form?

Pommyg, I read that they are getting tougher on their applications.....however it was just something I read in a message board......not sure if it is true.

I actually had a couple sites earlier this year but when eBay started acting like Google by letting hard-working affiliates go, and these new "customer engagement" rules, whereby the $25 new eBay membership paid out to its affiliates was now going to be based the engagement and could go up to $50 or down to $1, I decided to pull out since many others were doing the same to show eBay they were upset.....I decided to join them. In retrospect, now knowing more facts, it was a small percentage of folks banned, and the payout was not destroyed, so I have determined I overreacted.

I was making much more money in eBay than I was in parking with those domains. I just switched them back to eBay again after several months in parking.

 

[DotWeekly]

Thank you Seabass for pointing that out because I thought I did have content on the site!

My dumb ass put it in the "Meta Description" !

Fixed now

 

[dbtbandit67]

it's rare to get accepted in the first couple of hours, unless you already have a long-standing buying-selling history, or you have your own ebay store and/or you are a power-seller, which explains why they might accelerate your application.

i have gone through exactly what you are going through. and don't worry, everything is fine. it will take about a month before you are accepted into their ebayUS program. the reason for this is that there are so many applications, they have to manually review each one to.. i guess to verify that the person is legit, and so forth. they dont want to start accepting bots now

but yeah, don't worry. takes about a month. it's pretty sweet. it's still too early for me to tell you about my results. goodluck!

 

[domainsusi]

Well I have to say that getting accepted into the program was a matter of a few hours. However I never made a dime as an eBay affiliate. But I should take that back, because I hade a sum of $3 some odd dollars in my account when I cancelled it - of course I never got paid.

I also cancelled my longstanding (several years) eBay account at the same time because I kept getting messages, billings and hate letters that I had failed to pay for items I never ordered.

There are other strange happenings when you have an eBay account.

All I can say is that within two days or less after I cancelled my eBay account, my spam emails went from about 120 to 2 per day.

susi

 

[Seabass]

I was accepted within hours with no previous relationship with eBay....buying or selling.......never done either.

I did make over $200 a month with my first eBay, starting my first month, with a domain that was doing about $55 a month in parking at Parked.com. I got indexed at MSN in the third spot going on about week three without any promotion of any kind. It's the new eBay memberships that make you the most money.....generally speaking. Even before I got indexed I was making money. Folks buy all kinds of crap there that don't even relate to the domains' keywords.

There is much potential there. It's an game in experimentation to find what works.

Did you know you can also do a redirect to them, even to a specific niche if you wish? They allow it, or at least they did this summer when I tried it. I need to check the rules again. But if all is the same, you don't even have to build sites. In the eBay Partner Network interface there is an option that allows you to do it.

I did it and it made money, but not as good as the BANS sites. Those are much better.