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Apr 14, 2008 8:36 PM
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WELCOME TO THE EBAY PARTNER NETWORK DISCUSSION BOARD The team is excited to bring the new eBay Partner Network platform to you. Thank you for being valued partners and providing feedback on enhancements/new features around registration, reporting, tools and payments the last 1-2+ years. As many of you have kindly recognized on the boards, this wasn’t an easy task – but we believe that with the new platform, we’re now better positioned to provide a more streamlined experience, truly develop...
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Sep 22, 2008 11:23 PM
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We want to thank the many affiliates that have contributed so many helpful questions, tips, and productive discussions on our boards over the past few months. We also felt that this is the right time to address a topic that a number of our affiliates requested, which is the high volume of off-topic and non-constructive posts on the eBay Partner Network board. We've received this feedback both from many of the affiliates who still use or read the boards, as well as many of our most...
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Sep 22, 2009 7:53 PM
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Hello All, Starting October 1st, we will require that users have an active eBay Partner Network account in order to make posts to the eBay Partner Network discussion boards. We’re making this change as a result of feedback from a number of publishers. In people’s experience with other networks, limiting the boards to publishers in the network has been helpful in encouraging constructive and helpful conversations on the boards. In addition, if specific issues or bugs are reported by...
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Oct 27, 2009 6:59 PM
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I've had the API looking at me on the tools page ever since I left CJ, wondering what it was. Accepting another license agreement for it kind of put me off so I never took the big step. Have I missed out on something? For the most part, I use the Link Generator and the Widgets Editor Kit. RSS has worked out well too, but the Creatives Generator is a major loss! The eBay To GO doesn't cut it and I haven't tried the new Custom Banner as yet. I would simply love to redesign the Editor Kit for...
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Nov 5, 2009 10:29 AM
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Well, it's happened. A lot of my campaigns are now at EPC ZERO even though there are several hundred clicks on them. Does this mean that I may as well fold up the tent and retire these campaigns?
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Nov 3, 2009 6:39 PM
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I have a site that had just 72 clicks last month at 0.14 a click. This is about what the site has done for the last two years. Today the website received 4,658 clicks from some IP address in China. At its present 0.22 EPC the one day earnings should be $1,000+. Now there's no way eBay should pay me that amount but what do you think will happen? I would expect my EPC to get slammed down to 0.00 but for how long? Last time it was 4 or 5 days but the bot clicks were in the ballpark of...
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Apr 22, 2009 5:06 PM
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The latest newsletter mentions: "The eBay sites in the US, UK and Australia are all promoting Daily Deals, where each day there is a fantastic new deal. Promote these deals by using the Deal of the Day Feed or the new Deal of the Day banners (US only.)" I've found the US ones at www.deals.ebay.com, but can anyone tell me where the UK ones are? I tried the obvious www.deals.ebay.co.uk, but that's a dead link. On the US site, there's a link to the Daily Deals from the home page, but I...
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Nov 1, 2009 1:23 PM
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Hi All, Ok that's the 1st month over for existing affiliates on QCP. Just looking to see how it has worked out for folks now that it is live and not a preview. It would be interesting in this thread to see how others are doing and if possible kept on topic To check I have taken the average of the previous three months earnings and compared it to this months earnings. Whilst it is still early days really and could change in the coming months so far I am up quite a bit. So...
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Oct 30, 2009 11:30 PM
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Hi guys, I am wondering if anyone could give me some suggestions on how to make money with this program. I am generating clicks ok but how do you get the sales and all that? Will it all build up over time. ??? Can I leave a link to my site so you can see what I can do to make money with Ebay... I feel I am wasting my time because I do not know the best tactics. I get loads of traffic, but just need to know what to do with it...
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Oct 27, 2009 3:43 PM
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Hi all. Seeing all the problems people are having with bots, I decided to create an anti-bot redirect script. It's meant to be run locally on your server, and should pass all website-related info to EPN. Here's an example of how it works. Click the following link more than 3 times in one minute, and after the 3rd time, you won't be redirected. Script Example Or copy and paste the following URL: www.morepaintballs.com/prgs/nobots.cgi?nburl=anyurlyouwant Into a browser window,...
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Nov 6, 2009 6:35 PM
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Hi all, My EPN account was recently suspended as it was flagged for a Network Quality Review after a dramatic spike in earnings. The suspension started over two weeks ago and it's been 10 days since I received the last request for more information. I've always replied within 24 hours to EPN. I sent an email to the quality review team a couple of days ago asking for a progress update but received no reply. Does anyone have any idea how long these usually take? Who would be the best...
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Nov 5, 2009 8:56 PM
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I'm roughly familiar with the insertion fees and final value fees that sellers pay to eBay -- which is basically what the "Winning Bid Revenue" column represents in our reports. But I'm having trouble getting my head around the WBR revenue reported for a particular purchase shown in my ePN account. It was a watch -- item # 250250892765, to be exact -- that sold for $495. The Winning Bid Revenue reported in my ePN account for that sale is $1.80. That's less than a half a percent in total...
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Nov 5, 2009 12:26 PM
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On my dashboard I see this message: Payment Alert: Tax Information not entered. You must enter this information to activate payments. Clicking it takes me to this URL: Link That URL always fails to load with a "connection reset" error: "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." Any workaround or do I just have to wait for it to be fixed?
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Nov 5, 2009 3:25 PM
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Hate to use caps, but perhaps this will get your attention. Your long absence from this discussion board is making us wonder what's going on.....
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Nov 4, 2009 1:58 PM
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Hello. Toward the end of October my cost per click and revenues spiked, reaching double the current average. They stayed higher for about 4 days and has since slowly dwindled down again. I've checked various reports and can't find any reason for this. Looks to me like the bids, impressions, clicks, winning bids, all stayed relatively the same but the amount I was earning per click spiked. Could someone who is a whiz with reports give me advice on how to identify why my earnings during...
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Nov 6, 2009 10:01 AM
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Does anyone know if people in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina are able to have accounts with eBay.com to bid/buy stuff? I get several thousand visits a month from Latin America and they are seeing my eBay listings (generated using RSS feeds). I geotarget so if someone is visiting my site from a country where there is an EPN program I show listings/links for the relevant eBay program. For all other countries it defaults to displaying eBay.co.uk listings/links. I geotarget using my own geoip...
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Nov 5, 2009 4:32 PM
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I hereby volunteer my site as a before/after candidate to be reviewed by ePN staffers for the purpose of improving earnings under the new structure. I'm a quality traffic generator who's commissions have taken a 40% hit since your new algo was introduced. From your description of the QCP mine is exactly the type of site that should have benefited from the change. Targeted niche traffic from an authority site with great content that is fully search engine optimized. I have feverishly...
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Oct 30, 2009 11:26 PM
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Hi guys I have placed the text file on my website roots with the code on it and all...Still did not work though. Does it matter that I cannot verify any websites? Will I still get paid?
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Nov 3, 2009 9:02 PM
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Last week I had an unexplained spike in clicks on one day and my ebay account was suspended. I got an email asking for one weeks worth of server log files. I sent them in 5 separate emails because they were too big to go through ebay mail server as one file. That was thursday. I just received a reply that I only sent a few hours worth on one day (the last and smallest file). How can I be sure that the ebay quality team is reading all email and receiving all mail? Is there another way to...
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Nov 4, 2009 6:37 PM
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My calls to FindItemsAdvanced that were working since 21 September are no longer working. I didn't see any announcement about an outage. Anyone else having trouble?Nearmint's Vintage Football Cards Vintage Football Card Gallery
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Oct 23, 2009 2:54 PM
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Lets say that I have a visitor to my site from New Zealand that clicks on my geo-targeted link. There is no epn program for New Zealand, but there is a New Zealand eBay site where do they get sent to? Now lets say that I have a visitor to my site from Germany that clicks on my geo-targeted link. There is an epn program for Germany, but there is no geo-targeting for Germany (only for english speaking countries, but not Ireland), where do they get sent to?
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Nov 4, 2009 5:48 PM
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Just put up about 30 individual feed ads and for the last 10-12 hours nothing has appeared in my reports. Impressions have been 0 throughout. Would anyone know the cause of this? Thx
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Nov 4, 2009 5:13 AM
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I've added geotargets to the editor kit code i use by changing the siteid in the javascript, I assume this is the way to do this. What I see is a lot of traffic to editorkit from countries that have an ebay site (like Poland) and have a siteid (looking at the ebay api) but no site listing in my partnernetwork page. So if i send visitors to one of these sites will i get revenue or should I send them to the US site?
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Nov 2, 2009 2:46 PM
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Hi, all. Just wondering if any multilingual folks in the audience (especially anyone on the European ePN team who's within earshot) can help me with a little translation. I wouldn't want to bother anyone with an entire webpage for translation, or even a block of text; but below are some eBay-centric phrases and taglines that perhaps others here might also benefit from using in their custom creatives or ad copy. If you have a moment and were lucky enough to be raised in a bi/tri-lingual...
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Oct 22, 2009 4:34 AM
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I would like to use my own search box to search at ebay and wanted to realise this with javascript and php $subID is a subid or campaign and $search the word to be searched for mycode: document.location.href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/707-53477-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574841060&toolid=10001&campid=$subID&customid=&icep_uq=$search&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229487&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg";...
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Nov 2, 2009 1:29 PM
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Here are three relatively minor reporting issues which I think would help me to improve my earnings under QPC: 1) A column on the transaction report that shows the amount of time between the click and the user's eBay action (either BIN, bid, or watch). I know that eBay is devaluing sales that don't occur immediately, and tells us to instead compare the sale date to the click date to determine targeting, but I have to believe that eBay will change that shortsighted policy in the future, since...
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Nov 1, 2009 11:42 AM
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1 campaign in the UK 384 clicks in October 78 winning bids $807.56 winning bid revenue $12,379.85 sales QCP payout $60.79 (8% of rev, 0.49% of sales ) Payout under old system $242.68 (30% of rev, 1.96% of sales) 27 items the buyer clicked and bought same item 44 bought different item in the same category 7 bought items in another category 71 items in same category 3 items in second category 4 items in 4 other categories 26 items were purchased within 5 minutes on either last...
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Oct 31, 2009 9:48 AM
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Operating forum links, under the old EPC logic, I would convert all ebay links provided by members to affiliate links. Great - they get cookies and if they bid and won the item then eBay and I both won. If they didn't bid, no harm done. Under the new logic, I suspect that links to frivolous products should be avoided. These are auctions that are fun to look at, but no one in their right mind will bid on the item. For example: Link Under the new EPC, these are considered "low quality"...
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Oct 30, 2009 3:44 PM
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Since the beginning of quality Click pricing, I had a EPN of 0,15 for more than 30 clicks a day, everyday, only on ebay.us (siteid=0) I use rss and api (getSingletItem, getItemAdvanced) only for ebay.com. Since 10 days, my epn is 0 for US (more than 20 clicks) and outside US clicks are at 0,16. I don't understand whey there is such a difference since 10 days because my traffic is still 80% from US. If I check the tool validator, it finds some errors in all API calls (invalid rotation ID)....
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Oct 31, 2009 2:55 PM
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Anyone else experiencing a sudden drop in earnings for 29th October and 30th October? ... My dashboard shows Impressions and clicks as being around the same amount as they have been for over the month ... but the EPC value has been halved! I've sent a mail to the Quality team but was just wondering if anyone else had experienced this anomoly. regards
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Oct 27, 2009 2:34 PM
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Don't know why, but I'm getting a feeling that the wizards are scrambling to tweak the algo. Stats being stuck and EPC's not being posted until later in the day seems to point towards something happening in the innards @ eBay.
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Oct 29, 2009 4:05 PM
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I just received a notice that my account will be terminated next week due to low quality clicks. I already sent a plea via the contact form on the EPN site. This is a horrible event. We have spent thousands of engineering hours integrating systems, particularly ebay, into our group of sites. We are currently crammed with getting a lot of our projects live within the next couple of weeks before we go into an already late code freeze for the holidays. We have a marketing plan drawn out...
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Oct 27, 2009 9:59 PM
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Looking at my statistics, my EPN impressions are FAR lower than what my statistics show they should be. I took a sampling of a couple of sites and counted the page views only on sites that EPN Dashboard shows have an impression pixel: EPN: 202 impressions My statistics: 637 page views None of the page views on the above statistics are for content, The statcounter code is in my EPN script so it's not picking up the content views from Wordpress. (I have a separate counter for that) It...
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Oct 30, 2009 2:39 AM
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Stupid Question: I’ve been creating a new campaign ID’s for each new niche site I have been putting together to identify where my traffic is coming from. However since I rolled out 2 new sites in 10 days my earnings have gone to 0. I just read this.. How to Optimize for Quality Click Pricing We recommend that you split up your activity into campaigns as soon as possible and then don’t change them too often, as when you start a new campaign you may see a slight change in your overall EPC...
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Oct 23, 2009 2:24 PM
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I know we can create links and things with custom id's but see no way to get reports that list info for each custom id. any way to this?? if not, whats the point of having custom id's for links if we have no way to track them?? JeffJeff
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Oct 23, 2009 11:50 PM
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10) Impressions + x - y +z * Clicks * random(100) *.01 + 5.95. (+6.95 if you geo-target) 9) Free tote bag 8) Payout corresponds to distance from seller to buyer 7) Pay for best personality matching between sellers and buyers 6) Compensate for best color coordination of the gallery images of items sold. 5) Ask google to write it 4) PCP - the same program, but you don't care. 3) eBay giftcard dollar matching to revenue. 2) 100% revenue share and 2 year cookie 1)...
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Oct 24, 2009 8:23 AM
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Apologies if this utility already exists but if it does I can't find it. Could Ebay create a message alert for people interested in buying something that currently is NOT listed on the site ? I know there is an SMS alert option but this only applies to an item that is currently listed. From an affiliate point of view I think this could be a great feature to keep people engaged in my site. Even from my view as an Ebay customer, I would love to see a feature where if I was looking to...
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Oct 26, 2009 12:24 AM
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The MJ12Bot has gone completely wacko on my site to the point of overload this month. So bye bye MJ. Baidu is asking for it next. MJ12Bot is a spider that is supposed to be harvesting for a new search engine, but all they've posted is site stat type reports of limited worth. I've tolerated up until now. You can block it with robots.txt: User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / or htaccess: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MJ12bot RewriteRule .* - [F] Also useful - this will slow...
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Oct 29, 2009 2:43 PM
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I have been using this program for a year, but have just started geo-targeting some of my sites. Now, I am starting to get some clicks and sales. This month I got my first sales from Ebay CA. My stats show 27 clicks with 3 bids and 1 winning bid, but my EPC is still showing $0. The winning bid had about $21 in winning bid revenues. Why is my EPC for my CA program still $0. I have other US sites that have a few clicks, but I still get earnings from them. My US sales for the same...
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Oct 26, 2009 3:08 PM
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I was in my paypal account for another reason and saw that my epn payment had arrived, but when I checked my ePN account a moment or two later it showed that today's payment was still pending. So if you're looking for your money, check your paypal account (if that's how you receive payment).
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Oct 26, 2009 9:10 AM
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One of my sites was brutally attacked by a clickbot yesterday. Are there any specific procedures I should take to handle this? I have the raw access logs. Should I send them to someone @epn?
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Oct 27, 2009 6:02 PM
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I've just come across a script code that allows a form of comment/reviews to be easily added to any of your pages on your site. Has anyone else tried anything similar ? I know Ebay would like our sites to be more interactive.
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Oct 21, 2009 10:17 PM
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Real class act. Just lost this affiliates traffic.
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Oct 26, 2009 7:44 PM
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Why are the click stats stuck at 9:00 am? Makes it hard to check out your sites for any strange influx of hits (bots) when it's not updating at least every 3 or 4 hours.
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Oct 26, 2009 2:12 PM
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Is there a lag time between the earnings report and the transaction download for yesterday? I thought they did away with that when the EPC business model was implemented. I'm looking at my transaction download for yesterday and it shows a relatively decent revenue from my low volume sites which are pooled together. It was not a "0". The clicks from the revenue occurred a few days ago. Yet, according to yesterday's earning report, my EPC for the low volume sites are at $0.01. Kinda...
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Oct 26, 2009 4:36 AM
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What's the latest on the Transaction Download function? What I get (text version) hasn't been updated since Oct 1.
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Oct 26, 2009 4:43 AM
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Where do we look now to see how much we're earning per ACRU? Thanks
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Oct 25, 2009 8:14 PM
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I am using the eBay to Go widget in a few places--the version for a single auction. Two comments: First, the widget builder doesn't prompt for a custom ID, so I can't tell which instances are getting clicks. I can tell from the "By Tool/Creative" report that I'm getting a few clicks (stress few), but I can't tell which auctions people are clicking on. Second is my bigger beef: if you click on the image--or just about anywhere on the ad--it ought to open the auction! As it is, clicking...
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Oct 21, 2009 4:28 PM
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This has to rate right up there for being the whackiest comment I've ever seen related to providing EPN links in my web sites... Your site has been reported for Price-fixing.Your lower ebay auction listing has been closely monitored for months now.It has been established and documented that in almost every case items are listed in this section when you feel the price of an item is too high. This is collusion and is against the law. It is strongly advised that you and your members stop this...
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Oct 22, 2009 10:13 PM
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Every so often an affiliate chimes in here, surprised by a cookie stuffing violation. Since some affiliates are surprised by these accusations, and since there can be a number of different ways that cookies can be stuffed, I thought I'd start a thread where we can compile various things to look out for (or perhaps clean up, post-termination, during an appeals process) to help each other out. The act of cookie stuffing is largely synonymous with redirecting users through your ePN affiliate...
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