Affiliate Success: eBay 2.0 is now available for registered users. In addition to support for all Commission Junction eBay affiliate programs, ASE now has a much simplified process for requesting an eBay API server token. Just click a button, type your eBay ID, click a few more button, and BINGO! You’re online. This new process is fully automated and takes only a minute.
Do you use Google Adwords? Yahoo Search Marketing? How about MSN AdCenter?
Do you market affiliate products?
The Rover update for Affiliate Success: eBay was mailed to all current ASE customers early this morning. I recommend installing the ASE Rover update soon. eBay’s original cutoff for the old Commission Junction links was November 15, 2006, but they have extended that date to December 15, 2006. Personally, I would have extended the Rover cutoff to January 15, 2006 as that represents a more realistic end to the Christmas season with ample time for cleanup operations, but my opinion wasn’t solicited.
For current owners of ASE, I have released v1.30 which includes international support and automatic category downloads. You can now build eBay listing sites using the DWG script that provide listings in any of the 22 eBay web service support country languages. 11 of the supported countries also provide Commission Junction affiliate programs so you can earn commissions for these 11 countries as well.
In case you hadn’t noticed, eBay is rife with copyright infringement. If you’re interested in monitoring eBay for your wares, have a look at SearchDigger. The key for free information providers is to restrict resale of their information. That won’t stop everyone, but it does give you legal recourse when approaching eBay and the legal authorities. The unfortunate fact is that most content authors never discover their stolen content and when they do they rarely do more than request that eBay remove the offending listing. A few well publicized lawsuits would probably do much to stem the tide of this growing problem.
Here is an example of using the core Affiliate Success: eBay calls in a blog posting. This call is a custom search for “ipod mini green 4gb”. I chose not to search in the auction description to reduce the false hits. People selling 4GB minis will title the auction thusly. Also, I set the auctionAge to short and I set the cache to 30 seconds to illustrate the change rate. In reality the change rate of this search often approaches hours…
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