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Entries Tagged ‘ebay’

New E-Commerce Lensbuilding Service Launches

My fine lensmastering friend Katiyana just announced yesterday that she is opening up her lens creation services to the public. She’s offering to build lenses for your eCrater, eBay, Etsy, or BluJay store. Her full lens creation and maintenance services are actually quite reasonable, and I’m sure she’s going to have more clients than she [...]

Ebay Affiliate Feed Generator Live and Updated

Ok, folks after working my piratey butt off for the past few days I was able to finish updating my RSS feed generators for eBay. Here’s a few things I learned the hard way.
1. eBay’s reporting is still slow.
2. when eBay (or my generator or whatever) asks for your ‘Campaign ID’ , that is the [...]

Ebay Partner Network Goes Live

No, this isn’t an April Fool’s Joke. Ebay has officially made the split from Commission Junction to become it’s own stand alone affiliate program.
For the month of April, all the links for both Commission Junction and eBay will be live. All the links you have switched over to the new ebay program will earn an [...]

Ebay and CJ Divorce – Will Squidoo Need Child Support?

The big news today was that eBay is leaving Commission Junction and opening up their own independent affiliate network. It has been covered pretty heavily in the blogosphere so I thought I’d try to enlighten everyone a bit as to how it will affect your Squidoo lenses, since there are TONS of lenses out there [...]

Weekly Squidoo News in Review – Monthly Wrap Up

Since this is the last Squidoo News edition of the month, I thought I’d wrap up some of the exciting new additions to the world of Squidoo in February. As the end of the month draws near, make sure you spruce up your lenses one last time for that April payout!
I received a mention in [...]

Squidoo Tool: Free Ebay RSS Feed Generator

I’ve gotten a lot of questions the past 3 days about the RSS feed generator for Ebay Affiliates that I created. In order to help answer them, I’ve created a trial version of the Ebay Affiliate Tool so you can try it out and see how awesome it is. Here are the limitations of the [...]

How Squidoo eBay Commission Tracking Works

I’ve noticed a lot of curiosity on the Forums lately about how commissions actually work with eBay and Amazon.
I’ll cover each Affiliate Program in separate posts so as not to get them confused and to let everyone in on how it all works.
The eBay Commission Process

A visitor to your lens clicks on an ebay [...]