Affiliate news

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They’re Russian, and they don’t reply to most of my emails – but I’ve just received my fourth payment from Uploading.com, and I have to say that I’m very impressed with the results. If you’ve got a website that gets a lot of downloads (movies, pictures, software etc), then not only will Uploading.com host your files for free, they’ll also pay you for every unique download. Definitely worth a shot. Spasibo!

eBay are obviously having a few problems, not only with EPN, but with their user logins. People from all over the world are loading up a fresh eBay page to be greeted as step00001. Nice going guys. If I was step00001 I’d be asking eBay a few questions right about now.

I’ve put together a site to analyze EPN (eBay Partner Network) affiliate reports – it’s here.

As of April the 1st (what a date to choose!), eBay will be running their own in-house affiliate program without Commission Junction. For those of us using the RSS feed to populate our sites, there’s no real need to panic – Kelvin (from BANS), seems to have the inside story, and says that the eBay RSS feed will remain active – so hopefully all we’ll need to do is replace our CJ PIDs with a new eBay ID number. Looks like April 1st will be a busy day for a few of us :p

eBay Australia have finally decided to increase their commissions – they haven’t announced the new payout percentages, but anything has to be better than the 20% they’re paying us now!

“Good news, early April we will be increasing the eBay.com.au affiliate program pricing to continue to reward and recognise quality traffic & incentivise further growth from our affiliates. We’ll be publishing the new payment structure very soon – do look out for further communication from us.”