Transition from Commission Junction to eBay Partner Network
As most everyone should know by now eBay decided to bring their affiliate program in-house and left Commission Junction. Affiliates were given until the end of the month to change links to the new network. I contemplated on waiting until the last week of the month to ensure all the kinks were worked out, but after another member of Mony Tree made a sale and said that everything is tracking well I decided to go ahead and bite the bullet and change all my sites (11 total, 10 Mony Tree and 1 BANS). I made the change on April 5th
The actual process of changing the sites, both Mony Tree and BANS, from CJ to EPN was absolutely painless. Thanks to the hard work by the staff at MT and BANs, all that was required on my end was to change the unique ID for each site. I had all 10 of my sites changed within 15 minutes.
So, I am a stat junkie and of course logged into my EPN account 5 or 6 times the first day to make sure it was tracking properly. The first day I didn’t notice any clicks at all but was told that it takes a while for the system to update. Long story short, today is the 4th day since I made the change and clicks appear to be tracking fine (568 clicks in 4 days). I haven’t made a sale yet though! So we shall see.
These sites are always lagged a bit due to the nature of the auctions on eBay. The only way to receive an immediate commission from one of these sites is if the visitor to your sites uses “Buy it now” or if they win a 1 day auction (not many 1 day auctions). So according to my stats I should hopefully see some sales come in over the next few days.
I will post an update soon.
Regards,
April 9, 2008
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Hey Chris,
Thanks for the comment on my blog. I’d love to replicate, except that affiliate program disappeared from the face of the earth while owing me $643. What’s worse is that I still get emails saying “you’ve made a sale!” so they are still making money off me, but have not paid me since January.
Anyway, about your ebay listings on your sites. Just a suggestion, but have you thought about making all of them “buy it now” only? My reasoning is this: If people want to bid, they just go to ebay. But for people randomly shopping around the web, they are looking to buy. But if they see that there is an auction involved where they have to wait, they are likely to just move on. But with “buy it now” only, you might snag more of those shoppers.
Scott
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