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The transition of the eBay affiliate program from Commission Junction to the in-house ePN program has not been a smooth one. In fact, I would venture to say that eBay probably had no idea of the amount of turmoil it would cause. Tracking and reporting glitches are one thing and eBay most likely anticipated some of this.

What they may not have expected was the outcry from so many of their affiliates over them.

Granted, as an ePN affiliate myself, it’s pretty stressful to think that you’re not being properly credited for the traffic you send, but it seems that a lot of the whining was just the result of low conversions for whatever reasons besides problems with click tracking.

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I’ve been using the BayRSS plugin from Azlan Kasim for several months now, both here on IMMania.com as well as on several niche affiliate blogs. This is a fantastic WP plugin and has worked for me without a hitch. My approach to using the eBay affiliate program, now called ePN since the migration in-house by eBay, is to rapidly blast-test products from eBay using Adwords and then breakout the winners into WP blogs to leverage longer term free traffic.

Gotta love that free traffic!

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Effective April 1, 2008, eBay opened the doors to their new in-house affiliate program. Previously, the eBay affiliate program had been managed by Commission Junction (CJ) with all link tracking performed by eBay. That’s what all those canine sounding affiliate links were about:

“rover”

A transition period has been in effect during the entire month of April, where eBay affiliate links for both CJ and ePN would be active. As an added incentive for early migration to ePN, eBay is offering an extra 5% on commissions generated during April.

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