eBay Partner Network

I switched my links to the ebay Partner Network when it became live a few months ago. I believe that I have switched all my links, but I am experiencing a drop in the commission that I previously experienced.

This is a little confusing, there has been mixed views from a number of affiliates that I have spoken to. The split is around 1/3 have seen a significant drop, 1/3 have stayed the same and 1/3 have expericend a rise in sales and commissions.

eBay are listing a number of great tools, nice to have them all in one place, but are people using them, or are they just switching links? With the affiliate space becoming alot more competitive use of every tool that affiliate merchants / affiliate networks have to offer is essential. Anything that can be done to enhance a site with the aid of a merchant instead of link and banner dropping must be good.

Probably the most useful tool with ebay is the affiliate RSS feeds. with a little php (other server side scripting languages are available) this can be used in a number of different ways to enhance a site and add unique content.

The next step for myself is to have a look at the eBay API, now freely available - they used to charge! A step up from the RSS feeds. Saving my time I may just invest in BANS

July 15th, 2008 Posted by admin | affiliate marketing, eBay | one comment

Being Social

Looking for some followers on twitter - I don’t use it much at the moment but would if I had some followers.

Would be good for keeping up to date with quick and fast posts about our clients and just general chit chat.

http://twitter.com/scifind

You can also find me on facebook

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=668141342

and A4u forum

http://www.affiliates4u.com/profiles/scifind/

July 15th, 2008 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | no comments

Thank you Affiliates for a good Launch Month for Purely Diamonds

The PurelyDiamonds affiliate program (Affiliate Window) has been running for around a month now and our sales, and affiliate commission has started to accrue.

To date affiliate generated transactions are averaging over £1000 per sale, this is greatly in excess of the £650 average basket value usually experienced, so well done.

This means that the average affiliate commission is £70.

PurelyDiamonds have a very strong product range and excellent commission, This combined with their high quality products makes this a very strong affiliate program.

How Should You Promote Purely Diamonds?

PPC

PPC is a great way to promote our site. With our high basket values, allowing you to target our site directly and excelent on site sales tools (Flash Video) we have an ideal program for the experienced PPCer. We just ask that you refrain from using our name or vairiations (for full details of our ppc terms please login to your affiliate window account).

Content

The best content sites are currently wedding and engagement sites, though we expect good conversion from high quality gift sites, especially christening / new baby sites.

Have a look at our selection of banners and links once you are logged into the AffiliateWindow site. Need any other banners / links - just get in touch!

July 15th, 2008 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | no comments