My eBay Script – eBay Affiliate Website Builder Blog

The newest version of My eBay Script has been equip with a referer tracking system.

Many customers have been troubled by eBay’s TOS to where it states that you are in violation if someone visits an eBay site or any of there partners and is directed to your eBay Store, clicks on one of your links then again taken back to eBay and makes a purchase.

I’ve heard many affiliates talk about this on the eBay Forum. So what we have done in this release of MeS, version 1.5.7,  is to track and include a reporting module that will show you where your visitors are coming from. This type of reporting could be key if you are advertising your eBay store on any of the search engines via PPC. eBay does display PPC ads from Google and Yahoo. You need to keep a keen eye on this or you could be flagged for termination.

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Anyone who pays attention to SEO techniques knows that getting high quality, “do follow,” and diverse backlinks is the key to search engine optimization. The challenge, of course, is where to find places to get powerful backlinks.

Most people build their link building strategies around blog and forum postings. This makes sense and is certainly part of our plans as well. However, it stands to reason that Google also knows that most marketers who are using SEO tactics to rank their sites are doing this, and it makes sense that they will be looking for a much more diverse backlink pattern to award the highest rankings to.

With that in mind, I’m going to share the top 5 non-forum/blog backlink sources that we teach in Commission Blueprint 2.0.

1. Squidoo Lists

Squidoo.com is a great place to get links back to your site. Type the following into a Google search:

“add+to+this+list”+site:squidoo.com

You will be presented with a huge list of Squidoo lenses where you can add your site, with custom anchor text. Many of these have very high PageRank as well!

For extra credit, append +”keyword phrase” onto the end of this query, and you can target your links for relevance. For example, if you were trying to rank a fitness site you could type:

“add+to+this+list”+”fitness”+site:squidoo.com

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My eBay Script version 1.5 requires PHP version 5.x

Some new customers have noticed that after installation they would get errors or could not log into the admin page. We have found that in most cases this was do to their webhosting provider does not have their account set to use PHP5 by default. Below are some tips to solve this issue.

Switching to PHP 5
To identify the version of PHP your web server is using, create a text file called phpinfo.php with the following code and upload it to the root of your server and run it.

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The eBay Partner Network has introduced Quality Click Pricing, a new quality-based Cost Per Click (CPC) payout model designed to better reward top affiliates, simplify the commission structure, and increase the quality of traffic driven to eBay sites through the affiliate program.

As we all know, there were thousands and thousands of people (affiliates) promoting eBay products. Most of which had junk sites meaning no real content and the quality of their web sites traffic was blatantly poor. eBay’s Quality Pricing structure will penalize those types of sites.

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When I first started out building MeS eBay Storefronts, I was knocking out 10 to 12 sites per month. Back in the old days when the eBay affiliate program was new. I was just going crazy and making good money doing so. Since the changes at eBay and now with the poor economy. I have since scaled back and focus only on my top 10 or so sites. I have to say that My eBay Script is way too easy to use and you could easily get caught up into building 2 or 3 sites a day. My suggestion to you is to take it slow, do some market research and pick a niche that you are passionate about and has a lot of people who are interested in what you are selling/promoting.

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Series 1

Building your eBay Affiliate Storefront website was just the first step. As with any new website, it is going to do you no good unless people know about it. So you must now put on your Affiliate Marketing hat and start promoting your site and what you have to offer the world. Yes, The World. With your new website you will be marketing and selling to anyone who finds your site no matter where they are located on Gods Green Earth.

This little blog article will be the first in a series of posts that explains Affiliate Internet Marketing and some of the tools and techniques to get you listed on search engines fast and to get your eBay Affiliate Store in front of as many people as possible.

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