{"id":1149,"date":"2015-07-03T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogseye.com\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2015-07-06T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T22:30:00","slug":"ebay-partner-networks-new-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogseye\/2015\/07\/ebay-partner-networks-new-plugin.html","title":{"rendered":"Ebay Partner Networks New Plugin -update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to do well with Ebay Partner Networks, but Ebay changed the way the affiliate program works and it is near impossible for a small site to make money with it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I have been tweaking my EPN plugin trying to find a way to make money again, but my sales have been zero for a couple of months in spite of thousands of clicks. I thought it might have been something I had done so I opened a new account under a different name and email, but there was no difference. I cancelled the account after a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I googled the problem and discovered that it was an issue with ebay timing their cookies to a limit of 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p>My latest tweak is to only show auctions ending in the next 24 hours. This way any purchase should qualify for a commission. I also changed the product landing page to the actual auction page rather than the waste of time summary page that their RSS feed uses. <\/p>\n<p>I installed the plugin on 5 sites and I will watch to see if it makes a difference. <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE**************************************8<\/p>\n<p>Three days later &#8211; averaging 3 or 4 dollars a day after months of zero. I think I have the formula.<br \/>\nSo far only low $ sales, but I expect from time to time that some big ticket items will bump up the average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to do well with Ebay Partner Networks, but Ebay changed the way the affiliate program works and it is near impossible for a small site to make money with it anymore. I have been tweaking my EPN plugin trying to find a way to make money again, but my sales have been zero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}