My My!
Isn't that interesting! Looks like those that have bragged about how much they've earned with Ebay and CJ with either questionable or other means are going to be shot out of the water.

Gods Love and mine,
Deb

I'm just hoping that you will still be able to use their program to put affiliate tracking into RSS feeds!
I can imagine April will be a very busy month for anyone earning a good income from ebay affiliate sales whilst they change and update their links.

Meanwhile, I'll update my tutorial as soon as ebay open their program and I work out how to do it myself!

We've been working with them for a few weeks in order to make sure our links are structured properly for the new format.

That's awesome Gil,
With Squidoo's links and Book Garden's RSS, we'll be 'good to go'!

katiyana wrote:

I was wondering, have you figured out a way to include SID's in your RSS feeds yet?

Nope, the only way of tracking performance of links is to create a different PID for each, which is a little time consuming.

Loyaliss currently has a program that you can buy that will add SID's or you can use his free trial version and surrender 2 out of 5 clicks to his PID/SID. I imagine he will be adapting and adopting this process in April if it is possible, or he's likely to be be having some customers requesting refunds!

Other than that I don't have a clue as to incorporating an SID into the tracking. Perhaps wwith the new tools ebay will be making available this will become available easily. Guess we just wait and see!

Great news to know that Squidoo is in the loop on this and Gil is on the ball (that guy deserves a holiday!)

Just wanted to throw a few updates out there..

1) I Designed my Ebay RSS tool so that if eBay changed their structure, I could change it once on my end and automatically update all the feeds out there. I think I have close to 1000 feeds in one form or another out there on my own pages using that tool and there was no way I was going to go back and edit the URLs of every single feed. Whenever eBay releases more guidance on how the new feeds will be set up, I'll let everyone know more but I'm not anticipating any problems.

2) I don't foresee any problems with keeping SID tracking embedded in the tool either, which is sweet .

3) Yes, there is a free version where 2 of the 5 links are randomly embedded with my CJ account number each time the feed loads. I thought this was fair as it is comparable to fluffanutta's amazon tool (I think his might be 1 in 5) and is less than Squidoo's 50%. Coding the feed took me several long days to get right ( and it looks like it will take a few more in April ) . If anyone feels that this is not fair for a free tool, please let me know what you think would be a fair amount. For comparison, the paid for version of the RSS feed I offer has up to 50 listings (instead of 5) and doesn't have any 'freebie links' embedded in it.

4) Book, As I build the feed I'll be more than happy to let you know if I come up with an easy way to add SID codes without having to hard code them into the feeds.

5) no CJ middleman will hopefully mean higher incentives and commission rates woot!

-The Captain

I've just posted some info on using Feedburner to manage your RSS feeds - the advantage of doing this is that you can then manage ALL feeds from one page in feedburner. This is a great way of managing your feeds as you won't have to go into edit mode for each lens/modules you have a feed after setting up your intial feed. You can name each feed as you 'burn' it and this will give you an easy method of updating feeds in future.
There is also stats reporting available on feedburner, though as yet I'm not sure whether they only show stats for those subscribing to the feed.
Just thought this was worth adding for those who want to play with RSS feeds but are twiddling their thumbs until the Ebay Partner Network is launched.

Wow, this changes things. At least 1 page of mine will need to be updated.

It's probably better they're getting their own Affiliate program though. Some people have a hard time getting approved for CommissionJunction, so this will still keep eBay open to them as an affiliate.

Well, I've signed up for the ebay partner network which was simple and took all of 5 minutes!
The exicitng news is that when creating ebay rss feeds you can now add individual tracking easily!!
The bad news is that the feeds aren't live yet, though it has been possible to update my tutorial to show how to create the feeds!

Did I mention you can now easily add your own tracking to each feed???

Adding RSS feeds all sounds a bit complicated to me. Guess I`ll have to read up some more on your lens dealing with that subject, T_B_G. 

adez7 wrote:

THis one is over my head, but just to let you know that I care. HUGs to you all

lol

It's seven simple steps, surely if you followed each one of them slowly you could pick it up easily! If not let me know how I can make the instructions simpler!