Ebay’s Affiliate Program Facing Major Tracking Problems

Posted on April 23, 2007
Filed Under Affiliate Networks, Affiliate Programs

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I received an email from Auction Ads (set up by ShoeMoney and Media Whiz) regarding an important announcement that Ebay are experiencing tracking problems for their affiliate program.

What this means for many thousands or so affiliates is that their referrals and statistics will be in chaos.

The problem has been identified since the 7th April 2007 and there has been no further word of a resolution to date.

My email from Auction Ads shows that it is only a concern for Ebay.com affiliates but that includes Commission Junction affiliates as well. This dilemma leaves little consolation for us all.

If you aren’t familiar with Auction Ads you can view them to the right of my sidebar. They can be used in conjunction with contextual ads such as Google AdSense.

At present you can set up custom ad blocks and link to items using the URL Converter to create static HTML links. I first set them up just a few short weeks ago to test them out but without accurate reporting there is no way to monitor its performance. I certainly will not set up any more ad blocks until the problem of tracking has been sorted.

I sincerely hope that Ebay will be able to recover the data for the potential revenue that is due to us hard working affiliate marketer’s in due course.

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