eBay Affiliate Developers

I run the Affiliate Tier of the Developers Program at eBay.

As you probably know, eBay started as an auction site and is now the largest e-commerce site in the world.  A Developers Program creates tools for programmers so their software can automatically interact with eBay.

Affiliates are people who have a website with special links to other websites.  When people follow these links and buy something on the target website, the affiliate gets a commission from the owner of the target website.

Not all sites offer affiliate commissions.  eBay does, through the eBay Affiliate Program.  eBay provides:

text links

Click here for eBay!

buttons

and

widgets

which affiliates can include on their website.

My program (the Affiliate Tier) is for software developers who want to create more sophisticated websites.  These “Affiliate Developers” sign up with me and get access to the eBay Application Programming Interface (API), also called eBay Web Services.

With our API, they can present anything that’s currently on eBay on their own website to entice people to go look at items on eBay.  For instance, they can show all U2 CDs available right now on eBay.  They can show statistics about how many items are on eBay, category lists to help you find what you want, ... in short, anything that would improve a users' shopping experience.

A great example is Verizon's Superpages, which shows you eBay items related to your online yellowpages search!

I've just surpassed the milestone of 1,000 affiliate developers in my program.  If you'd like to learn more, feel free to check out developer.ebay.com/affiliates.

Comments

[sprague]

I love your new blog. Can't wait to see more posts!

[jlt]

My website runs aggregations of interesting ebay auctions pretty regularly. However, I'm a little fed up with having to put every single one of the 20-30 auctions I want to profile through the flextool every single time.

Is there a Typepad or other widget that will do that automatically with all ebay links on my site, so that they automatically are made into affiliate links, incorporating my Commission Junction code? If not, how much would you charge to develop something like that for me?

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[steven davies]

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[Charles]

I already use the widgets and ebay most popular auction displays on my various sites.

Although not much it gives me income once in a while. But when the traffic is high it is very effective.

BTW, love the design on your blog...great colours. Very welcoming.

Charles.
http://www.AuctionMaulPro.com

[Nikkihi]

i am gonna show this to my friend, brother

[Peter]

I guess I should add ebay to my database of affiliate marketing system listings, since it has it's own affiliate program built in.

Sorry I never even thought of it before - talk about missing the elephant in the room :)

Can you contact me through my site and I'll set you up with a review listing account.

Cheers.

[Geoff Dodd]

Nice graphics and I like the trend towards widgets that work. Visually cool stuff. GD.

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