Starting next month (September), you’ll have additional characters–to include more keywords and descriptors to get your listings in front of more interested buyers. This change will take the item title character limit from 55 to 80. Be sure to start using all 80 characters in your listing titles as soon as they are available the first week in September.

Reach more buyers by using longer item titles. This is a much needed addition. Keywords in your listing title are a big factor in determining which listings are relevant to a buyer’s search. You’ve done your keyword research right? Well with the increase in the item title, you can better steer potential buyers into taking a closer look at your ebay listings.

eBay has been around for many years and has proven to be the leader in offering a portal for the world to buy and sell goods at affordable prices. The eBay style is to offer goods via auctions and in some cases allow goods to be purchased out right via Buy It Now.

With millions of goods being offered on the eBay site. They realized that even more money could be had by allowing people to help sell other peoples goods. This is done via an affiliate program. Last year eBay ran their affiliate program through a third party company called Commission Junction. Now the affiliate program is ran by eBay under the name of eBay Partner Network.

Being a part of the eBay affiliate program allows you to promote eBay products of which you will receive a commission on the sell of the product. Promoting eBay can be done in a number of ways a few of which are via Pay Per Click (PPC), Blogging and Social Networks. The beauty of being an eBay affiliate versus selling your own product is that as an affiliate. You don’t have to sell anything, no shipping of goods, no taking orders and no inventory required.

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On March 30, 2010, eBay Partner Network released some new enhancements and features to the eBay Partner Network (ePN) interface. Just one day later, publishers are noticing a major negative impact on their click and impression data. Currently this technical issues is affecting March 30 and 31st data.

From what we are able to gather, this technical issue is a reporting issue only and all data will be available as soon as possible. We seen a notice stating that all services would be up and running by 3/31 at 9pm but that time has come and gone and the problem had not been resolved.

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Well as you know, eBay Partner Network, has been through a lot of changes since eBay left Commission Junction. On March 30, 2010, they will release some new enhancements and features to the eBay Partner Network (ePN) interface. Some of the new features include updates to the dashboard, the addition of a new landing page report, a new way to handle archived campaigns, and an overhaul to the Creatives Generator to make it easier to use.

In brief, here are some descriptions of what’s to come.

Dashboard Updates

The dashboard changes or updates are to give you more access to your ePN information more quickly. You will see a new report, quicker access to the blog, and additional date range and program filters.

Changes to the graphs to plot your trends will have some added features that will allow you to change the date range to Last Month, Last 3 Months or Year to Date and change the program filter. The  settings selected will remain in place so when you go back to your dashboard, you are set.

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