Ebay Makes Changes To Their Affiliate Program

Effective midnight June 1st Ebay is changing their program terms:

$25.00-$35.00 per Active Registration (Previous $12 to $22)
A registration is active when the user places a bid on eBay within 30 days of their initial registration.

Between 50% and 75% of eBay's revenue on all Winning Bids (Previous 40% to 65%) The eBay program pays on ALL Winning Bids or Buy It Nows (BINs) within 7 days of an affiliate action.

New Paid Search Terms and Conditions:
The eBay US Affiliate Program will no longer allow paid search traffic from Google.com, Yahoo.com, MSN.com, nor from any of their content networks, such as Google AdSense, Yahoo! Publisher Network, and MSN ContentAds to be linked directly to the eBay.com, eBay Express, or eBay Store domains.

So seems ebay is giving an increased incentive to send traffic that away but at the same time is saying don't send paid direct traffic from Google, Yahoo, MSN or their content networks. I interpret this to mean if you get paid traffic from these ad networks you need it to go to landing pages on your own websites first and from their visitors can click if they wish to go to ebay.

An increase in commission gives an added bonus to join the ebay affiliate program. And if you haven't already joined.... click here to find out more. To use a few of the tools you also need to be a member of ebay... click here to register.