Aug 3 2009

Some eBay changes you should know about

Starting very soon, the eBay Partner Network (EPN) will no longer support individual affiliate links or campaign IDs posted on Squidoo. This means using your own eBay affiliate links manually coded into your lenses. If eBay finds these links and reports them to us, your lens could get locked. eBay also says that in such cases, your membership and payouts in the eBay Partner Network will be discontinued. EBay tells us this new policy will be applicable to many big community sites like Squidoo (and lots of other places on the web, too, like HubPages and Typepad).

Good news, though: If you use the Squidoo-sponsored eBay module, you have nothing to fear. eBay likes the way our systems work, and the official module will remain fully accessible and revenue-bearing, as always. So you’ll still be able to feature your favorite items on eBay, right on your lenses, easily and quickly–and earn a royalty from them for you or charity. We expect the eBay module to remain a solid source of revenue for the lensmasters who use it.

Quick! What's Squidoo?

Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create "lenses" online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest – and snap it all into focus. It's a supersimple, fun and powerful way to share your interests, build your online identity and credibility, and connect with new readers and friends. It's all free, and you could even earn a royalty for charity or yourself!

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