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Any Workaround For eBay Affiliate Approval?

by SurgeClicks
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Hi

I run a review site in the fitness niche which I am currently struggling to monetize. I am planning to use the eBay affiliate network, but it seems that the approval process is extremely hard.

Do you know any workaround for this using tools such as VigLinks and Skimlinks? Where I can start generating commissions via eBay without going through the approval process?

Please let me know if anyone has any idea with regards to this.

Regards
#affiliate #approval #ebay #workaround
  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    So EPN is STILL really hard to get into?! Crazy... Well, yeah, basically if you get approved for Skimlinks then you also get access to eBay products and then you don't have to go through EPN at all, and as far as I know the EPC is pretty much the same because they are getting some sort of special deal with EPN. I wrote quite a long article about it ages ago so won't go into detail.

    It's a similar situation with Viglink (or was, AFAIK still is) - BUT if you wanted to access eBay products you had to get separate approval from Viglink, so the Viglink option always seemed kind of less attractive.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    I'm not sure if the approval process if really that hard? Have you just tried to apply to them?
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    • Profile picture of the author nicheblogger75
      Originally Posted by ChrisBa View Post

      I'm not sure if the approval process if really that hard? Have you just tried to apply to them?
      I applied to them about 8-9 years ago and was approved immediately. I didn't even have my own website at that time. I was writing a lot on HubPages and you used to be able to monetize your "hubs" with Amazon and eBay widgets. I think that's how I got approval. I think I gave them my HubPages profile link and they accepted that.

      I don't even know if HubPages is even around anymore.

      A few years back I got pissed off at all of their stupid regulations and contacted the help desk and told them to "go f*ck themselves" and for some reason they shut my account down.

      Can't figure out why...

      HubPages... LMAO. Boy was I an idiot back in the day. Putting in tons of work writing good content and then publishing it on sites that I didn't even own.

      Well, a lot of people were doing that back when article marketing was all the rage.

      Most of the sites I used to publish to and get lots of traffic from are now gone.

      Sites like GoArticles, IdeaMarketers, WorldVillage, Squidoo, etc

      As I remember though, before Google decided to destroy those websites by burying them in the search rankings, I used to get quite a few subscribers and even make some decent money on Clickbank from all of the articles I wrote.

      At one time I must have had well over 2000-3000 live articles on all of those sites working for me.

      Ezine Articles managed to hold on, although I doubt anyone gets much traffic from there anymore.

      Too bad. That's a quality site. I enjoyed writing articles and getting them published there. I made a lot of money from article marketing with Ezine Articles back in the day.

      Screw you Google!

      I have a theory on why Google hates Internet Marketers. I think they get upset when anyone makes money online and they don't get a cut of it (or as much of a cut as they think they deserve).
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Originally Posted by nicheblogger75 View Post

    A few years back I got pissed off at all of their stupid regulations and contacted the help desk and told them to "go f*ck themselves" and for some reason they shut my account down.
    Imagine that...the nerve of some people!

    Originally Posted by nicheblogger75 View Post

    I have a theory on why Google hates Internet Marketers. I think they get upset when anyone makes money online and they don't get a cut of it (or as much of a cut as they think they deserve).
    I don't think Google singles out Internet Marketers. I think Google hates people who look to get around the rules, cheat the system, gain unfair advantages at Google's expense and do other things to jeopardize Google's meal ticket.

    Look at all the people who whined and complained when Google stopped giving credit for profile links on dead edu forums. Whah, Google doesn't want me to rank my pages by cheating - they hate me - whah.

    "Google" is not a person. It's a publicly traded corporate entity. If they thought they'd enhance stockholder value by ranking spammy sites using worthless links, article directories would top every search and MFA site owners would still be getting checks via UPS.
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    • Profile picture of the author nicheblogger75
      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      Imagine that...the nerve of some people!



      I don't think Google singles out Internet Marketers. I think Google hates people who look to get around the rules, cheat the system, gain unfair advantages at Google's expense and do other things to jeopardize Google's meal ticket.

      Look at all the people who whined and complained when Google stopped giving credit for profile links on dead edu forums. Whah, Google doesn't want me to rank my pages by cheating - they hate me - whah.

      "Google" is not a person. It's a publicly traded corporate entity. If they thought they'd enhance stockholder value by ranking spammy sites using worthless links, article directories would top every search and MFA site owners would still be getting checks via UPS.
      I know they have to do what they have to do, and I can't say I'm not happy that they changed their algorithm to show better content.

      I just think they've got a little too much power. They have the power to crush the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in one fell swoop.

      That's just scary to me is all.

      That's one of the reasons that I have made my business so that I do not rely on Google to produce any of my income. It's just too risky.

      What's even more is that there is often a lot of collateral damage when Google makes one of their big, brilliant decisions. Sometimes decent people who were doing the right thing all along get caught up and hurt, too.

      I remember that algorithm change that killed article marketing as we knew it then. So many people went from making tens of thousands per month to next to nothing. The horror stories were everywhere.

      I think that's when I made the decision to never base any important aspects of my business on Google because I saw how it could be ripped away at any moment, for any reason.
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