October 8, 2007
eBay Affiliate Tracking Boo Boo
eBay announced today another instance when tracking for their affiliate program through Commission Junction failed to record properly. According the email a small percentage of affiliates were effected on Sept 19-20 when their program failed to track ACRU's and winning bid's/BINs. As usual eBay will be setting the affiliate revenue earned right and throwing in an unspecified bonus.
Last time this happened I was not lucky enough to receive a bonus, but my earnings did fluctuate. I have a feeling this time, based on my earnings, I was not one of the publishers effected. Although I feel the pain of those that were.
When problems like this arise it makes it difficult to properly track your marketing efforts. I'm familiar with this in regards to my Amazon store and use of Adwords to market the products. As far as you know, when tracking fails, you had no conversions and may have given up almost 2 weeks ago.
Stay strong, affiliate marketing kicks ass!
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