Hi Rochelle

I have been following Mark’s 12-week BANS course and you have kindly helped me on that forum a couple of times. When there has been anything that I have not understood, I’ve come over to your website and without fail your instructions clarify things - thank you for such a wonderful resource.

I used your “How to add a ‘Safety on ebay’ page” instructions a couple of weeks ago and it worked perfectly. Today, I have been trying to change the links through the new eBay Partnership site and I cannot get it to work. When you generate the code, it gives you 3 options. I have tried all 3 and cannot get the link in place. All I get is the HTML code showing on my website page.

I’m sure you will be sorting out your own links shortly and should be grateful if you could tell me how to do this out.

Thank you once again for your help - I don’t know where I should be without it!

Denise

Hi Rochelle

I’ve just thought, it probably won’t work until we have made whatever changes have to be made to the BANS software. Sorry!

Denise

Denise,

I’m so glad you asked about this because I had forgotten about it… I will work on one of mine and let you know what I am able to do (or not do).

Rochelle

Hi Rochelle

I hope you manage to sort it out. I have been trying for an hour and cannot do it, which ever piece of code I use. I either get the code showing on the web page or it shows in the Admin Page Content and nothing on the web page. I know it must be me!!!

Denise

Hi Rochelle

I thought you might like to know that the “safety on ebay” page that I put on my website from your instructions made 2 sales on the 1st April. The page had only been on the site for a couple of days at that point. So, a big thank you to you. Unfortunately, I deleted the link thinking that it would be easy to put the new link in after we transferred to eBay! Anyway, I think it indicates how powerful a page like this is in perhaps giving people confidence to give eBay a try.

I have had a total of 11 sales and one registration on this website and it has only been up for about 3 weeks. It shows that what Mark is teaching us works.

I hope you are getting to grips with updating your sites - I have been following Mark’s Blog and Forum and so have a good idea how things are going.

Thank you again.
Denise

Denise,

That’s great that you got a sale from this page! So far I haven’t but that doesn’t mean I won’t. Plus I think it makes our sites look more professional to have them.

I was able to change my link without any problems. Of course, I didn’t take note of the steps I took so I’ll go change another one now and tell you what I did.

Rochelle

Denise,

Ok, here’s what I did:

1) Log in to your EPN account. Click the ‘Tools’ link and choose ‘Link Generator.’

2) Choose the following:
- eBay
- Custom URL, then enter the destination URL (where you want to send people) in the area that shows up below this option
- ‘No’ to Geo targeting
- The eBay country of your choice (i.e. eBay US)
- Campaign Name or ID (the niche store you want associated with this link)
- text for your custom ID (something like shop-ebay-safely) to help you track sales that come from this link
- Choose to have link open in a new window if you want (Mark has adviced me that this may not be a good practice as pop-up blockers are beginning to block new tabs or windows that try to open)
- Choose the anchor text for your link (the wording you want for the link)

Now click ‘Generate Link.’

You should now have three different codes that you can use. Highlight and copy the desired code, log in to your site’s Admin and paste it into the content section of the page you created. Don’t forget to click the <> button if you are using a v2 store or higher.

Probably the best option for you would be the Javascript code. You can paste that code into the content section and have the anchor text clickable to your chosen page.

Let me know if this works for you.

Rochelle

Thank you for the very clear instructions. Unfortunately, I cannot get it to work. I have tried with all 3 codes that ebay provides and I get the code showing in full in my admin content page and on the web page. The java script is different, it shows correctly on the admin content page but shows the code on the webpage.

There is no problem generating the code.

When I press the button, a window opens showing the source code. Should I be doing something with this other than clicking “apply” and “ok”? I have been pasting the code on the content page and then pressing the button, apply, ok. This worked when I first set up this page.

I’m really grateful for your help.

Denise

Thanks for this…very tricky about the cookie. I have a question, though. Does the most recent eBay cookie override the previous eBay cookie? If I leave this site, then go to one of my BANS sites, and then go to eBay, which cookie rules?

Kay,

To the best of my knowledge, the most recent cookie is the one that gets affiliate commissions. So, if you clicked to eBay from my site, you got my cookie. Then, if you go to your site and click to eBay from your site, then your cookie overrides my cookie and you get commissions.

Rochelle

Hey Rochelle,

I’m a newbie and need help every now and then. I am going through your checklist and I have a few questions about it.

On ebay when I am trying to add a “safety on ebay” content page you refer to a “flexible destination tool” and you have a link for this on the checklist. It goes to my EPN page and I THINK I have found it elsewhere. On this “Link generator” page I am asked for a “campaign ID” Is this the CJ ID that you refer to? ALSO on my other sites referring to the “campaign ID”…should this be the CJ ID so it will track and pay commissions? I am confused about this!

Thanks a lot for all the work you have done and for helping newbies like ME!

TT

Terry,

I am so glad you asked about this! It has made me realize I need to update the instructions you are referring to because of the change to EPN. I am leaving tomorrow for a camping trip for the rest of the week and won’t be able to do anything until next week. But, you are correct. It is the ‘Link Generator’ tool within EPN that has replaced the flexible destination tool. And, yes, ‘campaign ID’ replaces CJ ID.

Rochelle

I have the same exact problem as Denise. Maybe she resolved it, if so I would like to know what the resolution is.

I have added the javascript code to the content using . The code is pasted in there but shows up blank in the web page.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Jan,

Denise was able to resolve her problem. I actually went in to her Admin and everything worked fine for me, so I don’t know the exact problem she encountered.

Within the next week or so I will update these instructions so maybe that will help.

Rochelle

Hi Jan

The problem I had was that the “source box” would not accept the whole of the code - only half of it would go in. I have no idea why this was. I’ll describe below what I did.

First generate your code.

In order to get the code into the box, I first pasted it into notepad, making sure that “word wrap” was “off” (under the “view” tab), so the code was all on one line. I then copied the code from there and pasted it into the “source box” as described below.

In your Admin section, go to the content section of the page you are working on and click the hyper-link symbol. A box pops up into which you paste your code. Paste the code in to the second “source box”, having chosen the relevant pretext from the drop down list in the first box - eg http:// or javascript, etc. Then click insert and apply and ok.

It worked for me, but I have no idea why there was a problem. I hope that helps you. Let us know how you get on.

Denise

I couldn’t get it to work either. I always have problems with the link tool in those editors, so I just used a cut&paste format that always works for me. No need to fool around with those silly boxes or worry whether the link is too long. Here’s what I use:

Visit W3Schools!

oops, looks like its not showing the code…

Click on this link and see the different ways to build a hyperlink!

Alice,

Thank you for the link! It has excellent information that should help those wanting to create hyperlinks.

Rochelle

Alice

Thank you - I think I’m going to be using this resource often!

Denise

I have been at this for hours and I’m at the end of my tither…hehehe
I have tried both (Rochelle’s and Denises) methods and still to no avail.
The Page creation I have achieved, it’s just the code which still appears in full html on both admin and website.
I have no idea what the problem could be. Probably something really simple but I certainly cannot find it….hehehe
Perhaps someone could give me a hand on this please.
Thanks

Kelly,

For some reason there are times when people are unable to create links using eBay’s link generator tool, and that may be what is happening to you. You might try creating this page in a totally different way.

Instead of creating a page on your site you can create an external link that takes people to whatever page in eBay you want to take them to. Try following the instructions at http://www.nichestorestrategie.....s-sidebar/ . This is now how I’m creating ’safety on eBay’ pages for all my stores.

Rochelle

This too is totally great!! Now, how does this apply to those of us using the PepperJam Network?

Thanks,
Shawn