If you’ve been reading here long at all, you know I’m constantly talking about how the eBay affiliate program is the most generous one I’ve ever found.
Even with the tracking problems they had recently (which have been solved, it seems), I still made more with their program than any other, by far. Of course I sent them more traffic than any other merchant, by far, but that was by choice.
I just received an email from eBay, they are raising affiliate payouts beginning June 1st, for the eBay.com (U.S.) site.
Where in the past the base commission for driving a new registered user (called an ACRU) to eBay was $12, it will become $25.
Where in the past the base commission for driving a winning bidder to their site was 40% of eBay revenues, it will become 50%.
And the bonus tiers for both types of commissionable actions are fairly easy to obtain, so many affiliates can expect to earn more than those levels.
On the downside, you can no longer link straight to eBay from Google AdWords or the Yahoo or MSN equivalents. Well, actually you can, but you won’t earn a commission. If you’re using PPC ads, you need to link to your own domain (landing page) first.
Thanks again, eBay! 
