Below is the email Wade sent out.
Yesterday morning, EPN made a sudden announcement regarding a new link structure for Ebay affiliate links. As you can see, the information was vague at best and lacking in any details.
A group of phpBay Pro forum members and myself spent the day researching, and early this morning, came up with a fix to the new linking structure for phpBay Pro users.
The good news is, only the auction.php file is affected, so you will only need to replace this file on your sites (if using any 3.x version).
There are two ways you can obtain the new auction.php file:
1) Login to your store account and download the latest .zip file(s) for phpBay Pro for Wordpress and/or phpBay Pro API. This email is being sent from the phpBay Pro store to all phpBay Pro customers.
2) Login to the support forums using your forum account and visit the Critical Update thread.
This update, the auction.php, affects both the Wordpress and API versions of phpBay Pro. You will need to update your sites with this new auction.php in order for your affilite links/clicks to track properly with EPN.
This update nor the EPN changes affects phpBay Lite or versions of phpBay Pro prior to 3.x. If you are using those versions, there are no changes needed.
I do apologize for the inconvenience. This was a sudden and unexpected announcement from EPN with virtually no information, that threw us all into overtime mode to come up with a quick fix.
Kind regards,
Wade
4 comments:
Thank you for this info.
Are BANS sites also affected and, if so, is there a fix available?
Polly, Try this: http://buildanichestoreblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/check-your-bans-sites-that-cloak-urls.html
Soggy, thanks for the link. I had not realized that EPN's update yesterday was related to the cloaking issue that was being talked about at the end of last month.
I don't, and never have, cloaked by BANS links and so, hopefully, should be ok?
Polly, if you don't do UK sites you should be ok. So far only cloaked sites and uncloaked UK sites seem to have problems.
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