This came to me today, I recon it must be AdSence changing things or removing some sites from 1st of June. There's one link for more details I didn't boder to read it as yet... "New Paid Search Terms and Conditions Beginning June 1, 2007, the eBay US Affiliate Program will no longer allow paid search traffic from Google.com, Yahoo.com, MSN.com, nor from any of their content networks, such as Google AdSense, Yahoo! Publisher Network, and MSN ContentAds to be linked directly to the eBay.com, eBay Express, or eBay Store domains. For more detail on the Program Term and Terms & Conditions changes, please see the message dated May 15th, or follow this link http://affiliates.ebay.com/odcs/custom.htm?template=Payout. Publishers do not need to take any steps to move to the new Program Terms containing the updated Terms & Conditions regarding Paid Search Restrictions. If the new Terms & Conditions are not agreeable to you, then you are required to proactively end your affiliate relationship with eBay via the CJ Account Manager interface within 7 days. eBay and Commission Junction are very excited with this change and feel that this will provide an additional avenue of success for publishers. Sincerely, The eBay.com Affiliate Team "
wow So from now on they was pure organic traffic from search engines ? Good for aged high traffic sites.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the (annoying) proliferation of ads - as opposed to auctions - on eBay's site.
do you mean not allowed to link onto ebay itself or not allowed to link to any site or link to an auction item that uses adwords, overture to promote the actual site or link to an auction item?