My EPN Editor Kit mistake

So to avoid errors with my editor kit code, I rebuilt all code. I was averaging about 40 to 100 clicks per day, but since the switch over I have been getting about 15 a day.

So today I was switching over one of my smaller sites when I stumbled across something on EPN. I had been putting the name of my campaign instead of the campaign ID number when creating these links. A few of my links were correct luckly and I made a couple of dollars, but not what I was making before.

While I feel kind of dumb for doing that because I didn't think it seemed correct when I was doing it, it just never clicked. So hopefully this can help someone else before its to late. It was easily fixed by the find and replace all in folder funciton in dreamweaver. I will keep you all posted about the expected increase in clicks.

 

Ok I went from about 15 clicks a day to 44 on the 27th of april, so it made a big difference.

 

Good to hear you found the cause. Check out the Common Mistakes When Building New Links post on the eBay Partner Network Blog which covers other common boo-boos...

 

Hmm. I wish that would explain my low number of clicks. But it's not the case for me. The strange thing is that 3 weeks ago I switched over to EPN but I'm still getting lots of clicks at CJ and not so many at EPN. Can cached pages really account for that?

 

Here is another related mistake I caught myself doing. I like to highlight,copy and paste my camp id into the form. My mistake was, sometimes when you highlight a long string of charactors it throws a space on the end. You can cut and paste that space into the code and not even know it.

Example: error: track=1234567892%2B&width=700

correct: track=1234567892&width=700

Notice how accidentally cutting and pasting a string of charactors with a space on the end put that %2B in the code.

You can be highlighting, cutting and pasting spaces into the link code without even knowing it. Just a 1mm highlight of the area past the charactors you are copying and pasting can cause this error.

To fix this, I reviewed all the code on my pages one by one pressing ctrl/f with the search term being my camp id. If I seen a %2B after my camp id I simply deleted those three charactors.

 

Well my clicks are hit or miss by day it seems. I get 40 clicks one day, then the next I get 20. On CJ I was getting a lot more and converting much better. The odd thing is that I didn't change one ebay ad that was still on CJ, and it still made a sale.