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Alt-Elec

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I was recently rejected by the eBay affiliate program twice (first time at the end of September and the second time sometime last month). I was wondering if anyone here who is an ebay affiliate could help shed some light as to why I was rejected (since ebay hasn't given me any reason).

I applied the first time right after my site went live and even made the mistake of applying with my personal e-mail address. I later read on another forum that including a privacy policy, terms of use, contact form, etc on my site would help my chances of being approved. So I added those features and re-applied with my site's official e-mail address and was rejected again.

These are my theories why I may have been rejected:

1. Ebay doesn't like the subject of my website (it's about alternative electronic bands and the music equipment they use)
2. My site doesn't look professional enough
3. My site doesn't have enough traffic (50-70 users a day now, probably more about 30 when I applied the last time)

The site is Alternative Electronics if anyone else would like to take a look at it, maybe you can help me narrow down the possibilities. If it's the site's content that's the problem then I guess there isn't that much I could do about it, but I'm hoping there is something else I can try to improve before applying a 3rd time.

Thanks,

Taylor
 


Alt-Elec said:
I was recently rejected by the eBay affiliate program twice (first time at the end of September and the second time sometime last month). I was wondering if anyone here who is an ebay affiliate could help shed some light as to why I was rejected (since ebay hasn't given me any reason).

I applied the first time right after my site went live and even made the mistake of applying with my personal e-mail address. I later read on another forum that including a privacy policy, terms of use, contact form, etc on my site would help my chances of being approved. So I added those features and re-applied with my site's official e-mail address and was rejected again.

These are my theories why I may have been rejected:

1. Ebay doesn't like the subject of my website (it's about alternative electronic bands and the music equipment they use)
2. My site doesn't look professional enough
3. My site doesn't have enough traffic (50-70 users a day now, probably more about 30 when I applied the last time)

The site is Alternative Electronics if anyone else would like to take a look at it, maybe you can help me narrow down the possibilities. If it's the site's content that's the problem then I guess there isn't that much I could do about it, but I'm hoping there is something else I can try to improve before applying a 3rd time.

Thanks,

Taylor
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They also check the domain's age...
 
It might be because of the massive amounts of porn spam on this page of your site.

I think you need a better design, much MUCH more traffic, and other than that welcome to WF.
 
I was actually thinking of expanding the spam porn section of my site so removing that is definitely out of the question.

If domain/age are an important, can anyone give me an idea of some numbers I should aim for? Is a 6+ month old domain decent enough or what? And what about traffic? I mean, how can they even check that other than relying on inaccurate data from Alexa or Compete.com?
 
Try creating another site which is heavy on content (10 -15 original articles) and no affiliate links. Apply again. When accepted, add this site later. Worked for me, but that was a year ago and things have changed at EPN. My domain was new with only about 30 visitors a day.

and new design
 
I think your site looks pretty good; professional "enough" anyway. A little dark for my tastes though.
 
Well I'm planning on redesigning the site layout at some point anyways but at the moment I'm concentrating on adding content and functionality. Unfortunately I'm not that great with graphics design so that's another reason I have been avoiding that.

Anyways I guess I'll try waiting a few months and hopefully build up some traffic and content in that time before trying to apply to ebay again. Registering another domain and building another site just to try to get accepted doesn't really seem worthwhile to me at the moment since with the low traffic numbers I have now, even if I were making ebay commissions it probably would hardly be enough money to cover the expensive of another domain.

Thanks for the advice though everyone
 
Also - this doesn't really have anything to do with the ebay affiliate program, but since a few of you suggested changes to my site's layout - what specifically should be changed? I've been looking at the site basically every day since September so I guess I probably don't even notice anymore what looks crappy/could look better.

Colors? The logo in the top left? Something else?
 
Add on question. If I have an old active EPN account, do I have to go through the same approval every time I want to add a site? Or am I grandfathered somehow?
 
they reject a lot of people because of the crazy flash stuffers so they are very careful on who they accept.
 
@ Skippy McGee - thanks for that link, a lot of great suggestions there. Things that definitely apply to my site are maybe a lack of content and that I registered my domain for only 1 year (I also read the other day that can affect Google rankings as well).
 
b_sun said:
Add on question. If I have an old active EPN account, do I have to go through the same approval every time I want to add a site? Or am I grandfathered somehow?
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You can add all the sites you want. I think they want newer accounts to go "add domain" for like every new campaign or something. But I've never entered anything in there before.
 
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