Wordpress eBay ads plugin

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This week I am going to try to write a plugin for the shoemoney eBay ad system for wordpress. We have gotten pretty good feedback so far about payouts so looking into developing it a bit further.

In order to get this to work you must have a shoemoneyads account (its invite only but we let in about 500 new people a week. We just have to keep it moderated so we can expand hardware wise as needed and existing publishers do not have downtime)

Also you must have a comission junction account and also have applied and been accepted to the ebay.com program.

Keep in mind the program is still beta and I would not recomend it to websites that are already going really well with adsense/ypn. It seems to work better on niche websites.

If you want to play a bit to see what kind of ads would show up on your site you can use the shoemoney eBay ads sandbox tool

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posted on September 11th, 2006:
Written By: ShoeMoney

10 Comments

@September 11, 2006 11:45 am

Brian Thibault Says:

shoe,
What this difference between this system and the new ebay adcontext that is in beta testing? In other words why does it need to be run through shoemoneyads?

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@September 11, 2006 12:01 pm

ToddW Says:

Awesome, I applied(with you - already on CJ & eBay) and am looking forward to trying ShoeMoneyAds.

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@September 11, 2006 1:16 pm

ShoeMoney Says:

this is not a compeditor to the eBay adcontext. If adcontext is working for you then stick with it.

This is not contextual… meaning you specify the keyword which the ads are targeted.

This solves 2 issues…

1 - compliance with eBay. - eBay has certified our application which means we get unrestricted calls to there database.

2 - by using keyword targeting and not a contextual engine it is also ok to run with adsense and yahoo publisher network. This is one of the flaws in the adcontext system why we made the ebay ads into shoemoneyads

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@September 11, 2006 3:52 pm

pilks Says:

Coolio, looking forward to trying this one.

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@September 11, 2006 7:44 pm

JamesM Says:

Shoe! Just wondering.. What programming language are you using for all your projects? I’m currently learning java. What do you recomend?

Thanks,

Keep up the great work.

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@September 12, 2006 2:16 am

ShoeMoney Says:

hmmm I do mostly perl/php/bash/ bash (unix shell programing) being my strongest.

I would sugest to start with C then go to c#, C++ and the rest will come easy. I never had a good object oriented foundation which I think is why im not a very efficient programer.

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