eBay reveals Hot Affiliate Niche for their API tool
- By: Linda Buquet [privmsg - website] On 27th Sep 2005
The Affiliate API Program is part of the eBay Developers Program and is offered to give affiliates a wide variety of industry-leading tools and services and provides API access to eBay Web Services so affiliates can create exciting new content and user tools. EBay’s Sean Crotty the Affiliate Developers Manager revealed some interesting info.
Sean says that API usage has had a big impact on affiliate business, stating that affiliates who use API calls to build apps tend to see returns increase by a third over those who do not. Couple that with the fact that eBay recently raised commissions for affiliates that are approved for the eBay API Tier, I think code jockey type affiliates should take a serious look at this option.
David Utter from iEntry just wrote an article for WebProNews which he also posted in my Affiliate forum over at WebProWorld, which is the original source for this blog. So what's the hot untapped eBay niche?
"We asked Sean what product category he’d like to see get some API developer attention. He said the industrial and large equipment category hasn’t even been touched."
With the ability to use the data from eBay in creative new ways with the use of the API, I'm certain some innovative affiliates will take advantage of this market segment as well as many others. Check out the eBay affiliate program and all the affiliate-centered tools that are available, including the API.
Linda
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I haven't done any affilate
I haven't done any affilate stuff in a long time, but even a year or more ago i wouldn't really get "interested" in something unless it had an API..
That's probably just me, im a born tinkerer, but messing around with hand coded links just strikes me as unproductive you know?
heavy machinery
Tractors?
I wanna be a firetruck!
I recommend the eBay API
We use it to integrate our social network ( http://www.biddingBuddies.com ) into eBay, allowing many features such as allowing our members to use their eBay userIds on our site and displaying a members current eBay listings directly in their profile.
Cool app
Thanks for sharing how you use the eBay API. It helps to see actual applications in use. Great idea! Any one else use the API?
I wanna be a firetruck!
Yeah, but only 'cos it starts with "f" and ends with "uck". ;)
Hell Yeah...
My brother-in-law bought a $15,000 piece of equipment for his tree service off of eBay last week. That would have been a nice bit of affiliate revenue for someone.