List Your Auctions on Another Site
Use the eBay Editor Kit and Merchant Kit to promote your auctions off-eBay.
Once you’ve signed up with one of eBay’s affiliate programs, as described in [Hack #77], you can use either of eBay’s two tools for creating lists of auctions on your own site. Not only will this help promote your auctions and increase traffic to specific items, but you’ll make money for each new user who signs up and for each bid that is placed as a result of your links.
The Editor Kit
The Editor Kit couldn’t be slicker. Just go to http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?EKCreate and fill out the fields, as shown in Figure 7-7.
Figure 7-7. Use the Editor Kit to create a custom search results listing for use on your own site
Select Commission Junction in the Provider box and enter your CJ ID in the Tracking ID field. The rest of the fields should be self-explanatory, and the only one that is required is the Search Term. If you want to limit the search to your own auctions, type your eBay user ID in the “Show items of the following sellers” box.
When you’re done, click Preview to show the JavaScript code and the resulting search box, shown in Figure 7-8.
Figure 7-8. The code produced by the Editor Kit will create this dynamic listing on your site
The big drawback to the Editor Kit ...
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