Comments on: A Few Ways to Protect Yourself from ePN Termination http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm Learn How to Build and Market Niche Websites Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:32:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Walter Minton http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13437 Walter Minton Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:50:56 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13437 Do any of the Banned sites owners sell their own products on eBay? Or perhaps some of our own products set up in an eBay store or on auction and placed on the front page of our Bans site would help protect us? That's if ebay keeps track of such things. For all we know they may even look at out feedback if they are using eggheads like Google does! Just thinking, Walt<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13437','Walter Minton'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13437','Walter Minton','Do any of the Banned sites owners sell their own products on eBay? \r\n\r\nOr perhaps some of our own products set up in an eBay store or on auction and placed on the front page of our Bans site would help protect us? \r\n\r\nThat\'s if ebay keeps track of such things. For all we know they may even look at out feedback if they are using eggheads like Google does!\r\n\r\nJust thinking,\r\nWalt'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Do any of the Banned sites owners sell their own products on eBay?

Or perhaps some of our own products set up in an eBay store or on auction and placed on the front page of our Bans site would help protect us?

That’s if ebay keeps track of such things. For all we know they may even look at out feedback if they are using eggheads like Google does!

Just thinking,
Walt

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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13435 Mark Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:39:12 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13435 @ Alice - This generally happens when there is a password change to your MySQL username, in this case, greatest_greates. Have you changed the PW lately? Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13435','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13435','Mark','@ Alice -\r\n\r\nThis generally happens when there is a password change to your MySQL username, in this case, greatest_greates.\r\n\r\nHave you changed the PW lately?\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @ Alice -

This generally happens when there is a password change to your MySQL username, in this case, greatest_greates.

Have you changed the PW lately?

Mark

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]]> By: Alice http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13418 Alice Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:18:41 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13418 OK, something is definitely weird here. I checked several sites THAT I HAVEN'T EVEN TOUCHED YET and here's what I get. Looks like every single one of my BANS sites is down. <blockquote>Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'greatest_greates'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in /home/greatest/public_html/domainname/cont/Mysql.php on line 49 Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/greatest/public_html/domainname/cont/Mysql.php on line 54 Warning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/greatest/public_html/domainname/cont/Mysql.php on line 57 Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/greatest/public_html/domainname/cont/Mysql.php on line 58</blockquote><div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13418','Alice'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13418','Alice','OK, something is definitely weird here. I checked several sites THAT I HAVEN\'T EVEN TOUCHED YET and here\'s what I get. Looks like every single one of my BANS sites is down. \r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote>Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user \'greatest_greates\'@\'localhost\' (using password: YES) in \/home\/greatest\/public_html\/domainname\/cont\/Mysql.php on line 49\r\n\r\nWarning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in \/home\/greatest\/public_html\/domainname\/cont\/Mysql.php on line 54\r\n\r\nWarning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in \/home\/greatest\/public_html\/domainname\/cont\/Mysql.php on line 57\r\n\r\nWarning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in \/home\/greatest\/public_html\/domainname\/cont\/Mysql.php on line 58<\/blockquote>'); return false;">Quote</a></div> OK, something is definitely weird here. I checked several sites THAT I HAVEN’T EVEN TOUCHED YET and here’s what I get. Looks like every single one of my BANS sites is down.

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user ‘greatest_greates’@'localhost’ (using password: YES) in /home/greatest/public_html/domainname/cont/Mysql.php on line 49

Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/greatest/public_html/domainname/cont/Mysql.php on line 54

Warning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/greatest/public_html/domainname/cont/Mysql.php on line 57

Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/greatest/public_html/domainname/cont/Mysql.php on line 58

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]]> By: Alice http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13417 Alice Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:33:05 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13417 I have only a little idea of what you mean. I haven't made any modifications other than changing the templates to the bans/wp ones. The only changes I'd made from the original BANS templates when I set them up were cosmetic changes - custom header.jpg and color changes. I do have a couple of sites that had custom templates built by someone else, and I know those had more files changed. But I haven't gotten to those yet - for that reason. The sites I updated only had out-of-the-box templates with color and logo changes. That's it. So WTF do I do now?? The reason I moved away from having custom templates done was exactly for this reason, that upgrading/updating would be a problem. Seems like its a problem anyway...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13417','Alice'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13417','Alice','I have only a little idea of what you mean. I haven\'t made any modifications other than changing the templates to the bans\/wp ones. The only changes I\'d made from the original BANS templates when I set them up were cosmetic changes - custom header.jpg and color changes. \r\n\r\nI do have a couple of sites that had custom templates built by someone else, and I know those had more files changed. But I haven\'t gotten to those yet - for that reason.\r\n\r\nThe sites I updated only had out-of-the-box templates with color and logo changes. That\'s it. So WTF do I do now?? The reason I moved away from having custom templates done was exactly for this reason, that upgrading\/updating would be a problem. Seems like its a problem anyway...'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I have only a little idea of what you mean. I haven’t made any modifications other than changing the templates to the bans/wp ones. The only changes I’d made from the original BANS templates when I set them up were cosmetic changes – custom header.jpg and color changes.

I do have a couple of sites that had custom templates built by someone else, and I know those had more files changed. But I haven’t gotten to those yet – for that reason.

The sites I updated only had out-of-the-box templates with color and logo changes. That’s it. So WTF do I do now?? The reason I moved away from having custom templates done was exactly for this reason, that upgrading/updating would be a problem. Seems like its a problem anyway…

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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13416 Mark Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:12:39 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13416 @ Alice - I converted several of my own sites over today with not one issue. I followed the exact directions in both the instructions from A&K, but also the method described on <a href="http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-an-existing-bans-epn-site-to-a-bans-pepperjam-site.htm" rel="nofollow">this post.</a> Uploaded files, changed ID, done. On sites that I had custom code on, there were additional steps to add that code back tot he new frontcontrol file though. The changeover has NOTHING to do with BANS or WordPress being combined into one site. Both programs run independantly of each other completely. The issues you are experiencing are due to modifications to your older frontcontrol.php file, which had calls from your original templates, that no longer exist. Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13416','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13416','Mark','@ Alice - \r\n\r\nI converted several of my own sites over today with not one issue. I followed the exact directions in both the instructions from A&K, but also the method described on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenichestorebuilder.com\/converting-an-existing-bans-epn-site-to-a-bans-pepperjam-site.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">this post.<\/a>\r\n\r\nUploaded files, changed ID, done. On sites that I had custom code on, there were additional steps to add that code back tot he new frontcontrol file though.\r\n\r\nThe changeover has NOTHING to do with BANS or WordPress being combined into one site. Both programs run independantly of each other completely.\r\n\r\nThe issues you are experiencing are due to modifications to your older frontcontrol.php file, which had calls from your original templates, that no longer exist.\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @ Alice –

I converted several of my own sites over today with not one issue. I followed the exact directions in both the instructions from A&K, but also the method described on this post.

Uploaded files, changed ID, done. On sites that I had custom code on, there were additional steps to add that code back tot he new frontcontrol file though.

The changeover has NOTHING to do with BANS or WordPress being combined into one site. Both programs run independantly of each other completely.

The issues you are experiencing are due to modifications to your older frontcontrol.php file, which had calls from your original templates, that no longer exist.

Mark

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]]> By: Alice http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13415 Alice Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:06:49 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13415 DON'T USE THE ePN-to-PJN BANS converter tool yet!!! There may be a problem with compability between the update script and the BANS/WP templates. I just converted about a dozen sites. I checked it after I did the first one and everything looked OK, but when I went back a second time those sites (the BANS sides, not WP) were trashed. I'm getting a pageful of errors so until this can get fixed, or the cause identified please don't change over all your sites yet!!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13415','Alice'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13415','Alice','DON\'T USE THE ePN-to-PJN BANS converter tool yet!!!\r\n\r\nThere may be a problem with compability between the update script and the BANS\/WP templates. I just converted about a dozen sites. I checked it after I did the first one and everything looked OK, but when I went back a second time those sites (the BANS sides, not WP) were trashed. I\'m getting a pageful of errors so until this can get fixed, or the cause identified please don\'t change over all your sites yet!!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> DON’T USE THE ePN-to-PJN BANS converter tool yet!!!

There may be a problem with compability between the update script and the BANS/WP templates. I just converted about a dozen sites. I checked it after I did the first one and everything looked OK, but when I went back a second time those sites (the BANS sides, not WP) were trashed. I’m getting a pageful of errors so until this can get fixed, or the cause identified please don’t change over all your sites yet!!

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]]> By: Russ http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13414 Russ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:00:38 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13414 With all the changes that EPN is making none of which seem to be a benefit for those of us trying generate and send traffic to eBay it makes you wonder is this the beginning of the end of eBay. Their move from an auction site to a listing site seems to be moving them to just another mall type store. I believe that eBay generated so much traffic originally because people were in search of that once in a life time offer. Everyone was in search of the deal of a life time and now it seems that before long eBay is just going to be a super mall for eBay store owners. Can those of us just starting out afford to spend our time building sites and figuring out all the SEO and traffic building only to have eBay pull the plug on us? Maybe we need to find a way of using the bans format with affiliates like Amazon or some other major contender?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13414','Russ'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13414','Russ','With all the changes that EPN is making none of which seem to be a benefit for those of us trying generate and send traffic to eBay it makes you wonder is this the beginning of the end of eBay.\r\n\r\nTheir move from an auction site to a listing site seems to be moving them to just another mall type store. \r\n\r\nI believe that eBay generated so much traffic originally because people were in search of that once in a life time offer. Everyone was in search of the deal of a life time and now it seems that before long eBay is just going to be a super mall for eBay store owners.\r\n\r\nCan those of us just starting out afford to spend our time building sites and figuring out all the SEO and traffic building only to have eBay pull the plug on us?\r\n\r\nMaybe we need to find a way of using the bans format with affiliates like Amazon or some other major contender?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> With all the changes that EPN is making none of which seem to be a benefit for those of us trying generate and send traffic to eBay it makes you wonder is this the beginning of the end of eBay.

Their move from an auction site to a listing site seems to be moving them to just another mall type store.

I believe that eBay generated so much traffic originally because people were in search of that once in a life time offer. Everyone was in search of the deal of a life time and now it seems that before long eBay is just going to be a super mall for eBay store owners.

Can those of us just starting out afford to spend our time building sites and figuring out all the SEO and traffic building only to have eBay pull the plug on us?

Maybe we need to find a way of using the bans format with affiliates like Amazon or some other major contender?

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]]> By: Marty http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13409 Marty Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:32:52 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13409 From the EPN Help Manual "Do archived campaigns stop working? No. Archived campaigns will continue to work for any tools that you may have on your sites and eBay Partner Network will continue to report on both Archived and Active campaigns in the available reports." It would seem that to truly "archive" your site you must remove the eBay EPN ad from your site.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13409','Marty'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13409','Marty','From the EPN Help Manual\r\n\r\n\"Do archived campaigns stop working?\r\nNo. Archived campaigns will continue to work for any tools that you may have on your sites and eBay Partner Network will continue to report on both Archived and Active campaigns in the available reports.\"\r\n\r\nIt would seem that to truly \"archive\" your site you must remove the eBay EPN ad from your site.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> From the EPN Help Manual

“Do archived campaigns stop working?
No. Archived campaigns will continue to work for any tools that you may have on your sites and eBay Partner Network will continue to report on both Archived and Active campaigns in the available reports.”

It would seem that to truly “archive” your site you must remove the eBay EPN ad from your site.

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]]> By: Alice http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13405 Alice Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:47:38 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13405 I wonder if Pepperjam is going to be able to handle to massive influx of transferees... hate to bring the thing to its knees too, then we might as well shoot ourselves in the head (just kidding!!)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13405','Alice'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13405','Alice','I wonder if Pepperjam is going to be able to handle to massive influx of transferees... hate to bring the thing to its knees too, then we might as well shoot ourselves in the head (just kidding!!)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I wonder if Pepperjam is going to be able to handle to massive influx of transferees… hate to bring the thing to its knees too, then we might as well shoot ourselves in the head (just kidding!!)
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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13404 Mark Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:42:22 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/a-few-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-epn-termination.htm#comment-13404 @ Alice –

How long do you think it would take ePN to figure out they were paying us TWICE, if we can’t shut off the ePN account? What a lame-ass system.

Please… explain how you would be getting paid twice? Essentially, you are just killing the campaign by no longer sending traffic. There is no risk of double-payment, or even double-clicks, nothing.

@ Robert – essentially, as soon as you remove the tracking code from the campid, the site becomes dead.

zero clicks, zero visitors, zero metrics for them to measure it on.

It could be a risk though… not sure.

Honestly, as everyone can tell by the edits in the pst today, I am at a loss of what to say. eBay has shot itself in the foot in more ways than one this week and I truly dont know if they will recover from it.

Mark

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