Are Your ePN Links Working? Check Them!

Written By Ben Johnson on 29 January 2010 8 People Commented

ePN have recently made some big changes to their RSS feed links and this has resulted in broken cloaked/SEO friendly links to eBay. It's not really a shock that this issue hasn't been properly communicated throughout the eBay community or with third party developers. It just re-inforces my beleif that most big corporations have a VERY BIG issue with communication.

Anyway, rant aside, make sure you check your ePN cloaked links on ALL of your sites. At the moment it's only my BANS sites which are having issues and so I have turned cloaked links OFF, my phpBay sites seem to be okay and I'm sure Wade will be onto the issue in any case.

Link to the ePN forum thread.

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  • Olivia said:

    Thanks for the heads up. My links seem to be working fine.

    Olivia

    # 29 January 2010 at 10:25 am
  • Ben Johnson (author) said:

    No problem Olivia, it seems that it’s only affecting BANS US sites at the moment and Tao (on the BANS forum) has been kind enough to come up with a fix for it.

    # 29 January 2010 at 10:40 am
  • Cherie said:

    Have you also seen the Critical update posted by Wade Wells over on the PHPbay forum, on February 10. Ebay have a new link structure for Ebay affiliate links so you need to update the coding if using PHPbay Pro – this doesn’t affect phpbay lite. So if this hasn’t dropped into your email box you might want to pop over to the PHPbay forum.
    .-= Cherie´s last blog ..Diets With Reduced Carbohydrates =-.

    # 11 February 2010 at 4:19 am
  • bwj292 said:

    Hi Cherie,

    Thanks for that, yes I saw it yesterday and spent most of the day updating my sites. Have you manage to update yours okay?

    Ben

    # 11 February 2010 at 4:27 am
  • Cherie said:

    Hi Ben

    I think so! What I didn’t realise was that there was also an update to phpbay pro itself which means I have to do the wp sites all over again along with the geo target mods and google analytics mods – oh joy!

    Strangely I never did have a problem with any BANS sites.
    .-= Cherie´s last blog ..Rick Stein’s Food Heroes: Recipes Inspired by the Champions of Good Food =-.

    # 11 February 2010 at 6:52 am
  • Cherie said:

    PS

    FYI the security code on this blod doesn’t seem to be stopping me posting if I forget to put the code in
    .-= Cherie´s last blog ..Rick Stein’s Food Heroes: Recipes Inspired by the Champions of Good Food =-.

    # 11 February 2010 at 6:53 am
  • bwj292 said:

    Thats a pain, it’s such a big update which ePN should have communicated properly but then that’s ePN what did we expect.

    # 11 February 2010 at 12:37 pm
  • bwj292 said:

    That’s strange, I’ll take a look into it, it may be because I automatically approve posts for people who have been approved into the past.

    Thanks for pointing it out.
    Ben

    # 11 February 2010 at 12:38 pm

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