How to Promote eBay
Promotion Tools
At eBay we have an extensive range of tools, which are frequently updated, helping improve your campaigns.
Listed below are some of the successful methods used by eBay.co.uk affiliates.
Click on the links below to read about each method.
| Editor Kit | AdContext | Banners, Buttons & Logos |
| Flexible Destination Tool | RSS Feeds | Natural Search |
| Paid Search | eBay API |
eBay API
If you are a web developer or have access to a web developer you can use eBay's API (Application Programming Interface) to access eBay.co.uk's (and other international eBay sites) listings database. This enables you to gather information and present it to your users in a customised format that you define. You can build desktop applications, custom integrations for shopping comparison sites or create other innovative applications.
Examples of what you can do are:
- get popular searched keywords
- perform eBay.co.uk searches
- get item and cateogry information
All the above information is returned in XML format enabling integration with your website or application.
Using the API means you can show your visitors exactly what they want in a way that fits perfectly with your site design or business model - which increases traffic and your commissions!
You can also pull information on top searched keywords and query eBay with all the power of advanced search and have the results returned in XML.
Further information on this is available in our API Affiliate Guide.
Visit the eBay developers' programme site to access the eBay API.
