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The Best phpBay Alternative Plugin for WordPress

For years, phpBay was the go-to WordPress plugin for affiliate marketers looking to integrate eBay listings into their sites seamlessly. It offered a simple way to embed eBay products into content, making it easier to monetize blogs and websites through the eBay Partner Network (EPN). However, with phpBay now discontinued, marketers are in search of a reliable phpBay alternative that can deliver the same, if not better, functionality. If you’re one of those marketers, look no further than Fast eBay Listings, a powerful and intuitive plugin that not only fills the void left by phpBay but also brings a host of new features to the table.

In this blog post, we’ll explore why Fast eBay Listings is the best phpBay alternative for WordPress, diving into its key features, ease of use, customization options, and more.

Introduction to Fast eBay Listings

As an affiliate marketer, the tools you use can make or break your success. The eBay Partner Network provides a lucrative opportunity to earn commissions, but without the right plugin to showcase eBay listings on your WordPress site, you might be leaving money on the table. Fast eBay Listings is a WordPress plugin designed specifically to help you maximize your EPN earnings by making it easy to add and customize eBay listings on your site.

Fast eBay Listings was developed with the needs of affiliate marketers in mind. It offers everything you need to replace phpBay and more, ensuring that you can continue to leverage eBay’s vast product catalog without missing a beat.

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Geo-targeting to Maximise eBay Partner Network Earnings

Do you run an affiliate marketing strategy on a website that attracts visitors from around the globe? If so, you need to geo-target your affiliate links to maximise your earnings, read on to find out more and how to achieve this with the eBay Partner Network.

Why You Need to Geo-Target

By default, when you add eBay Partner Network (EPN) links to your website, they will link to only a single eBay marketplace and site (ebay.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.de etc.) This is fine for visitors in that country, they’ll be nicely lined up to complete a purchase. However, a visitor from another country will be less inclined to purchase from another country’s eBay site. The item may not ship internationally or shipping fees may be off-putting. Some visitors may persist and search for the linked item on their local eBay site, but you won’t get the sale attributed to your EPN account. Either way, by presenting visitors with eBay products not sold locally to them, you will inevitably lose sales and not earn as much commission from the EPN.

eBay Partner Network geo target links

The solution is to present each visitor with a link to the eBay site that is local to them. By presenting eBay products they can purchase locally with ease, they are more likely to complete the sale and earn you a commission. This can be achieved by doing a reverse lookup of their IP address to discover the country they’re from and thus tailoring the links they see accordingly. Thankfully, there are many services available that can take care of this for you. The WordPress plugin Fast eBay Listings has this feature available right out of the box.

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Alternative RSS eBay Feeds WordPress Plugin to WP eBay Product Feeds

Back in 2020, eBay announced their decommissioning of RSS feeds, much to the chagrin of affiliate marketers using the eBay Partner Network. eBay RSS feeds were a simple way to pull items from eBay for display on affiliate sites. The proposed alternative was to use the eBay API, however, this requires more development effort, signing up to the eBay developer’s program, managing access tokens, adhering to call limits and maintenance to stay abreast of API changes – something the Fast eBay Listing WordPress plugin has always supported.

WordPress eBay Partner Network integration

Nonetheless, many eBay Partner Network users have tried to continue with RSS feeds generated from third-party resources that create a feed using the eBay API. Thus enabling the bad approach of using older RSS eBay Feeds WordPress plugins like WP eBay Product Feeds that rely upon an RSS feed as input. In this article, I’m going to look at why this approach is bad and what your alternatives are.

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