I apologize for the length of this post but it is important to give you the full story.

As the title indicates, there are more changes coming to eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie. No doubt all of the eBay sites will soon make the same changes, if they haven’t already done so.

Over the last few months eBay have been making more policy changes. To list in some categories you must list the items with FREE P&P. They are now extending the policy changes to other categories. As of 19th October 2009 sellers listing in selected media categories will also be required to offer free P&P as their first domestic postage option.

The reason for this is that eBay claim that P&P costs are a major reason for buyers spending less on eBay, especially in the media categories.

Those categories are:
Books, Comics & Magazines
• Accessories
• Annuals
• Antiquarian & Collectable
• Audio Books
• Children’s Books
• Collections & Lots
• Comics
• Educational/ Textbooks
• Fiction Books
• Magazines
• Modern Maps & Atlases
• Non-Fiction Books

DVD, Film & TV
• Accessories/ Storage
• Film Memorabilia
• Other Film Formats
• TV Memorabilia
• Videos: VHS

Google News Flash

 I was visiting Randy Smith’s blog the other day and he brought my attention to a new slap by Google regarding affiliate links. Apparently Google are taking a dislike to uncloaked affiliate links. Randy included a link to Andrew Hansen’s blog where you can get the full story.

 An uncloaked link would look like; www.someonesproduct.com/aff_id=123

Where as a cloaked affiliate link looks something like;
www.yoursite.com/recommends/someonesproduct

 If you haven’t cloaked your affiliate links then you don’t need to be alarmed, simply sign up to my newsletter, using the opt-in box below and you will be able to download some cloaking software free of charge.

 If you scroll down this page there’s a video to show you exactly how to use the software and how to upload the links to your website. If you need any help with it drop me an email and I’ll do what I can to help.

 Twitter News Flash

 If you use Twitter you may have noticed that the amount of people you’re following and the amount of followers you have dropped last week. I noticed that I lost about 200 followers and quiet a few that I was following.