The eBay Partner Network has a TON of news and is investing significant resources in order to offer more tools and support for their affiliates. I’ll try to summarize, but there is a lot of additional detail in the links below.

eBay has brought PartnerCentric (a 5 Star client) on board as an agency partner to help eBay work with more U.S. affiliates directly to grow the volume and quality of their traffic. The EPN blog reports “The team at PartnerCentric will work closely with us to recruit new affiliates and work directly with more of our current affiliates to help make both you and eBay Partner Network even more successful.”

See Welcome PartnerCentric! at the eBay Partner Network blog for more details about the relationship and the role ParterCentric will play in supporting eBay affiliates.

Other eBay Partner Network News

• Additions to internal team. Several new members have joined this year to help with account management, tool and platform development, and operations.

• The launch of several new tools and upgrades for the eBay Partner Network Platform on May 1. These new features are in addition to the brand new product feeds and the improvements in the RSS generator launched on March 24.

• An expanded blog, with more helpful articles, guest bloggers and published reader comments. The expanded blog will feature more frequent posts on tips and case studies to help publishers improve the quantity and quality of the traffic they send to eBay. Today eBay has posted its first guest blogger post, from the founder of SEER interactive and a well known thought leader in SEO.

See the following eBay Partner Network blog posts for additional information.

Investing in our Affiliates in 2009

New Features Coming May 1st to eBay Partner Network