ShipScript has been an eBay Community volunteer since 2003, specializing in HTML, CSS, Scripts, Photos, Active Content, Technical Solutions, and online Seller Tools.
I ran a scan of your items in the next unreleased version of this scanner that will be updated to detect external links and SSL, in addition to active content.
http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentScanner.htm
A cursory review of the results did not show any SSL issues (you have over 4000 items and I didn't check the results on all of them). However, there were a few external links to non-eBay pages.
Additionally, over 3000 of your listings contain Active Content and an external credit link for that content. So, when you remove the Active Content, you'll need to go an extra step and also remove the credit link. This is the block of code that appears in those 3000 listings:
<center><a target="_blank" href="http://kigoogalytics.kioui-apps.com"><script>document.write("<img border=0 src='http://kigoogalytics.kioui-apps.com/logos/ITEMS-" + ebayItemID + "/SELLERID-" + _sellerId +"/'>")</script></a><script>document.write("<img border=0 src='https://kigoogalytics.kioui-apps.com/tracks/ITEMS-" + ebayItemID + "/SELLERID-" + _sellerId +"/'>")</script></center>You should be able to remove that block using eBay's Bulk Edit And Replace (BEAR) tool or using the Bulk Active Content Editor.
You can check the Bulk Scanner next week to see if it has been updated to detect SSL and non-eBay Links. Sellers will be facing both of those issues in the near future.
@lookng2015 wrote:
From what I can see, MOST eBay pages display as http, not https. Isn't this something EBAY should be fixing?
It is not as critical for eBay pages to be secure as it is for content embedded in a secure page to also be secure. Seller descriptions are embedded in the eBay page. eBay has to stage the rollout of their security measures in a manner that will not orphan any content.
During the transition period, it is most important that eBay pages can be reached using either http or https, so eBay has to support both to prevent breaking legacy links. Right now, you will notice that it is possible to reach listings using https, but that eBay will redirect those back to http. This is to avoid the browser blocking embedded "mixed-content" in the page. When eBay cuts over in October, the redirect will go the other way so that a link to the http page will redirect to https. That is when seller descriptions could be blocked by the browser, so when eBay makes that change, they'll implement the one-click-away description for listings that are not SSL compliant.
Store pages probably won't convert this year. There are other complex issues to resolve there, so they'll remain http for awhile.
I looked at several of your listings, and the template with the brown book graphics will work to some degree. The graphics are hosted at freeauctiondesigns and will support changing from http to https, so those templates will be ok if you make the change. However, to be mobile friendly, that template would need a few tweaks. For instance, your template already has this code:
<style>img{max-width:100%}</style>but it really needs this code:
<style>
img{max-width:100%}
table {width:100%}
</style>And a few may not shrink enough for mobile because some of the longer words in a giant font might be too wide, so perhaps a smaller title font should be chosen for mobile.
<style>
img{max-width:100%; height:auto;}
table {width:100%}
@media(max-width:480px){
#templatetitletxt font {font-size:1.5em;}
}
</style>If you have other templates with graphics, I didn't come across those, but they may also be fixable.
You have apparently subscribed to a third party listing add-in called Ki Googalytics, and that service is continually adding scripts to your eBay listings.
Your immediate action should be to turn off that service, since it no longer complies with eBay rules. To turn it off, go into your eBay account settings under "Site Preferences" and look for "Third party authorizations". Revoke the token for something like kioui-apps.com
The next step would be to remove the entire block of code added by that service. We can do that in one pass using the Bulk Active Content Editor and File Exchange. If you need assistance with that process, please post for help on the Active Content forum.
http://community.ebay.com/t5/Replacing-Active-Content/bd-p/activecontent
