Most of the public that I know in real life (family, neighbors, etc.) aren’t savvy about how humans compose money online. whether I were to ask any of them how citizens produce money from eBay, I’d bet that 100% of them would say that society invent money by selling their junk on eBay. Of course, they wouldn’t be wrong, but they wouldn’t be 100% right either.
What they don’t realize is that lots of folks manufacture money by earning commissions on the eBay sales of other people’s junk. (I use the term “junk” loosely here, considering there are plus tons of very good, high quality, type new products being sold on eBay all the instance too).
eBay’s Affiliate Program
To put it simply, eBay has an affiliate program, which enables us to prepare money off of anyone’s auctions. eBay now handles its own affilate program, called the eBay Partner Network. (It used to let cj.com handle its program). eBay has done a good job with that new program, giving affiliates lots of knowledge, tutorials, tools, and widgets to promote the site effectively. Even without additional tools, you can jump into promoting eBay auctions within your niche pretty easily.
More Robust Tools
If you want to go beyond what eBay offers, there are, of course, tools to help with that as well. For a while, the most popular tool was BANS (Build A Niche Site) software to quickly and easily build lots of niche sites promoting eBay auctions. It’s still popular, really, but some of the excitement about it died down once it got so popular that duplicate substance started rearing its ugly head. (One site about golf clubs started to look just like another site about golf clubs, which was just like another, which was just like…you get the point).
Content First
The better way to manufacture affiliate sales, in my opinion, has always been to concentrate first on composition, and second on sales, rather than the other way around. whether you supply great composition and have a reliable rapport with your users first, next making sales is much easier to do. In addition, all that great composition and user trust eventually contributes to better rankings in the search engines; driving more traffic to your site, which eventually leads to more sales.
So, although the quick and easy path of BANS is still right for some (maybe even you), I like the more content-integrated approach, where you integrate affiliate hyperlinks naturally into your valuable subject matter. that might be in the way of specific product reviews, or it might be just niche-relevant, but either way, the composition is the main focus, and the eBay hyperlinks are secondary. One of the best tools on the market for that kind of approach is the phpBay WordPress plugin. that WP plugin makes it easy to pull relevant auction hyperlinks into your blog posts. that keeps the focus where it belongs – on your composition.
Whatever tool used – eBay’s own tools, BANS, phpBay, or any other tool you might run across – the end outcome is the same … you don’t have to sell your own junk on eBay to build money on eBay … you can more easily construct money by referring users to ane of the hundreds of thousands of ongoing eBay auctions, and soon after getting paid commissions for successful signups and sales.
Here’s a quick example of an eBay creative (be certain to hover your mouse by it – it’s really cool):
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As you can see just from that one example, there’s some pretty interesting things that can be done with the eBay affiliate program, and there’s tons more available, so it’s definitely worth considering.
Disclosure: Affiliate hyperlinks may be used within that post for products I recommend. They in no way affect my judgement of said products, nor do they affect the price of the product.
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