Make Money with eBay Affiliate Niche Website Builder Software

Published June 9th, 2008

by Will Thompson

So just what exactly is an eBay affiliate program you may be asking? Well, actually it’s fairly simple. If you send anyone to eBay from your website or link, and they sign up or buy anything, you make commissions.

Ebay provides a somewhat brief tutorial and great tools devoted to helping you set up your links and/or RSS feeds to design into your website. If you become a member of the most innovative and successful affiliate program on the Web and drive your traffic to eBay, you will earn 50% to 75% commission on eBay’s revenue from every sale made from that customer and $25 to $35 commissions per each new active member that signs up.

Be sure not to confuse your commissions with that of the total sale the customer makes. You will only earn a commission that is equal to usually about half of the profits eBay makes from the sale. Let’s say, for example, someone from your website goes to eBay, signs up and buys something. They bid on an item that is a hundred dollars and they win the auction. Ebay’s profit from the sale may be, let’s say, $10…then you would make a portion of that profit, around $5 or more, based on if you are earning 50% or 75% commissions.

So presumably, you would make around $32.50 total as a commission…$25 from the new member signing up with eBay, plus an estimated $7.50 commission from the sale (remember these are JUST estimated figures for example purposes only.) This is certainly not a bad amount considering you have no inventory, no drop-shipping or shipping, and you don’t have to provide any service to customers for your eBay business. You are making money by NOT selling products on eBay, just letting others do the hard work. It’s so simple it doesn’t even really seem to be fair does it?

Ok, so now you’re making some money here and there as an eBay affiliate. But how do you increase these numbers? Simple, you get more traffic to your website. This can be done with paid traffic, which you must be familiar with to be able to make money. Or, you can optimize your site internally and externally, to start bringing in more website traffic for free.

DO these things to get more traffic: 1. Make sure you have plenty of unique content 2. Relevant keywords should be used multiple times in the content of all pages 3. Search Engines and users alike are attracted to changing content. Update regularly! 4. Use file names and URL’s that are not overly lengthy, which will let search engines crawl your site more frequently 5. Use Page Titles and Title Tags…6-10 keywords that are relevant to be found throughout the page 6. Use phrases such as “Search on eBay now!” rather than “Click Here! ” to increase the effectiveness of your links 7. To guide surfers that are ‘lost’, make good use of error pages. 8. Make sure the search engines know you exist by submitting to them manually 9. Try to get similar websites to link to your website 10. Learn more about online marketing by analyzing the competition. Things NOT to do: 1. Use frames. They are many times unrecognizable by search engine crawlers and hard to index. 2. Use invisible/hidden text. NEVER do this, search engines can and will hurt your rankings and effectiveness 3. Use multiple drop-down menus or search box navigation boxes…they can not be followed by crawlers.

Making money as an eBay affiliate takes very little effort. Aside from actually having a website, all you need to do is send traffic to eBay from your niche site. This can be done by more advanced marketers by building their own websites and inserting the RSS code from eBay’s fees from their editor kit tool. Or if you are a less experienced internet entrepreneur, or you just want to save time, you can find a program that will do all the hard work for you that is already optimized ready to go with code built in.

You will most likely see awesome results in a very short time frame. This is because you will have a website with constantly changing and updating unique content, that search engines are begging for, if you have done things correctly. You will be guiding people to products that are already proven converting to a website that is one of the most successful in the world.

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