Affiliate marketing with the eBay affiliate program
December 29, 2008
For those of you who are anything like me and have tried selling on eBay with no success, the good news is you can make money from eBay without selling your own stuff! eBay has an affiliate network designed to pay publishers for quality traffic!
eBay’s Partner Network is perfect for any marketer who wants to cash in on the millions of dollars sold on eBay daily, without having to deal with your own auctions! eBay has an affiliate program that pays publishers to link to eBay! Publishers are paid a % of listing fee’s for items that are bought using your affiliate links. Publishers are also compensated for users they send that become new active confirmed registered users (ACRUs) on eBay.
Last month was my 1st month of really doing anything with the eBay Partner Network, and my months efforts have started to pay off. So far I have earned $428 from a newly launched site that is less than 5 weeks old. I selected a niche that I had yet to see other internet marketers into yet, and I am excited to report it is doing well. Actually what I did was select a broad topic, to make a huge website for everything having to do with my specific targeted audience. Within my one website, I am promoting different niches that work within the main topic.
I used the WordPress platform to build a site on my specific topic and I am using WordBay, which is a wordpress plugin. Since this is my 1st site designed for eBay auctions, I did not invest in PhpBay. I do plan on buying PhpBay very soon to use on a new site I plan on launching after the new year. For right now, WordBay works great for me, but I do like some of the features from PhpBay. ( I will go into that ore in another post)
If you are wanting to give the eBay affiliate program a test run, use WordBay as it is free to use. If you find success in your site, you can always upgrade to PhpBay later on. They key with any new marketing venture is not to invest any money until you make money, if possible!
You can plug eBay auctions into an existing site, if you think your audience would benefit from items sold on eBay. If not, start doing some keyword research and select a profitable niche. Use Micro Niche Finder or any other keyword tool to select a nice market and then search eBay to make sure there is enough inventory to support the niche.
Once this is done, work on your content and add in auctions to your content. Focus on driving sales to eBay not just visitors. The more sales, the more income you earn!
Over the next few weeks I will be launching a few more websites solely to run the ebay affiliate program on and Adsense. I am still doing some niche research right now, but hope to have at least 2 more sites completed by the end of January.
eBay Partner Network currently offers the following programs.
eBay US (United States)
eBay AU (Australia)
eBay BE (Belgium)
eBay IN (India)
eBay CA (Canada)
eBay HK (Hong Kong)
eBay FR (France)
eBay IT (Italy)
eBay UK (United Kingdom)
eBay NL (Netherlands)
eBay SG (Singapore)
eBay ES (Spain)
Half.com (United States)
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I just applied to join Ebay partner several weeks ago, but I rejected.
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That is great success Tara, what are you doing to bring such high converting traffic so quickly to the new site?
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Great start! Are you working with BANS also?
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@ GoBlogging, when you applied for EPN, did you list all sites you own? Are the sites established or new?
@ JR, just sent you an email! I can not give away all of my secrets! Geesh woman!
@ Dennis, I am not working with BANS. I heard that many BANS sites were slapped by Google for lack of content. I decided to go more content based rather than just auctions.
Hmm, can I have that email too? LOL I’m half kidding
Check out JR’s post on BANS/content and Google…amazing stuff. Hopefully she’ll return with the URL.
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I was also rejected twice by EPN and I’m not too sure what’s the problem? I didn’t remember you needed to list my site.
I could probably be due to localization as I’m based in Malaysia. I was easily rejected for some programs on PepperJam. So far so, Shareasale has been very friendly to me and I’m glad I’m with them.
Yan
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