Home & Family Facts and Notes

You may be asking at this point, what exactly is an eBay affiliate program? Actually, it is very simple. If anyone visits eBay, from clicking a link inside your website, you make commissions if they buy anything or sign up as a new member.

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.

Your profit from these sales should not be misinterpreted as a percentage of the total sale of the item. You will make a percentage of only the profit eBay makes from the sale. For example, let imagine that someone clicks on a link from your website, goes to eBay, signs up as a new member, and makes a bid on something that is $100. They end up winning with that bid, and then eBay will make, let’s guess $10 from that sale. When eBay makes $10, you will make 50% to 75% of that amount as your commission. This percentage is based on how many sales you make a month as an eBay affiliate.

As an estimate, you would make $7.50 commission (if it’s 75%) from the sale, $25 or $35 from the sign-up from the new member, for a total of $32.50 to $42.50 (just keep in mind these figures are ONLY examples, not to be taken as hard fact.) It almost seems unfair doesn’t it? Because you are doing nothing other than sending someone to the eBay site…you are not storing inventory, there is no shipping, no dropshipping, and no nasty customers or bad ratings. Everyone else does the hard work, and make a profit from it.

This is what Ebay recommends: Getting traffic to your page is another way to increase your earnings. To get more visitors, you may think about a paid search campaign for your site (please have a look at our paid search pages!), but natural search tips can also help you for free!

For better optimization, DO these things: 1. Tons of unique content, the more the better 2. Include related keywords that you are targeting multiple times on individual pages 3. Update your content on a regular basis. Regular users and search engine crawlers both love this 4. Do not let your URL’s or file names get too lengthy, keep them short and relevant 5. Title tags and page titles are important. Use 6 to 10 keywords to be found within the pages that are relevant 6. Rather than “Click here now!”, use phrases such as “Find it on eBay now!” 7. Use error pages effectively to help out users that might get lost 8. Manually submit to the major search engines to make sure they even know your are in existence 9. Get one-way and exchange links. One-ways are much more powerful 10. Never stop watching and analyzing the competition to help your marketing and direction Always AVOID the following: 1. The use of frames in your website. They are not liked by search engines and they confuse those using your website 2. Never use hidden or text that is not visible. Certain way to make the search engines avoid your site for life 3. Stay away from over-use of search navigation boxes and/or drop down menus. Crawlers can not follow these, and will hurt your rankings.

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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