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Business Business Opportunities Start Your Own Money Making Business as an eBay Affiliate
| Start Your Own Money Making Business as an eBay Affiliate |
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| Written by Will Thompson |
| Thursday, 24 July 2008 22:16 |
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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. You can make 50 to 75% commissions on eBay's total revenue from each sale made from a customer that has come from your site. You can also earn $25 to $35 commissions if that person was not previously an eBay customer and becomes active by bidding or buying something. To help you achieve this, eBay provides you with brief tutorials and some great tools built to help you set up your RSS feeds and/or your links to integrate into your site. 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. 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. With just a little effort, you can earn a lot of money in the eBay Affiliate Program. All you have to do is drive traffic to eBay. This can be done by creating your own store, which is mostly for advanced users that can insert eBay's RSS feeds and code from the editor kit into your website code. Or you can find a company that will set up a personal website for you with the code already included. Either way, you are very likely to find yourself seeing results in a very short period of time. This is because, if done intelligently and correctly, your website will have solid products with strong, unique content that is constantly updating itself and changing, which the search engines just LOVE. And this means your website will be getting really nice, natural traffic for good niches and keywords. About the Author: Until you decide to design your own eBay Affiliate Website or you plan to find a software or program to do it for you, check out how to Make Quick Money Online with our software, and browse over our list of Niche Affiliate Marketing features. Kindly provided by LJ-Marketing.dk You are welcome to use this article on your own website, if you include the link just before this text. |
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