Start Your Own Money Making Business as an eBay Affiliate
Right now, you might be asking what an eBay affiliate program really is? Well, the answer is quite simple indeed. When someone clicks on a link within your website, and they go to eBay and sign up or buy anything, you make money from commissions.
What eBay will put in your hands are some great tools and brief tutorials that are there to help you set up your RSS feeds and or your links for integration into the design of your website. Becoming an affiliate of the most successfully converting and innovative program on the internet will earn you 50% to 75% commissions on the revenue eBay generates from every sale the customer has made coming from your website and 25 to 35 dollar bonus commissions called ACRU’s, from each new member that becomes active after signing 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.
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?
How do you increase your sales/earnings? Simple, this is what eBay suggests: Get more traffic to your website. To accomplish this, paid search traffic might be an option that you consider, however natural search engine traffic resulting from optimization can be a free way to do this.
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.
