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.

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.

Now don’t confuse this with making a percentage of the total sale. You are only making commissions on what eBay makes in profits from the sale. For instance, say you send someone to eBay from your website. They sign up as a new member, and then bid on a product that is $100 and win. Then let’s suppose eBay’s profit from this sale is $10. You would make a portion (most often 50% to 75%) of that profit amount.

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.

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.

With eBay affiliate stores, it is probable that you will see great results in very small amounts of time. If created the correct way, your site will have converting products, and powerful, unique content that will be forever updating and changing, which is what the search engine crawlers are very fond of. Which means ultimately that you will be profiting from good, natural traffic from targeted keywords and niches.

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