Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Making Money Through The Ebay Affiliate Website

By Mike Smith

One of the most simple and entertaining ways to generate an income online is through Affiliate Marketing. The reason is that you don't have to own any products on product based website and still you can create, market and earn money. Most important is you know the right individual to acquire the right products.

Like the Ebay marketplace that presents wide range of opportunity because it has a wide product inventory, competitive product pricing, great branding and offer substantial affiliates payouts. To attract more consumers to buy a product on ebay, they keep the product for a low price, and also they provide safe and trusted products for the buyers.

Also for some individuals their source of income is through Ebay affiliates. Before, they run their affiliate program using Commission Junction. Yet, not long ago Ebay started running their affiliates program with Ebay partner Network. Now Ebay offer different ways to promote Ebay. You don't even have to buy extra scripts in promoting Ebay. You'll just have to use Rss Feeds and widgets to promote it.

The greatest thing in promoting Ebay is the Ebay cookie. Unlike the Amazon's cookie the life of the cookie is longer. Id someone clicked to Ebay links the Ebay cookie stays in that computer. And the cookie of a person with an ebay account it usually expires after seven days. Buy if you are new on Ebay it usually runs up to 30 days.

To Ebay users you will have 7 days to generate income but for new users they have 30 days to generate an income. You can gain money if a person signs up and bid within the 30 days. You can make money up to $25 even if they didn't win the bid. Ebay pays you on activity and not winnings.

Since Ebay has so many products to promote about, you can easily look around for cool stuffs and promote it. You can also do product review hubs and "favorite stuff" type hubs. It can draw more customers to buy products and services. You can also set up your Ebay sites by installing Wordpress in it and use phpBay Wordpress plug in. It is very easy. All you have to do is to plug in your campaign id into the plugin options and add the ebay listings. PhpBay Pro is also helpful for SEO purposes like masking the urls of Ebay.

Nevertheless, in order to use phpBay or BANS you should have your own hosting and domains. It is because for some plug-ins it may not work on other sites. Dreamhost is the hosting site. Dreamhost also presents hosting plan that only cost for $199 a year and also you can use Hostgator for hosting. - 16890

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