The Joy Of Receiving Ebay Affiliate Commission
I made $42 the other day for helping to sell a Rolex watch that I neither owned nor saw. How did I do it? By being an eBay affiliate. Yes, I can use MyMochaMoney.com to advertise affiliate products if I feel that they will somehow help my readers, but that’s not how I made this money. I made it through an article I wrote on Hubpages.com. I actually have written six articles regarding Rolex watches on Hubpages.com. They are as follows:
- My Rolex Submariner Purchase Experience
- Is Now The Time To Invest In A Rolex Watch?
- Want To Buy A Rolex? How To Spot A Fake!
- Best Deals On New and Pre-Owned Rolex Watches From Trusted Ebay Powersellers
- Want To Buy A Rolex Submariner? Things To Know
- Best Deals On Ladies Rolex Watches From Trusted Ebay Powersellers
Anyone can write on Hubpages.com. I wrote a previous post about Hubpages called, “Earn A Part-Time Income Writing On Hubpages.com” that you can read and get the details on how to make money with this opportunity.
Anyway, what does this all have to do with being an eBay affiliate? Simple. You can sign up to be an eBay affiliate through the eBay Partner Network, write on Hubpages.com (or Squidoo or any other user-generated content site for that matter) about anything you want that’s sold on eBay, and if someone bids and wins on a product that you’re link referred them to, then you get an affiliate commission from eBay (if you don’t have an eBay account, you will need one for doing advanced searches on eBay as described below. You can sign up for a FREE eBay account here
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Why Join Ebay’s Affiliate Program?
Now it’s true that there are thousands of affiliate programs out there and you can become an affiliate of any of them and promote whatever products you like. So why do I like eBay’s affiliate program? The payout of course! If you promote an expensive product or a pricey product group on eBay through your articles, get lots of traffic to these articles that turn out to be winning auction bids, then you receive a nice affiliate commission from eBay that eBay will pay out to you on a monthly basis.
What To Promote on eBay?
This isn’t really that hard. EVERYTHING and ANYTHING is sold on eBay so I’m sure you can come up with a few ideas, check eBay to see what people are paying for the items you potentially want to promote, and decide if you want to write articles about them.
I like going to Ebay’s Pulse Page to find out what’s hot. Then I look up that item through eBay’s Advanced Search option where I check the box for “Completed Listings” so I can see what that item has sold for in the recent past. If the item is selling well, and selling for a high price, then you have yourself a potential topic for an article.
How To Market Your Article To Get Traffic
It pays to make several articles around the topic of your choice and link all those articles together. I had my Rolex articles on Hubpages.com for some time and never knew the power of linking same topic articles together until I read the ebook by “PotPieGirl” called “OneWeekMarketing.”
My regular readers may remember me promoting the One Week Marketing Action Plan in other posts about affiliate marketing where I’m trying PotPieGirl’s techniques by promoting an acne treatment ebook through a series of articles posted on Squidoo.
Just to review, the One Week Marketing Action Plan is a 5-guide package designed for those that need a solid system to begin making money with affiliate marketing. This plan is focused on making campaigns online to promote a product using all free-to-use websites, methods, and techniques. I really liked PotPieGirl’s sale’s page and the fact that one of her guides is over 100-pages of correspondence between her and a “student” of the OneWeekMarketing technique as he learns each and every step of the program.
By the way, the One Week Marketing Action Plan ebook is so reasonably priced, that you should earn your money back with affiliate commissions from just one or two sales–I earned it back with just one sale.
Obviously, there’s so much more to promoting your articles than by just linking them together. However, I found PotPieGirl’s techniques to be so simple and straightforward, that anyone can implement these techniques and have your articles ranked in Google sometimes within hours (If you are unfamiliar with Squidoo, PotPieGirl offers a 50+ page step-by-step instruction “How To Squidoo” guide for FREE).
What If I’m Not Getting Any Sales?
Keep at it! Ebay can be a tricky beast. People may click on your links from your articles to get to eBay, find a product that they like and even bid on it. However, there’s never any guarantee that they will win the auction, therefore securing your affiliate eBay commission. What can you do about this? You can always link to sellers’ eBay stores where things are sold at fixed prices. Again, there’s no guarantee that a buyer won’t find something they like selling in the auction format, but you at least directed them to a fixed price product.
Just don’t give up. Keep writing more articles about the same product or product group, link your articles together and promote, promote, promote those articles! When you have a good batch of articles written, pick a new product to promote and do the same thing all over again. If you want to have a leg up in the affiliate marketing game and not waste time with things that don’t work, then learn from the One Week Marketing Action Plan ebook. PotPieGirl’s techniques were written for Squidoo, but I’m using them for Squidoo and Hubpages since I’ve been writing on Hubpages longer.
Can I Really Make Money?
Yes! At first it may take a while to see your first eBay sale–or who knows, you may pick the right product in the right category with little competition and the dollars just start rolling in!
I believe, writing on these platforms and promoting eBay products as an eBay affiliate is one of the best and easiest ways to make money online long term. Again, don’t give up; it takes time and persistence. Give yourself six months to one year of consistent effort (and have a daily/weekly/monthly plan). I guarantee–you can’t fail!
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