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So just what exactly is an eBay affiliate program you may be asking? Well, actually it’s fairly simple. If you send anyone to eBay from your website or link, and they sign up or buy anything, you make commissions.

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.

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.

As an estimate, you would make $7.50 commission (if it’s 75%) from the sale, $25 or $35 from the sign-up from the new member, for a total of $32.50 to $42.50 (just keep in mind these figures are ONLY examples, not to be taken as hard fact.) It almost seems unfair doesn’t it? Because you are doing nothing other than sending someone to the eBay site…you are not storing inventory, there is no shipping, no dropshipping, and no nasty customers or bad ratings. Everyone else does the hard work, and make a profit from 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.

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.

One of the easiest ways to make money online is as an eBay affiliate. All that is necessary is to find a way to send people to eBay from your website. This website can be created by you or someone else. If you are experienced with affiliate marketing and with a little html, you can set up your own stores with your own feeds from eBay’s toolkit. Or you can find someone to build it for you, or find a software that will create the sites for you online. Some are set up to look like real, professionally built websites, that are already set up with code built in and optimized for search engine traffic.

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.