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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.

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.

Be sure not to confuse your commissions with that of the total sale the customer makes. You will only earn a commission that is equal to usually about half of the profits eBay makes from the sale. Let’s say, for example, someone from your website goes to eBay, signs up and buys something. They bid on an item that is a hundred dollars and they win the auction. Ebay’s profit from the sale may be, let’s say, $10…then you would make a portion of that profit, around $5 or more, based on if you are earning 50% or 75% commissions.

In the end you would make $25 from the sign up, plus a possible $7.50(75%) commission off the sale, for a total of $32.50 (these are ONLY estimated amounts given as example ONLY.) Not too bad considering you are now an eBay business, with no inventory, no shipping, no dropshipping, and no having to deal with customer satisfaction. You are making profits from everyone else’s hard work. It’s so easy it almost seems unfair.

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.

Things to DO to increase natural traffic: 1. Create unique content! 2. Repeat relevant keywords throughout your pages 3. Refresh content regularly! Robots and users like new content 4. Use title tags - page titles; 6-10 words of relevant keywords found throughout the page 5. Use short named URL and file names to enable search engines to crawl your site 6. Utilize your error pages to redirect users that are “lost” 7. Increase the relevance of your links: use “Go to eBay!” instead of “Click here!” 8. Ask other relevant websites to point to your site 9. Submit your site to the engines: let search engines know about you! 10. Utilize competitive research to learn more about online marketing direct from the competition Don’t Do These Things: 1. Make use of frames: they are often too complex for crawlers to index 2. Use too many search-box navigation or drop down menus:crawlers are incapable of following them 3. Display hidden / invisible text: it is often looked at as “cheating” by search engines user referral Take advantage of eBay’s brand

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.

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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by David Cooper

Many affiliate marketers have already come across the term “social networking” in the last year or so, but not all of them know what this means. And most affiliates have no idea how to use social networking websites to promote their affiliate products.

Social networking sites are also referred to as Web 2.0 sites. These are simply an extension of the community based websites you probably already use. Forum, discussion boards, and active blogs for instance, are all a form of social networking. They contain groups of people who are all interested in the same or similar topics.

The social networking sites which have become popular lately, tend to integrate a little more interactivity into the mix though. Some of them allow members to broadcast messages to each other; some allow uploading of pictures, videos, or audio files; some have hundreds of different discussion boards for members to talk on; some allow you to save and share your bookmarks with friends; and some even allow you to earn additional advertising or affiliate revenue from the content pages you add to their network.

One of the most important things you need to know about social networking though, is that each site has it’s own individual rules. In some places you might be allowed to link directly to an affiliate product or program for instance, while in others you may be restricted to links which lead to your own blogs or websites only. And there are some places which say you’re not supposed to link to anyplace where you’re trying to sell stuff.

By using social networking sites which allow you to link to an affiliate sales page, your own website, or a blog you run, you can dramatically increase the amount of income you’re making as an affiliate though. As long as you play by the specific rules for the sites you’re using, and you do your promotions consistently and well.

On forums and discussion boards for instance, you can’t usually just go in and post an advertisement. Instead, you need to join the discussions which are already in progress. Try your best to provide helpful and useful content to other members of the board, and be sure to post as often as possible too. In each post, you should have a forum signature which contains a small ad for what you’re offering. Link that signature to your website, blog or affiliate sales page. Then the more you post, the more that signature will be seen. And the more helpful and useful your posts are, the more other members will be inclined to click your links.

If you use a social networking site which allows you to create and share your website bookmark links, then you’ll want to link to your website, blog, and affiliate sales pages of course. Be sure to put a brief description on the links if you’re able to, because this can help entice other members to see what you’re linking to.

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I love my RSS reader. I have a gazillion website, blog and news feeds set up in there, and I get the latest information from all of my favorite sites. That means I can be one of the first to share it with you. And RSS Reader 1.0 has a doorbell sound effect that rings when there are new feed entries to read. So wherever I am in the house I hear it and take a look. I also get the additional bonus of six barking dogs to announce the new feed entries.

As an aside, I noticed something very interesting. Because of my RSS reader I was one of the first to cover adsenseblacklist.com, a terrific new web site that will help you screen out the cheesy AdSense ads. Because I was on it first, I popped up in the first five Google search results for this keyword for a while, which drove traffic to this site. So watch your RSS reader.

All that being said, we are beginning to see RSS used as auto update feature for websites and blogs. The first application was RSS feeds that automagically update your site with articles in your subject area from a free article site. The rationale is that this will give you fresh content that search engines will eat right up. They call it spiderfood. I call it a dumb idea. Have you read some of these articles? There?s a wide disparity in quality from one to another, and I would never allow articles to be put blindly on my web site without my approval. For crying out loud?you spend hours and hours of time getting your site to a certain level of quality to build a certain level of trust with your visitors, and then you?re going to allow some hack to put his content on your site without your approval, just so maybe a search engine will come a few extra times? That?s just stupid.

Need more content? Turn off the football game and write some.

Seriously?if you want to use articles as supplemental content, hand pick them. Just like famous Internet marketer Wille Crawford did on his blog when he picked my article Chitika - What Went Wrong (a little humor there). I have at least 20 - 30 articles in an Outlook Folder that I?m going to post on the site as soon as a I get a chance. That?s the good news ? the bad news is I went through 500 or so articles to get those.

Closer to home, affiliate merchants are starting to get into datafeeds, which are sort of like file-based RSS feeds. Datafeeds provide direct access to merchant products using text files. The file contains a list of products, services, special offers, coupons or other information that you can display on your site. You then upload that information to your server and use some kind of tool or script to display the different items in that file. There are programs on CJ, LinkShare and Shareasale that have datafeeds.

While others are absolutely gaga over this, I look at it with the same jaundiced eye as the whole article thing ? it all depends on your niche, the level of trust you want to maintain with your customer, and how technical you want to get.

If you have a niche that has a well-matched affiliate program, you might try a product feed. If you want to put up an occasional coupon or special offer, you can probably do it by hand rather than going through all of this mumbo jumbo.

We are starting to see products that convert merchant datafeeds to RSS, allowing you to auto-display products from affiiliate programs. Again, if you can maintain relevance across the entire affiliate line, it?s a good idea. If not, you?re not going to get conversion anyway, so you?re wasting your time. Personally I want everything including the advertising, to have relevance to my visitors.

There?s always a shortcut ? in this case you?re shortcutting the time and effort involved in finding relevant offers for your visitors. That may work with some sites.

If you want to know more or give it a shot, here are some resources:

1. FiveStarAffiliatePrograms - They love the idea, but I think they?re plugging their own tool.

2. Smartsville has a nice synopsis. Oh?they also have a tool.

One last thing ? while I was out looking for links and information, this is what someone said about using datafeeds:

Soon, I will let you know how I put this all on autopilot and never have to think about the blog again after I spend a few hours setting it up!

How do you think that blog is doing?Matt DeAngelis runs Affiliate Blog. Matt is the former CTO of Modem Media, a pioneer in the Internet ad space. As a foot soldier in the Internet revolution, Matt devised the technology behind many of the most successful ad campaigns of the time.

Source: Affiliate Information

I will be doing a review of the product The Lazy marketer by Chris Rempel, it is priced at $29.00, not bad for a product that might give you more than a few pointers!

If you are online and you need to sale your own product, or change the sales page for another product you want to promote, you need to create a salesletter. This is a subject that alot of people who hate to discuss, but one that you need! I hate writing salesletters, but I have found a item that will go so in depth on the subject, you need to take a look at it seriously. What I am talking about is salesletters for newbies, it is awesome, fantastic, plus when I bought the item, I paid whatever price I thought it was worth, you cannot beat that at all, even if you are Tommy Tightfingers! I have the link posted on my blogroll, click on it and enjoy!

I will be writing a review of a system I am about to join on how to be a great affiliate! I will keep you posted!

I recently joined a CPA network, it is called www.Neverblueads.com  and they are amazing to work with, great people to work with, hot cpa offers, on time payments, I cannot say enough about this company! I highly endorse this company to deal with, even Zac Johnson over at www.zacjohnson.com totally agrees with me, before the end of the year, go over there and sign up!

I have good news my friends! I have just discovered a nice way for anyone to make some extra cash with there own store! It’s much easier to set up that Build a Niche store, plus you have many other choices to choose from. Head over to www.zlio.com this store has my vote of confidence for anyone to make some moolah!!!

If you are busy with your affiliate marketing, and you need a tool to use to help with your affiliate links, I use namestick.com I use this tool to hide all my links on the web, it is less than $40.00 per year, works great for me, so head over to www.namestick.com and check it out! Also, this is not a link to put cash into my pocket if you decide to use them! Enjoy!

Hi there! It has been over a month since my last post, yeah I know:Anyway here is a update. Build a Niche Store can be profitable if you can find a niche on Ebay that has a lot of traffic ie.. searched for items. It is a trial and error, but when you do find a good niche, look out for the cash to slowly start rolling in!