Simple Approach To Making Money Online Using eBay Auctions On A Niche Wordpress Blog
eBay offers some of the greatest payouts for an affiliate marketer. Where else can you refer someone to a $1.00 item and earn a hefty $50.00+ commission? Sure there are CPA offers where this scenario can be seen but not ones where I would hang a long term business plan on. CPA offers come and go sometimes overnight.
Why Would eBay Give Such A High Commission?
The scenario mentioned above won’t happen with all referrals of course. Truthfully, eBay pays up to $50 for new customer referred AND up to 75% of transaction fees regardless of whether you refer a new customer or it’s an existing eBay customer that clicks the link on your site.
eBay has some sort of algorithm in place that determines whether or not your referral will continue to spend money on the site after the first transaction. If the feeling is that you referred a long time customer you will get $50.00 for that referral, plain and simple. You might see new customer referral commissions as low as $1.00 if you refer what “seems” to be, just a one-time customer.
I’m not sure how the algorithm works. Perhaps it is based on the buyers browsing behavior prior to making a purchase. Maybe they placed bids on a bunch of items? Maybe they set up a “watch” on several auctions? In my experience though, I have seen the major of my new referral commissions at the highest payout when I have a tightly niched site.
As for the “up to” 75% of transaction fees… that is based entirely on the total winning bid revenue generated. In most cases you are probably looking at close to 50% or more share of the transaction fees, but get involved in promoting the bigger ticket items and you may see your commissions soar.
The commissions will vary based on country as well. The structure I was discussing above was based on the most popular eBay market, which is the U.S.
To view the commission structure for all countries, visit ebaypartnernetwork.com.
You Can Target All eBay’s Partner Countries Using Just One Wordpress Blog
An extremely simple, cost effective way to come out of the gate strong promoting eBay auctions is to use a Wordpress blog and phpbay pro plugin. Simply adding one line of code to a post or page will give you a list of several live eBay auctions with your affiliate links embedded. Showing live auctions isn’t just restricted to a post or page. A sidebar widget is also included where you can display a “hot item” perhaps.
One distinct advantage phpBay has over a competing product, BANS, is that with just one site, or in this case… blog, you are able to list auctions from multiple countries.
A freely available phpBay add on plugin exists that will automatically determine the visitors country based on IP address and display only auctions for that country. The visitor will also be provided with a dropdown list should they want to see auctions from a different country in the rare instance the country was misinterpreted.
How Niche Can You Get With phpBay?
With phpBay you are able to get very specific on the auctions that you want to display. You are able to list auctions by keyword and category and you also have the ability to include negative keywords, which are words that you don’t want to show up in the auction listings.
Creating auction listings for a specific seller ID is a snap with phpBay. This is a great option for avid eBay sellers. This approach allows you to promote your own auctions and get commissions for them, as well as get more visitors to your products on eBay. It’s a great way to profit from using eBay rather than paying for the advertising. I don’t know why more people aren’t doing this.
With the ability to show only auctions in a certain price range you can have a under $100 used laptop store for example. And please don’t get hung up on promoting big ticket items only because of the transaction fees. Regardless of the price of the item, a new customer can be worth up to $50 in the U.S. market.
Some people are doing well with city specific eBay blogs. With phpBay, you have the ability to list auctions where the seller is within a certain radius to a specific postal code. Having the ability to pick up items locally could be the “benefit” of doing eBay shopping through your blog.
I’ve really only scratched the surface on what you are able to do with phpBay. Almost any niche on an existing blog can see spikes in revenue quickly after adding phpBay driven eBay listings.Even the simplest usage by only having one page of auctions geared towards a specific keyword has increased revenue on many of my blogs.
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