Making Money With The Ebay Affiliate Program
Ebay offers affiliates an extensive amount of affiliate tools that can be used to promote the ebay affiliate program. Savvy affiliates can tap into “in house” tools that are available such as link generators, banners, product showcase creators and even push live updating rss feeds that are embedded with their own affiliate id numbers. Third party developers have also released a host of software tools, scripts, ebay affiliate store php scripts and more. While all these tools are great what really makes the program is the popularity of ebay itself and the millions of products that are available.
I had heard for several years that some affiliates were taking home incredible pay checks through the program. However at the time ebay did not offer affiliate rss feeds – the main reason why I am promoting the program.
Below I have included a list of ebay affiliate resources, I hope you find the information helpful. If you have been promoting the program for some time please leave your thoughts about the ebay affiliate program below, of course any comments, or questions are always welcome.
How To Make Money With The eBay Affiliate Program Resource List:
- Auction Affiliate
Auction affiliate is a script that you can install on one domain/server. After installation you can generate “Google Adsense Like” javascript code that can be placed on any website. The code pulls in ebay ads with pictures and text links. I personally don’t use any “paid” ebay product that does not offer searchable content – since the ads with auction affiliate are based on javascript the ads don’t add any “content” to your pages. - AuctionAds.com
Auction ads was created by Jeremy Shoemoney a savvy affiliate that has done quite well for himself with ringtones and other markets online. Auction Ads is also based on javascript, however you simply create a “free” account at the site and then post the javacode to your site. Many have done well with Auction Ads, quite simple to implement. - PHPBay
A cool little script that works much in the same way as any other rss parser, however phpbay takes advantage of mod_rewrite to redirect the affiliate links. This is exactly what I have wanted to do, I will be purchasing this script and will let you know how it works. - Build A Niche Store
An excellent php, MySQL based script that pulls live rss feeds to create affiliate stores in a snap, I have done well with this script. - Carp
Carp is a free or paid rss to html parser. It allows you to post an rss feed to a website, blog or any other document. I have been using carp to create custom wordpress sites that pull in various ebay affiliate rss feeds with good success. - Ebay Ebook
I have not read this ebook yet, their are several others online. Proceed at your own risk.
Ebay offers a solid program that allows you to target thousands of various products. What are your thoughts on the ebay affiliate program?
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July 10th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Very nice post Brian. This is the first time that I have watched one of your videos and would recommend that to anyone reading this. Good actionable information - that most importantly - makes sense!
July 11th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Hi Brian,
Thanks for the valuable tips. I was hesitating about “Build A Niche Store”, I think now I have got a clear idea how I can use the tool. I am also using “Auction Affiliate” on my shopping mall. Keep up the good work of sharing your experience with us.
July 11th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Gregg,
Glad you enjoyed the video’s, I hope they provide people with some common sense strategies and methods that get results.
Quamrul,
Build a niche store is really a great product, however it is important to see it for what it is. I would say you could put up a site fast on an older established domain with BANS and get results. However people who create sites on new domains and do not promote them will not be happy with the results.
Brian
July 13th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Hi,
Great videos. Great information. I have some 1 page ebay niche affiliate sites up and wanted to get some more traffic by making the sites more attractive to the Search engines. Got a copy of BANS and when they said that they were integrating with Wordpress I thought that would be the best of all possible worlds because I wanted that automatic content generation.
So from the video I got the idea that the rss to html parser you use has to use mod rewrites because search engines don’t like ebay affiliate pages. eBay Pro does that however the other rss to html parser you mentioned Carp does not.
Can you use phpebay pro with Wordpress? Do you need the runphp script you spoke about? How does the runphp script place the ebay ads? Can you set up catagories like with BANS. Thanks in advance for your help.
All the best,
Ted Sudol
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Hi Brian,
I really enjoy your youtube videos…very informative and inspiring. I created a site using wordpress and phpBay. I found a theme that I like and I’m trying to tweak it out but I’m new to affiliate marketing and wordpress so things are going a little slow.
I have created eBay categories and I’m showing about 30 auctions that are continually updating. Is this too many?
I want to create about 20 or so categories and add content to each of the categories with the auctions continually updating. Is this too many categories?
Thanks,
Tom
January 26th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I’ve made some sites with phpbay and bans but haven’t tried Auction Affiliate or Auction ads, they seem like a quicker solution for my non-wordpress sites. Thanks for the info.