The last weeks I thought about making money with the eBay affiliate program. After they started their very own partner network (EPN) some weeks ago and also enabled the international usage of their program, some nice ideas came into my mind. Before that, as their program was managed by Commission Junction, I never had the chance to get accepted into their program and therefore have nearly forgotten about that possible money maker.

With the eBay partner network you earn a small percentage of each winning bid on auctions hosted on your website or blog. And you’ll also earn up to $50 for each ACRU (Active Confirmed Registered User), depending on the quality of the new referred user. With enough traffic, like in most online businesses, you may earn a lot of money from eBay.

Ok, but where to start and how? I thought about that too and I’ve already found my personal best solution. Although eBay offers different tools to develope affiliate sites for free, I’d rather choose a software called PHPBayPro to create my eBay affiliate websites. The software comes in different versions and I’ll personally choose the PHPBayPro Wordpress plugin which costs only $49 and is recommended from different people that successfully use it. Basically the plugin version let’s you create a complete eBay affiliate site right within Wordpress, easy and fast.

But the software alone isn’t all, what’s way more important is to find a niche where you actually can create sales. I already have some ideas and also managed to create a keyword list for it, meaning I’ve found some nice long tail keywords that’ll bring in traffic with less competition from other sites in the same niche. I picked a hot niche will searching on eBay’s Pulse, a page showing what’s currently hot on eBay. After that I’ve done my keyword research with help of only freely available tools like the Adwords keyword tool (which now shows search count in numbers) and Gtrends for example.

All I need to do now is registering the right domain name, writing some content and integrating PHPBayPro into a new Wordpress install. That shouldn’t be too hard to accomplish. Generating traffic to this site will be far more difficult in my opinion and I doubt I’ll see any early results from that site, although I hope to make some good bucks later on. Let’s see how it will perform, right now I only have my keyword list but I think I’ll start the new site this autumn.

I’m sure that I won’t earn enough to quit my day job from only one eBay site, but there’s nothing holding me back from creating more and more of them once they become profitable for me. Sure, right now everything is just plain theory, but I’ll do my best to accomplish this new goal.

Best Regards,
Querblogger

Weird post title? You’re right, I haven’t found a better one such fast. But the major news behind this title is great (at least I hope so)!

Maybe you can remember one of my posts about becoming an eBay affiliate from outside the USA? If not, just let me tell you that it can be very difficult to register for the US based affiliate network if you resides somewhere outside the USA. But why eBay USA? Well, it brings higher comissions and a much broader target market then eBay UK for example.

Ok, now the major news. eBay has just announced today that they will start their very own affiliate program by April 1st. That means, no more CJ.com registration is required to join their network. And the best fact, they will globalize (!) their program. According to their news release they state:

“Easy global registration to multiple countries simultaneously”

I hope applying for international eBay affiliate programs will get easier now. If this would be possible, there would be many new ways to make money from it. I think about using BANS for example, a nice software to build your own niche store based on eBay auctions. But let’s see some new announcements when they start their program in 2 weeks, I hope all the best…

Ciao,
Querblogger

PS: If this post doesn’t make any sense to you (not only because of my sometimes bad grammar , please read my post about becoming an eBay affiliate first!