I remember my first income generated online roughly 10 years ago was with eBay. And the last bit of cash I earned online, approximately 5 minutes ago, was again with eBay. The money earned 10 years ago was by listing products up for auction and all that goes with that. These days it is a whole different ballgame, I work a lot less and make a lot more with eBay. I make money online as an eBay affiliate by directing people to eBay’s auctions and getting commissions on the transaction fees that eBay collects from the sellers. I also get paid for all new customers that I refer to eBay, often up to $50.

Wordpress Is The Ideal Choice For Running Your eBay Affiliate Store

The simplest blogging platform and content management system that I’ve come across is Wordpress. I’m sure that you have heard of it. It is very flexible and is always being improved. It is also a free product. I can literally have a site up and running with Wordpress showing eBay auctions in a matter of minutes.

phpBay For Wordpress

Plugins have been being developed to extend the capabilities of Wordpress since it was first introduced. A very flexible plugin that is used to show listings of eBay’s auctions is the phpBay WP plugin. You upload it and activate it like you would any plugin in Wordpress. And to display the auction listings you just add one line of specially formatted text to a post or page.

You can show a list auctions related to a specific keyword or keywords with phpBay. Lots of other options are available including the price range of the products, the category from eBay, etc. You can get very specific or broad on what you would like to display.

Each auction that shows up on your blog will have a link to the actual action on eBay’s site. Each of the links will have your affiliate ID encoded so that you are awarded commissions for the referrals.

Is There Really Money In It?

People often ask the following questions when I tell them how I make the majority of my money online: Why would people go through your site instead of going directly to eBay first? Everyone seems to have an eBay account, so would you ever really see a $50 referral fee for new customers?

As I was, I’m sure that you will be pleasantly surprised by the answers to those 2 questions. When someone searches for a product online, they don’t always start with eBay but a lot of times they will end their search there. Also, some people, believe it or not, do not even know about eBay. Some people start at their favourite search engine when searching for a product, where a link to your site may ultimately show up. The listings in the search results are fair game after all. It happens all the time.

Additionally there are thousands of new eBay accounts created each and ever day. Get your Wordpress blog up and running with the phpBay plugin to see for yourself.

Check out this post to see phpBay in action and to get a discount coupon: phpBay Pro Example Site And phpBay Pro Coupon

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