The very first bit of money I made online roughly 10 years ago was with eBay. The last bit of money I’ve made online, roughly 5 minutes ago, was with eBay. The money earned 10 years ago was by listing products up for auction and all that goes with that. I’ve since changed my strategy significantly, do a lot less work and and make a lot more money with eBay. I am now an affiliate for eBay and make money by referring customers to eBay’s auctions and collect commissions on transaction fees. I also get paid for all new customers that I refer to eBay, often up to $50.
Using WordPress As A Platform To Display eBay Auctions
As far as blogging platforms and content management systems, WordPress takes the gold for both. I’m certain you have heard of it. It’s a very flexible system that is constantly being updated and improved, and is available free of charge. 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. The best plugin available for showing eBay auctions in a WordPress blog is the phpBay WordPress plugin. You simply upload it and activate it like you would any other WordPress plugin. Then you simply add one of line of specially formatted text to your WordPress post or page and you will be presented with a list of eBay auctions.
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.
All of the auctions displayed on your blog will be linked over to the actual auction on eBay. Each of the links will have your affiliate ID encoded so that you are awarded commissions for the referrals.
Can You Really Make Money This Way?
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?
You will be pleasantly surprised at both of the answers to those questions, as I was. Someone might not consider searching eBay first for a product or might not even think that eBay would even have the product they are looking for. 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.
Also, there are 1,000′s of new eBay accounts being created every single 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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