Apr 23 2009
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Milk eBay For All It’s Worth<br><br>I remember my first income generated online roughly 10 years ago was with eBay. The last bit of money I’ve made online, roughly 5 minutes ago, was with eBay. 10 years ago I was running auctions, shipping products 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 am now an affiliate for eBay and make money by referring customers to eBay’s auctions and collect commissions on transaction fees. In addition to the commissions on transaction fees I also get paid up to for new customer referrals.<br><br>Wordpress Is The Ideal Choice For Running Your eBay Affiliate Store<br><br>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. It literally takes just a few minutes to get a Wordpress driven site showing eBay auctions up and running.<br><br>phpBay For Wordpress<br><br>Wordpress is a very extensible system and developers have been creating plugins to extend its capabilities since its inception. A very flexible plugin that is used to show listings of eBay’s auctions is <a href=”http://keithjameslock.com/phpbay-pro-example-site-and-phpbay-pro-coupon/” target=’_blank’>the phpBay Pro plugin</a>. 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.<br><br>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 as broad or as specific as you want. It is very flexible.<br><br>Each auction that shows up on your blog will have a link to the actual action on eBay’s site. The link will be specifically coded with your affiliate ID and when a customer follows the link you will be credited with the referral by way of commissions paid monthly by eBay.<br><br>Can You Really Make Money This Way?<br><br>A couple of questions that I often get asked after explaining how I earn most of my money online: Wouldn’t people go directly to eBay rather that go through your site first? Everyone seems to have an eBay account, so would you ever really see a referral fee for new customers?<br><br>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. Instead, they may search Google for a product, your site may show up, they see the eBay listings and follow your link to eBay and place a bid. It happens all the time.<br><br>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.<br><br>You can see phpBay in action and get a discount coupon here: <a href=”http://keithjameslock.com/phpbay-pro-example-site-and-phpbay-pro-coupon/” target=’_blank’>phpBay Pro Example Site And phpBay Pro Coupon</a>
