I love the ebay partner network affiliate program, and have been making a steady income from it every month. I started using the BANS software which stands for Build a Niche Store. The product costs $97 and worked very well. Ebay was actually one of my first profitable affiliate marketing networks that I used so I was very excited to start making money online with it.
But it is becoming more and more obvious that wordpress is one of the best ways to build traffic to a website. Google and the other search engines like Yahoo and MSN seem to love blogs that are updated regularly. (I know it’s been a while since this one has been updated, but I have been busy making money on my own sites ya know=).
So when you combine the power of selling products on ebay with getting targeted traffic with WordPress it is a win-win situation.
You could sign up for the pricey PHPbay software that allows you to put ebay listings in with your wordpress blog posts, but why not try a free plugin first to see if you like it.
There is now a free ebay wordpress plugin called AffomaticEbay and I have been using it successfully for the last month or so. After you activate the plugin all you have to do it put some code into your post and enert the keywords you want to use to display the ebay listings and you are done. Under the plugin options you can have it search a certain category or change how many auctions are displayed or even how the auctions or ordered.
The only thing I don’t like about Affomatic ebay is that you cannot change the number of auctions listings in each post. If you choose to list 10 products on a page, it will show ten listings on every page of your wordpress blog. But hey, it’s free and it works like a charm so why not give it a try.
You can find this free wordpress ebay plugin here at http://www.affomatic.com/ebayfree/.
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I too fell in love with BANS, but I am doing much better on my own blogging, and affiliate sales, not making a ton of money, but it is a start!
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I know the guy who wrote that plugin – he has some great ideas and is a good coder.
If he produced it, it’s worth getting.
The problem with BANS and other similar schemes is that the sites are pretty much all the same.
You really need a point of difference if you plan on making any money
I agree with the similar schemes on the website design. You have to be creative to change the template. There are other very well designer templates on the market but they are not free.
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