eBay listings in your blog using PHPBay and affiliates
January 14, 2008
Every since getting involved in blogging I’ve been intriqued with how the search engines seem to eat up new posts and get blogs indexed quickly. It’s truly amazing. I’ve read time and time again from eBooks and marketing websites that blogs are one of the best ways to get traffic to your site.
Once of the other amazing sources for traffic is eBay. When I first gotted started with eBay I quickly realized that the secret to making money online was using eBay as a traffic generator. If you have popular listings you can gain some additional traffic by driving those shoppers to your eBay ME page and then to your off eBay website.
Those are great tactics if you have several products you’re selling on eBay. How can you make money using eBay and a blog if you have nothing to sell? Well, if you haven’t heard of the eBay affiliate program you need to. Using Commission Junction, eBay has created an affiliate program that allows you to display eBay listings on your personal website. Additionally, you can post eBay signup links and drive traffic to eBay. Each method allows you to collect money for driving traffic to eBay. See the complete eBay commission schedule and signup for the affiliate program.
Once you are an eBay affiliate you can now begin your campaign and drive traffic to eBay and get commissions. How you ask?. Blogging. Find a niche you’re interested in on eBay. Whether that is knitting or gaming. If it is something you enjoy, have an interested in, and is not over saturated, you have chance. You can start a blog on Wordpress.com for free and begin posting articles about your niche. Include links using some of eBay’s affiliate tools like the Flexible destination tool or the Editor’s Toolkit. You can also use the eBay editors kit to post actual auction listings on your site. Each time someone clicks on one of the auctions and wins that auction, you get a commission. Those are all nice options.
Then I stumbled on PHPBay. PHPBay allows you to integrate eBay listings into your Wordpress blog by simply adding a few tags in a post. What’s amazing is how easy it is and how well formatted the results look. Unlike the typical eBay editors kit, PHPBay produces results that fit into your blog and look like an extension of your post. You can further narrow down the results by filtering by number of items to show, keywords, categories, seller names and prices.
To put it all together and really drive traffic to your site and eBay you can try the following. Create a short article/posting in your blog with about 250-350 words. Inside the article, add a small PHPBay section that includes 2 items related to your article. At the end of your article include another PHPBay section that display 10-20 items related to the article contain. The combination of the article and eBay listings should help shoot your article posts up the rankings.
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Great overview. I’ve been looking for a tool to help display auctions in my WP blog. This was exactly what I’ve been looking for. Have you had much success using this plugin for WP?
Kyle