June 2005
Beginner
463 pages
14h 19m
English
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Make Money by Linking to eBay
Earn affiliate kickbacks without selling anything on eBay.
Like many e-commerce sites, eBay offers an affiliate program that pays you money for each new eBay member who signs up through the links on your site. If you’re promoting your own eBay auctions off-site [Hack #99] , you can make it even more lucrative by turning all the links into affiliate links.
Start by signing up at affiliates.ebay.com. At any point there may be several affiliate programs, but the Commission Junction link is probably the most applicable. Commission Junction offers kickbacks for new user registrations (up to $45 for each new user who signs up with eBay) as well as a percentage of individual bids (up to 25 cents for each bid that results from your links). There’s no fee to apply.
Creating Links with Commission Junction
eBay is one of many affiliate sites partnered with Commission Junction, a fact that will become all too clear when you first try to create links.
You’ll have to dig a bit just to find eBay on the site. The quickest way is to go to Get Links → By Relationship → My Advertisers, and you’ll see a list of sites with whom you’ve signed up. (If you join Commission Junction through eBay, you’ll be automatically signed up as an eBay affiliate.)
Tip
You may see references to cryptic terms like “EPC,” followed by dollar amounts that look like fees. EPC is marketing lingo for “Average Earnings Per One Hundred Clicks” and translates to the money they expect you to earn through ...
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