In the past a lot of eBay affiliates followed a simple model… get as many cookies on people’s machines as possible. They weren’t concerned with what the customer purchased or when they purchased it. That approach was short sighted as became evident with the new eBay pricing model.
If you sell someone on a particular product within your website, they click your link to go to eBay and bid on that exact product right away or use the BIN option if available, you deserve to be paid well and eBay will increase the quality of your clicks and pay you more per click. The review/guide style site, as taught in this 9 step guide, falls in line with the new pricing model on eBay. If you grasp what is being taught in the guide, and take action, you will be well on your way to making good money “per click” as an eBay affiliate.
The new way to make money online as an eBay affiliate… write a review on a particular product type/brand, explain to the potential customer why it is good to purchase it on eBay, present them with a few relevant auctions to click on (use phpBay for this), or even a link to search results (no plugin required), they click the link or auction listing, and are more likely going to place a bid or use the BIN feature right away. Think “targeted” customers and you will earn more per click without question.
Of course, you are now going to need traffic and lots of it. One customer just won’t land you $50+ with this new pricing model as was a possibility in the past. Also, you will need quality content.
Using Long Tails And Outsourcing Content
My recommendation… Find long tail keywords to use for each and every review post (or page) and guide. Of course you want low/weak competition keywords with high searches. Use Market Samurai to make getting these long tails very easy.
If you don’t want to write content, try CyberHubOnline.com for cheap content. Tell them your long tail and you can get 300-400 word articles for around $2.00 each when buying in bulk (about 25+ I think). Give them 3 or 4 specific questions to answer about each product as a guideline.
Build Deep Backlinks
Social bookmark and build backlinks to each review. Use a service like Article Marketing Automation (AMA). You can submit articles with links back to your site using your long tail keywords as the anchor text. Create a 550+ word article in the required format for AMA and you can end up with over 100 backlinks to 3 different pages to your site with just 1 submission! Do that until all of your review pages and guides have links back and traffic will flow as you climb the rankings in the search engines. I would submit several that link back to your main page or for any keyword that has higher competition.
Use the launch package as mentioned in this post. It’s a great way to bring in traffic and garner extra backlinks.
Maybe try odesk.com to hire someone to do some blog commenting for you linking back to your site from related blogs. You might pay around $20 for 100 links. Use Comment Kahuna or Market Samurai to find a list of related blogs that offer do-follow links and give that list to the person you hire.
Recap
I feel that with the new pricing model at the eBay Partner Network that the process taught in the N1Way Guide could almost be considered required knowledge. It’s almost as if they knew this change was coming. Follow along and build your sites and you will succeed as an eBay affiliate.
August 22, 2009
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