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.

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There are content networks that exist that offer free, unique, automated content to anyone interested.

The way it works is, marketers with a monthly subscription, will submit content to the network, usually in the form of 2-3 articles merged together in a special format. They will include links back to their sites within the content with whichever anchor text they want (depending on the network, the links might be in the resource section at the end of the article, or they might be within the article itself).

Well, with the content submission, there are easy to use tools at the network that assist in magically creating unique versions of the content. I can't discuss exactly how the system works on the inside but know this, it does not create machine generated junk, it generates quality articles from the merged document that was submitted. Sometimes in the neighbourhood of 100's to 1000's of unique, quality content is created! OK, so that's the paid end of the system in a nutshell, now for the free content...

If you have a blog, or in some cases an article directory, and in fact, with one of the networks it doesn't matter your platform, then you can sign up to the free end of the system to start receiving unique content automatically for practically any niche.

I have been working with three of the biggest, well established content syndication networks, both on the free and paid end. My reviews for the free end of Article Marketing Automation, Syndicate Kahuna and Unique Article Wizard are posted below.

The quality of content on all of the networks that I reviewed are anywhere between "not bad" and "great". They are all pretty much equal in this regard, in my opinion. The good thing is, you aren't forced to auto-publish any content, so you can "reject" or remove an article or post and it will never see the light of day.

As mentioned, I get content from all 3 networks. They all serve a different purpose in a sense, and serve the same purpose in another sense. Also, picking a combo of either SK and UAW, or AMA and UAW to submit content to, you will be getting tons and tons of backlinks with your chosen anchor text (or random anchor text), in a slow, natural progression. You can submit unlimited content for unlimited domains on these networks. Some marketers say that article marketing and/or blog content syndication is all they ever do for SEO! With one of the combos mentioned above, you will be covering both article marketing and blog content syndication but with unique content across the web, rather than the same article posted everywhere with typical article marketing. The AMA and UAW combo is the cheapest package.

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1. Getting Auto-Content And Auto-Backlinks For Your Auto-Blog
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3. Free Blog Content Syndication With AMA

I have a few blogs that I setup awhile back that are virtually on auto-pilot. The content is all unique, automated and 100% free. Also, backlinks are created automatically. For these blogs I usually just put a banner in the sidebar, sometimes I float AdSense to the right of each post, sometimes I add eBay auctions underneath the posts or on a separate page. Also, I usually put some sort of ad on the main page above all the posts.

One of the blogs, on the topic of acai berries, has a conversion (worth $41) every 2-3 days. Did I mention that I don't really do anything to it anymore? I just let it run on it's own merit.

Free Blog Content

To get the unique blog content, automatically added, and for free, I look to SK or AMA. It depends a lot on the topic, which network I choose. AMA has a large selection of specific and broad categories to choose from. SK has just broad categories. However, with SK you can also specify keywords for the content that you want. So for the acai blog I used SK. I picked a few categories, like Health, etc. then entered the keyword "acai". Initially I set it to 10 a day until I reached 10 posts, then changed it to just 2 a day. If the specific category that you are looking for exists on AMA, that's another great choice for free blog content.

Auto-Backlinks

You can use plugins that will automatically Social Bookmark each post as it gets published. Auto Social Poster is a good choice, plus there's an Onlywire auto-submit plugin (free) floating around. I haven't used it so I can't account for it's quality. Plugins like these have to be constantly updated to keep up to date with the bookmarking sites, so it's more likely that a free plugin developer may drop the ball. Granted, the OnlyWire plugin requires just one API call, so it may be a freebie that stays up to date. Let me know.

Also, the free content you get from either AMA or SK has links to 3rd party websites in it (that's why it's free), well, a lot of times they link to other blogs, which initiates a trackback link, so you will be automatically getting backlinks from niche related blogs on occasion.

That's all I really did for, no effort, free, auto-backlinking on these blogs.

Semi Auto-Backlinking

There's another process that I use for getting backlinks to these blogs. There's a bit of work up front, then it's automated after that. You submit an article in a special format (generally 2 or more articles merged together) to SK or AMA. The articles, when processed by SK and AMA, will generate several unique versions of the article. Each version contains your choice of hyperlink(s).

The anchor text can be random and so can the URL, so it's a good idea to do some deep linking, perhaps to a category page, or a review page if you included one on your blog. Now, slowly over time, you will get backlinks from niche related blogs, which is really just the reverse process of getting free blog content to your blogs (like mentioned above).

There is a fee to do these submissions. It is a monthly fee and lets you initiate as many submissions as you want during your subscription period. It generally takes about 2 months or more for 1 submission to run its course (for slow, natural link building), but you can run multiple submissions simultaneously for as many sites as you have.

Last I checked, when signing up for the free version of AMA, you get to try the normally paid service for free for a short time.

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I just found out, Article Marketing Automation is giving away a free trial of their blog syndication services. If you aren't sure what that is, I wrote a lengthy article about it the other day. Essentially, it involves getting possibly hundreds of do-follow backlinks (eventually higher rankings, more traffic, more PR) to your web site from sites in the same or a similar market (relevancy), slowly over time (natural link building). You only need 2 unique articles to accomplish this if you follow the steps I laid out in the post: Link Building By Way Of Blog Content Syndication.

All you have to do is sign up for AMA's free blog content service and they will send you the bonus of the syndication service as well right after you confirm your email address. I'm not sure how long it will last so don't get mad at me if it's not available after you signup. I only found out about it because I started a test account a few minutes ago.

You are given 2 weeks of the free bonus, plus the ability to submit up to 5 articles. I would take advantage of it ALL if I was you. That's a lot of backlink potential. Now, I'm not sure if the backlinks stop after 2 weeks (probably) or if you have 2 weeks to submit your 5 articles and they will run their full course which is usually a couple of months or more (probably not). If it's just 2 weeks of the automated backlink building, that is still pretty awesome!

Be Prepared Before Signing Up

You will need to fill in some "how-to" gaps by watching their video tutorials, etc. immediately after signup but there are a couple of things that you may want to do before starting your account. You should write (or have written) all of your articles ahead of time. Aim for 10. Follow the steps in my blog content syndication post for sentence matching and eventually merging. You could wait for the merging, and possibly the writing of the extra article, until after you signup because they have a tool that you can use. But remember, the clock is ticking. I would have 5 articles ready at the very least, maybe around 400+ words each.

Just so you know, AMA groups sentences with curly braces and separates them with a tilde. For example: {This is the original sentence.~This is the rewritten sentence which is supposed to mean exactly the same thing as the original.} This example is really the power behind spinning articles properly. Write your entire article like that (essentially creating 2 articles) and the spinning system has lots of sentences to work with to create random, valuable, human readable articles that are for the most part unique.

Use this link to jump right to the free AMA account area. I'm not sure it's accessible from the main page.

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2. Free, Unique, Automated Content Network Reviews
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