Ebay Affiliate Primer
First, what is an 'affiliate' of Ebay?
Bottom line - an affiliate of Ebay is a a commissioned sales job. Like the historical Fuller Brush salesman, you are an independent representative of Ebay, offering their products or services to potential customers. When one of them buys, you get a percentage of the sale.
But today , in the high-tech version, you have a few very powerful advantages over the sales rep that has to knock on doors all day. You can do this from the comfort of your home, with a computer and Internet connection.
The eBay Affiliate Program pays Internet publishers, Web masters, online partners, and eBay sellers to drive new users and sales to eBay. Affiliates, that's you, promote eBay with banners, text links, and other innovative tools, such as the Editor's Kit and the Flexible Destination Tool.
In return, you receive commissions for driving new, active users as well as winning bids and "Buy It Now" purchases. Currently, the top 25 affiliates in the program average above $100,000 in monthly commissions.
Sellers as Affiliates
If you are an eBay seller, you can also earn commissions by sending traffic to yourr own listings as well as to other seller's listing that are complementary to your. Sellers with their own Web/Blog site can use affiliate tools such as the Editor's Kit to display their listings on their own sites and also cross-promote other sellers' items, earning commissions for every purchase, regardless of the listing format or seller.
Earn money when you drive traffic to eBay
What do you get paid for? All eBay programs payout their affiliates using the Quality Click Pricing (QCP) payout system. Affiliates will be paid for each click that is directed to an eBay site and the price paid per click will be dependent on the quality of the traffic delivered to eBay. The only exception to this will be publishers whose business model is loyalty or cash back who will be paid out on a Cost Per Action (CPA) model.
How much will you be paid? eBay Partner Network has some of the most generous affiliate commissions on the web. With Quality Click Pricing, the amount paid for each click varies depending on the quality of the traffic sent to eBay — the higher the quality of the traffic you drive, the more you earn per click. However, you may earn different amounts for each program, as each local site has a slightly different payment structure due to varying market conditions in each country.
Here's how to advertise eBay on your site.
Whatever your business model, eBay has an extensive range of tools available to help you improve your campaigns, ranging from simple creatives to putting eBay listings on your own site. To access these tools simply log in the eBay Partner Network and go to the Tools section. Of course you can also use the powerful phpBAYPro software Ebay Affiliate Software.
As eBay Partner Network is a global program, some of eBay’s tools are geo-targeted, which means that we identify the location of a visitor to your site and redirect them to the most relevant page. For example, if a person from the UK visits your US site and clicks on your eBay Affiliate link, they will be redirected to ebay.co.uk, rather than ebay.com.
So, if your site is about Minolta Camera lenses, and you want to connect to eBay and the Minolta lenses for sale, you can just like I did here ...
Joini the eBay Affiliate Program is free.