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New changes to eBay's affiliate program allow eBay affiliates to earn commissions linking to their own auctions.

<p>The eBay Affiliate Program pays Internet publishers and&nbsp;website owners&nbsp;to drive new users to eBay. Affiliates promote eBay with banners, text links, newsletters and other innovative tools. In return,&nbsp;eBay pays affiliate&nbsp;commissions for driving new users as well as bids and Buy It Now purchases. </p><p>Affiliates earn from $5.00 to $13.00 for each new active user and from $0.05 to $0.09 for each bid or eBay Buy It Now transaction. Currently, the top 25 affiliates in the program average over $100,000 in monthly commissions. </p><p>This week eBay changed the rules to allow affiliates to link to their own auctions.&nbsp; In the past you could earn money referring people to other auctions on eBay, or you could earn a referral fee credit --but not commissions, when referring people outside of eBay to your own auctions. Now you can make more money on eBay both ways --with affiliate commissions and by driving traffic to your own auctions.</p><p>Affiliates have access to a wide variety of buttons, banners, and text links after signing up for&nbsp;the eBay affiliate program.&nbsp; You can feature links direct to your own auctions or even get a search box to put on your web site where users can search eBay.&nbsp; Whenever they conduct a search it puts your affiliate cookie in their computer so you get paid if they register, bid or buy.&nbsp; </p><p>One drawback to the program is that affiliate cookies only last 7 days.&nbsp; This is way too short.&nbsp; If someone clicks on a link and takes action right away this is fine, but we all know that people often start doing something on the internet and get distracted but return to it later.&nbsp; I have always felt that a 30-day cookie activation period would be much more fair to affiliates and allow them to make more money with affiliate commissions.</p><p>My other complaint is that eBay uses Commission Junction to manage their affiliate program.&nbsp; CJ is the largest affiliate company on the web but they are also the most difficult to navigate, find links and&nbsp;have horrible support. Some of the eBay affiliate tools are on CJ while others are on eBay and this makes it somewhat difficult to use --especially for beginners.</p><p>You can also use Pay-per-click to drive customers to eBay.&nbsp; In fact this is what some of the top affiliates do.&nbsp; Although eBay says the top affiliates make over $100,000 per month --that is before their PPC costs.&nbsp; I would love to know how much these affiliates really make.</p><p>I tried a small PPC campaign on Miva which is much less costly than Google or Yahoo.&nbsp; I earned about $300 in commissions but I spent just over $230 in PPC. So it was profitable, but that is because Miva charges less for keywords.&nbsp; I can't see how you could do that on Google where keywords cost much more.</p><p>Having said all that, the eBay affiliate program is still a good deal especially if you have a web site where you get natural traffic.</p> 9 application/xml false affiliate make money eBay affiliate money ebay affiliate program ebay make money make money on ebay promo:150974 Ten little known, highly profitable eBay niches markets hiding on eBay. http://www.skipmcgrath.com/products/Niche-Markets.shtml Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Tablet PC 1.7; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mcgrrrrr false true false false true 135199 blog blogsite/SkipMcGrath/web