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AFFILIATE MARKETING WEBSITES BUILDING A NICHE STORE

Affiliate marketing websites building a niche store to sell goods online through eBay and make money online

Luckily, there is a solution because there is one website out there that sells pretty much every weird and wonderful thing you can think of. Not only that, but it offers a choice of new and used items. This, plus the fact that many items are sold by auction rather than at a fixed price, means that it has something to suit all budgets. And, even better, this website has an excellent affiliate scheme.

You may have heard of the website I'm talking about. It's called eBay.

Thanks to its massive user base of sellers, eBay sells a vast array of different products - some of them very mainstream such as ladies' jeans and some of them very specialised such as a network adapter for a Series 1 TiVo (trust me - that's pretty specialist).

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BUILDING A NICHE STORE

In terms of commissions on someone buying something from eBay, this is how it works. Once someone clicks on one of your eBay affiliate links and is directed to the eBay website they are tracked with your affiliate id for a period of seven days.

If they buy anything from eBay within that seven day period (either through Buy It Now or by winning an auction) then you will earn between 20% and 75% of the revenue that eBay makes from the sale. The exact percentage you get varies from one country to another and also based on the total number of sales you are generating for eBay.

When it comes to sign-ups of new eBay members, there is a thirty day tracking period. So, if someone who is not already an eBay member clicks one of your affiliate links and goes on to register for an account and then places a bid or buys something, you will get a so-called ACRU (Active Confirmed Registered User) commission. This can be up to $35 depending on the country and the number of sign-ups you are responsible for.

SELL GOODS ONLINE THROUGH EBAY

Like all affiliate programmes, eBay offer a selection of banners that you can place on your own website. You then have the potential to earn commissions from anyone who clicks on one of these banners. However, whilst this is a very quick and simple way to get up and running with the eBay Partner Network, it is unlikely to be very successful - see the earlier chapter on affiliate marketing if you are not sure why banners are a bad idea.

If you are targeting a particular niche then what you need is a website dedicated to that particular topic. So, if you have settled on fossils as your chosen niche, then you need to have a website that is all about fossils and fossil collecting. It needs to have relevant articles and other content and it needs to showcase relevant products from the eBay site to encourage people to click through directly to specific products and buy them or bid on them.

AFFILIATE MARKETING WEBSITES

In a nutshell, a banner that just says something like "find a great bargain on eBay" is not going to be anywhere near as effective as a small photo of a particular fossil-related product that is for sale on eBay with its description and price underneath it.

So, to do this properly, what you are going to need is a website that displays a range of actual products that are currently for sale on eBay.

But keeping such a site up to date yourself would be impossible because the items for sale on eBay change from one minute to the next....


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