eBay trades in more than 33 international countries with over 157 registered users worldwide with 75 million based in the USA and 10 million in the UK.
eBay's affiliate program must be the mother of all affiliate programs as far as size and potential scope for earning an income through promoting other peoples items. Essentially this is what the program is, an affiliate program which works no differently to any other affiliate program.
The only thing that is slightly different is the angle of things. Normally a company offers a product for sale and you sign up to their affiliate program to promote the item for which you get paid a commission for each sale.
Essentially eBay's affiliate program is no different except that with eBay, instead of having one or two items to promote you actually have 55 million items to choose from at any one time as this is the number of auctions running on eBay continuously.
So, the trick of this game and to make some money out of it is to choose the category that you wish to promote, maybe you belong to a forum that deals in antiques for example. With eBay's affiliate tool box you can set your affiliate link to send your targeted visitors from the forum you post in to the top level category, and second level category or even a specific item.
There are easy and simple ways on which to create your affiliate link to take visitors to any category or indeed any specific page on any eBay worldwide site.
To secret to making money out of this is, as always, a targeted audience. No one is going to follow a link that leads them to a product page which is of no interest to them but by offering antique collectors a link directly to a page full of items that are of interest to them or indeed a specific item then you are more likely to get more click through. All the visitor needs to so then to earn you money is to either place a bid, use the buy it now option or the bigger money maker, register with eBay before they can bid or buy.
eBay pays varying commissions according to the number of people that join, bid or buy in a one month period. They also pay different amounts according to the country of the affiliate program you are promoting. The UK and USA has some big differences in price structure and volumes.
As you can see, making an income from eBay's affiliate program is not hard or really any different from any other affiliate program except that it's actually easier.
Author: Michael Sherriff
http://auctionaffiliatesecrets.com
This article may be republished but the copyright notice must be left in place and the article must NOT be altered in any way.
Copyright 2005 Michael Sherriff
http://auctionaffiliatesecrets.com
Michael Sherriff has authored a number of best selling ebooks and hundres of atricles which have been used in forums, websites, ezines and newsletters across the internet.
His latest release "The Hidden Goldmine of eBay's Affiliate Program Revealed" has already been dubbed as a number one hit with affiliates from all corners of the globe.
Find out why at http://auctionaffiliatesecrets.com and http://auctionaffiliatesecrets.co.uk
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