How the Ebay Affiliate program can work for you by JC Garcia

Affiliate programs have been around for a while, and many people have had a great deal of success generating income through them. The most popular being PPC or "Pay per click" programs where a website owner gets a percentage of profit for each unique visitor who clicks on an advertisement.

Ebay however, has come up with a different approach which might be considered along the same lines as Amazon. Ebay has an affiliate program through Commision junction which allows you to add full color auction listings of other Ebay sellers to your website as well as adding traditional links which you can make income off of every time a unique user signs up.

"How do I make money from other peoples auctions?" you might ask. Ebay is very generous in their payouts of a final fee. of an auction based on its price. You reap these rewards when someone clicks on an auction from your site and wins by bidding and completes the transaction.

I'm sure your wondering what the best way to implement this affiliate program is. Ebay has many tools which allow you to choose whether you want single small text for your website or large picture auctions for viewing. You can also use an editor to choose criteria of particular auctions you want featured for what ever niche you have created your website for. You can view Targetwatcher.com as an example by clicking HERE.

As you can see, there are many ways to use The Ebay affiliate program. To get started you can sign up at the Ebay homepage. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the affiliate link. Remember you can implement this tool on blogs too! The great thing about this program is that you choose in detail what auction or auctions you want on your site. So why not stop letting others choose what ads will be shown on your site and make that choice yourself!
About the Author

JC Garcia currently lives in Texas and analizes trends on the internet in relation to marketing including affiliate programs, linking, referrals, page rank, and other various forms.