by John Thornhill

If you are a serious eBay seller who wants to boost his eBay sales figures, let me tell you, the only way to do it is to increase the traffic to your auction listings.

Registered users and frequent visitors of eBay must be aware of the recent addition on their website popularly known as eBay blogs. But, how many of you have actually tired it to enhance your web traffic and subsequently your sale on the most visited eBay website. If you have been one of those who underestimate the potential of blogging on eBay, I think it's about time you wake up and take a hard look at what it is and the incredible ways in which it can help you. If you are an active member of eBay, you can sign up for your own free blog and open the doors for more traffic, more business, and naturally, more profits.

How to start blogging on eBay?

Blogging on eBay is easy, and providing great content to worldwide eBay users will keep them coming back for more. Through a platform as influential as eBay blogs, you can communicate with you loyal patrons and inform them about the latest developments pertaining to your forte. When you visit the following URL http://blogs.ebay.com/, you will see an option that says "Start Blogging" and all you need to do is click on it to begin your blogging expedition.

What are blogs?

For those who do not know what a blog is, let me explain… A blog is nothing but an online journal and through your blogs, you convey news and views about yourself and of course, your auction sales on a regular basis. Many people these days are taking up blogging to publish their opinions on the Internet and get closer to the outside world.

What should my blog contain?

Now that you have understood what blogging is all about, let me quickly tell you what you should include in your blogs to make it an absorbing reading material. Blogging can be very addictive and as you start blogging, it won't take you long to figure out what appeals to your customers. Enlighten your customers about the kind of products you sell, a bit about your auctions and some stuff that can throw light on the nature of your business. For instance, if you sell computers and that's your specialization, you can provide lot of info regarding computer maintenance, upgrading computers, price comparison, best deals, and so on. What's important here is that your customers must be satisfied with your information and guidance and should be eager to read your next blog.

Although its okay once in a while to write a blog to introduce a new item you have included in your auction, more emphasis should be laid on providing lots and lots of authentic information about your area of expertise. Commenting on other people's blogs and using blog tags (these are keywords to enable people find you easily) can also help you increase your web traffic.


John Thornhill is an eBay powerseller and trades on eBay under the username planetsms. He earns $1000s every week selling info products on eBay. If you really want to succeed on eBay selling information products check out John's FREE newsletter at http://www.planetsmsnewsletter.com/

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25 Million Products...

The purpose of this article is twofold.
Firstly, to show you that there is a serious money making opportunity in the eBay affiliate program and, secondly, to illustrate that my latest tool - Build A Niche Store - really enables you to exploit this opportunity in a way that has not previously been possible.Almost every internet marketer I know has at some point signed up to the eBay affiliate program and almost every single one of them have failed to make any significant money with it.

Build A Niche Store is set to change this…Enjoy the read and if you have any questions you can contact me directly.
Stephan
InstantNicheStore.com

Why eBay
eBay is a fascinating marketplace for all sorts of reasons but the most important of these is that eBay invites us, through their affiliate program, to take a share of their revenue.This is what eBay says about their affiliate program (http://affiliates.ebay.com/):

"Drive your traffic to eBay and get paid for it!
• Earn up to 65% commission on eBay Revenue
• Earn up to $22 commission for new active user referrals
• Take advantage of eBay’s brand and wide variety of products"

There are four important points to this:
1. eBay pays you up to 65% of the revenue they make from every product sale that you refer.
2. eBay pays you up to $22 for every new active eBay member that you refer.
3. The success of the eBay brand means that their conversion of browser to buyer is exceptional.
4. eBay provides you with a choice of products to promote which covers virtually every online product market.

Made simple, eBay is saying something like this to you:
"Look guys and girls, the eBay marketplace contains millions and millions of different products all of which are wanted by millions and millions of different people. If you can connect these people to the products that they want on eBay our successful branding will convert them for you and you will receive in return for your service up to 65% of the commission that we make on each sale and a further $22 if the particular buyer became an active eBay member to make that purchase".

I'm sure you see the opportunity:
You have a constantly updated product inventory of over 25 million to choose from which caters to just about every imaginable instinct for purchase that currently exists online. What this means is that regardless of the niche market you already target or would like to target there are products listed for sale on eBay that they would very likely be interested in.- While you have access to this product inventory and can make money promoting it you never have to stock a product yourself, ship an item or deal with a customer.- eBay has invested a lot of time and money in carefully developing and branding a marketplace which is now trusted by millions of people worldwide.- eBay will pay you more than half their revenue plus a high member sign up bonus if you help them sell the products listed in the eBay marketplace by connecting targeted people to them.

Bearing this in mind, why is the eBay affiliate program not talked about like AdSense or ClickBankwhen it comes to making money online when in reality it offers much more substance than AdSense and much more width than ClickBank?

The primary reason for this is a previous limitation of tools which has meant that the opportunity that lies in eBay’s wide variety of products has not been properly explored.Before today, if you wanted to market eBay’s products you had to have extensive PHP knowledge so that you could manipulate eBay’s API or you were limited to manually integrating things like affiliate banners and eBay editor kits into your website or blog.
Limited to these tools there was no way for you to truly exploit the opportunity presented by a marketplace that contains 25 million products.

Consequently, eBay’s huge product inventory and their high paying, high converting affiliate program has been largely demoted to a means of filling up space on a website. An eBay bannerhere and an editor kit there – there’s no system, no purpose, no aim and consequently no money.
Build A Niche Store now changes this and enables you to start taking a piece of eBay’s revenue by connecting people to the products that they want in the eBay marketplace…

Meet Build A Niche Store:
For the first time Build A Niche Store gives you (regardless of your technical ability) complete control over eBay’s massive and constantly updating product inventory.Try to imagine yourself as having a huge warehouse behind you which contains 25 million productsand which you control through one store setup file. It is this reality that Build A Niche Store grants you.
You choose which of eBay’s products you want to market, for example "Golf".
You then go to your store setup file, choose the Golf category, press "Build" and Build A Niche Store will automatically give you a complete eBay affiliate store for that niche.
This store will contain every golf related item listed on eBay (in this case over 80,000) which you can then connect people to and earn affiliate commissions from.
You are, however, not limited to one niche or one store ;)

You have a choice of 28,926 different niche stores that you can build, each of which will contain all of the products listed on eBay that are relevant to you chosen target market, be that Diamonds, Guitars, Baby Strollers, Sunglasses or Laptops.

Each affiliate store you build will automatically:
1. Include all of the products listed on eBay that are relevant to your chosen target market.
2. Include all of the associated navigation structure which eBay has for your category choice.
3. Update on a live feed from eBay and as such will never need manually updating.
4. Include your eBay affiliate id in every product link.
5. Provide you with hundreds or thousands of keyword packed, content rich pages that the search engines love.

All you have to do is decide which niche market you want to target and press build…

Come and Give Build A Niche Store a GO!

I know I’m biased, but I would challenge anyone to use the Build A Niche Store demo and not start to feel a little giddy at the potential that lies in being able to easily and effectively bring eBay products direct to the people that want them.Whether you want to more effectively monetize websites or blogs that you have already developedor target new niche markets with content-rich eBay affiliate stores, everything is in place for you to start now.

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