How To Make Money On eBay Without Selling A Thing

Did you know you can make an income from eBay without even buying or selling a single item? The eBay affiliate program is an easy way to make money by simply driving traffic to eBay.

When you refer a customer to eBay, they pay you a percentage of the revenue they receive from that customer's purchases. Not only that, they will also pay you a minimum of $12 (correct at time of writing) for every new eBay active user that you refer.

Commissions are tracked and payments made to you by Commission Junction so you can receive your monthly affiliate payment direct in to your bank account.

There are several ways to make an income as an eBay affiliate but first you will need to visit eBay's affiliate page to join the affiliate program with Commission Junction. You might want to sign up for several countries. I personally have found that eBay.com and eBay.co.uk have been very good programs to promote.

eBay offer several tools to help you create content for your website. With their 'Editor Kit' you can build your own custom banner ads in seconds.

Another way to earn income from your website or blog is to add 'inline links' in the text of your pages. An inline link is, quite simply, a word that links to an eBay search for that word. So you might replace all instances of the word 'shoes' with your affiliate link and your visitor will see a search for 'shoes' at eBay. If they go on to buy some shoes, a percentage of the eBay fees the seller paid will find its way to your bank account! In fact, you receive commissions on anything they buy for the next seven days, provided they don't visit eBay through someone else's affiliate link during that time. Inline links look 'natural' and don't interrupt the reader so they are very likely to click the links as long as they are relevant to the subject of the text.