phpBay Pro - eBay auctions on your website.
There is a big money making technique being used at the moment where auction ads are pulled from eBay and displayed on niche websites, most of which are designed specifically to look like a shop. There are lots of products on eBay that people would not necessarily associate with eBay, so in this situation people do a web search for the product and look for shops selling what they want to buy. If the shop leads them to eBay they are not worried because they are happy they have found the product they needed.
The system works by adding a 7 day cookie to the person computer who clicked on any of the auction items in you site, so if anyone uses that computer to purchase anything off eBay within the 7 days you get commission from it. Also if someone registers with eBay and makes a bid you get a nice sign up bonus.
To get up and running you need to do the following:
- Create a new website using PHP, or make some space on a current PHP based website or blog.
- Purchase the phpBay Pro software from wiredstudios.com
- Using the simple instructions add auction adverts to your site.
- Sign up with Commission Junction
- Apply (Via Commission Junction) to be an eBay affiliate, pick what ever country you wish to target.
- Once accepted get your PID from Commission Junction and add it to the ebay.php file (which comes with phpBay Pro).
- After a while you should see clicks in your Commission Junction stats, followed by money.
- For a US eBay affiliate you get about 50% of ebay’s fees as commission, plus you get a nice $25 bonus for anyone who signs up with eBay and makes a bid.
The other bonus of using phpBay Pro is the feeds from eBay count as content for your site, so the search engines really love it.
I have been reading this blog for a while now, and I thought it would be proper to leave a note of appreciation here.
Many Thanks,
Jim Mirkalami
Thanks Jim, good to know i have some readers.
Is this like BANS?
Yes, but in my opinion far better.
I have not yet tried the BANS software, but had to make a decision to get BANS or phpBay Pro and I went with the phpBay Pro.
It seems pretty easy to use (just started a site) and hopefully will make me some commissions.
Have you made any money with this software?
I would have to agree with Mad, it’s way better then BANS.
Yeah, not enough to give up my job, but enough to pay for hosting for all my other sites.
I’ve been debating whether to go with BANS or phpbay also - I just about 5 positive reviews on phpbay, and to me the BANS method wont last long, so I think I’m going to try phpbay