So just what exactly is an eBay affiliate program you may be asking? Well, actually it's fairly simple. If you send anyone to eBay from your website or link, and they sign up or buy anything, you make commissions.

Ebay provides a somewhat brief tutorial and great tools devoted to helping you set up your links and/or RSS feeds to design into your website. If you become a member of the most innovative and successful affiliate program on the Web and drive your traffic to eBay, you will earn 50 commission on eBay's revenue from every sale made from that customer and $25 to $35 commissions per each new active member that signs up.

Now don't confuse this with making a percentage of the total sale. You are only making commissions on what EBAY makes in profits from the sale. For instance, say you send someone to eBay from your website. They sign up as a new member, and then bid on a product that is $100 and win. Then let's suppose eBay's profit from this sale is $10. You would make a portion (most often 50) of that profit amount.

In the end you would make $25 from the sign up, plus a possible $7.50(75%) commission off the sale, for a total of $32.50 (these are ONLY estimated amounts given as example ONLY.) Not too bad considering your are now an eBay business, with no inventory, no shipping, no dropshipping, and no having to deal with customer satisfaction. You are making profits from everyone else's hard work. It's so easy it almost seems unfair.

This is what Ebay recommends:Getting traffic to your page is another way to increase your earnings. To get more visitors, you may think about a paid search campaign for your site (please have a look at our paid search pages!), but natural search tips can also help you for free! Here are some natural search tips:

Do:

1. Create unique content!

2. Repeat relevant keywords throughout your pages

3. Refresh content regularly! Robots and users like new content

4. Use title tags – page titles; 6-10 words of relevant keywords found throughout the page

5. Use short named URL and file names to enable search engines to crawl your site

6. Utilize your error pages to redirect users that are "lost"

7. Increase the relevance of your links: use "Go to eBay!" instead of "Click here!"

8. Ask other relevant websites to point to your site

9. Submit your site to the engines: let search engines know about you!

10. Utilize competitive research to learn more about online marketing direct from the competition

Don't:

1. Make use of frames: they are often too complex for crawlers to index

2. Use too many search-box navigation or drop down menus:crawlers are incapable of following them

3. Display hidden / invisible text: it is often looked at as "cheating" by search engines user referral Take advantage of eBay's brand

With just a little effort, you can earn a lot of money in the eBay Affiliate Program. All you have to do is drive traffic to eBay. This can be done by creating your own store, which is mostly for advanced users that can insert eBay's RSS feeds and code from the editor kit into your website code. Or you can find a company that will set up a personal website for you with the code already included.

Either way, you are very likely to find yourself seeing results in a very short period of time. This is because, if done intelligently and correctly, your website will have solid products with strong, unique content that is constantly updating itself and changing, which the search engines just LOVE. And this means your website will be getting really nice, natural traffic for good niches and keywords.