Affiliate links on eBay? Oh Yeah!!
by Jim Cockrum
Affiliate marketing is very popular, but many people
make a basic mistake that costs them hundreds or even
thousands. Most of the time when you have an affiliate link you are
trying to promote it is a long ugly link. Typically they
look like this: www.Widget-Site-You-Are-Promoting.com/blah/blah/YourAffiliateID ...long and ugly. Wouldn't it be better if your affiliate link looked
like this: www.BestWidgets.com It's easy to do and you don't need a website - just a
domain name. The best way I've found to mask links is to buy an
inexpensive domain name from godaddy.com or any other
cheap domain provider. You can then use domain
forwarding to point your new domain name at your
affiliate link. You can get hundreds of affiliate links
free from places like cj.com or clickbank.com. I've got a video that shows you step by step how to do
this that I just posted on the resource page for all
readers of my book "The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on
eBay". Who gets access to the resource page? Anyone who buys (or has ever bought) my best seller at: www.SilentSalesMachine.com ***The link to the resource page can be found in the book,
Silent Sales Machine, directly after the table of contents*** Once you have your "pretty" affiliate link you need to
get traffic in order to make affiliate commissions. One
great way to get traffic is your eBay auctions! You can't insert your affiliate link DIRECTLY into your
auctions, but there are some "stealth" tactics you can
use that don't violate eBay policy! One of my favorite
is to set up an email address through godaddy.com and
make that the email address that you use in your
auctions! For example, if I mention the email address
"Jim@BestWidgets.com" in my eBay auctions I'm going
to get good targeted traffic to my BestWidgets.com site
from curious shoppers interested in Widgets! I can also take it a step further and set up an email
autoresponder that replies to everyone who sends an
email to "Jim@BestWidgets.com" with an automated
answer AND an invitation to join my newsletter. Here's what I now have:
-Cheap or free targeted traffic
-A beautiful affiliate link earning affiliate
commissions
-A growing a targeted mailing list
-NO website required
TIP: Currently there is no policy on eBay U.S. that
prohibits the use of links within your classified ad. In that case
just put your link right in the ad itself! Isn't eBay beautiful?!
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