Martin Lee Affiliate Marketing

One way of monetizating your website is by becoming an eBay affiliate. In the past, this was only available to people from the US so I couldn’t really test it out on my sites. But wait a minute, isn’t eBay super saturated? Is there money to be made by even promoting their programs?

Basically, you promote eBay by putting up eBay listings on your website. You get paid on every new user you refer to eBay and/or if that person makes a winning bid. They have a tiered program so the more referrals you can give them, the higher your payouts will be.

The two tables below shows how the Ebay affiliate program payout looks like:

Monthly New Active Users (ACRUs)
Total ACRUs recruited Compensation per ACRU 1 - 49 $25.00 USD 50 - 1,999 $28.00 USD 2,000 - 29,999 $31.00 USD 30,000+ $35.00 USD

For the average affiliate, he will probably earn US$25 per new ebay user. You might wonder whether anyone can ever hit the 30,000 mark. You bet. According to eBay, “The eBay affiliate program has paid on average over $1 million a year to our top 50 partners!”

Before you go and signup as an eBay affiliate, hold on for a while.

About four months ago, shoemoney launched an affiliate network, AuctionAds, which is a spinoff from the eBay affiliate program. What AuctionAds does is that it gets everyone to signup to their network and promote eBay advertisements which will be credited to ONE eBay affiliate account.

Here’s how a typical auctionads advertisement look like:

By pooling together the traffic, everyone will be able to earn the commission rates at the highest tier. These money will then be paid out to the individual publishers. Not a bad idea.

Another good thing about it is that as it is not a contextual advertisement, it can be run alongside Google Adsense. So, I will be testing it out and see how it performs.

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