| Many eBay auction sellers rely only on eBay for | | | | continuous stream of visitors to your site? |
| generating 100% of their online income. Many of | | | | Here comes the interesting part… |
| these people are running a successful auction | | | | The first method is to put a link to your site on your |
| business; however, they could do even better. They | | | | "about me" page and then link your auction ad to it. |
| are missing a huge opportunity to turbo-boost their | | | | This is allowed by eBay. Your auction visitors will be |
| business profits and reduce their listing fees at the | | | | directed first to your "about me" page, and then |
| same time. If you feel you are one of these people, | | | | driven to your website. A second way to gain traffic |
| these are the steps you should follow to optimize | | | | is advertising your business using a picture or logo on |
| your net auction business: | | | | your auction ad that includes your website's URL. By |
| 1.Create a website. If you can write an eBay ad, then | | | | doing this, you will be using eBay as a very cheap |
| you can design a website. It is not rocket science. | | | | way of advertising online. All your auction visitors will |
| You can download many free web templates from | | | | see the name of your site and will be invited to type |
| the internet and customize them easily with any | | | | your URL in their web browser. |
| HTML editor. If you type the words "free web | | | | To optimize the number of visitors to your auctions, |
| templates" in Google, for example, you will get more | | | | make sure to use popular words in your auction's |
| than one million results! | | | | title. |
| 2.Register a domain name and hire a web hosting | | | | Another easy technique is to write your site's name |
| service. These services start at about $40 per year, | | | | without the " or "www" in a paragraph of your eBay |
| depending on the web space and special services you | | | | ad. This should be done carefully. The paragraph |
| require. Once you have set up your hosting account, | | | | should not look like an ad for your site, but as a |
| you must publish your site. | | | | natural explanation. For example, let's say your |
| 3.Register an account in PayPal in order to allow online | | | | website is You could include a paragraph like this in |
| payments from your website. PayPal's payment | | | | your ad: |
| buttons and shopping cart options are easy to use | | | | "You can find more information regarding this product |
| and allow you to set up your site very quickly. | | | | at AuctionEarnings.com, as well as free articles and |
| 4.Use allowed strategies in your eBay auctions to | | | | free e-books that will contribute to increasing your |
| drive traffic to your website. You don't have to pay | | | | knowledge on your subject of interest." |
| listing fees and commissions for the sales that come | | | | Finally, and in my opinion, the most efficient way to |
| from your website, so your objective should be to | | | | gain massive traffic is to create an information |
| use eBay only to generate traffic and monetize your | | | | product and give it away on eBay. Sell it for one |
| sales from your own website. | | | | penny and send an email to your customers with a |
| But everybody knows that eBay does not allow | | | | link to your download page. |
| placing outbound links in the auction ads, so how can | | | | Attention - very important! |
| you turn the massive eBay daily traffic into a | | | | |