Online Earnings For September

I’ve been looking forward to making this post.  This is my first month getting semi-serious with affiliate marketing and making money online.  I’m happy with what I’ve made in September with affiliate marketing and am hoping to at least double my earnings in October.

Here’s the breakdown for September:

CJ……………. $ 2.45
Clickbank…… $44.36
EPN………….. $56.17 (ebay partner network)

For a whooping total of $102.98!  I’m also going to throw into this my first sale on EPN on Aug 23rd, $46.00.  I made a grand total of $148.98 with three new websites.

Ebay pays affiliates 50% of their profit for driving traffic to ebay’s site.  You can imagine how much money a site with a lot of traffic could generate.

I used two different types of software to pull ebay auctions to my site.

BayRSS is a wordpress plugin for listing ebay auctions on your site. BayRSS also pulls Amazon products. I use BayRSS everyday on my blogs. It’s very easy to use and only $37. PhpBay Pro is a similar product and retails for $79.

BayRSS features include:
Easy auction insertion one little tag does it - nms:keyword,shownumitem,minbid,minprice,customid
Current auctions are always up even on old posts
Free upgrades for life
Link cloaks - no visible outgoing links to ebay (good for SEO)
Unlimited license so you can use BayRSS on all your blogs
100% 60 day money back guarantee
Revenue sharing (so you can split your revenue with guest bloggers if you choose to)
Rich keyword inner links
Supports stores for USA, UK, Australia and Canada

My second software program I earned money with EPN is a BANS site. I really like BANS (Build a Niche Site), it’s easy to set up a store and in about 10 minutes your store could be up and running.

BANS Features:
Easy store set up
Great support with an active forum

Here’s a sample store (not mine).

I think BANS is easy to install and if you run into any problems, the BANS forums are very active and you can find help there.

What’s my favorite EPN RSS software? I’m very familiar with wordpress so hands down my favorite is Wordpress with BayRSS. Google LOVES Wordpress and so do I.  While I like the ease of setting up a BANS site, I’m a little leary about Google sandboxing BANS sites. I have had a .com in the sandbox for over a month (if it had not disappeared from Google, I’m sure my EPN earnings would have been doubled for the month) and the BANS site has plenty of content pages but it still got sandboxed.  After getting sandboxed by Google I added a Wordpress powered blog to the site, I make weekly postings, have been busy building backlinks to “do follow” blogs, and I’m still waiting to get out of timeout. I’m hoping to get out soon so I can make some more money!

If you do a little searching around you will find a developer that has managed to integrate Wordpress and BANS together using Wordpress themes. Wordpress in the root and BANS in a new directory. Here’s a tutorial.

What I’m doing with BayRSS is almost the same sort of thing as integrating BANS and Wordpress but probably a little more work. I set up my store with wordpress pages, I use the pages like a store page in a BANS store. I then make my posts as usual and at the end of every other post or so I add a 3-5 ebay auction links related to my post like you see below.

Haa! I can’t think of anything on ebay relevant to my post! Here’s something I’ve been wanting a long time but can’t afford! A Coach bag!

The code I used is below with [brakets] on the ends.

nms:keyword,shownumitem,minbid,minprice,customid

I changed the code to:
nms:coach handbag,3,5,80,customid

added brackets and up popped these gorgeous bags! How easy is that?

US $88.99 (5 Bids) End Date: Tuesday Jan-06-2009 13:54:08 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

US $102.50 (17 Bids) End Date: Tuesday Jan-06-2009 14:06:49 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

US $140.00 (15 Bids) End Date: Tuesday Jan-06-2009 14:08:18 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

If you’d like to try making money with the ebay partner network (EPN), research your niche, get a good domain name - stick with .com’s, get yourself some webhosting and one of the great products listed above and you’ll be off and running and making money online!

I recommend Bluehost Web Hosting, they give you a free domain, host unlimited domains and unlimited space with just one account. They offer great 24/7 support too.

Go check out John Chow’s blog, he made $38,030.97 in September!  Wow that’s a lot of money! 

Total Blog Income for September 2008 - $38,030.57

September 2008 goes down as the blog’s second biggest income month. The blog did break $40K back in June but that was due to a $10,000 blog post. If that post was not taken into account, September 2008 would be the biggest month ever. Here’s the income breakdown.

• Blog Income Report - September 2008