Affiliate marketers everywhere are reeling from the recent eBay Quality Click Pricing email we all received this week.  I was stunned to say the least.  It’s not that I was making tons a money or a living off of eBay since they moved to their own affiliate program from Commission Junction.  I make anywhere from $10 to $40 a month with the program.  I post their RSS feeds into my Squidoo pages, and I have one website with products that I use exclusively for eBay because of their price points.

Let’s face it, eBay sells used items most of the time, and in this economic downturn where almost everyone is out of a job, people turn to deals.  The thing that I am not really getting about eBay’s Quality Click Pricing is why???

The truth is that I have stopped trying to figure out the magic formula to making money with affiliate programs.  I was dumbfounded and totally silenced into humiliation by one major company when I found that my stats had ballooned to over 30,000 in 15 days, and I made a whopping 3 sales for a little over $3.00 in commissions.  It was not eBay, but mind you, if they are going CPC on me, I will be changing up many of my links very shortly.

That being said, it might be wise to start really optimizing your websites to get the best click through rate possible. You have to be flexible as an affiliate marketer, and go where the money is.

I would start doing many of the same things to draw traffic as with Google Adsense.  I would look for popular products, and optimize your page accordingly.  If you use Wordpress blogs, set one up for a certain niche, and let it go.  Draw quality traffic by using very targeted long tailed keywords.

You might be surprised and find that it is easier to generate a decent income with eBay now that they have changed the game once again.  I like challenges, what about you?

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