How To Make Money Online on eBay Selling a Bogus Product

Learn how to make money online with eBay using a method that no one would have dreamed of doing.

When you think of eBay, you think of selling your old television or dusty VCR that has been sitting in your closet for the last ten years. And it is true, thousands of people make money online selling on eBay. But that isn’t what I am going to show you here. It’s all about selling fake and bogus products, right? Well, not exactly… do read on!

I want to show you a really cool way to make money online using eBay. This method is probably unlike any method you have heard of before. And guess what? This method is hot! But before I get into the details, I want to talk to you about online advertising.

Let’s assume for a moment that you want to make money online selling web hosting accounts for HostGator.com. In case you don’t know, HostGator.com has an affiliate program that pays up to $125 per sale. As crazy as it sounds, their program is even free to join. HostGator is more than willing to pay you good money if you can make sales for them. But make no mistake, the business is cut throat and very competitive.

With that said, consider how much money it would cost to get a sponsored listing in Google for the search term, “Cheap Web Hosting“. Not sure about the cost? No problem, let me show you some screen shots. And by the way, you can kiss good bye the dream of ranking organically for this keyword phrase. It’s damn near impossible.

As you can see, this search term is super competitive in the organic ranks and packed full of sponsored links. Now, to answer your question about how much it would cost to have your own sponsored link on this page, check out the next screen shot.

According to Google AdWords Keyword Tool, the estimated average cost per click to have one top three sponsored link positions in Google for the search term, “cheap web hosting” is $11.17. Now, I don’t know how you feel about this, but, in my opinion, paying $11.17 per click is expensive and quite a bit risky. Now, with that said, take a look at the next screen shot.

The above screen shot is a capture of the final page prior to listing an auction on eBay. In all fairness, the cost of this auction should have been around $2.00, but for some reason, I was eligible to list my item for free. Now, I realize at this point I may have lost you here. Please bear with me.

So far, I have talked about HostGator.com’s affiliate program, how expensive sponsored links cost in Google, and how it would be impossible to rank organically for good keywords in Google. All this leads up to the conclusion that making money online with web hosting affiliate programs, such as HostGator’s, might be a challenge.

As you know, it takes traffic to generate money, and unfortunately, it takes a lot of money to generate the traffic needed to make money, thus why I said purchasing sponsored links in Google was, in my opinion, risky.

So, now at this point, you may be wondering, “What does eBay have to do with this?” and, “What does an auction for a .99c website template have to do with anything?”. Well, the answer is simple. Prior to explaining this, would you think I was nuts if I told you that I could potentially LOSE money if my item sold quickly? Think about it for a minute.

The reason why I could potentially lose money if my item sold quickly is because I really don’t have any interest in selling my item at all. The .99c website template that I am offering to sell is actually a decoy to keep my affiliate link alive.

I have paid $2.00 (or in my case, FREE!) to have my affiliate link exposed to a number of targeted people. The people that view my auction are fairly likely to purchase web hosting simply because we know they are already looking for website templates.

If I get only 1 click on my affiliate link, and fail to convert a sale, I still come out ahead $9.00. Remember, Google AdWords Advertisers are bidding over $11.00 dollars per click. I am paying $2.00 to potentially have my same link exposed to targeted traffic for 7 days!

As the subtitle suggests, this is how you can make money online with eBay using a method that no one would have dreamed of doing. This method will work for any kind of affiliate product in addition to selling web hosting. I hope you enjoyed this post, and by the way… if you want to purchase a really cheap Flower and Garden website template, click here. LOL!!!

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