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Someone just wrote me and asked “what’s the point of ebay monster?” - My first reaction was: DON’T YOU SEE IT?
Then I realized that maybe some of you don’t. It’s all about the long tail keywords really… but let’s put this into a ROI perspective.
Taking a few minutes to run Ebay Monster (lite or full) could put thousands of pages on your blogs. Sure by the time you get visitors the ‘auction’ they are looking at is gone - but once they click through to ebay - guess what?
They are going to keep looking.
I’ve been using this for a few weeks now - and even new blogs are making a few cents a day. It’s enough that I don’t have to be all commercial all over the place. I make a category - put in the related products from ebay and move on.
(hint - want to be really sneaky? There are a few plug ins for wordpress that let you exclude categories from showing up on the front page. So you have a blog that appears 100 percent white hat - with a few thousand extra ‘product’ pages. — do a google search for “exclude pages plug in”.)
Ninja Swords <— That’s a great example of how great this works. He didn’t flood his blog with thousands of pages - and just added some great relevant content Ninja Sword content that his visitors ARE interested in.
(greg - assuming you don’t mind the link since you referenced it in the comments)
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Hi, I believe this type of thing will get you banned from using the ebay affiliate network eventually as they are not a fan of thin affiliate sites. Further to this, Google will not value this type of site in the long run so if you are using this to gain links to more whitehat money sites, the link value will be shortlived.
If you’re plan is for short term income, then eBay Monster *may* be a good option but for long term, I would not count on it - therefore building these sites are a waste of time.
However, I may be wrong, if I am please feel free to add your thoughts.
-Dan