Did you know that the Ebay affiliate program will spit out feeds for you to use in your marketing?

It let’s you build nifty things like Ebay Monster 2

You are welcome to use it of course, but that’s not why I was writing.

Rss Rebound has a hard time importing Ebay Rss Items… and it’s not really the best way to promote an ebay product through rss anyway.

It’s one of the reasons I never made a modual for rss rebound to work with ebay.

Here is the absolute best way to use Rss Rebound and ebay.

Step 1:

Create a blog. Do it for a specific type of product. In my example I’ll use Toasters.

Step 2:

Make 20 posts in your blog about toasters and link through on every one to your ebay affiliate link. Just searching on ebay will give you an idea what people are searching for there in regards to toasters.

You can even make widgets inside the ebay program that show images and other fun stuff. You don’t need to be a content wiz.

Chances are just the descriptions of the toasters you find in Ebay along with just a few words of your own will be enough for this to work for you.

Grab a few reprint rights articles as well and change the titles and add a paragraph or so.

Step 2.5:

Yes a half step! Create another category on your blog, and post a few more posts with images of toasters. Make sure you use alt tags, etc..  These images can really add up to a lot of traffic (maybe not so much with toasters but you get the idea).

Step 3:

Import that rss feed your blog created and add it to rss rebound under it’s own category.

Your blog has a number of feeds available to it. For example if you create 2 categories (toasters and toaster images) you have three feeds. Each category and the main site all have their own feed.

- toastersite.com/feed
- toastersite.com/category/feed <– kinda like that but category is really your category name.

Step 4: Import some other items on toasters with rss rebound…. make sure you use the keyword links and link to those 20 posts you’ve made.

Step 5:

Promote the feed that rss rebound creates AND the feed for the blog.

You are going to be promoting every feed for your blog, and of course the feed you just created with rss rebound.

It won’t take long to create those 20 posts (or even 10). It won’t take long to add to rss rebound. It won’t take long to promote the feeds.

However, you will get a constant stream of new links coming to your toaster site. You will have unique content even if you don’t try hard since you are making the 20 posts about the toasters available on ebay.

Enjoy, and I while this is a simple concept, it’s a pretty powerful strategy that will work great on it’s own, or combined with other marketing methods can propel a site into some serious income.

RSS  Rebound:

Rss Rebound is currently free.  For years it sold at up to $147 a copy.  It’s been updated and your copy is on me.