Sign Up As An Affiliate, Write Your Article And Submitting To Social Sites

Sign up as an affiliate
Here's how this is going to work. You're going to sign up as an eBay affiliate through AuctionAds. They give you $25 in credit just for signing up, and you'll get paid as soon as you make over $50. The payouts work like this. You promote eBay auctions on your site. Anyone who clicks through your link to eBay will have a cookie stored in their browser. If they're not an eBay member and they sign up, you get $25. If they're already a member and they buy anything on eBay within 7 days, you get half of what eBay makes on the sale.

The important thing is that they don't have to buy the product you are specifically promoting. So what you need to do is find a product that's just interesting or funny enough for readers to click through and look at. The group we're going to be marketing towards are pretty active on eBay, and when we send tens of thousands of people through your link, the cash just starts coming.

You're going to have to create accounts for yourself in several places. First of all, get signed up as an eBay affiliate.

Go to AuctionAds.com and sign up. Once you get approved, you should also create accounts for yourself at Digg and StumbleUpon. The article we're going to write is going to be submitted to both of those sites and with a little help, it will go viral and make you some cash.

Write your article
The main thing to think about when you're writing your article is that you don't want to sound like you're selling the item. Just write it from the perspective of "here's something weird that I found on eBay." An good tactic is to find something really off the wall with a good picture, and say just a little about it, so they have to click through to find out more. All you want them to do is click your link. We'll send enough people through, that many of them are bound to buy something on eBay within a week.

Once you've got your article written, head over to auction ads, and use their URL tool to make your link. Have several text links in your article using different anchor text to go to the same link, as well as having a picture of the item that is linked to it.

Submitting to social sites
Post the article on your blog, and you're ready to submit it to the viral sites. I recommend submitting it to StumbleUpon first. Submit the direct link to the article, not just the front page of the blog. With StumbleUpon, just go to your article page, and click on the Thumbs Up in your toolbar. It will bring up a window to review and tag the page. Make sure you use a relevant category, as this dictates the types of people the site will be shown to. You can head over to the Digital Point forums, where they have a Stumble Exchange. You can trade Stumbles with people and get your article more exposure.

Next you want to submit to Digg. Be very careful with the headline and description that you use. Read Digg for a few days to get the idea of what gets popular.

When you've submitted to Digg, head over to http://dealworx.com and buy yourself some Diggs.
Chances are your story won't get popular without a little help. This site uses an anonymous network of Diggers to help your story get popular. Spending $50 on 50 diggs will get it to the front page as long as it's a well written article that doesn't seem to be selling anything. This is a small investment considering that a front page on Digg will get your story about 50,000 hits.