Shoemoney’s belowabuck.com website
by TonyShoemoney made a new blog post about his belowabuck.com website. After reading it, I was a bit disappointed but at the same time I think he is pretty smart and brave enough to blog about such a site.
Let me go ahead and break it down from affiliate marketing’s standpoint.
Do you really think he makes money from promoting items under a dollar? Don’t be a fool. Ebay pays 50% commission on the fee seller pays ebay. For something under a dollar, you are looking to earn maybe 2 to 5 cents per sale on the item.
Why would he start such a site with so little of profit? Reason is easy. He is using the site as a lure to lure people click through the link, register his affiliate cookies in people’s browser, and whenever people make any purchase on ebay, he makes commission off those purchases.
This trick would only work with ebay simply because there is a LOT of people shop on ebay every single day, I would say probably 6 out of 10 American shop on ebay. This site is only used as lure, the whole point is to register that affiliate cookie and make commission off other purchases.
Why I am disappointed? He should have kept it himself, because he is not the only person doing the trick.
You can see his post here
http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/10/16/below-a-buck-items-on-ebay-for-under-1/
You are exactly correct
I hear you pal. I mean, I was looking at my favorite TV show yesterday and guess what? They showed some commercials! I can’t believe they are trying to fool us into buying some products damn it! I wish they’d rather work for free and leave the commercials aside!
Lighten up dude. Shoemoney spent some time developing this website, pays for the domain name and hosting and some people benefit from visiting belowabuck.com. Now that may not represent that much expenses for one website. But once you got like 10 websites guess what? You’d be working full time… for free! And you’d now have to pay for more web hosting, domain names, etc…
Let’s see… you say your blog’s about marketing (and seo and random junk). What good marketing tips and experience have you got up your sleeve?
Way to crack the case wide open, Sherlock. Who would have thought that someone that’s famous for making money online, would be involved with something like… well… making money online?
Tony, Possibly. Or rather than a conspiracy this could be a classic example of the Long Tail. Lots of little sales add up quickly for a marketer like Shoemoney.
“I would say probably 6 out of 10 American shop on ebay.”
I would say that you are WAY off.
Sherlock, I forgot to ask:
Was it your thorough detective work that tipped you off, or was it the part of Shoemoney’s post that said, “Obviously the monetization strategy is using the eBay affiliate program.”
Even if it was the latter, thumbs-up for cracking the encryption on that secret code he tried to sneak in there. I don’t think anyone would have linked that super-vague statement to the use of an affiliate program.
Why would you be dissapointed that he’s giving people ideas on how to make money?? Unless you wanted to keep the “secret” yourself, you wouldn’t be.
Wow, you’re retarded.
Your a genius!
How did you get so smart?
Hard to believe this blog has no readers…
Are you an idiot? He is not the only person doing the trick? It’s not a trick, it’s an affiliate web site. He isn’t tricking anyone. The visitors are using the site because it’s a neat tool. It doesn’t cost them anything???
How is it possible that Shoemoney makes any affiliate commission or commission from cookies when most of the people bidding on those it=
ems will already have ebay accounts?
regards,
Charles
Here are my posts about affiliate marketing.
http://www.netpaths.net/blog/category/affiliate/
You are clearly a better affiliate marketer than most, as your post made it on shoemoney.com. For your next post I recommend outing johnchow.com for making money online.
True indeed. I do the same thing with Amazon.com!
It’s called an affiliate program. How in the world is this “a trick”?
Read part II and find out… why I consider it a trick
This in other words means its Shoemoney’s another website/blog which he advertised on his main blog.
lol you have caught him red handed. It is kind of disapointing, but hey it is pretty smart.
He’s not the only person using the eBay affiliate program? Serious?
Dude, it’s called marketing
Why wouldn’t he promote anything and everything of his implicitly or explicitly on any of his sites. He’s not scamming anyone with it, so it’s all fair play.
You just get to blog about it and that’s it, he gets to profit from it, and these mentions.
DUH
nice job in getting to the bottom of it BUT the whole point is to flip $$ so is it really a suprise?
….and WHY is this a bad thing exactly?
Linkbait or what!!
Tony,
If Shoe put a big ad up on the site, saying hey, I want to set my affiliate cookies etc so i get commissions on everything you buy thru ebay, I GUARANTEE you every man and his dog would be TRASHING those cookies without a second thought (or using the relevant Firefox plugin to suppress).
And most of them are here right now posting comments. The classic thing is tho - he’s not doing anything wrong or illegal (or original for that matter), and it doesn’t cost the end user either.
The real point - he’s making money.. more power to him.
PS: The next time you pass through a public proxy, take a closer look
Wow, shoemoney sends his pack of newbies to post junk here and defend their idol.
That ugly bald guy is so lame.
I smell link bait :).
That’s some funny sh*t right there…
God forbid anyone tries to make a buck (or under) online LOL!!
I wouldn’t be a millionaire without tactics like this. MUHAHAHA
This is funny how some people laugh at the author of this article, but bet some of them didn’t even know how it really worked behind the scene.
Even if this is a linkbait or whatever this information is still useful and even Shoemoney is known for posts more ridiculous than this one.
By the way, where is the part II ?
Could you please post more technical information about the kind of cookies that blowabuck.com uses to make them permanent?