Content for eBay Affiliate Sites

I got a question through my contact form a few days ago. The person wants to be called as CC and here is what she asked:

Your website has some great I feel practical making money online advice without hype. that is great. Anyway my question is I want to purchase PHP Pro through your affiliate link, but i do not have time to write on the blogs i will get made for the articles. how would i add articles to the ebay partner affiliate blogs. If i say sell fans, maybe there are no articles on fans. Do I usee rss feeds exclusively for my blog articles, or hire someone to write for my ebay partners blogs? what do you do on your blogs for ebay? Thanks.

In other words, CC wants to make money from eBay Partner Network (EPN) but does not have anything interesting to share due to less time. I would recommend CC not to waste her time on creating an eBay Affiliate Site. Why? Because CC's website will get banned by Google and EPN very soon. All her work will be wasted when she sees that she will get no money from eBay nor is her site listed on Google.

Google will ONLY list sites which add value to their visitors. Imagine you visiting a huge electronic shop and following a path that says follow the arrow for iPods. You follow the arrows and at the end of the path you see that there are no iPods. Same is with Google. Google does not want its visitors to go in circles looking for something. If CC starts a website with nothing but EPN links all over, she is not adding any value to the Internet and nor to her site visitors. The site will be just another gateway to eBay. Google cannot afford to waste time and money on such sites which provide no value to the Internet. Thus, such sites get banned from Google very quickly.

Also, EPN is strict with the pages or websites where its links are placed. The pages need to have some information on the product before listing it. Websites with just EPN links will get banned soon by EPN as well.

So what can CC do? CC will have to figure out what she knows and is interested in. Prepare a list of things you can talk about, it can be anything...your favorite TV Show, Your Favorite Artist...anything. Once you filter that, try and figure out what products related to your thing are sold..for e.g. DVDs of your favorite show, Posters of your favorite artist, new models of cell phones etc. The options are unlimited. I believe that every person can write on a topic so don't ever say or think that you don't have anything to write. If you still think that you cannot write on anything then go watch a movie or read a book and write its review. Read another book or watch another movie by same author/director and review it again...Sell that book or Movie CDs, DVDs, Posters, T-Shirts and other accessories using EPN links. Its easy, thinking extra hard makes it difficult for us.

CC also says that she does not have time. I spend around 12-13 hours at my work which includes traveling. Still, I manage to update at least 3-4 posts on my 4 blogs weekly. Its all about focus and dedication. Yes, CC can also hire someone to write good articles for her. Using rss feeds from other websites can be good but as an additional content. RSS feeds from other sites should never be used as the only content on your site as such sites have high risk of getting banned by search engines.

The bottom line is to develop nice content about something you know or are interested in or get it written from somone else. Once you have good 8-10 pages content, then list down products which relate to your content. Planning to list products first and then falling short on content will not make you money.