Every marketing blog should have at least one shop. It's something very common on some blogs but bloggers seem to overlook this. Many people use affiliate programs which are a great way to promote products and to make money.

phpBay Pro plugin  The plugin that I bought to create online "shops" is called phpBay pro.  After studding other available plugins i came to the conclusion that this is by far the best and more complete way for creating pages to sell ebay products in a blog.    The installation of the phpBay Pro is a little different of the traditional Wordpress plugins because it has several files that is necessary install in different places.  The plugin however comes with complete instructions in PDF format.  I installed, I configured and I activated the plugin in less than 15 minutes.  So it's pretty easy are relativly fast.  

Before showing what I believe to be the best way to work with phpBay here are some advantages of using this plugin:  

• You can add ebay sales to posts or pages in your blog
• Allows you to work with eBay affiliate program of 17 different countries. If, by example, will choose eBay.co.uk, the prices go to appear in Pounds and the user will be sent to eBay.co.uk  
• Let's you choose the category of the products from eBay, lowest and highest prices and exclude products that contain certain words.
• Many options to config the shops layout. You'll be able to show sales in rows or columns (square), as well as choose colors.   
• Let's you integrate script in practically any blog and maintain a professional look  
• You can install the plugin on an unlimited number of sites compensating the script's cost
• The links can be "camouflaged" so that they don't look like affiliate links

For Search Engines (SEO)

 A really good aspect of this model of business is that your habitual readers dont' need to know that you have this "shop", can create these "shop" you can configure the plugin to show exclusively for search engine visitors.

What to sell?  The best option is selling products related to the niche o f the site or somehow connected to that niche. This will help the conversions, but mainly is going to help the "shop" pages to get beter a position on search engines.

I don't consider the script expensive due to it's potential, it is an investment that you can easely recover in one or 2 months without a great amount of work.

Feel free to visit the page: phpBay Pro - Ebay Affiliate Script