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How to Show eBay Auctions in Wordpress - The Quick and Easy Way with phpBay Pro

By admin | June 18, 2008

How to show eBay auctions in Wordpress is the subject of many emails that I receive from my clients. Most of my users are non-technical. They start researching this subject and quickly see “scary” words like API, RSS and XML.

Instantly they hit a mental block, and dismiss it as too difficult.

I am telling you here today that there is a SIMPLE way. It does not require you hiring a propellor-head, techie type, nerd boy, computer expert.

The solution is called - phpBay Pro.

It is quite simply the best solution I have ever seen for easily displaying auctions on your WP blog.

The software presents itself as a WP plugin. The installation is trivial even for a non-technical person. If you know how to use your FTP software, and you know how to install a WP plugin then you already have all the skills you need to successfully get this running.

The documentation bundled with the script is very comprehensive, and also includes some instructional videos that have been put together by Wade (the software author).

There is also a very active phpBay private community forum where many of the users get together on a daily basis to exchange ideas on different ways to use phpBay, and to maximise the profits from using it. Wade is always around as well, and fixes any problems you may have very quickly. I swear the guy does not sleep.

What I love about this script is that you can integrate it completely into your own theme very easily. The other solutions that I have tried (including the popular BANS script) forces you into using a very generic type theme, and most BANS stores all look very similar. I am sure it would be very easy for Google to detect these cookie-cutter type site footprints, and to reduce their rankings in the search engines.

phpBay works completely differently. Its not possible for any of the search engines to detect that your site is using an eBay script as it leaves no footprint at all.

Using phpBay Pro, all it takes to display auction listings is to add a single line of text into your post, or your page, wherever you want the auctions to show.

Here is an example of a phpBay command that will display a nicely formatted block of 12 auctions of used golf balls on your post - [phpbay]used golf balls,12,”",”"[/phpbay]

Thats all there is to it. No worrying about RSS feeds. No fighting with your WP theme files.

The above example is a very simple one, and as you learn more about phpBay Pro you will make use of many of the other more advanced features that the script offers.

If you are interested in making some money on the internet then all you need to do is -

  1. Sign up for eBays Affiliate program here.
  2. Buy yourself a copy of phpBay Pro here.
  3. Build yourself a few niche stores.

I paid $49 for an UNLIMITED license. This means that you can use the script to build as many sites as you like. It also includes a lifetime of free upgrades.

My software paid for itself within 5 days of putting my very first site online.

Now you know how to show eBay auctions in Wordpress quickly and easily.

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