US Free Ads and your Niche Stores

I am a big fan of US Free Ads. Let me say first, they are nofollow, but if written correctly your ad can sore to page 1 of Google for a long tail keyword. Instead of hashing other info out there, I thought I would share this tutorial in tips. I really suggest you make your ads as eye pleasing aspossible and suggest you use the html function to really build a nice ad. Ad pictures if at all possible and lots of keyword driven ad wording as well. US Free ads is really worth the monthly fee.

Back to building niche stores

After about a week or so of doing some BANS tutoring and building a few custom BANS niche store templates, I am getting back to business of building some new niche stores. I highly suggest you register a domain for use of experimenting with new templates. It makes it very easy to tweak some of the templates for niche store use. I also may mention that you may want to brush up on your css codes as well. I will share a must have bookmark with lots of great resources for webmasters. There are a ton of useful sites here that will help with your niche store customization.

EPN Ebay rss feeds affecting Build A Niche Stores

By now you may or may not have seen some of your Build A niche stores may have been throwing an error on store pages that normally show products. You are not alone, as it seems to be everyone. It is because eBay EPN is working on the rss feeds they use and it has been buggy all afternoon. The problem is not with your BANS software. feel free to stop by the BANS forums, where all of the niche store builder type hang out to discuss items such as this.

Tags explained and how they help in SEO

I thought I would make this post about clarifying what some of the tags do in relation to search engine optimization for your Build A Niche Stores. There is a great article here on a breakdown of everything and it is a very good read.

Ebay EPN tracking well with BANS Build A Niche Stores

OK, all panic should be over as it appears that the Build A Niche Store (BANS) updates with the new eBay EPN program are tracking well and converting. The great thing is that it even reports bids as well as other things.

If you are seeing clicks in your report panel, then all should be good to go as it is tracking. One thing to keep in mind is that if you have repeat visitors to your Niche Stores, they may still be locked into that 7 day cookie through Commission Junction (CJ). All of the current BANS updates seem to be working fine with a few minor bugs unrelated to tracking. I highly suggest you back up your databases if you are unsure with the update process to the new eBay EPN affiliate program. Things should only get better from here forward.

One double check is to turn off your url cloaking and hover over an item, you should see the web address down in the bottom. Look for your campaign ID in the url. The beginning part of the url for US users should look like below.

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?campid=1234567890&customid

ETA: Several other BANS blogs are scaring people into holding off updating, I for one say it is safe to go into the water. Make sure to read the readme file in each update as it was a breeze on my end.

The Magic of Thinking Big with your Build A Niche Store

Now that we are past the EPN eBay update for Build A Niche Store. I wanted to turn you on to one of my favorite books that I think should be in every BANS owners library. The Book is called "The Magic of Thinking Big".

There is so much negative in this world that you have top constantly equal it out with positive thinking or as some call PMA (positive mental attitude). This book does the trick and should be read and re-read at least 4 times a year. Let me tell you that BANS works, but it is up to you to work it. This book will help release some bigger thoughts in your head and will translate into bottom line profits for you as well.

Now go get this book.

New eBay EPN Build A Niche Store BANS Update is ready

Greetings and good news!!! The new update for the eBay EPN is ready for Build A Niche Stores or BANS. These are available for all versions including 3.0, 2.0 and 1.3 and 1.2. Below is the email:

Hi All,

We're happy to say that the four versions of BANS - 1.2, 1.3 (whichincludes 1.3.1), 2.0 and 3.0 - that we had planned to update to work with the new in-house eBay affiliate platform are ready for you to download.

You will need to go to the appropriate download area:

PLEASE NOTE: eBay.in is setup to work with the new platform but eBay have yet to update the RSS feed for this country. As soon as eBay update their RSS feed for eBay.in everything is already in place to work correctly. If you are building eBay.in stores then please place the update of your stores on hold until we inform you that the eBay.in RSS feed is active.

1. For all ClickBank purchasers (95% of BANS users) please enter your ClickBank receipt number to access the download area (using the "send receipt number to your email" if you do not have it) at the following url:

http://buildanichestore.com/update/

2. For those special offer purchasers through either Jim Cockrum or Lynn Terry please enter your PayPal email address to access the download area at the following url:

http://buildanichestore.com/paypal/

PLEASE NOTE: If you have any problems accessing or downloading the updated versions of BANS please submit a support ticket to our download support center found here with your full name so that we can answer your query:

http://buildanichestore.com/download/

Inside each of the download areas you will see 2 download links for each of the four updated BANS versions - a full download and an update pack, all of which contain the reference "EPN" which signifies that they are the new versions.

For all future stores that you build you will need to use the full download (which also includes the modified manuals).

To update your existing stores you will need to use the appropriate update pack for the version of BANS that your store was built with. Inside the update pack you will see a "Read Me" file which will walk you through updating your store(s).

You have until May 1st to complete your updates as after that date your current links will no longer be effective.

To assist in this migration we have set up a new forum section called "eBay Affiliate Migration" which has four sub-sections which correspond to the four updated versions of BANS - 1.2, 1.3 (which includes 1.3.1), 2.0 and 3.0.

For any problems or questions relating to updating your existing stores with the new files please post in the appropriate forum.

Kelvin and Adam