Time To Freshen Up Stale Sites & Perform Some Niche Site Spring Cleaning

Spring is here and now is the time of year when I like to take inventory of my sites that might be lacking freshness as far outdated products and models go. Now of course if you are in the cellphone or smartphone niche, this could be a constant ongoing process, but not all niches are that fast moving.

Usually I will start by going to Amazon and taking notice of any new items that might be best sellers and work backwards from there. I firmly believe older models, depending on the niche, have their place as well as most end up on eBay. That of course is right up my alley as well.

Depending on where I am in my other content creation, I may or may not decide to farm out the product info writing to my writers. Over the years I have found that I can use my time more wisely by paying them to research and write these. There are some niches though that I enjoy more than others and will sometimes tackle that content myself. It just depends site to site.

The best thing about adding new products is the appearance that the site is being updated in the eyes of both the surfer and the search engines. If the site has any age to it and a little authority, these pages can rank almost instantly and reward you in organic and search traffic much quicker than say a brand new site.

Not every niche is a winner as I hit duds like everyone else from time to time. Start with your best producing sites and work backwards. It will take some time, but usually well worth the time to do. While your at it, have a look around at any updates or errors you might need to take care of and treat the site like you are giving it a Spring cleaning.

WP Syndicator v1.4 Update Released

WPSyndicator Launches on Friday 13th August 2010

EDITORS NOTE: I did not realize that he is not releasing this plugin until August 13th to the public. I was fortunate enough to get it in the early beta testing stages and assumed it was now available to everyone through the affiliate program. Make sure to check back Friday and sorry for the confusion as I have received several emails from readers wanting to buy this, but can't yet.

The WP Syndicator version 1.4 update has now been released and tons of fixes have been made along with a few suggestions implemented. One of the biggest issues was inability to use certain Blogger blogs listed under one account. That has now been fixed and you can now choose which blog you want it posted to, now matter how many you have under one account. This is a huge fix. If you are using either the WP Robot Plugin or the Keyword To Websites Wordpress plugin as an autoblog or moderated autoblog, you might want to really consider the WPSyndicator plugin. If you are building a legitimate, 100% original content blog, you REALLY could use this to garner some traffic as well as links. Below are all of the features and fixes in the latest release.

Features - Auto blog compatibility mode - If you're using an autoblog solution that includes lots of [something=123] in the posts and need them stripped out of your syndication, just go to the config screen and check the box.

Blogger blog select - If you've got multiple blogs on your Blogger account you can now choose which one to use. Enter your Blogger username/password then go to the Blogger submenu to select.

Passwords hidden - Your passwords are no longer in plain text in the accounts screen, they are hidden in the usual password style.

Fixes - iconv library missing - A few uses are on hosting that doesn't have the iconv library. If that's you, you should no longer have a problem posting to Blogger.

Test buttons working - Some people had conflicting plugins that stopped the test buttons working. I've fixed it so they should work for all now.

No broken last word - Someone pointed out that the character limit often leaves half a word on the end of the syndication. Now it'll chop that part word off and only post full words.

Fixed anchor special characters - If you syndicated anchor text containing a character such as an apostrophe WPS was adding an extra backslash to it. That's no longer a problem.

CURLOPT_SETFOLLOW in safe mode - If your host runs everything in PHP safe mode then WPS was giving issues about not being able to set certain options. That's gone away now.

Build A Niche Store eBay Category Updates Ready

Just got news the new category updates for BANS is available for download. Below is the email release!


The databases for v3.0, v2.0 and v1.3.1 have been updated to
contain the latest eBay category structure.

For all "new builds" with v3.0 please log in to the appropriate
download area to download the latest complete version of v3.0:

1. For all ClickBank purchasers (the majority of BANS users) please
visit: - http://www.buildanichestore.com/forum/update

2. For all special offer purchasers via PayPal (from Jim Cockrum
and Lynn Terry recommendations) please visit: -
http://www.buildanichestore.com/forum/paypal

You will need your ClickBank receipt number for download area 1 and
your Paypal email address for download area 2.

If you have any problems downloading the updated BANS v3.0 please
submit a ticket to our "download support" department -
http://www.buildanichestore.com/support

To update your existing store categories please download the
relevant file from below and once downloaded please read the
"READ-ME.txt" file for further instructions (this is the same
category update procedure as the one sent out on the 26th May 2008):

BANS eBay Category Update Coming Soon

Real quick I wanted to let everyone know that eBay has updated and rearranged some categories again. The RSS feeds on these changes are not live yet. As soon as the RSS feeds for the new categories are up, Adam and Kelvin will release a database update to download and install. In the meantime if you have pages showing no category, you might want to edit the category number for that page to be the parent category of the dead category and use the search query feature to filter that pages results.

Also the new BANS templates that were not displaying correctly in some browsers have been fixed and can be downloaded on the BANS site.

Build A Niche Store Category Update For eBay Cat# Changes

Just got the latest email update on the new category changes for the BANS software. The email was as follows.

Thanks for your patience while we have been working through the
issues we had described in the forum.

The databases for v3.0, v2.0 and v1.3.1 have now been updated to
contain the latest eBay category structure.

For all "new builds" with v3.0 please log in to the appropriate
download area to download the latest complete version of v3.0:

1. For all ClickBank purchasers (the majority of BANS users) please
visit: - http://www.buildanichestore.com/update

2. For all special offer purchasers via PayPal (from Jim Cockrum
and Lynn Terry recommendations) please visit: -
http://www.buildanichestore.com/paypal

You will need your ClickBank receipt number for download area 1 and
your Paypal email address for download area 2.

If you have any problems downloading the updated BANS v3.0 please
submit a ticket to our download support center -
http://www.buildanichestore.com/download

To update your existing store categories please download the
relevant file from below and once downloaded please read the
"READ-ME.txt" file for further instructions:

Updating v3.0 Stores: -
http://www.buildanichestore.com/members/26th-May/BANS-v3.0-Category-Update.zip

Updating v2.0 Stores: -
http://www.buildanichestore.com/members/26th-May/BANS-v2.0-Category-Update.zip

Updating v1.3.1 Stores: -
http://www.buildanichestore.com/members/26th-May/BANS-v1.3-Category-Update.zip

Please note that v1.2 is unable to have a category update procedure
as the subsequent versions of BANS detailed above were built in a
different way.

Kelvin and Adam