Promotion of your Niche Store

November 9, 2007 | 5 Comments

Hi Everyone - Again, I feel like I need to apologize for my slow updates here for the past couple weeks. Finding time to catch up on life has not been easy! :-) I am back home for a few days just to get everything in order and I will head back to be with my Father on the 13th - that means I will be up in Springfield Massachusetts when the winner is awarded the Grill Auctions website! I truly look forward to the site being a stellar addition to the winner’s portfolio!

Along with the winner receiving the Grill Auctions site, second and third place will EACH win a full search optimization of the BANS sites they choose!

Lets start talking about different ways to promote your BANS site… Read more

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Understanding the Needs of your Visitors by the Logfiles

November 9, 2007 | 4 Comments

Since we are coming near the end of the Grill Auction series, it’s time to discuss how you can capitalize on why the search engines like your site! If you have done your work correctly, you should be getting several search referrals for the terms you targeted early on in the series. In addition to those phrases, you are going to find several other phrases that you never even considered!

To go through this section it will benefit you most if your site has been active for 30 days or more AND it is being actively indexed each day. If it is not indexed yet, then search engines are not referring visitors, thus no search terms to look at!

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Niche Store alternative to Adsense Ads

November 7, 2007 | 3 Comments

So - you have this wonderful Build a Niche Store site and you really don’t want to display Adsense… What are you to do to take up the extra space on the site and in turn, create another stream of revenue?

Since you are already in the business if helping buyers find the products they desire, why not take it a step deeper and promote the most popular eBay stores in your Niche market?

For example - go to eBay and look for something that may be listed on your niche site. Once you find a good example product, look at the sellers for one with the highest feedback or widest selection, this is usually the same person! :-)

Look into their store and see if they have a logo on top of their auctions… if so, grab it and make your own banner to promote their store for them! I promise, they won’t mind a bit… Head on over to the eBay flexible destination tool and create yourself a link to their store that includes your PID number.

Now you have a Niche Site with 100% eBay CJ revenue streams! Be creative with your banners and use bait that will get the person to clickthrough, after all, you don’t care if they buy from the person your sending them to, as long as they buy something!

Have a tip of your own - post it here!

Mark

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Build a Niche Store Review, www.paintballhoopla.com

November 3, 2007 | 8 Comments

November 2007 Build a Niche Store Review

This month, Pat Freck and the Paintball Hoopla niche site was chosen for the free Niche Store Review! The site, while just a few months old has quite a bit of promise as a Niche Store and this review should help get the traffic flowing in the right direction as well as help put a set of practices into place for future stores! Enjoy…

Build a Niche Store Site: www.paintballhoopla.com/
Target Niche: Paintball Guns and Supplies
Date Reviewed: 11/01/2007
By: Mark Hansen

Overall Score: 3 out of 10 (10 being the best)

• Domain Name: 8 (Has target word in domain name)
• Domain Age: 2 (Only active for 3 months)
• Niche Specific Site: 7
• Use of Keyword Meta Tags: 2
• Use of Description Meta tag: 2
• Use of Targeted Articles and Information: 0
• BANS Default Menu Optimization: 0

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Grill Auctions Update 11/02/07

November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Hi All - 

First and foremost, thanks to everyone for the kinds words of encouragement and prayers in regard to my fathers health! It is truly appreciated! Even though it has been a challenge to find the time to write each day, I am still deeply involved in the Grill Auction site and spend quite a bit of my free time working on making sure the contest winner has a good product and something I can be proud to award!

The site is still in the indexing process, but now shows more than 34 indexed pages, almost double that of just a couple days ago! In addition, a total of 12 of the targeted phrases now show in the top 20 SERP’s… I expect almost ALL of the category targets to be strong runners within 2 weeks.

The site has already produced both Google AdSense (4 clicks) and a CJ sale for a total revenue of $3.56. Not much I know… but in less than 2 weeks of very much part time and slow development, it is earning money! If I had pushed this site out in 1-2 days after registering the domain, it would be 1 month ahead of where it is now… The winner for this contest will not be disappointed!

I am still waiting for one of my boys to get my Grill Features article in my hands, but I think it is an issue of emails being crossed more than it not being done (Hint… Hint, Ryan)

I have had the combined contest results in my hands since yesterday morning, but have not had a chance to put it onto the screen - Here goes, results are through the end of day, October 31st.

• Ed Akehurst still holds the lead with 377 direct referrals
• Rochelle in second, is gaining significantly with 261 referrals!
• Otis still holds third with 94.

There have been two periods that the videos I uploaded have just killed my bandwidth limit and temporarily shut the site down for a few minutes… a few days, it has exceeded 5 gigs per day! That’s a big chunk of data… but I have made the proper increases to assure it does not happen again!

In case you all didn’t see, I also had a winner of my first official Build a Niche Store Review! Once each month, a new subscriber is chosen to have me go up and down their site and offer tips and suggestions for immediate improvement! In addition to the review, I provide detailed keyword and phrase reports on how they should focus their efforts in category building! At some point, I will have a chance to offer this as a paid service to anyone interested in getting it done… I just have not had the time to code the back-end stuff yet.

Happy Reading - Mark

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