Looks like it is that time again… Google is updating the toolbar PageRank! I saw it first VERY late last night over at Courtney Tuttles blog. Court’s site is another very good source of reading when you want to break into earning good money on the Internet.
If this is like any other PR update, it will likely be a 24-36 hour process of seeing some pages change immediately and others over the course of a day or two. Don’t make the mistake of checking ONLY your main page, check some …

In yesterday’s post about dumping some of my BANS sites, I purposely left out the complete opposite aspect of your Build a Niche Store efforts. You have to remember I am not a “visitors per day” person, but instead, I look at the pageviews/visitor as a better picture of how effective a site is working for me. For example, if I see 100 daily visitors and only 110 pageviews, that tells me real quick that these visitors are either not finding what they want, or they don’t like the site and what …

After a much needed week away from working… I have made it back with a huge push to get some work done again! One of the hardest decisions I made over the past week, is to dump many of the non-performing niche stores I have, so I can focus more on the ones that ARE producing results!
Just like the trial and errors of developing categories for niche sites, there comes a point when you decide which categories to remain focused on and which ones to just let stay the course and die …

How’s everyone doing?  After what felt like a pretty long hiatus from BANS and the Niche Store Empire Series (due to my daughter being born), I feel like I’m getting back in the game a bit.  In actuality, it’s only been about a 2 week break!  I’ve put two more stores up in the past week…which is quite a bit for me since I like to take my time and put up quality rather than quantity.  Just trying to play catch up at this point!  Hopefully Mark won’t cut me …

Gosh, it’s quiet here without Mark. To help fill the void I decided to add this post.
To give your site more credibility you can add a ‘Contact Us’ form. You can read, ‘How to Add a ‘Contact Us’ Form to Your Site,’ located on my blog.
This mod is super easy to do (compared to other methods of adding a contact form), uses the email address you already entered in your site’s Admin, and helps protect you from having your email address harvested by spam collectors because it uses …

Obviously I haven’t been good at updating on my progress, but as Mark can attest, I spend just about every minute of my day either working on these sites, dealing with my own ebay sales, running kids to doctors, dentists, orthodontist, softball,lacrosse,blah,blah,blah! In addition, I just took my oldest daughter to DC for spring break (Christmas present for her) and Mark and I are out of town for a week coming up! So, since I’ve now given you all the excuses for why I haven’t posted, I REALLY have been …

What a month so far… On April 1st, we were all hit with the EPN changeover on our existing eBay affiliate websites and if you found yourself head scratching along the way, you weren’t alone! In total, I think I am still only 50-60% of the way through all of my store updates! That’s not bad, but definitely not good!! What I found during this process is that I have TOO MANY Build a Niche Store sites out there that have been abandoned for one reason or another.
As many of …

Hi everyone.
It’s been some time since Ive posted  a performance report. The migration to ePN has set me back. Not only did I have to update to ePN but I had many sites that needed updating to BANS V3. On top of that I have 20+ blogs filled with links built over a 4 year period with the flex tool. I’m still not done. Once I get into a site I tend to do more than I’m there for.
As for the sites I have started for the 12 week course I …

We have all been through this before… I even talked about it a bit in a previous video. You go to your Build a Niche Store site homepage and search for an item that is actually on the screen right in front of you, yet the search box delivers NO results! What is wrong here?
The solution is so simple… I even smacked my own head a few times! :-)

Do you have any other tips for best search results?

There have been MANY questions in the blog and the forum on 2 very specific subjects. What other methods can we use to monetize websites, and How do you find GREAT DOMAINS for the purpose of BANS or other forms of affiliate marketing. As many of you already know, BANS is not the only way to make money online and I have a few blogs that are monetized with AdSense and a few other small ad networks, including the eBay Partner Network.
Brian Johnson, a reader of this blog and a successful BANS user, sent …