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 …
Hello all!
I hope that you are moving along with Mark’s Build a Niche Store Empire series and are learning some valuable lessons that will help you with all of your BANS stores in the future. After all, BANS is a long-term investment of time/money/effort…from what I’ve been told!
One thing that I’ve learned is that having errors on your BANS site pages is not a good thing…especially when Google, Yahoo and MSN come in to index your site. After watching Mark’s most recent video on LogFiles, I noticed that my …
Niche Site 1 Affordable Knives (Affordable Knives Sitemap)
Date of first inbound link: 02/21/2008
This site currently has 12 Different Pages indexed with Google
Earnings: $56.78 Updated 03/19/08
Sales: 16 (15 niche related)
Robots/Spiders visitors (Top 25) – Full list – Last visit
9 different robots*
Hits
Bandwidth
Last visit
Googlebot
279+17
6.47 MB
15 Mar 2008 – 16:08
Yahoo Slurp
52+22
1.39 MB
15 Mar 2008 – 09:57
MSNBot-media
35+7
839.29 KB
12 Mar 2008 – 02:30
Unknown robot (identified by ‘bot/’ or ‘bot-’)
25+4
590.03 KB
12 Mar 2008 – 10:59
Unknown robot (identified by ‘crawl’)
23+6
420.08 KB
11 Mar 2008 – 06:57
Unknown robot (identified by ‘spider’)
12+7
335.61 KB
10 Mar 2008 – 11:18
Unknown …
Hello All!
Recently, I’ve had a few questions come up while getting backlinks to my BANS sites to try and get them indexed in Google, MSN and Yahoo. I’m sure that I’m not the only one with these questions, so I decided to put up a post about it in order to “put it to rest”.
I’ve been with BANS for around 3 months now, and I’ve always had questions about linking, internal linking, deep linking, submitting to directories for links etc….and the proper way to go about doing it. So, as …
Niche Site 1 Affordable Knives (Affordable Knives Sitemap)
Date of first inbound link: 02/21/2008
Costs: $17.00 total
$8.00 +/- domain name
$9.00/month premium membership at USFreeAds , which is HIGHLY recommended! Unlimited ads, Google LOVES USFreeAds ….. I use them RELIGIOUSLY!
Earnings: $19.37 total!!! (Updated 03/10/2008) 10 Sales….9 niche related!
Notes: Submitted to OnlyWire, Digg, StumbleUpon, BANSDir, Kaboodle, You-Found.us…to name a few!
Timeline:
02/23/08: Spotted Google, Yahoo, MSN spiders in logfiles, added xml sitemap.
02/25/08: Main page indexed by Yahoo and Google (position 1 on page 2 for “affordable knives” keyword)
02/25/08: Google indexed my sitemap! 8:23 pm
03/02/08: Got my first Commission for this site!
03/06/08: …
03/01/08
Niche Site 2 Buy Luggage (Buy Luggage Sitemap)
Date of first inbound link: 3/2/08….Sitemap page indexed by THE BIG “G”
Costs: $8.00 total
$8.00 +/- domain name
Earnings: $00.00 total (Updated 03/01/2008)
Notes: Submitted to OnlyWire (15 directories…one click!), Digg, StumbleUpon, BANSDir, Niche Cloud…to name a few!
Timeline:
03/01/08: Finished main categories, sitemap and a couple subcategory pages and submitted to sites listed above.
Crossed fingers
Niche Site 1 Affordable Knives (Affordable Knives Sitemap)
Date of first inbound link: 02/21/2008
Costs: $17.00 total
$8.00 +/- domain name
$9.00/month premium membership at USFreeAds , which is HIGHLY recommended! Unlimited ads, Google LOVES USFreeAds and it’s a PR 5 inbound link! I use them RELIGIOUSLY!
Earnings: $00.92 total!!! (Updated 03/02/2008) So, am I the big winner? Did I get the first sale?
Notes: Submitted to OnlyWire, Digg, StumbleUpon, BANSDir, You-Found.us…to name a few!
Timeline:
02/23/08: Spotted Google, Yahoo, MSN spiders in logfiles, added xml sitemap.
02/25/08: Main page indexed by Yahoo and Google (position 1 on page 2 for “affordable knives” keyword)
02/25/08: Google …
Ok, so far Mark has covered some of the basic “foundation work” of BANS and getting started. Choosing a niche is a very important part, so hopefully you’ve used some/all of the techniques outlined and have uncovered a potental money-maker!
And, hopefully you’ve already got your CJ.com account in order and set up with eBay’s affiliate program. That would pretty much bring us up to speed with the 12 Week Series…wouldn’t you say?
Hello, and thanks for following along in Mark’s excellent 12 Week Program! So far, there has been some great info!
Ok, when I originally got selected to participate I already had a niche in mind. My first one is in the Pocket Knife/Knives niche. How I stumbled upon the niche is a whole different story, but let’s take a look at it for a minute.
The original reason I decided to go ahead with the Pocket Knife/Knives niche is because of it’s high number of bids on eBay. To me, simply having bids …
Hello! My name is Eric and I’m a 32 year old Guidance Counselor/College Advisor at a large high school in the Chicago suburbs. I’m married (almost 4 years) and my wife and I have our first child on the way…due in April!
I joined BANS back in December 07′, and I currently have 3 somewhat customized sites up and running, with very limited html knowledge. But, I feel like I’ve learned ALOT over the past couple months from some great people on the BANS forum.
I started BANS as …
