My blog is down and I don’t know why or what to do.
First, and foremost, thank you, Mark, for allowing me to post on your blog about this.
Some of you may have noticed that my blog, www.nichestorestrategies.com, is currently down. HostGator oh, so kindly blocked the database on this site, without any warning. The email I received from them said,

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 …

Hi all,
I’m afraid I’ve gotten behind in updates due to a visit from in-laws, updating to EPN, and now my upcoming camping trip (which we are leaving for as soon as I’ve posted this). Although I haven’t been updating each week I have still been making stores. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to focus much time on the last four sites so they are not as done as I’d like them to be. Next week I should be able to get back on track with each of them.

Someone brought to our attention that eBay is now requiring affiliates to use their (eBay’s) banners instead of using custom made banners.  eBay’s TOS goes on to say that all custom banners must be approved before they can be used.  Well, reading this made me sweat more than a little because I created my own banners that I use in each of my stores.  I adjust the colors of the banners to match the color theme of each store so they blend in with the sites.
The day I joined eBay’s …

Hello all,
In an effort to organize my sites and make sure I’ve done the same things to each of them I created a Niche Store Checklist. If you think this will help you then you can download it from my blog here.
Rochelle

Hello, Rochelle here.  Shortly after I purchased the BANS software I registered a good number of URLs without any consideration to the URL names. Some of them have turned out to be ok but some were very bad choices.
The really bad ones are ones where I had a specific idea in mind but the URLs don’t convey these ideas. So, I would like to hear from you what you think I should do with these URLs. I’m not going to tell you my original intentions because I don’t want to direct …

Niche Site 6 The Magic of Patrick Swayze (Sitemap) (Dynamic Sitemap)
Number of Links Submitted (as of 03/15/2008): 23
Submitted dynamic sitemap to Google’s WebMaster Tools on 03/15/2008
Added to HitDoctor on 03/12/2008: 1
Added to NicheClouds on 03/12/2008: 1
Added to OnlyWire on 03/12/2008: 19
Added to Qassia on 03/12/2008: 1
Added to StumbleUpon Exchange on 03/12/2008: 1

Date of first inbound link: None yet
Pages indexed in Google (as of 03/15/2008): 0
Costs: $7.15 total
$7.15 +/- domain name at GoDaddy
Earnings: $0 total (As of 03/15/2008)
Timeline:
Purchased URL on 03/11/2008
Created BANS site on …

Yesterday I posted about how to create USFreeads. Eric, one of the other guest bloggers here, gave some really great information on how he creates his ads. The information was excellent but buried in the comments. Eric has given me permission to share what he wrote.
So, I wrote up instructions, using Eric’s methods. If interested you can read them at How to Write Ads for USFreeads.
Rochelle

Hello all,
Right now I am working on getting backlinks to my new niche stores by creating ads on USFreeads. If you aren’t familiar with this method of site promotion you might want to give it a try. There are a few good reasons for doing this.
First, USFreeads is constantly indexed by search engine spiders, including Google. This means your sites are likely to be quickly indexed if you use USFreeads to advertise. But even if it doesn’t your stores will still show up in auction results because ads on USFreeads …

Niche Site 5 Clothes For Cleavage (Sitemap)
(Dynamic Sitemap)
Number of Links Submitted (as of 03/06/2008): 13
Added to the About Me page of one of my eBay accounts on 03/06/2008: 13
Date of first inbound link: None yet
Pages indexed in Google (as of 03/06/2008): 0
Created BANS site on 03/04/2008
Submitted dynamic sitemap to Google’s WebMaster Tools on 03/05/2008
Costs: $7.15 total
$7.15 +/- domain name at GoDaddy
Earnings: $0 total (As of 03/06/2008)