Build a Niche Store Review - www.CactusJax.com

May 6, 2008 | 8 Comments

May 2008 Featured BANS Site Review for the Cactus Products for Sale website.
Site: http://www.CactusJax.com/
Target Niche: Cactus, Cacti and Succulents
Date Reviewed: 05/02/2008
By: Mark Hansen

Overall Score: 3.2 out of 10 (10 being the best)

• Domain Name: 9 (Has target words in domain name)
• Domain Age: 1  (Active for  1 month)
• Niche Specific Site: 9
• Site Indexing and Spider Revisit Frequency: N/A
• Use of Unique Meta-Titles: 1
• Use of Unique Meta-Keyword Tags: 1
• Use of Unique Meta-Description Meta tags: 1
• Public and xml Sitemaps: 5
• Use of Targeted Articles and Information: 2
• BANS Default Menu Optimization: 0

In addition to the measures above, the site has a total of 23 inbound links to the domain. While this factor is important, it is not measured in the overall score of the site.

Lets get into the review and reasons for the scoring of the Cactus Plant Store.

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Established Build a Niche Store Optimization

April 14, 2008 | 7 Comments

Assume for a moment, you are like the thousands of others (including myself) who launched BANS sites with a minimum of change. You probably:

• Installed Site
• Chose a Template
• Chose a Main Category from eBay
• Walked away!

Essentially, what you have a mini version of an eBay category! Nothing at all different than what eBay already offers and nothing different than hundreds or thousands of other BANS users in the same category. That is exactly how this next store was done and the video below walks through a few simple methods to take it to the next level, without FULL optimization.

The domain name of this site was established more than 1 year ago, March 18, 2007. The site itself has more than 220 pages already indexed in Google, which is the first place I look for opportunity! Click this link and look at the pages listed in the Google index. Almost EVERY page of this site has the same title… need I say more?!

Using the method in the video - you can make your store unique in less than 1 hour each week!

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8 Ways to Search eBay Listings with Different Results!

March 29, 2008 | 2 Comments

Many of the questions I see are from people trying to get specific results on their Niche Site pages. The guide below is a great way to understand eBay’s search utility and how it relates to us. (from eBay)

To search for	Do this	Example
Items where two or more keywords are present	Enter the keywords like you would search with a space between them	new DVD player Returns items with all three words in the title in any order
Items containing certain words in a particular order	Place quotation marks around the group of words	“New York” Returns items with titles containing New York in that EXACT order only, but not those containing just New or just York or the words York New
Items that don’t contain a certain word	Place a minus sign immediately before the word to be excluded (no space after the minus sign)	shirt blue –wool Returns items with titles containing the words shirt and blue but not containing the word wool
Items that don’t contain several words	Place a minus sign before the list of words separated by commas (with no spaces after the minus sign and the commas) and put in parentheses	bowl -(black,green,purple) or bowl –black –green –purple Returns items with titles containing the word bowl but not containing the words black, green, and purple
Items where one word or another is present	Enter keywords in parentheses separated by commas (no space after the commas)	(purse,handbag) Returns items whose titles contain either the word purse or handbag
Items that contain words starting with a particular sequence of letters	Enter the letter sequence followed by an asterisk	book* Returns items whose titles contain words starting with book, such as books, bookshelf, and bookmark
Items that contain only a specific spelling of a word Note: In some cases, eBay expands your search to include a plural and/or an alternate spelling of your search word(s). For example, if you were searching for book, you would receive search results with items containing the keyword book or the keyword books. Searching for grey would bring back items containing the keyword grey or the keyword gray. Use this command when you want an exact match.	Enter the keywords or phrases in quotes	“book” Returns only items with the exact word book and not items with the word books
Items that match the exact words Note: In some cases, eBay automatically expands your search to include items based on the intent of your search rather than matching the exact keywords provided.If you do not want eBay to do this, then all you need to do is to put quotation marks around one of your keywords. For example, if you were searching action DVDs, you might type the keywords action DVD. This may bring back items that have both keywords action and DVD, as well as items that have the keyword action and are in the DVD category. If you entered “action” DVD, your results would include only items with the exact keywords action DVD and not the additional items in the DVD category with only the keyword action. Use this command when you want to match exact words.	Place quotes around any single keyword	“action” DVD Returns only items with the exact word action and DVD action “DVD” returns only items with the exact word DVD and the word action.

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Build a Niche Store Sitemap and Content or Store Pages Addition

March 20, 2008 | 24 Comments

Monica, one of the blog readers, sent in a question on Tuesday asking about adding both content and store pages to Build a Niche Store. She also had a question about the functions of the sitemap… the video below covers each question in detail! :-)

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Using Wordtracker to Develop your Build a Niche Store Categories

March 16, 2008 | 7 Comments

Earlier this week, Chris, a blog reader, had asked if I get a bit more detailed in how to determine the main categories for a niche store. He also asked about when to know if a site is focused or too broad of a niche. In the video below, I am using his site as an example of how to build both main and subcategories (product pages) on your Build a Niche Store affiliate site.

You will hear and see me using Wordtracker in this video… if you have it, open it up and use it daily! If not, once you see the power of wordtracker, you should sign up or use the free account.

Tools in this video: Wordtracker Keyword Tool

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