Glad you liked it. I think the problem with it would be that it scrapes the results from Google (they dropped their API before I had the script made).

Because of this they *may* block the IP address if it got real busy. (it does have a delay built in but probably wouldn’t make much difference if there was multiple users at once)

What I could do is zip up the contents and make them available so users could put it on their own server.

It’s a straight install i.e. no config required.

BTW – did you use the eBay keywords tool? I really like that one myself – it has found me lots of valuable keyword combinations to use with BANS :)

Austin.

I just spent about 10 minutes in the Comp Finder tool you linked to… how much traffic can it handle? :-)

Very intuitive and easy to use for drilling deep into a niche!!

Mark

Top article for those really interested in getting it on with BANS – the whole site looks great and I’ll be spending a bit more time here tomorrow for sure.

To find eBay niches I developed my own script to help narrow down high value items worth putting on my BANS sites.

The difficulty I was having was finding the right keyword combos for this but after much digging I found I had to learn all about word freuency and concordance from English literature sites – heavy stuff!

The link to the script is in my site link above.

I also check keyword competition with Google ‘intitle’ and use ‘inanchor’ as well – again, to save time I developed a script to do the job for me.

Comp Finder

Thanks for the tips :)
Austin.

Great Point, Excellent Post, Great Blog, Cool Info

Jenny

I really want to look into this deeper and possibly grab a few domain names and run a test project! :-)

I frequent seomoz regularly. There is a very thorough article written at: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors that only talks briefly about the tld of a site, however it is a very informative read for ALL factors to consider in rankings.

Mark

Unfortunately, I missed the .com opportunity.
I would think that .us would be the official US tld and people would like it like .de or .ca. But I was wrong.
So i have to work with what is available.

Thank you for the information.
Jenny

You actually bring up a very good point that I did not even touch on – I wrote this without consideration of the domain name at all.

In my own opinion – if you are registering a domain name with the hopes of monetization through type-in traffic, a .com is the only way to go! The general public relates to the .com much more than any other!

That being said – if you were to develop 3 sites on the same topic – lets say – “Bright Orange Widgets”. You get the same name for all 3, with the TLD extention being the only difference, and you place all 3 online on the same day and time.

The sites that you actually do some SEO work on will outperform all others regardless of the TLD!

Take a quick shot of the top 500 sites ranked at Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global) – Several have non .com names. The most notable, wikipedia.org

So… the .com extension would matter for a domain that is only parked hoping for type-in traffic, but for a website you intend to do proper SEO and develop with unique and changing content, it wont make much difference, if any at all!

Mark