I know this is a bit late (I’m playing catch-up too after being in tax-preparation-hell for a couple of weeks) but I really sympathise – I tend to scroll past the tables of information that get posted on the blogs and am waiting for Mark to do a cute video on how to interpret it. I’m trusting the process – if Mark hasn’t explained it yet, I probably don’t need to know.

Just take your time – and remember there’s always someone newer than you. I take great comfort in that.

Marilla

My concern is the HTTP Error Code 404 Document not found. I have “15 hits” not found and am wondering if I should be doing something about this? I have no idea how this has happened or exactly what it means. I’m assuming that it is a link that points to nothing? Can anyone suggest a good source of information on cpanel stats and what they mean so I can start learing about this?

As always, thanks for your invaluable help.

Denise

Mark, what a sweetheart to offer a helping hand. I know how busy you must be, and that makes the gesture even more special. I have to get some sleep (I work nights) but I’ll be sending an email probably tomorrow.

Big wet sloppy kisses to both of you! MMMWWAAAHHH!!

Honey

CJ is just a middle man and in my opinion only hampers communications with the folks who have the money EBAY. When I was a builder I hated being a sub contractor. I want to deal with the person with the check book. Not there buddy. This will make us #2 not #3. Personally I don’t understand why some are freaking out about the change and think it will affect BANS. It won’t. The mod has already been made and I have huge confidence in Adam & Kelvin. These guys are smart.
If you don’t have enough to read try the EBAY Developers site. Its a good place to peak in and see whats happening in the world of brains.
Over the last 2 weeks lots of new people have been on the forum. One person said its been 3 weeks and I haven’t sold anything. Now its not unheard of to start making $ in 3 weeks I believe it is a unreasonable expectation. It can take months or years to build a business. If we follow what Mark and the other smarty pants do then we have the best chance out of anyone. Ive been at it long enough to know some tricks to get a site crawled and indexed in a day but converting a sale that take time. Try to remember Google and the other SE’s want to make sure your not just throwing up sites and leaving them forever. That takes time. The SE’s are in this for the long haul and we need to work to keep the SE’s happy and they will give us LOVE.

WOW that was a long one.
Hope that helps some

I can definitely understand where it would be easy to get overwhelmed with everything that needs to occur with BANS.

The BANS forum has definitely had a rough weekend and should be resolved by now.

Shoot me an email direct… maybe I can take a look at what you have done, where you are, your domains etc, and make some suggestions or fashion a video post around exactly what is hampering you.

Mark

However, over the last few weeks I’m beginning to feel like the poster who commented a few days ago…I feel like I’m not being able to ‘keep up with the big dogs’. And you know the old saying…if you can’t keep up, stay on the porch.

I don’t understand the progress reports, nor do I know where they come from. I realize it has something to do with the robots visiting, but frankly, the numbers (e.g.237 + 4) don’t mean a thing to me.

I understood very little about the “includes” file…I think it has something to do with linking from one or more of your own websites to another of your web sites, but all my sites are non-related. Not sure if this matters or not.

I’m sure the problem I’m having is my own…maybe I’m not reading or watching carefully enough, I don’t know…I just know that over the last few weeks I’ve felt like I was watching the rest of you sailing away, and I’m still standing on the shore trying to finish my boat.

I do understand about ebay leaving CJ, and I’m hoping that any code we’ll have to be changing will come with explicit instructions.

I’m also very concerned about the BANS site…I got the email about what a bad weekend they’d had with the site down and all, but they seemed to think it was all fixed. I haven’t been able to pull the site up since the weekend at all…I just checked it again and it’s back to the account suspended page.

That could be part of why I’m feeling so lost…I depend on being able to go to the forum to get answers to the many techie questions I have along the way.

I’m sorry for the lengthy rant, but I was so excited to be getting started with others at the same time, building together, and to learn that I simply can’t keep up is rather disheartening.

I’ll continue to read here, just for the crumbs I may find that I’m able to digest.

Best of luck to all of you.

Honey

I also hope the BANS team will make the changes to the code before April because ebay said they will give us a 5% increase in commissions off sales that are generated through their new network:

“You can receive an additional 5% bonus for all traffic tracked through eBay Partner Network in April 2008″

Ebay is giving us until May to make the transition, but I guess offering an incentive to those who make it sooner. I’m sure the BANS team is aware of this and will make the transition as smooth as possible for us.

And thanks again Mark for all your tips, info, directions, suggestions, recommendations, etc. that you share with us on your site. Invaluable.

List: ALL BANS sites by version (1.3, 2.0, 3.0 etc)
List: ALL extra links you may have in your sites that promote eBay signups (Custom signup logos etc)

When the fix is released, we will have 1 full month to make the transition. During the entire month of April, eBay is paying an additional 5% commission to all sales tracked through their new system…

I will have 100% DONE on April 1st! :-)

Mark