Preparing for week 3 and beyond

Marks Video must be one of the best online video presentations ever. This first video will prevent so many headaches for folks new to setting up a web sites. Sure wish I had it when I started. Great job Mark. Can’t wait for the rest.  

Thought I would write a short post about what I have done to prepare and implement Succeed with Build a Niche Store. Though I have been using free keyword tools for the last 7 months with some success I decided to go for Wordtracker and Wordze paid subscriptions. One year of Wordtracker and a monthly subscription of Wordze. The free versions are fine when one starts out, but I am at the point were I have seen this work with free tools and organic traffic. It’s time to kick it up. These keyword tools have blown my mind since I started using them last week.

Even knowing Mark as indicated that he is going to pick up the pace this is still kinda a slow time for those who have been using bans. So what I have done is do research for new Niches. I went though all my docked domains looking for the SEO friendly ones and pointed the DNS to my Hostgator account. 4 good ones. And I have researched and registered 4 more new domains, Which brings me to 8 stores that I will be implementing during this course.

As Eric said in his post it is a good time to start accumulating content. Using only organic means of getting traffic for 7 months I know how important this is. I have one site that brings in 3000 unique visitors a month purely with organic traffic. Using content to get indexed by search engine is my main tool. IMO, We want to get the attention of users and keep them engaged in the site and funnel them to the products. Google’s Mission statement is something like this “To bring its users relevant useful content”. So what better way to get Google’s attention is to give them what the want. Relevant content.

I  also started a blog that I will use to keep content and promote items from my bans stores. I like to write lots about whats in my stores and promote it. The ideal thing to do would be have all this content in my site, but there just isn’t enough room. So what I do is take a popular item from my store, write a 300 to 600 word article about it. Strategically place some keyword rich links to a store page of the relevant niche store and blog it. It doesnt take much to do this if you use content from item descriptions and the manufactures websites. Most Mfg have press releases and content.  I mix and match and add around 40% more original content to make it my own. Wikipedia is also a great resource for content. This method has increased traffic to my sites and the blogs are one of the first sites I see in my logs for back links.

I have also researched and joined forums relevant to my niche’s and seeked out other relevant blogs to utilize during the marketing of my 8 sites.

So I’m ready with 8 stores, 8 PID #s, a blog for products/content and Drafts of content for content pages. I also have prepared some ads to monetize the sites beyond the EBay affiliate program. Such as Adsense, Clickbank, CJ Ads, and IncentReward Affiliate Network. One more thing I have done is join WebCeo and Directory Submitter. Both have free versions.

I have made a good living in the 7 months I’ve had BANS and can’t wait to get to the next level.

 Ready to kick it up.

Happy BANS Building

Bill

Previously Published Articles You May Like to Read:

• Preparing for the Worst with a Little Planning now!
• Week in Review and the Week Ahead – August 03 2008
• Week in Review and the Week Ahead

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