New build a niche store traffic strategy update 1

This is the first update to the ‘google de-indexing your build a niche store site in the serps‘ article post a week or two ago. 

Phase 1 of the build a niche store traffic strategy guide is complete and my site is now #1 , #2/3 and #5 (also #9/#15/#16/#18/#25) in the search engines. 2 of these are also indented listings with one being my Build a Niche Store and the other being my targeted content. So I’m happy with the results so fa, specially as my strategy is only around 15% in place.

Here is some of my organic Search placements

and another

Note that these are targetting brand names and the first placement is above the brand’s website itself and the second is only below the brands site but above the likes of wikipedia and amazon, which I think is rather cool.

i’m starting on phase 2 of the plan tonight but have phase 1 written up in note form so far so that I have the full blueprint at the end and can tweak any part that needs tweaking.

I will create a free report as well and add an opt in for this report in a few weeks time, so i know that it will be worth doing. No point sending people information if it isn’t going to work or needs to be reworked.

Well thats it for now… please post any comments or email me.

You can also follow me on twitter or send me a message here: Follow me on Twitter

regards

Steve

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Google De-Indexing Build a Niche Store Sites in the SERPS??

Over the past month is seems to have become apparent that google is de-indexes thousands of Build a Niche Store (BANS) stores. A strategy of many niche store owners was to simply create 90-100 sites over a 4-5 month period then create a some articles and gain some back links through squidoo and other authority sites sites. Once you had submitted your articles to ezine and other directories then socially bookmarked your bans site, articles and squidoo lenses you would gain some ranking based on your targeted niche keywords in the SERPS (google, yahoo etc). With some ranking you could generally make a few $’s a day from your sites which makes up a tidy little sum ($80-$100)  over a full month ($2000-3000) for very little work with no updates.

This all changed initially in august when google de-indexed all links from ezine and other article directories that pointed to sites with a standard BANS signature. Over the past month this has also started to happen with link backs to sites with BANS signatures. The thing is what can be done to stop your site being de-indexed???

Well, the answer is simple and is basically a single phrase ‘NEW AND REGULAR CONTENT’. The google algorithms seems to have changed and as they say ‘content is now king’ and regular new quality content will keep you in the serps. I’m not talking screen scraped or auto generated stuff and neither am I talking copied / duplicate content. We are talking fresh and unique content related to your niche store.

You must get rid of the standard BANS signature which has been in reality spammed to death in the SERPS, which is the reason why google is now clamping down.

I’m currently trying out a new strategy that involved a new type of one-way linking structure and a strategy that does allow new content to be added regularly. Initial results have been very promising as follows:

- Build a niche store created on 12th of October 2008
- Targeted niche keywords with traffic of around 25000 a month
- Created my content pages with specific links types back to by store
- Bookmarked the deep links
- Repeated my process for content once every 5 days

So far this has worked well and I have been indexes within 5 days and I now stand at number two with a indented listing within the SERPS. The site above me is a major brans with thousand of links in though I am above the likes of wikipedia and amazon. I have more to do with this strategy and have only completed around 5% of the work I need to carry out. So far due to the rankin I have also make a small pot of cash on the way so it is working well so far.

I will post updates on this strategy probablyonce every 3-4 weeks to ensure that the word carried out in that period is working and indexed in the search engines.

Well thats it for now.

Regards

Steve

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Niche Store - Purchasing Domains and starting the work - Lesson 3

This lesson will focus on a few areas, with the first being a domain name for your niche store. The domain name that you choose must NOT be a domain name that the search engines class as a spam domain. For example if you choose a domain for a golf club niche then you may want to purchase maybe a domain containing the words golf clubs and if a big enough niche brand is found then maybe for callaway golf clubs. You may think that www.callaway-golf-clubs.com is a good name and true it is very human readable BUT due to new filters introduced into the search engine algorithms this may be classed as a spam domain and you will fail to rank in the search engines for it. www.callawaygolfclubs.com is a much preferred name in the eyes of the search engines.

If you have followed the previous lessons then you should have all your accounts setup. If not then you need at LEAST your ebay account setup in order for you to make any money from the build a niche store scripts. Here is a quick link to the resources Make Money Online Resources if you have not setup your accounts.

You must also ensure that when you purchase your domain name that you set the purchase to private, so as to hide your personal details. This helps to stop the like of hackers from gaining access to your account information. Some recommended companies for domains are as follows:

• 123reg.co.uk
• godaddy.com

On the hosting side of things, you need a host that allows you to host MORE than one store. You also need a host that allows you to add new domain names that your purchase to your package for free. You also need a host that will allow you to have multiple blog running that are also attached to your store for generating additional traffic. The 100% recommended host for this is Hostgator . Remember to use the discount code from the link when you purchase your hosting as it gives you a 20% discount on the overall price. Note that 99% of people who use ‘Build A Niche Store‘ use hostgator for their hosting.

From this lesson we will start to put together a plan of action for your sites. Over the next seven days your tasks are as follows:

1) Signup for all the account shown in the previous lessons

2) Signup to hostgator for you hosting and pick a domain name of your prefered niche store

3) Buy the Build A Niche Store Scripts

4) Read the niche store manual that comes with the scripts. This outlines the basics of setting a store up.

5) Create a sample store on any niche to allow you to play with the scripts and try out different things. Note that initially it may look slightly confusing, but don’t worry in the slightest. Everyone who uses BANS (short for build a niche store) experiences this and the first store is always quite slow to build, but the second and third etc store become very easy and can be build in less than 10-15 minutes.

So guys and gals that is you task this week, so go and make a start on your new business and I’ll see you all in a few days.

Steve

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Niche Store - Making Money Online Resource Update

Hi guys and gals, I’ve decided to put together a list of the resources that can be used when settting up your affilliate accounts. The following contains a list of tools and an ebay partner video on how to setup your ebay partner network account. The next lesson will be out this week as well.

Signup Frequently Asked Questions Resources Guides

Click here to sign up

How to signup for adsense —- Click here to sign up

Adsense quick start Guide

First Join affilliate window via this link: Click here

You need to find your affilliate id and user pass. Alternativly you can just subscribe to the relevant links and copy the code to your ads section of the control panel.

Example: Affilliate id: 72635 User Pass: 42b4f2f4199805f1ec5ec8d6412db8c1

Your password within the ‘USER PASS’ is the MD5 ‘key code’ displayed alongside your API Password on your ‘update account details page’ within your affiliate area

Login to affilliate window and goto the menu option ’shop window toolset(beta)’.

On the displayed page you have to activate your shop window so you can use the api,

This will create an API id for you and allows you to use the dynamic streaming from the api (dynamic updating of the product lists).

Note when all live to request to fully open the window for requests. It is initially open in test mode.

How to signup for affilliate futures —- Click here to sign up

How to sign up for amazon  

How to sign up for Hosting —- 100% compatible hosting. Unlimited sites and blogs

Keyword Research Tool —- The best keyword tool available

SEO Research tool —- The Best Available tool to analyse and BEAT you competitors

Free Wordtracker Tool — Free wordtracker keyword tool

If people need more resources added then please just contact me and I’ll be happy to add them. Thanks Steve

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Niche Store - Making Money Online - Lesson 2

Hi again. Lesson 1 covered the basics of what is needed to host a niche store and what affiliate accounts are required to ensure you get your payments. We also showed a brief overview of what affiliate marketing is. If you have not read lesson 1 then you can find it here -> BANS - Making Money Online - Lesson 1

This lesson we will cover the basic of what a niche actually is and some keyword reseach, so lets start.

A Niche market is a market that is a sub-market market of a larger market. Toys can be classed as a big market but baby plush toys are smaller niche market. Baby items are a big big market, but baby backpacks are another niche market. Here are some of a niche market:

A Wedding dress would be too general of a market, but a “brand name” wedding dress would be a niche. We could also say Cell phones are general, but Nokia Cell Phones would be classes as a niche market.

Some niche markets you may find could be classed as too small but you can still make money from home using them. We could add some different brand names to them and create a new category of items, you just have to ensure that the line of goods you choose to sell are of a similar product line.

For example…Baby Carriers would be classed as general, but you could not make a niche site/market from ‘Baby Bjorn Baby Carrier’ so you would find the brand of other baby carrier brands to add to the niche range.

Here are some tips for your first niche store!
Select a market that you know something about. If you are a music fanatic then choose music, But something that in regards to the music and not the main stream. If your into bikes be this motobikes or mountain bikes and know a lot about bikes, than select the bike market. 

Next we have a video and some reseach sites that you need in order to research what products you want to build a niche store around. We need to cover the following

• eBay Pulse
• eBay Hot Items
• mysimon.com

Here is the video I found that covers all the point I want to cover here.

What is the supply for your niche?
What we need to do before we move onto our keyword research is to identify is there is enough supply on ebay for the product of our choice. If the items available is very few then I would strongly suggest you look for a different niche.

However once we have found our niche with plenty of supply we move onto our keyword research and find out ‘keywords’ to target. I would suggest you invest in a GOOD keyword tool and personally I use and would highly recommend ‘keyword elite‘ as one of the best keyword research tools available. Keyword elite give very detailed information including how competitive a keyword is, searches and how much others are spending for paid traffic. Also in 95% of cases I do not waste too much time on  too competitive keywords

There are also lots of free tools you can also use to start you off. The better tools are as follows:

• Tool SEO
• Free Wordtracker
• google keywords

The best to initially research your keywords is to sit down and write everything you can think of that you would type into a search enigne or ebay if you were wanting to buy the product. Do not make the mistake of general keywords, put yourself in the buyer mind and see what they woudl search on when they want to BUY a product.

Finding keywords using keyword elite

Finding Keywords:

Keyword research is the most important part of the research process!!!You need to find the keywords that have a competition of less than 30000 competing pages and that is hard, but not impossible….Keywords are what your buyers type into the search engines…For example….If you are promoting baby bjorn carrier, you do not want to come up under baby blue carriers, but you want to to be on the first three pages of Google for Baby Bjorn Carrier. Preferably in the top 10. We will cover some optimisation techniques in later tutorials. To get people to click on your link you need to target particular keywords. 

Your titles need to be in the following format:

Baby Bjorn Carrier | Discount Baby Bjorn Carrier | Cheap Baby Bjorn Carrier

You use your title keyword when ranking within the search engines. This will be covered in later tutorials. We will cover how to get on the first page of google for your keyword phrases but for now you need to find the most SEARCHED on keyword to get our niche market store up and running before we market. Basically though we want minimum of 40-50 searches a day and as we grow our websites for different niches these become 400-500 hundred searches a day and further increase. This ultimately means more money then a lot more money then a lot lot more money for us for repeating our niche building process.

Here are a few more basic examples of what we need:

We get into purchasing mode….Now think of what would you type in if you are searching for a particular product? 

If it is Baby Carriers, what specific brand would you type in and what keywords keywords?   

If someone wanted to buy a humidifier… They may type in ‘can a humidifier help with allergies’?  Which humidifier is good for allergies?

if you were wanting a computer…What will people type in?  best dell computer? Dell computer vs. Intel., cheap dell computer, discounted dell computer, are dell computer any good, which is better dell computer or intel computer. etc…

Now check the competition? do you have less than 50000 competing websites? The lower the better

Get a list of 10 keyword phrases.

if you are unsure of a product to choose then ALWAYS choose the products with a higher saleable value as this gives you extra money for each sale.

Another good research resource to check out is google trends. They give a trend for the product searches during the year. ie. if you are selling barbies then the trend would show low sales between september-april with an upturn during the spring and summer.

Well thats it for this lesson, so go and act now on the information and start making money from home today

The Build a niche store scripts can be purchased here

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BANS - Making Money Online - Lesson 1

Hi this is the first part of my BANS [Build a niche store] making money online tutorial series.

First we will cover the item that we need to ensure our success.

1) Build a niche store scripts for our site. These can be found here: BANS STORE

2) Compatible hosting. This needs to have the following

php 4.0+ or above, mysql, cpanel

We recommend that you use hostgator hosting as this is guarenteed 100% compatible. Hostgator Hosting

3) A domain name is essential here. Choose a domain name with your niche in the words and choose a .com or .net domain.

4) Tools: Install the ‘flock’ browser and the ‘google’ notebook, seo, alexa addins.

5) Affiliate accounts that you will need:

Ebay partner network -> signup here

Google adsense -> signup here

I would also suggest signing up for amazon, commision junction and clickbank accounts for extra revenue.

If you don’t know what affiliate marketing is then here is a brief description of how it works.

What you have is several hundred products that are being sold by hundred of retailers. these retailers advertise those products in the usual way and make profits from those products when they are sold.

However, they also recruit other to sell their product for them and when they sell them they receive a %age of the cost agreed previous to the sale. Most retailers have a %age setout for their products.

When you sell a product for a retailer the customer goes to the retailers site and a ‘cookie’ is saved on the customer pc that identifies which affiliate has sent them to the site, so that when the product is sold the affiliate (thats you) get a payment based on the percentage agreed.

Basically that is it.. You get the customers to come through your site and they find a product they like and ‘click’, the cookie is saved and the browser takes them to the item. They buy it and the retailer gets paid and you get your percentage of the sale.

So when we come to ebay you simply promote products that other sellers are selling and you get a cut of the money when it is sold. On your site you also have other adverts that your also promote and make commisions off.

It is really that simple and is the easiest way to make money from home

next lesson I will show you how to do keyword research for your site to attract your customers in there thousands.

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Build Niche Store

Build niche store – Making Money Online

What is a niche store?

This may be your first question followed by “How can I make money from a niche store?” Well I will answer both of these questions now.

A Build niche store or BANS for short consist of a set of PHP scripts that connect dynamically to EBay though the EBay API. You site has a MySQL database that stores all your shop configuration details and data. So why would you want to choose to host a Build a Niche Store Site?

BANS is a excellent engine for driving focused online customers to your web site to buy goods. Goods by the way that you do not stock or provide customer service for, but get paid commission on if they sell within eBay. A win.. win.. Situation I call it.

So what are the features of Build a niche store?

1) It is incredibly easy to build store after store and this can be achieved very very quickly after the steps involved have been learnt through the building of your very first store.

2) You have an absolutely huge base of products to choose from. EBay is the largest marketplace in the world. You can choose even choose which country to target.

3) The products displayed are dynamically updated 24 hours a day

4) The costs of running a build niche store is minimal and you can run 20 or even 30 stores at the same time in the same hosting space.

You can start up your very own BANS store for less than 200 dollars and have your store up and fully running within an hour. This will create your base store from which you can upload a banner and change various colours to suit the products that you have targeted. The base store comes with templates but additional themed templates can also be purchased. You must understand that the store you can create within an hour IS a fully functioning store that people can purchase goods through and you will get paid for those purchases.

You store itself can target any niche that you decide to promote, you can even target top eBay sellers specifically if you wish. If you don’t know which niche to target you can always go to eBay and check the most searched items (http://pulse.ebay.com) and choose a category with a particular niche audience. Imagine the number of niches available? Well there are thousand upon thousand of them making your choice pretty infinite.

What are the start up costs?

We need the following:

- Build niche store scripts

- BANS compatible hosting service that allows multiple stores to be hosted

- Domain name

Build a niche store scripts

The build a niche store script themselves cost $97 and this includes free support and updates for ever!! The licence also allows you to create as many stores as you want for yourself on as many domains as you own.

BANS Hosting

Hosting can cost as little as $8 a month if purchased for a year. You could use free hosting if you wish but if you’re serious about making an online business that will grow then I would personally NOT go with free hosting. I will recommend a hosting company at the end of this article which I have used to over 2 years without a single problem and the support they provide is top rate.

Domain Name

This can be purchased with your hosting or if you already have a domain it can be transferred in (change you domain name servers to point to the new web space).

So the important question!! How much money can I expect to make?

At the end of the day it’s all down to money and how much can be made from your stores. Currently I have around 14 stores which bring in an average of $200 a day at present. In the next year I hope to extend this to 30 stores which will increase this amount. The thing to remember here though is that once the store has been created then we do not need to keep modifying that store. It is in effect just generating money from that point and we are off to create a new store to increase that income.

So go out do some research on the type of store you want to do, buy a build niche store licence and hosting then start making some serious money. I will be creating some additional posts on traffic generation to your bans store and how to get this for free, so make sure you bookmark us or subscribe to our RSS feeds.

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Build a niche store weekly reviews

Here we look at the best blog posts this week:

• Build A Niche Store Case Study: Day 1 - Today is the start of my Build a Niche Store Case Study where I’ll outline step-by-step what I do to try and make money with BANS. I’ll provide updates on the domains I use, different methods of marketing I use and how much money each …
• The Best Keyword Research Analysis Tools - In Affiliate Marketing, choosing the right niche and using the right keywords is key to the game. For the complete newbie, keywords are the words and search phrases potential customers type into the search engines (Google, Yahoo, …

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