How to Create a Single RSS Feed for BANS?

If a blog/website has no content, then it is dead. So it is very important to add fresh content in your blog/website. Updating your blog/website regularly will not only give your visitors a reason to come back but also attract search engines to visit your blog/website often. Thus it will help indexing your blog/website right away.

Adding a rss feed to a BANS site is one way to provide fresh content to your visitors. I was able to implement a single rss feed to my BANS store. I followed this article, How to Add a Single RSS Content Page to Your Site?, to accomplish the task. It is pretty straightforward process. If for any reason that you run into any problem, let me know in the comment section.

Free Tips for Promoting Your BANS Site

After reading some information in Build a Niche Store (BANS) forum, I get a general idea of how to promote my BANS site. Actually there are ideas all over the Internet that you can adapt to promote you BANS site. Check out the following list to see how you can be benefited from it:

• Submit your BANS' URL to the following search engines:
  Google also submit to Google Webmaster Tool
  Yahoo also submit to Yahoo Site Explorer
  MSN also submit to MSN Webmaster Center
  

• Submit your articles to the following article directories:
  http://www.GoArticles.com
  http://www.ArticleBlast.com
  http://www.EzineArticles.com
  http://www.eHow.com
  http://www.EasyArticles.com
  http://www.ArticleDashBoard.com
  http://www.ValuableContent.com
  http://www.Article99.com
  
  
• Use Squidoo to promote your BANS. Creating an account is Free and easy.
  

• Use Kaboodle to promote your BANS sites. Read this article to find out how you can implement it.
  
  
• Use Yahoo! Answer to promote your BANS sites. Find out how here.
  
  
• Don't forget to join your BANS niche related forums to promote it.
  
  
• Use social networks to promote your BANS site:
  http://www.myspace.com
  http://www.facebook.com
  http://www.linkedin.com
  http://www.digg.com
  http://delicious.com
  http://www.stumbleupon.com
  http://www.reddit.com
  http://technorati.com
  
  
• Use videos to promote your BANS site:
  http://www.youtube.com
  http://video.google.com
  http://vids.myspace.com
  http://video.msn.com
  http://video.aol.com
  http://www.metacafe.com
  http://video.search.yahoo.com
• Use your own blog to promote your BANS site.
  

These are the tips that can be used to promote your BANS site and they are Free. I will add more to this post in the future.

Update: Just learn this trick that you can get back links from sites like Domain Tools, Alexa, and WhoIs. All you have to do is to get the links shown as below and list them in you own blog. Just like the following examples. Googlebot will crawl your blog and thus give you back links:

http://whois.domaintools.com/airlineticketswithus.com
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=airlineticketswithus.com
http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=airlineticketswithus&tld=com

Make sure you replace the highlighted parts with your own domains.

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Progress in My Build a Niche Store

Progress in My Build a Niche Store

9/27/08
In these three weeks I've done the following things to optimize my BANS' site - Travel Deals on EBay:

1. Everyday I read as much information as I can in BANS' private forum; it includes tips and strategies that some BANS' members have contributed.

2. Find some one-way links to promote Travel Deals on EBay.

3. Submit it to the major directories such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

4. Submit it to other directories other than Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

5. Submit it to Google Webmaster Tool account and observe its stats.

6. Submit it to Yahoo Site Explorer and its feed too.

7. Promote each page by providing some unique contents to it.

Actually Travel Deals on EBay was indexed by Google the next day after it went live. Now a couple of pages have shown zero out of ten for Google's PageRank. There are 13 out of 22 links being indexed by Google. Yahoo has indexed only one. I am still waiting for MSN to index Travel Deals on EBay. Still no sale yet; but I have good feeling that it will be soon.

10/4/08
Here are the things that I observed with my BANS so far.
- Google put my BANS site in sandbox - Now only 6 out of 23 links in airlineticketswithus.com were being indexed.
- Yahoo indexed 6 out of 23 links so far. One person searched "airline ticket agent" in Yahoo search engine and found Travel Deals on EBay today.
- MSN still did not index any links for Travel Deals on EBay yet.

10/11/08
I changed a new theme and customized it a little bit. I added more content to my BANS site and created a Links page which is used to exchange links with any relevant sites.
- Google still put my BANS site in sandbox - I checked my server site's Latest Visitors Logs, I found out that Googlebot did visiting 6 links of my BANS site but no indexing was listed.
- Yahoo indexed 5 links instead 6 this week.
- I submitted my BANS site to MSN's Webmaster Center. According to the Latest Visitors Logs in my sever, MSNbot did visiting one or two links of my BANS site since then; but it did not index any links of that site.

10/18/08
This week I added more content to my BANS site. I still did not get any replies from the reciprocal websites I've listed in my Links page yet.
- Google still has not listed any links of my BANS site yet. However, Googlebot has actively crawled the site.
- Yahoo indexed 3 links. It decreased from 6 to 3 links this week. According to Latest Visitors Logs in my server, 'cheap airline tickets eBay' and 'travel' are two key words/phrases people typed in search engines for my BANS site to show up. However it only showed up for two days. Now they are disappeared without a trace.
- The good news is MSN has finally indexed my BANS home page in its search result. Try it you'll see it when you typed 'site:airlineticketswithus.com' in its search engine.

10/25/08
- This week I did not do much for my BANS site. I think I'll leave it alone for a while.
- Still no replies from any sites that I had included in Links of my BANS site.
- Google's sandbox was still in effect.
- Yahoo really picked up my BANS site. It indexed 25 pages as this moment. I am really happy about that.
- MSN still showed 1 page which is the main page of my BANS site. Someone typed "bids for bargains branson missouri" in Live Search and found my BANS site.
- Besides these three major search engines, I saw other search robots visiting my BANS site as well.

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Create a Store Using BANS' Software

Actually I learned Build a Niche Store (BANS) back in 2007 but I did not buy it till now. I've just created a new store using BANS' software. Take a look here: Travel Deals On eBay. What do you think? Actually building a store like that is really easy with BANS' software. However optimizing a site like that needs a little bit effort.

Once you bought the software, it would allow you to download it right away. It is a zipped file so you need to unzip it first. It includes four files and eleven folders. Each folders contains files related to a country name that you can promote from eBay Partner Network. For example, if you want to promote US products, then you will have to choose a folder named US Store. BANS' Install Manual will walk you through of how to install BANS in your server. Its User Manual will show you how to build and develop your new store from inside your BANS admin cpanel.

Travel Deals On eBay is the first store I've set up. I will let you know how things go.

Update: If you want to follow up how I've been doing with my Build a Niche Store (BANS). Read this post to find out more: Progress in My Build a Niche Store.

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Earn Money Online With BANS?

What is BANS?

Have you ever heard Build a Niche Store (BANS)? I've been researching and found a lot of positive things about it. So what is BANS actually? It is a software which enables you to build content based stores/websites that generate income through the eBay affiliate programs.

How does BANS work?

After you pay one-time-fee for the software ($97), you'll receive an "unlimited site license" which allows you to build as many stores as you want. BANS will never charge you another licensing fee for any other niche stores you build and its support is superior from its private forum.

What are the requirements for building BANS?

First of all you need to be an eBay affiliate registered through the eBay Partner Network. You will also need Linux/Unix hosting with MySQL database access. BANS is created based on using a website host called HostGator; but you can use other hosts as well. You will need your own domain name. You can get cheaper deals from GoDaddy but don't host your website with it. I heard people have problems hosting with it. The user manual from BANS explains all of this in more depth. If you are new to building websites, it will walk you through registering your first domain name and setting up your hosting account.

What is BANS's refund policy?

Build a Niche Store is a software sold through ClickBank.com - a specialized retailer of online digital products. For any reason that you don't like this software, ClickBank will allow you to get your refund back within 8 weeks from the date of purchase. After 8 weeks all sales are final.

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