Setting up BANS has never been so easy. When you first start using Bans its really important for you guys to make sure you are not just setting up a store completely default and walking away. You need to make sure you are making pages, and also that you are getting detailed with the categories you are working.
This is just one key to making money on the internet. Adsense is also great, but for now I am just going to be focused on BANS. We have so much to cover. Let the questions rip cause I know you got em!
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Cool thanks for the input Justin. What tools are you using to verify search volume for keywords you are interested in going for? I have used several and wondered which one you have had the best luck with. Some of them seem to be all over the place so some times they can be hard to trust.
Michael, I use a combination of them. I will use the adwords external tool for one, I also use keyword discovery, and also the SEO book search tool as well. Vic has also mentioned the good Keywords tool as well. I like to just use them all in combination and get an idea. Remember too, with bans its good to get links across the board for all your pages. That way you can get traffic to multiple pages, and if one doesnt come through for you another will.
I got my eBay affiliate ID last night. I never had one before(no CJ). I’m really new and I’m from Canada. I submitted in the early morning when they opened the new site. I give this info for those that are still waiting. So, they are starting and it’s a matter of time now.
Yes, it a copy and paste from a comment I made on Vic’s blog
Happy BANSing! (new verb )
When you select a category for BANS, will ebay “populate” your BANS site with all the products currently available in that category? What if you don’t want every product available, but only want to select specific ones…can you do that, and would you advise that?
Do you use the free keyword discovery or do you use the paid version? I have been using paid version of wordze, free version of keyword discovry and the SEO book search tool. None of them have been in the same ballpark lately which is weird I think.
Yes Michael I tend to love free, this is only because I have gotten a feel for what works and also looking at the competition and knowing that I can rank or not. I still recommend looking across the board at all of them however to get an idea. I don’t think that one of these tools is ever 100% accurate.
John, there is a great feature that I think a lot of people have not realized. it can create multiple categories in a store. When you add a 2 in the category area of your bans, It will add a drop box to put multiple categories. This will allow you to make lots of various categories for your bans store. I will mention it in a future post in more detail.
Justin congratulations for creating this site. I immediately bookmarked it and it’s sitting now next to Vic’s site and several others that I read as soon as they are updated.
I recently did purchase Bans and did play around with it for a while. Set up my first store and encountered a problem. Sometimes the store is loading slow, so slow that it takes minutes before something is shown. But sometimes it loads super fast.
I don’t know what to make of this and thought that maybe you had heard of it ? The site is running as the only site on a dedicated server so it should not be a cpu / bandwidth problem.
Martin, I really doubt it has anything to do with bandwidth at all. Can you tell me when it started happening? Also keep in mind that the BANS store is pulling from ebay, so if ebay is slow, then pulling the feed might take time.
Fill out the contact form and I will take a look at the site for you.
Do you just mean removing the words? If you go to the ‘Template’ tab and click on header.php. Then near the bottom it says “sponsored links”. Just delete that and save it.
Is it just today that this has been happening? There were problems with everyone’s BANS sites earlier today. The consensus seemed to be that it was an eBay feed problem to do with the updates. My sites seem to be working fine now, though.
Steve, i got rejected. Do you mind sharing what to write to get them to approve it. And what do you select? Websites? Natural traffic or something like that? I cant find your comment on Vic’s. Thanks in advance
So you do your search on eBay first and then decide to get your domain. So for instance, would you get a domain name for cookbooks or would you go for a more concentrated domain name?
Denise, I would first check preowned domains first and see if the word cookbook would be in the name, then if I can’t find a good domain that was related in some way with age to it I would move on to getting a new domain. Then I would choose a domain that had the word cookbook in it. If I was focusing on just pampered chef cookbooks, then yes I would try to find a domain for example pamperedchefbook.com or pamperedchefcooking.com or something like that, however I am fond of as short of a domain name as I can get if it looks like it could have a high selling price later on.
at the risk of being a complete dumbass… I have a question about the ebay affiliate id. I went to CJ and tried to sign up for the ebay aff. program but they rejected me instantly. however, when going to ebay and signing up for their affiliate program straight away, I did get accepted without a problem.
Is this the same id needed for making bans sites, and if so, I have a huge problem locating my actual affiliate ID from ebay when I signed up directly.
please help because I would really like to give the BANS a try but am hesitant to pay for BANS while I am not sure if I have signed up for ebay the right way…
You’ve done the right thing, don’t panic. eBay have just switched away from CJ, which is why you got rejected. The ID you need isn’t called an affiliate ID anymore, it’s a Campaign ID. They’re just doing it to confuse us, I’m sure.
great, thanks for that speedy reply!
Vic just answered me on his blog aswell,
but still have a question, the campaign ID, do I just use the default campaign ID number assigned by ebay, under the campaign section, or should I be creating a different campaign ID manually for every different bans site?
HI Justin. Great video. One of my sites (www.bowlersuniverse.net) has been loading very slowly lately. The sidebar, header, footer load quickly but the page body is slow. Could it be my hosting company or ebay? I don’t have a problem with my other sites that are all hosted on the same account.
Jay, I really doubt it has anything to do with the hosting if the other sites all load fast. remember its the ebay feed that is being pulled up. I wouldnt worry about it too much. Plus all your pages loaded quickly for me.
just curious, why do you have all the adsense on that site? I would take the adsense off of it. Also I would be adding listings on the homepage for bowling. Just a thought.
Well the best way now to track BANS sites is with the new Ebay partner network. It allows you to create unique campaigns which can track how many impressions, clicks etc…
Thanks Justin for answering the question about tracking in Bans. I have another one. When you are spidering your site with BMD before you a run, how do you keep it from picking up all the URLs to the products? They show as if they are a URL of your site but in fact they must be a redirect to Ebay.
Yes Mel, that is ok though. They will tag as a URL to your site if you have the option in your admin set to cloak affiliate ID. After spidering the links just delete the ones that you do not want to tag. remember we only one or 2 hidden within other links we add to be bookmarked, that way your site does not get suspended from the Bookmarking sites. But scuttles do not matter, you can run them hard.
update: here is a partial answer to what I did for spidering with BMD to get rid of the product links. I had it only spider one level so it got all my real URLs. It also picked up the products on the first page. I then went back and deleted the product URLs from the file it created. The resulting file has only my real URLs… At least that is a work around unless you know a better way.
just looking through Ebay can pretty much help you to get your mind in the right frame to find little niches that are perfect. this is what I usually do.
I can tell you that if something only gets 4 or 5 searches a day and I know I can rank first for it pretty quickly I will go for it. I do not care. The little stuff adds up
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Cool thanks for the input Justin. What tools are you using to verify search volume for keywords you are interested in going for? I have used several and wondered which one you have had the best luck with. Some of them seem to be all over the place so some times they can be hard to trust.
Michael, I use a combination of them. I will use the adwords external tool for one, I also use keyword discovery, and also the SEO book search tool as well. Vic has also mentioned the good Keywords tool as well. I like to just use them all in combination and get an idea. Remember too, with bans its good to get links across the board for all your pages. That way you can get traffic to multiple pages, and if one doesnt come through for you another will.
Great example on how to find EBay stuff. You could of course also do the whole exercise backwards.
Thanks Monika, maybe I should try it backwards just for the fun of it. Maybe i should sit backwards too. LOL!
I got my eBay affiliate ID last night. I never had one before(no CJ). I’m really new and I’m from Canada. I submitted in the early morning when they opened the new site. I give this info for those that are still waiting. So, they are starting and it’s a matter of time now.
Yes, it a copy and paste from a comment I made on Vic’s blog
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Happy BANSing! (new verb
Thanks Justin for the informative video.
When you select a category for BANS, will ebay “populate” your BANS site with all the products currently available in that category? What if you don’t want every product available, but only want to select specific ones…can you do that, and would you advise that?
Thanks in advance.
Do you use the free keyword discovery or do you use the paid version? I have been using paid version of wordze, free version of keyword discovry and the SEO book search tool. None of them have been in the same ballpark lately which is weird I think.
Yes Michael I tend to love free, this is only because I have gotten a feel for what works and also looking at the competition and knowing that I can rank or not. I still recommend looking across the board at all of them however to get an idea. I don’t think that one of these tools is ever 100% accurate.
John, there is a great feature that I think a lot of people have not realized. it can create multiple categories in a store. When you add a 2 in the category area of your bans, It will add a drop box to put multiple categories. This will allow you to make lots of various categories for your bans store. I will mention it in a future post in more detail.
Justin congratulations for creating this site. I immediately bookmarked it and it’s sitting now next to Vic’s site and several others that I read as soon as they are updated.
I recently did purchase Bans and did play around with it for a while. Set up my first store and encountered a problem. Sometimes the store is loading slow, so slow that it takes minutes before something is shown. But sometimes it loads super fast.
I don’t know what to make of this and thought that maybe you had heard of it ? The site is running as the only site on a dedicated server so it should not be a cpu / bandwidth problem.
keep it up,
Martin
Great vid Justin, thanks for the tips. How do you remove the “sponsored links” from the left navigation bar when setting up your store?
Susan can you please explain what you mean? do you not want to see all the listings under a specific category?
Martin, I really doubt it has anything to do with bandwidth at all. Can you tell me when it started happening? Also keep in mind that the BANS store is pulling from ebay, so if ebay is slow, then pulling the feed might take time.
Fill out the contact form and I will take a look at the site for you.
Do you just mean removing the words? If you go to the ‘Template’ tab and click on header.php. Then near the bottom it says “sponsored links”. Just delete that and save it.
Is it just today that this has been happening? There were problems with everyone’s BANS sites earlier today. The consensus seemed to be that it was an eBay feed problem to do with the updates. My sites seem to be working fine now, though.
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I want to remove the sponsored links at the bottom of the navigation bar, just below where the links to your categories and subcategories would go.
I won’t adding adsense to this site, so I don’t want the sponsored links header to show in that column.
Thanks, found it.
Steve, i got rejected. Do you mind sharing what to write to get them to approve it. And what do you select? Websites? Natural traffic or something like that? I cant find your comment on Vic’s. Thanks in advance
So you do your search on eBay first and then decide to get your domain. So for instance, would you get a domain name for cookbooks or would you go for a more concentrated domain name?
Do you ever use the top ten searches?
Denise, I would first check preowned domains first and see if the word cookbook would be in the name, then if I can’t find a good domain that was related in some way with age to it I would move on to getting a new domain. Then I would choose a domain that had the word cookbook in it. If I was focusing on just pampered chef cookbooks, then yes I would try to find a domain for example pamperedchefbook.com or pamperedchefcooking.com or something like that, however I am fond of as short of a domain name as I can get if it looks like it could have a high selling price later on.
at the risk of being a complete dumbass… I have a question about the ebay affiliate id. I went to CJ and tried to sign up for the ebay aff. program but they rejected me instantly. however, when going to ebay and signing up for their affiliate program straight away, I did get accepted without a problem.
Is this the same id needed for making bans sites, and if so, I have a huge problem locating my actual affiliate ID from ebay when I signed up directly.
please help because I would really like to give the BANS a try but am hesitant to pay for BANS while I am not sure if I have signed up for ebay the right way…
You’ve done the right thing, don’t panic. eBay have just switched away from CJ, which is why you got rejected. The ID you need isn’t called an affiliate ID anymore, it’s a Campaign ID. They’re just doing it to confuse us, I’m sure.
Justin: I hope you don’t mind me jumping in.
Woodshed, not at all, and as a matter of fact i have a new video about this coming up in about 30 mins. LOL!
great, thanks for that speedy reply!
Vic just answered me on his blog aswell,
but still have a question, the campaign ID, do I just use the default campaign ID number assigned by ebay, under the campaign section, or should I be creating a different campaign ID manually for every different bans site?
Funny you ask, please give me just a little more time and I am putting up the video to answer that.
great thank you! will try and be patient lol, good thing to know the questions are valid ones though ;):D
HI Justin. Great video. One of my sites (www.bowlersuniverse.net) has been loading very slowly lately. The sidebar, header, footer load quickly but the page body is slow. Could it be my hosting company or ebay? I don’t have a problem with my other sites that are all hosted on the same account.
Regards,
Jay
Jay, I really doubt it has anything to do with the hosting if the other sites all load fast. remember its the ebay feed that is being pulled up. I wouldnt worry about it too much. Plus all your pages loaded quickly for me.
just curious, why do you have all the adsense on that site? I would take the adsense off of it. Also I would be adding listings on the homepage for bowling. Just a thought.
Justin, what do you use for tracking in your Bans sites? I appreciate what you are doing.
Well the best way now to track BANS sites is with the new Ebay partner network. It allows you to create unique campaigns which can track how many impressions, clicks etc…
Thanks Justin for answering the question about tracking in Bans. I have another one. When you are spidering your site with BMD before you a run, how do you keep it from picking up all the URLs to the products? They show as if they are a URL of your site but in fact they must be a redirect to Ebay.
Yes Mel, that is ok though. They will tag as a URL to your site if you have the option in your admin set to cloak affiliate ID. After spidering the links just delete the ones that you do not want to tag. remember we only one or 2 hidden within other links we add to be bookmarked, that way your site does not get suspended from the Bookmarking sites. But scuttles do not matter, you can run them hard.
update: here is a partial answer to what I did for spidering with BMD to get rid of the product links. I had it only spider one level so it got all my real URLs. It also picked up the products on the first page. I then went back and deleted the product URLs from the file it created. The resulting file has only my real URLs… At least that is a work around unless you know a better way.
Thanks Justin. I really appreciate your availability and your answers.
where’s the video on keyword research? Vic lead me to believe you had one on it. That scoundrel ;-P
just looking through Ebay can pretty much help you to get your mind in the right frame to find little niches that are perfect. this is what I usually do.
if a keyword only has say 15 searches on freekeywordtracker, 10 pages on google and about 200 items on ebay, would you pursue it?
whats your minimum threshold for targeting a keyword. 5 hits/day, 200hits/day?maybe you can make a video on this topic.
I can tell you that if something only gets 4 or 5 searches a day and I know I can rank first for it pretty quickly I will go for it. I do not care. The little stuff adds up
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Hey Justin, thanks for the video. I have been overthinking my choices on what to choose for my bans sites, LOL! You make it look so easy!
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