Author Archive
The Key to Success With BANS - Build a Niche Store
Backlinks!
Lets face it without backlinks you are going nowhere fast. The best looking store or the store with the most content will not win the race, you have to get backlinks. The more backlinks your BANS store has the more you are going to make. To get your anchored backlinks you should be doing directory […]
Desktop ePN Report Reader
Here is the new version of the “Desktop Report Reader”. It will work with the new reporting at the eBay Partner Network. It is not fancy, but will let you take a look at your transaction details and give you a link to the item sold.
ePN Desktop Reader
To get your transaction details go to ePN […]
eBay Partner Network Forum
We have added a new section to our forum for the eBay Partner network. Please join sign up and join in, we hope to have a very busy and useful forum in the near future. To do this we need your help, if you find any information on our site useful do us a favor […]
Add PHP to Build a Niche Store Content Pages
If you are using BANS then you know that you can not add php into the content areas in your admin panel. All is not lost though, you can easily add a couple of lines of code to call php files. We will get to that in a moment.
Lets talk about why we […]
Customizing Your BANS Header
There are lots of questions on the BANS forum about customizing your template, one of them that I have been active in and trying to help with is customizing the header. First lets talk about that big area on your site. Most people just make up some type of graphic to fill in […]
Desktop CJ Report Reader
The day I got this back from the programmer I got the email from Ebay about the new Ebay Partner Network. Bad timing and luck on my part, but here it is anyway.
CJ Report Reader
Please stop by our new forum and say hello/thanks, it needs your help(its a ghost town).
You are free to use […]
New Forum Dedicated to phpBay, Build a Niche Store and PopShops
We have finally set up our new forum dedicated to phpBay, Build a Niche Store(BANS) and PopShops. It is just a default install of vBulletin, no fancy skins or headers. Having just set it up, it is of course a ghost town, but I hope with the popularity of the 3 programs that […]
Ebay Affiliate Program Moving In House - Is It a Good Move?
Cutting the middleman out of the Ebay affiliate program is a great move for Ebay, in my opinion. The cost of having the program at CJ must have been tremendous.
This is also great news for affiliates. Moving the program in house tells me that Ebay is committed to keeping the program going and to […]
Check Your BANS Stores in Multiple Browsers
When you start tweaking your BANS templates to get the perfect layout you need to check them in multiple browsers. The two most popular being Internet Explorer and Firefox. I would at, the very least, make sure the site looks good across both IE and FF. You may only get 10% of […]
Ebay Category Changes - Build a Niche Store and phpBay
You have your niche affiliate empire up and running on auto pilot, right? Well not exactly, my 2 favorite programs(Build a Niche Store and phpBay) use Ebay category numbers to pull in products. When Ebay rolls out category changes this can alter your store if you are using the category number that has […]
