The more that I play this internet game the more I see affiliate marketing is the way to go. With affiliate marketing, you don’t have to deal with customers. You don’t have to make quotes, email receipts, or answer phones. The thing about having an ecommerce type site is you really become slave to your customer. I’m very service oriented so if a customer calls in and needs a quote, I hop to it right away. If your business is open from 9 to 5, then you have to be ready and willing to serve your customers from 9 to 5. You can’t just tell a customer, “Can I call you back in about two hours? My friends and I are trying to finish a round of golf at the moment.” (more…)

For those of you who have been keeping up with my posts. I was doing an experiment between two of my BANS sites. Site A, I used more of an aggressive link building strategy. I acquired a greater quantity of links then site B. Here are my stats: (more…)

For those of you who are already Ebay Affiliates you know that Ebay is moving their affiliate program in-house. Ebay has been using Commission Junction and Value Click to manage their affiliate programs. For me using BANS + Ebay + Commission Junction has been the easiest affiliate program set up that I’ve been involved with. I’ve never made money so quickly with such little effort. (more…)

A couple of posts ago I talked about how I promote my BANS sites. For site A I did free directory submissions, while site B I did paid directory submissions. Here are the results:

For the month of February I had 363 unique visitors for site B. Site A had 252. Visitors found site B under 106 search phrases while site A was only found under 12 search phrases. So far I have made I’ve made $0.68 off of site B and $0.35 off of site A. And just so you know, I submitted site B to the following directories:

SEOMA

and

Zir Directory

I’m going to submit it to more directories. I might just bump this experiment and start submitting site A to paid directories also.

Right now, I have two BANS sites that are under main domains. And then I have a handful of BANS sites that are located in sub directories under domains. Today we will focus on the sites that are under the main domains. I’m doing an experiment between 2 sites. Both site A and B have been Stumbled. On site A, I have been using a more agressive link buidling strategy. I’ve been trading links and doing free directory submissions. The free directory submissions was a 200 directory submission package from someone on Digitalpoint. I’ve also done some article submissions. Site A, in my opinion has a lesser link quality than the links I’ve acquired for site B.

On site B, The only free directories that I submitted the site to were niche specific directories. The rest of the links that I received were from quality paid directores. When I submit my sites to paid directories, I usually won’t submit them to a category that doesn’t have at least a PR of 0. Google has really been doing some weird stuff towards directories.  I used to be king of free directory submissions.  I would pay people to submit my site to directories for me.  I’m starting to get leary of those kind of submissions services.  They tend to submit your site to the junkiest of directories.  A lot of free directories will accept just about any site into their directory.  You almost have to submit to directories yourself so that you get in the best quality.  Anyways, thats what my experiment is about.  I will let you know how things go.

I just bought BANS 2 or 3 weeks back. Here’s what I think about it Pros and Cons.

Pros:

• BANS is very search engine friendly.
• BANS is really easy to set up.
• Adding Adsense is super simple

Cons:

• In order to make a commision a person must click on an item listed on your BANS site and then win the auction or sign up for Ebay. This is really my only con.

One of my BANS sites I’ve already been getting some pretty sweet traffic. I figure I will offset the above con by allowing people to sign up for BANS on my site. I’m going to put up a badge like so (affiliate):

As of right now, I made one sell.  I got a huge commission of $0.35.  And I earned $.08 of Adsense.  Yeah, I know, I’m rolling in the dough :)  I figure I’ll keep promoting until I start earning some sweet moola.  Overall I think BANS is great.  All you have to do is design and promote.  I’ll keep you updated on how my sites are going.