tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65965279783917486922024-02-18T17:39:23.629-08:00Niche Store MarketingNeed Help marketing your Niche Store. Many Web Masters build Gadget Niche Stores for MP3 Players, Cameras,Antiques the list is endless. Without proper SEO and Internet marketing the typical niches will not make to the front pages of Google, Yahoo, and MSN's search engines. Niche Store Marketing is here to help get to the front page of major search engines.BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-14953468466076835412012-05-25T03:46:00.000-07:002012-05-25T03:56:10.226-07:00The best way Azon WP Theme may Assist Internet marketers Acquire Traffic with High Conversion Rate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For example, coworkers will be able to publish their organization’s blog on Blogger, share project images with Picasa Web Albums, track industry news in Google Reader, advertise online with AdWords and much more, all without switching back and forth between multiple accounts. While these additional applications won’t initially be covered by the core suite’s support and service level agreement, this change will open up the spectrum of Google’s functionality to businesses, schools and organizations using Google Apps and we’ll evaluate future support options.<br />
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We intend to have all Standard, Premier and Education Edition customers moved to the new infrastructure that enables this change in the fall, and customers who would like more control over the timing of this change will be able to make the switch voluntarily during the summer.<br />
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This will be a significant overhaul to our underlying systems and we want to make this transition as seamless as possible for customers. We’ll be sharing information in advance so Google Apps admins can plan ahead which additional Google services users can access with their accounts and other aspects of this roll-out. Stay tuned here for further updates in the coming weeks and months, and visit our Help Center for more details.<br />
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Posted by Dennis Troper, Product Management Director, Google Apps <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-google-applications-coming-for.html" rel=Nofollow">Source</a>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-246530344693671702010-03-31T19:04:00.000-07:002010-03-31T19:04:50.269-07:00WireFly Shuts Down Affiliate Program On LinkShareDear Wirefly Affiliate,<br />
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Wirefly would like to thank you for your participation in our affiliate program. Unfortunately, we have made a business decision to close our Affiliate Program with LinkShare.<br />
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Be assured that will pay for commissions earned on Shipped Phone Plans received through an affiliate link based on the terms of our Agreement, plus any earned outstanding payments currently owned to affiliates. Affiliates sales commissions will not accrue after March 31, 2010 at 5pm EST. If you have changed your contact information, please update your profile at LinkShare so you can receive your final commission check in a timely manner.<br />
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Pursuant to our Affiliate Agreement between Wirefly and you, this shall serve as our formal written notice to terminate our Wirefly Affiliate Agreement. Per our Agreement, you are required to remove any and all banners, buttons, text links, product images and store fronts that link to Wirefly by Close of Business today March 31, 2010 at 5pm EST. If you have any questions regarding this manner, please contact me.<br />
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Once again, we thank you for supporting the Wirefly Affiliate Program and appreciate your compliance with these termination provisions.<br />
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We hope these guys will open up somewhere else.BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-63462910973231679582010-03-22T14:37:00.000-07:002010-03-22T14:37:18.960-07:00Official Google Blog: A new approach to China: an update3/22/2010 12:03:00 PM<br />On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with China were being routinely accessed by third parties, most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on their computers. We also made clear that these attacks and the surveillance they uncovered—combined with attempts over the last year to further limit free speech on the web in China including the persistent blocking of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Docs and Blogger—had led us to conclude that we could no longer continue censoring our results on Google.cn.<br /><br />So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over.<br /><br />Figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard. We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement. We believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from Google.com.hk is a sensible solution to the challenges we've faced—it's entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China. We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services. We will therefore be carefully monitoring access issues, and have created this new web page, which we will update regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services are available in China.<br /><br />In terms of Google's wider business operations, we intend to continue R&D work in China and also to maintain a sales presence there, though the size of the sales team will obviously be partially dependent on the ability of mainland Chinese users to access Google.com.hk. Finally, we would like to make clear that all these decisions have been driven and implemented by our executives in the United States, and that none of our employees in China can, or should, be held responsible for them. Despite all the uncertainty and difficulties they have faced since we made our announcement in January, they have continued to focus on serving our Chinese users and customers. We are immensely proud of them.<br /><br />Posted by David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.html#links">Official Google Blog: A new approach to China: an update</a>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-82798807668040366772009-07-13T05:39:00.000-07:002009-07-13T06:24:27.385-07:00New Online Guide From The Creators Of Build A Niche Store<p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>The Number 1 Way To Make Money Online Is...</strong></span></p><p>A NEW 9 step guide called:</p><p><a href="http://nichestoremarketer.com/n1way.php">The Number 1 Way To Make Money Online</a></p><p>Put together by the creators of <a href="http://nichestoremarketer.com/bans.php">Build A Niche Store</a> (BANS) and based on their 4 1/2 years experience making money in the way the guide describes coupled with their 2 1/2 years experience helping thousands do the same through their development and support of Build A Niche Store, The Number 1 Way To Make Money Online shows you how to take a simple concept:</p><p>- Promoting other peoples products through small content based websites</p><p>And through planning , structure and commitment build an entirely new income stream that can replace your salary or if you take the model through to its conclusion - result in a 6 even 7 figure annual business.</p><p>For under $25 you get everything they know written out in a framework which you can use to start making money in this way.</p><p>A real product put together by 2 people who know what they're talking about.</p><p>Well worth checking out...</p><p><a href="http://nichestoremarketer.com/n1way.php">The Number 1 Way To Make Money Online<br /></a></p><p><a href="http://nichestoremarketer.com/n1way.php"><br /></a></p><p>We Just Recieved A <a href="http://bit.ly/OtQsW">Free E book</a> from the guys<br /></p>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-88030450728959389992009-06-14T07:17:00.000-07:002009-06-14T08:51:54.094-07:00Flipping Websites Is The Newest SEM CrazeOK so Ive been making a living on the Internet full time for many years now. Ive seen almost everything so I thought.<br />As someone who has built many websites I understand how a crappy looking site does online. Not good!<br />Man I remember when <a href="http://bit.ly/1PAVRn">BANS</a> first came out. I built some of the worst looking websites with that script. Don't get me wrong I love Build A Niche Store. The developers taught me more than you could know. Probably the best thing I ever did.<br />But anyway back to this new craze on the web Site Flipping. I have tried to flip sites in the past, but had a hard time finding places to sell then with ease. You know moving the file, domain name, changing the WHOIS listing on Site Point and so on.<br />I know people who have been doing this website flipping thing for years. They make a ton of money selling sites. The only thing is they are experts in many web fields like Wed Design, HTML, Graphics and so much more. You know the kind of people who code wordpress plugins and the like.<br />Well the other day I came across this new e learning system made just for this new craze called Site Flipping.<br />Actually the Home learning course hasn't even been released yet. The Launch is at the end of June. As I was reading some of the pre launch documentation that was released early it looks very promising for me.<br />What is it? It's a learn How to Flip Websites Code E Learning System. The two guy's developing the e learning course have been around for some time just like me and I have used products they have developed in the past.<br />What I think I'm going to do is flip my own websites with this e learning for <a href="http://siteflippingcode101.blogspot.com/">The Site flipping Code<br /></a> I have so many websites just sitting not making any money what do I have to lose?<br />The developers are starting to give out free e learning books and videos leading up to the launch day. From what Ive seen just using the free e books and reports will make me better off than I was before.<br />I guess I'm jumping on the bandwagon early. I suggest anyone else interested in making some cash off of flipping sites to give it a try. Why not most of the materials are free.<br /><br />Check it out at <a href="http://siteflippingcode101.blogspot.com/">Flipping Sites 101</a>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-50157490460466574302009-05-06T05:08:00.000-07:002009-05-06T05:18:00.488-07:00Take A Marketing Lesson From Oprah WinfreyWe all need to watch what successful people do to brand and promote themselves.<br />Look at Oprah. For Mothers Day 2009 Oprah joined with KFC to give away free meals. This women is so smart. Oprah really knows how to market herself.<br />The Oprah KFC Give Away has inundated social sites like <a href="http://twitter.com/NicheMarketer">Twitter</a>, Facebook and Myspace.<br />Giving something away is one of the best ways to get others to follow your blog or site.<br />Get two pieces of grilled chicken, two individual sides and a biscuit <a href="http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090430-tows-kfc-coupon-download">LINK</a>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-70079778337831259152009-05-01T10:19:00.001-07:002009-05-03T06:51:58.611-07:00Release Of Search and Sitemap Study Is A Gold MineIn the world of niche marketing we are always looking for information to help understand how search engines work. I always say go strait to the source. Google and sometimes Yahoo. Most webmasters would agree Google is king.<br />Google has provided one of the most important papers or study we have see in sometime. Its called, <a href="http://www2009.eprints.org/100/1/p991.pdf">Sitemaps: Above and Beyond the Crawl of Duty by Uri Shonfeld</a>. Uri presented his summer internship work studying Sitemaps from a coverage and freshness perspective. He presented the study at at the WWW'09 conference in Madrid Spain.<br />This study clearly shows how search engines follow site maps and other links on a site. It is so in depth every Web Master will learn something.<br />Search Engines are looking for certain things within a website and Niche Store Builders need to give it to them. Keeping websites fresh is a important part of this.<br />Search Engines need more than just being feed keywords these days. SE's are looking for fresh relevant content that is constantly changing and being updated.<br />If we look at the trends we all see social networking taking over. For example MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. These site are showing up in my stats more and more as backlinks. This tells us SE's are putting priority on these sites that update with fresh content constantly.<br />By setting up sitemaps and robot.txt files properly we can increase traffic and conversion should increase aswell.<br />After you read Uri's work you will have new perspective of how search engines work and how sitemaps influence them.<br />Google Webmasters Blog <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/research-study-of-sitemaps.html">LINK</a>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-23836378939745796722009-02-08T06:41:00.001-08:002009-02-08T06:59:08.312-08:00eBay To Close Unsed Accounts With No ActivityIn a announcement on the ePN Blog this week it was said that EBay Partner Network will close inactive accounts. ePN is looking for accounts that haven't had activity and will close them. A email will be sent to the users giving a 3 day notice.<br />ePN has cracked down on black hat marketers and those in violation of TOS. Though ePN said this is not a expiration it is clear they are cleaning house. Many folks start Internet Marketing sites and just give up after learning that it's real work. Sorry to say their is no such thing as a automatic money making program. SEM and SEO is work. You must update your sites and add content regularly in order to generate traffic. Hence their are lots of dormant ePN accounts.<br />It's sad that folks would let a ePN account go inactive seeing how hard it is to get a account these days. ePN is one of the best affiliates you can have.<br />If you are considering applying to ePN make sure your site is established and has relevant content before submitting a application. The vetting process ePN uses is more difficult than the one Obama's appointees go through IMO. Have your sites prepared for some heavy duty scrutinyBlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-30779976963052738532009-01-27T14:30:00.001-08:002009-01-27T14:42:58.631-08:00EBay Category Numbers Changing AgainAny affiliates using ePN should check the category numbers because they are changing once again.<br />In the past these Category changes have created havoc for some affiliates, but this update only seam to be updates, not a huge reconstruction of categories. I highly suggest you bookmark the page <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=4&campid=5336204383&toolid=10001&customid=1-1-09&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.ebay.com%2Fcategorychanges">ePN announces category changes</a> and check it every month. EBay is in constant transition and we need to be too. Be prepared and updates like this don't create huge issues as they did in the pastBlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-71943883155572576662009-01-08T05:26:00.000-08:002009-01-08T05:58:51.961-08:00Tax Time Is Coming Affiliate MarketersLots of people jump into affiliate marketing without thinking first. Remember making money on the Internet is a business and the government will want their cut.<br />Even knowing we have 3 months plus to file now is the time to gather your information. I always gather my income first. Many affiliate programs only go back one year in their reports sections. Be sure to download all your income from each and every program you have used over the last year. At the very least print the reports from your affiliates.<br />Gather your expenses. Remember you are a business like it or not. One good thing about being a money making business is that you can write off just about everything you have purchased over the last year. Just some examples would be computers, back up hard drives, scripts, hosting accounts and even pens and pencils. Any service you use to run your business online can be written off.<br />Hopefully you have saved all your invoices and email receipts from online purchases. Don't just leave them on your CPU, Print each and everyone of them.<br />One thing about the IRS is you must at least file by 4/15 each year. Even if you send a incomplete form you must atleast declare your income by then.<br />Now don't quote me on this, but if you are disabled and on disability Making Money Online as a hobby can be considered residual income which you don't need to report to SS, but you must claim it with the IRS for income tax. Thats how SS explained it to me, but call them yourself. You can't be a LLC or incorporated but you can earn money online. From what I was told is the rules about making money kick in when FICA starts. Thats when you get a job at a business and they start the process of deducting money from your pay check. SS told me if I found a Rolex Watch in the trash everyday and sold it online that would not affect a disability status, but it dose need to be reported as income with the IRS. Again if your making Money Online due to being disabled call Social Security and ask for yourself.<br />Try to remember the basics. Money comes in and money go's out. The money's that go out can be deducted from the money that comes in which is your income. The total income is what you use to determine the amount you pay tax on.<br />Start now and save yourself a huge headache in March or AprilBlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-9463707998255303142008-10-06T08:19:00.000-07:002008-10-06T08:40:11.139-07:00eBay To Cut 1000 Jobs in Q4, What's Next ?It's in all the papers and on CNBC today that eBay will cut 1000 jobs and reduce new hire positions. This only shows what we in the affiliate world have seen coming for months. With fee restricting every few month's and the loss of confidence from affiliate marketers and eBay sellers we are sure more news will be coming from the company. Look for eBay to cut back even more as the economy slides down. Common sense would dictate reducing expenses during hard times. That what all business's do. Whether it's your local builder or painter or a huge company reasoning says to cut back on money going out until money comes in. Basic business.<br />Who will suffer. Well eBay employee's for one and then stock holders. After those folks take a hit look for eBay to cut back in other place's. Were we don't know, but advertising is usually on the list when a company is having issues. According to a story on Cnet eBay just purchased a Danish classified service which would show us that they are continuing to try expanding world wide with hopes of generating revinue abroad.<br />Face it eBay isnt what it use to be. People don't spend hours browsing sites selling stuff. Internet users are becoming more sophisticated and tend to do more research before buying. With so many websites to choose products from their are only a few reasons a shopper would go directly to the site. One is close outs and another is buying used items. Also consumers are using their work computers to buy during their lunch hours or free time. Since most folks use the Internet at work these days they tend to turn their computers off at the end of the day and not turn on it back on till they need to. People are just getting sick of the same old thing online. The desire isnt there anymore to sit for hours and browse the site.BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-50857162616667319102008-09-11T17:44:00.000-07:002008-09-11T18:33:34.299-07:00ePN Blocks Hostgator Check Your Webmaster ToolsWhat a day today was in the Internet Marketing world. If you use Hostgator as your host you may have had your servers blocked by ePN/eBay. Well know one knew for sure but 100s if not 1000's of website were not pulling the API from eBay. A API if you don't know is how products or RSS feeds propagate to websites. Now at 8 PM the sites I had down are all back, but showing warnings in Google Webmaster tools.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">WARNING</span> "Some URLs in the Sitemap have a high response time. Some URLs listed in this Sitemap have a high response time. This may indicate a problem with your server or with the content of the page."<br />Resubmitting them seams to have taken care of the warnings. This started with me at 7AM EST when I couldn't get into the ePN Dashboard. I even twittered about it <a href="http://twitter.com/NicheMarketer">TWITTER</a>. Then finally after finding a way into the ePN forum I found others having issues getting into there dashboards. I shut down for a couple hours and came back and BAM I was in the ePN Dashboard. Then during a search I found that all my sites on my Hostgator Baby Croc account weren't pulling in the API feed from ebay. After reading some more I decided to send a ticket to HG and they responded as follows.<br />"Hello,This is happening because Ebay has temporarily blocked our server from connecting to their api:" The statement speaks for itself or so it seams. It turns out eBay making big changes this week and something on there servers was changed and some DNS needed time to propagate across the Web.<br />No sweat though my <a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=magpie-nichemarketing">Hostgator reseller accounts</a> where all fine all day. No issues at all. Problems like this can be avoided sometimes by having a reseller account. When you use a shared server your site are on the same server as 1000's of others. If there is someone doing bad things on that server you get bumped with everyone else on that server. I'm not saying ePN banned any server in fact they stated on the forum that they were not blocking users and that it was a routing issue.<br />This is a typical day for web masters and Internet Marketers. Some days its like walking on glass. As long as the sitemaps go through I think all is well for now. These are issues that happen all the time but can be avoided in some instances by Using a <a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=magpie-nichemarketing">Reseller Account</a>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-46809938647680507692008-08-23T13:10:00.000-07:002008-08-23T14:28:29.004-07:00Are You Ready For Changes At ePNIf you use EBay or ePN to monetize websites this past week as been very stressful and hectic. This week EBay announced that more changes are coming to the auction site. Lower upfront fee's and a huge change in search. But I'm not going to get into the changes on EBay auction though.<br />The biggest happening in the SEO & SEM community is ePN closing accounts arbitrarily. This is a though one. EBay affiliates with years with the program simply dropped Via Email and there CPanels being locked to 7 day warnings. These are trying times for those of us who use ePN for monetizing our sites. This work building websites isnt easy and takes lots of time to learn and implement. Now we are all waiting to see if ePN will be doing these, as they say "expiring" regularly. I think it will happen again, but when is the question.<br />Protect you ePN account is the 1st thing users should be doing. If you are a total newbie I do not recommend signing up for a ePN (Ebay Partner Network). Beginners really need to know exactly what they need to use ePN and keep there accounts.<br />A few things I am doing to protect myself from the axe is archive non performing campaigns. You will not get commissions from any sales, but this needs to be done. I don't know the metrics EBAY/EPN use in there decisions, but they have used statements like "tier is based at a <span style="color:#ff0000;">publisher</span> level not a campaign ID level" take what they say to heart. That quote is from the manual under value based pricing. Even though this is for value based pricing it would appear as they are possibly using it to evaluate users. If you have 25 campaigns and just one is not performing it will lower the quality rating of all the sites for that <span style="color:#ff0000;">publisher</span>. ePN says this is only for ACRU's but I'm taking no chances. As someone who has been with EBay for many years I know how valuable accounts are, so even if I have to archive all my campaigns to fell safe I will.<br />Remove all links to the sign up page. ePN said that they do no not want low performing new active registered users. This meaning users who sign up and only purchase one item then never come back or doesn't buy enough. Like today I checked my account and on one site I had 2 ACRU's but the fees Ebay charged the seller for the items sold was under $50 (2ACRU's). This scares me because if these people don't come back and spend more money I haven't generated income for the company (ebay). So I have decided to pull all the links to the sign up page on all my sites.<br />Last but not least make sure you engage your users with tons of content. Any site that is lacking should be archived as well.<br />All the ePN campaigns I have or will archive will be converted in one way or another. Some I will move to pepper Jam and some I will completely drop from ePN and find other ways to get items to my customers.<br />Once all this is done I will build specific sites that meet or beat ePN's mission. That is if I last that long. I could get the axe any minute. Doing all this may not protect me. After all some user are truly real SEM professionals with 10's of thousands of readers. I think I'm up to 50. Thanks for that you guys.<br />If you are archiving ePN Campaigns I can honestly recommend the affiliate programs in the sidebar. I use them all. Pepper Jam is the most important one for ePN now. That could change ! We all need to get backup if you haven't, start now !!!!. Sign up for some other affiliate programs NOW.BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-67102016667339074132008-08-15T11:05:00.000-07:002008-08-15T13:09:06.025-07:00In Depth Review Of US Free Ad's Free Classified Service<blockquote></blockquote>Hello everyone. Thought I would write about <a href="http://www.usfreeads.com/24130_refer.html">US Free Ads</a> today. I have been using the US Free Ad Classified Service for about 8 months now. Seeing I promote the site here a review of my experience is in order. One thing to always keep in mind when you place a promotional item on your site is to use it. You will never see me recommend or promote that I haven't used first. This is very important for any web master. You want readers to trust you. If you recommend something that is costly and you haven't used it then a reader feel they have been riped off then you the blogger trust and authority arnt worth dirt.<br />Like I said I have been using US Free Ads for some time now. I have found it to be a tremendous benefit to getting Websites indexed fast in the search engines. Google loves the site. Probably because they demand you keep thing relevant and post your ads and articles in the correct / relevant area. This is good for us because we want every thing about out site to be relative. Posting on US Free Ads is a whole other post. For now I want to show some stats.<br />First off I use a premium account. I do this mainly for the advance capabilities. The premium service dose not get you preferential treatment with ad placement. The Free Classified Service does the same thing when it come to SEO. Your links are picked up by the search engines just as a premium account.<br />For the purpose of this post I will pick out 2 sites to look at the numbers. One featured & one not.<br />Site 1's ad was placed 48 days ago in featured listings and has been viewed 1677 times. The site has been visited from the classified 572 times. according to awStats. I use Pepper Jam as my affiliate provider for site #1. PJ earning are at $240.00 to date. Now there is no direct way that my abilities allow me to draw a direct correlation between any of the numbers. I can say that the site is less than 2 months old and the only promotion I have done is US Free Ads and some signatures in forums and blog comments.<br />Site 2 is a site that was put up a few day earlier than site one. Both sites target the same product. Site 2 is a regular classified ad. Site 2 has received 432 visitors to the classified and 55 users went on to the site. Site 2 made $73.00. Site 2 is a ePN based site.<br />All in all I think these are good numbers for two sites that are about the same age. 60 days at most ! What I get out of the numbers is the site I spent a little extra money on the feature ad and made more than 3x more. But as I said the only direct correlation is the fact that the only promoting I did was US Free Ads and a couple of forum signatures and blog comments. Nothing major and all natural SEO. No PPC, Spam, or Black Hat methods. PPC is gambling to me and spam and black hat are to risky. There are certain ways to layout and present your ads and I will cover them over the next few days.<br />I hope this helps anyone who needs it.<br /><a href="http://www.usfreeads.com/" target="24130"><img height="31" alt="Classifieds" src="http://www.usfreeads.com/affiliate/banners/88-31_1.jpg" width="88" border="0" /></a>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-66678849862804343312008-08-13T13:34:00.000-07:002008-08-13T15:12:20.045-07:00All New Build A Niche Store Mission & ForumFor those Web Masters who use Build A Niche Store Software you are probably aware that the BANS website was turned off 8/10/08 for upgrading. The developers of BANS only said that they where updating the forum software and improving the way support is handled. The site was scheduled to re-open 8/13/08.<br />On 8/13 the BANS developer's sent out a Email stating they are finishing up the updates and plan on being up and running as planned.<br />The BANS Developers have also given us a preview of the changes users will see when the site opens back up.<br />Heres a quote from the pdf sent via email: "<br />We want this forum to be a positive place for moving forward with BANS...whether that be getting over the initial learning curve, expanding your understanding of the capabilities inherent in the software and how you can use them in your own site building projects or getting to grips with core development and marketing principles that will bring targeted traffic to your sites and revenue into your eBay affiliate accounts"<br />(1) First they have given a very firm reminder that the forum is for everyone. In my eyes meaning anyone who has paid for the software. Whether the user is a novice or expert webmaster everyone deserves respect in all posts. Basically no more RTFM, or some frivolous statement that dose no good for the community. Users are not obligated to reply. A similar situation to <a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/web-master-forum-politics-can-get-nasty.html">Web Master Forum Politics</a> post. I totally agree with giving this warning because if it wasn't for the BANS Forum I wouldn't know half of what I know without it. Actually I would probably still be making ZERO $. It really comes down to this, don't respond to any posts if you don't have anything good to say, or your out. Here another quote "<br />Questioning and hence learning is an acceptable (necessary) part of making progress and posts which aim to attack, belittle, undermine etc other BANS users will not be tolerated and there will be no second chances given to people who post with such attitudes " & "<br />Such forum members will simply be deleted and BANS life will continue on without them".<br />(2) Secondly the forum has become overwhelmed with advertisements. The ability to have a signature in posts is being removed. As part of the continued development of BANS and it's authority of the Niche Store concept advertisements are bad. By removing the signatures and disallowing links in posts and responses will give more authority to the responses themselves. To many users on forums hide behind a rouse of a "Have You Used This Tool" thread when all they want is to promote the product they are asking about. Or try this LINK. The days of marketing on the BANS site is over.<br />No discussion of competing products like PHPBAY and the like. Well that kinda falls into the above category and fair INMO.<br />The Build A Niche Store Forum is being rebuilt into 13 sections with Sub Sections.<br />If you are a new member or established user of BANS it would be wise to read through the entire BANS News and Community Rules threads before posting. It's a good time to get familiar with the forum before posting.<br />In closing the changes announced today should make BANS a even more valuable piece of software that will only get better. Learning how to build websites and become a proficient webmaster isnt easy. If you have never heard of BANS and are looking for a place to start for learning how to build websites Build A niche Store is the place and always was. Its just written in stone now. So if you have debated about giving bans a try now may be a good time. Try <a href="http://magpie0013.nichestore.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=BLOG">BANS</a>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-90800753874393482332008-07-28T03:19:00.000-07:002008-07-28T03:39:19.803-07:00New Search Engine CUILL AKA (Cool)Have you heard of cuill AKA COOL Search Engine. Cuill is a new search engine developed by a former Google Employee. The claim is the Cuill SE brings back 3x more results relevant to your search. As I was using Cuill it went down due to high traffic. Typical cliche's for new sites. The spelling itself should draw attention. It pronounced Cool, Spelt Cuill and has cuil.com as a URL<br /> Here's what they say about themselves.<br />"The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.<br />Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuill searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.<br />Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there. We believe that analyzing the Web rather than our users is a more useful approach, so we don’t collect data about you and your habits, lest we are tempted to peek. With Cuill, your search history is always private."<br />Cuil has a cool layout as well with a choice of 2 or 3 columns. Look nothing like Google. Cuil Also has Newer Features. Should be interesting to see what cuil will bring to Search Engine Marketing and how Web Masters SEO there pages. Check out <a href="http://www.cuil.com/">CUILL</a> AKA COOL Search.<br />After the site comes back online we will be doing a review.BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-64492083491186120582008-07-25T15:31:00.000-07:002008-07-25T17:57:20.308-07:00Directory Submiitter Gets Updated BlingIve been using <a href="http://magpie0013.bryxen5.hop.clickbank.net/"><b>Directory Submitter!</b></a> for about 6 months. I Love it. Set up accounts for each site and with the click of the mouse you site is submitted to seo friendly directories. Well I haven't been to Directory submitter for a about a month and decided to submit some sites today and what do you know ? There's a update. Alright !<br />Here's the updates:<br />Two new columns have been added to the software. They are “Category” and “Title”.<br />2. An auto-save option has been implemented: Every 15 seconds program saves all user data, so in case of a PC freeze or power outage, you will not lose any of your data.<br />3. We’ve added a new auto-rotate feature. Now, if you have more than 1 title and description entered into your project information screen, Directory Submitter will rotate between each of the titles and descriptions combinations every other directory. Simply check the check box to enable this feature. ( This has been working for some time)<br />4. They added a new “Report Directory Error” context menu so you can let them know if there is a “faulty” directory in the software that does not load. This way we can keep a very updated list for all users.<br />5. When new directories are added to our database, you will be notified on software start up. This way you can download the latest list of directories to your software.<br />6. And last, but not least, they added more than 500 new directories, both free and paid AND speciality directories to the software!<br />This is a great free software. Personally I have had success with saving tons of time and money with this tool. You need to have your sites in directories. Why because thats how search engines find you and since directories approve sites at different time tables your submissions look natural too. So if you already have Directory Submitter open it up and get the download. If you haven't used it you should. Directory Submitter will save so much time submitting your web sites to SEO Friendly sites. Its <a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/basics-of-affiliate-marketing-and-seo.html">Basic SEO</a><br /><br /><a href="http://magpie0013.bryxen5.hop.clickbank.net/"><b>Submit Your Website To Thousands Of Website Directories Instantly!</b></a>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-53572255388041200962008-07-09T13:20:00.000-07:002008-07-09T14:52:45.252-07:00BANS ePN and Pepper Jam Team Up $10 Sign Up BonusWhether your into affiliate marketing, online marketing, affiliate program management, affiliate network, or CPA network this post is for you.<br />Thats right there's <strong>New Kids On The Block</strong> and they are <a href="http://www.gopjn.com/t/QzxHP0g_PEdFP0E8QkRE">PepperJam</a> . These folks have taken the affiliate marketing world by storm. First PJ has scored with eBay's Partner Network, aka ePN by being authorized to approve, track and Pay eBay Affiliates through there (PJs) in house system*. So this is great news for ePN Affiliates that were not approved by eBay or simply aren't happy with the workings of the new ePN. An alternative to ePN is a welcome face for many. Where not going to rehash the ePN issues here, but Pepper Jam is definitely needed IMO. If ePN denied you try PJ.<br />Whats even better is <a href="http://magpie0013.nichestore.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=BLOG">Build A Niche Store </a>has provided its users with a mod to change there new and existing BANS Stores to PJ. If your not familiar with BANS it is probably one of the best ways to build web sites today. BANS gives web master to quick and IMO a easy ways to build and monetized web sites while using the power of eBay's ePN. One thing about BANS is that it is what you make it. More work = more money, but that's more for a SEO post. I will say Build A Niche Store is the most powerful site building script I have ever purchased and Ive had them all.<br />One more thing to come from these partnerships is that PJ is offering a $10.00 sign up bonus for new affiliates. Not sure how long it will last so you should <a href="http://www.gopjn.com/t/QTxARUdAPEdFP0E8QkRE">Join Pepperjam Network today!</a><img height="1" src="http://www.gopjn.com/i/QTxARUdAPEdFP0E8QkRE" width="1" border="0" /><br /><br />The PJ vs ePN Comparison. I have put up some PepperJam driven BANS sites and some ePN BANS site over the last couple weeks to try and make some comparisons. Not to find out if the tracking is different. The commissions through PJ are the same as ePN. The traking is a little different in the way of speed. PJ is faster so far. What I want to find out is what kind of assistance and opportunities each provides. In the short period of time I can say PJ blows ePN away when it comes to customer service. After all ePN has 10's of thousands if not 100.000's affiliates to deal with. PJ has dedicated Partner Managers for each merchant. Every email I sent so far has been answered within hours not days like ePN. Now to tracking. Pepper Jam seems to be faster. Most clicks and commissions are reported almost in real time. Don't ask how. I don't know and don't care PJ dose update much faster most days though. Between the two groups of sites I have put up both have done about the same in traffic and sales. Two weeks just is not enough time to start showing numbers, but both made around a $100 the first 7 days after launch. Stay tuned the results of this un-scientific test will be posted when I feel there is enough data.<br />Over all I like <a href="http://www.gopjn.com/t/QTxARUdAPEdFP0E8QkRE">Pepper Jam </a>more than ePN and plan on building many sites using them as my affiliate marketing base.<br />Good luck all. Try looking through my past posts for more tips and even free stuffBlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-3514829107445728922008-06-01T04:06:00.000-07:002008-06-01T06:22:41.377-07:00Epn Dose Allow Affiliates To Offer Own ListingsIts been two months since the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Ebay</span> Affiliate went in house from Commission Junction. What a two months its been. Reports of user being reject and even worse completely banned from the network. Its understandable that new users of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">ePN</span> without a website or a blog be turned away and asked to re-apply once they have a blog or site. Of course <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Ebay</span> needs to know a URL in order to track a user. They can't just let someone put there links anywhere on the Internet.<br />As for a few <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">ePN</span> Users that have been banned forever we really don't know all the circumstances, but from reading some threads on the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Epn</span> Forum we can conclude the users violated terms of service by have inbound link using black hat methods. One user <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">reportedly</span> had 1000s of links coming from Porn sites. There are other methods of linking back to EBay <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">as well</span> which where against <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">CJ's</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">TOS</span> too. Such as rerouting links through proxies directly to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Ebay</span> from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">PPC</span>. Its OK to use <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">PPC</span>, but you can't send buyer directly to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Ebay</span> site. The traffic must be sent to your web site. In other words you can't set the EBay Cookie from a ad. The user need to go to your site browse then click on a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">ePN</span> Ad , <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">RSS</span> Feed or whatever from there.<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Basically</span> you can do whatever you want with your links as long as prospects are given a cookie from a web site you own. Setting a cookie on a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Ebay</span> About Me Page is also a no no. According to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Ebay</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">TOS</span> users can send other users off EBay using a URL from there About Me Page. This is one of my favorite <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">technique</span> for getting Back Links From Relevant sites. And what web site is stronger than <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Ebay</span> for Back Links.<br /><br />One more thing that has been clarified is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Ebay</span> sellers can promote there own items for sale on there websites and Blogs. This was worrisome for some who specifically purchased BANS<br /><a href="http://www.ebaypartnernetworkblog.com/category/english/">eBay Partner Network Blog » English</a>: "While many of you reading this blog are already familiar with the new eBay Partner Network, we wanted to remind you that with eBay’s new in-house platform, for most of our programs eBay sellers can be affiliates, too – which of course means sellers and merchants can earn extra money by driving traffic to their own listings as well as other listings on eBay.While many of you reading this blog are already familiar with the new eBay Partner Network, we wanted to remind you that with eBay’s new in-house platform, for most of our programs eBay sellers can be affiliates, too – which of course means sellers and merchants can earn extra money by driving traffic to their own listings as well as other listings on eBay."<br />Always contact ePN what any concerns before starting a new promotional method to insure you are abiding by TOSBlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-54167622029337018752008-05-20T06:16:00.000-07:002008-05-20T09:03:14.095-07:00Web Master Forum Politics Can Get NastyIt was quit easy to come up with this mini post after what has been happening with the Ebay Affiliate NetWork moving from Commission Junction to the new Ebay in House Network AKA, ePN. At the time of this post it has been just about 7 weeks since the migration began. Reminds me of the great Caribou Migration in Alaska. There are approximately 100 K affiliate connected to the network one way or another. Users range from small time bloggers, Niche Store Builders on up to big companies like AOL Mail. With all these users problems are bound to pop up. Anyone who thinks some thing like this huge change to a established system is sadly mistaken.<br />Not knowing any statistics about how many user migrated so far I/we can safely assume that 10 to 20% just didn't do it. Lots of people start a blog, learn how to fill it with ads then decide that (IM) Internet Marketing is not for them.<br />So over the last 7 weeks the user forums for that use the ePN API platform as a script or software for its base have been full of users frustration and very heated at times.<br />The reasons don't really matter if you look at it in the right way and take advantage of the confusion.<br />When using any of the forums associated with ePN users should tread lightly. Some folks are getting down right angry and may choose to focus there frustration on you if you leave a derogatory comment or just being flipped in a response.<br />I have a opinion about forums that are related to ePN. Don't post on them!. Why ? Because posting on a forum like the BANS is absolutely useless unless you are trying to sell a service of some kind. Forums are used by web masters to get relevant back links to a web site. You do not want to post a niche site in the signature of these forums. If you notice none or very few of the user who succeed at Niche Store Building don't have there sites in there signature. Why again?, because you are exposing yourself to hackers. WHAT!, hackers yes hackers. Sadly forums like BANS have lurkers just waiting for newbies to post there sites. This is done for many reasons which I only know a few. One is to get ideas for a niche. Newbies tend to stay away from KW Tools that work and use free KW tools, which is fine when starting out, but a more experienced Niche Builder can take the same idea and build a site and SEO to the max in a day and get back links from established sites rendering the newbies out of the box site obsolete before its even picked up by the Google index. Thats just one of many reasons not to become a big participant on webmaster forums.<br />The politics of forums can be brutal. Ranging from user hassling others about spelling to down right insults.<br />Some tip for using webmaster forums. <br />(1) Stay anonymous when possible. Some users ask why people don't use their real names. Answer of many is: SECURITY. If you think for a second that hackers don't look for this you are sadly mistaken. If you have seen the commercials for Identity lock? or what ever its called, The guy who puts his SS # on the side of a truck. The owner of that has been hacked 20 plus times because the guy challenges hackers. Well look for a law suit against that guy any day now.<br />(2) Do a search for a topic before asking questions. This is by far one of the most frustrating things for forum users who depend on a forum as a knowledge base. When new users repeatably posts about the same subject it pushes the information further back into the knowledge base. Whats more it shows you are to lazy to research on your own and may put you an the bad side of regular participants who have spent years learning and get frustrated with those who take short cuts.<br />(3) Don't answer questions if you don't have the correct answer. If a forum topic is some thing you are interested in, use the subscribe to thread option and lurk for a while and make sure you understand exactly what the issue is before jumping in. Also NEVER tell some one to read the manual. As a participant of a forum you do not have the right to do this. You have no idea what sales copy was presented to this person to get them to buy or participate in a scheme or program. Maybe the person who sold the scheme to them told them it was "for beginners", or "There's no need for a manual with OUR forum". You don't know what the person posting was told to get them to buy. Simply don't reply to the question it's that simple. It's not your place.<br />(4)Don't try and be the first person to answer every thread. You are bound to over step boundaries. Most forums have thousands of members, most never post and when they do hearing from the same persons perspective over and over defeats one of the main purpose's of forum, to get many perspectives from many different users of the community. Internet Marketing changes daily. Let others set the pace of a thread and then add to it without hijacking the thread.<br />(5) When asking a question on a webmaster forum make sure you provide details of your issue. Stating that you can't see your pages or "HELP" simply isnt enough for any users willing to help you and will put you out of favor with others. I mean come on you ask a question like "I Cant See My Pages" and I have to ask a question to find out what the problem is. Thats ten minutes of some nice persons time. A good idea is to write a issue in some thing like notepad and proof read it. Make sure you convey your issue. Outline the steps it took to get to the point you are at and what you are trying to do. Provide as much information as possible in the first post. Don't maker others ask! If someone asks you to post a link offer to send it VIA private message. As I said above don't post your sites in forums that you are not using for back links. Never send passwords to hosting accounts unless it is to a scripts customer service dept. And in that case change your password to a temporary one.<br />(6) Avoid buying from other forum members. If you have a issue it is bound to show up on the forum. If you call out someone you purchased something from like a template and its not up to your expectations communicate to them through the contact information on the site you actually paid. When you buy a digital product from someone you pay through paypal or click bank not the forum. Use the appropriate channels for customer service issues. Follow this simple plan and avoid making yourself sound like a idiot on the forum. And even worse if a issue turns out to be on your end you will lose favor of your fellow users. If buy something from a other user follow the policy of the place you paid. Make sure the seller send a invoice VIA email through the payment system. Then they requested payment for service and are subject to terms of service of the payment system.<br /><br />My point to all this is any web master forum should be used as a knowledge base. The social aspect of the Internet should not come into play. Use Webmaster forums to your advantage, Don't insert yourself like a moderator. Like telling someone to read a manual. Thats just plain rude. If a user of a forum is authoritative and accurate the information becomes part of the knowledge base and not more junk to wade through to find a answer.<br />As a forum participant that is credible after some time is when users should start placing signatures for web master tools they have used and can promote from personal knowledge. Forums are a wealth of knowledge If used properly.<br />These tidbits are only from my personal experiences over the last 4 years of Internet Marketing. <br />May I suggest that all Internet Users read "Promoting Respectful Communications Online" <br />Take the pledge here:<br />http://www.odr.info/<br />http://www.respectpledge.org<br /><br />Good Luck EveryoneBlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-59755238864620550122008-05-14T07:01:00.000-07:002008-05-14T07:39:25.363-07:00Using Personal Experiences To Promote NichesI have found over the years that writing about experience's in my own life are a great way to promote Niche Stores or any blog or site. When one writes about something that has actually impacted your own life the content is more engaging for the writer and the reader. Writing about some thing you've done or places you've been is just natural to write about.<br />If anyone is planting a vegetable garden or taking a summer vacation bring and use your camera and document it on a blog. If you are 100% natural your site will be found. This method is not really for driving huge sales its more about putting relative content on the Internet for Users. Thats what Google wants. "Relevant Content" and not thin affiliate pages. Maybe put 1 AdSense ad on the site but don't spam it. Use the sidebar to place anchor text links to your Niche Sites.<br />If you post often which is easy if it you experienced the topic your blog will become a authoritative site in Google. That were you want to be.<br />Once you have decided on a topic go to your favorite Keyword Tool and look for 4 0r 5 KW's and Longtail KW's to use. Use them on every post and rotate them through the topics and body of your posts. Once you have 10 to 20 posts then consider monetizing the site or blog.<br />Blogger is perfect for this. It's free, Easy, and Google will lock on to your site if you have good fresh relevant content. In exchange for being authoritative the links to your Niche sites will have link juice.BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-47461845146337006252008-03-28T06:03:00.000-07:002008-03-28T06:27:24.548-07:00Significant Category Changes Coming To Ebay in AprilSo after the announcement 2 weeks ago that Ebay would be moving the affiliate program <a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/ebay-is-dropping-commision-junction.html">in-house</a> Ebay throws affiliates another curve ball. More significant category changes. About 2 week ago Ebay surprised affiliates with category changes. With no notice many affiliates where completely taken by surprise. And to throw salt in the wound some of the new categories wouldn't work with some script's. Took us more than a week to sort out some of the issues that came with these changes.<br />Hopefully with the advance notice given this go around the changes will smoother. Keep your eye on these <a href="http://pages.ebay.com/categorychanges/">links</a> and we suggest anyone these changes may affect sign up for Email updates from Ebay Developers Site.<br />Announcment:<br />The category structure will be updated in early April based on feedback received from the eBay Community and from experts in the affected fields. The April update contains some significant changes for Business & Industrial, Cell Phones & PDAs, Health & Beauty, Home & Garden and Musical Instruments. If you sell in these areas, please be sure to take a look at the new category structure on Seller Central . Books, Coins & Paper Money, Consumer Electronics, Sporting Goods and Toys & Hobbies also have minor adjustments as detailed below.<br />Updated Categories: Business & Industrial - significant changes<br />Cell Phones & PDAs - significant changes<br />Health & Beauty - significant changes<br />Home & Garden - significant changes<br />Musical Instruments - significant changes<br />Books - removing<br />Magazine Subscriptions, according to new company policy.Coins & Paper Money - updating year categories in US quarters & dollar coins<br />Consumer Electronics - adding DJ Gear & Stage Lighting section<br />Sporting Goods - adding categories for Climbing Holds and Equestrian-themed<br />Jewelry & Accessories, and moving<br />Disc Golf to Outdoor Sports<br />Sports Mem, Cards & Fan Shop - updating year categories in Cards<br />Toys & Hobbies - Adding Pokemon TFG and Control Line & Freeflight categories<br />Good LuckBlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-85934646100700405122008-03-17T06:10:00.000-07:002008-03-17T06:33:29.473-07:00Ebay is Dropping Commision JunctionThe title says it all. Get ready for big changes Ebay Affiliates. There are 100.000 of us. First Ebay decides to implement huge category changes this week and now this.<br />Strait from the horses mouth.<br />We are excited to announce eBay’s new global affiliate platform: the eBay Partner Network.<br />"The new platform will go live on April 1st, 2008 PST, at which point eBay will no longer be running its affiliate program through Commission Junction. Beginning April 1st, affiliates should register with eBay Partner Network and migrate their links from CJ to the new platform.<br />While CJ and ValueClick have been valuable partners to eBay throughout the years, we’ve decided to give our affiliate community a customized experience. eBay will continue its partnership with ValueClick’s technology division, Mediaplex, for ad serving, tracking and other custom projects.<br />All the great tools and benefits of working with the eBay program will remain the same – access to the Editor Kit and affiliate API, the flexible destination tool, the great payout structure. Please note that there will be no changes in the pricing structure as part of this transition. In addition, the eBay Partner Network will provide several new features:<br />Easy global registration to multiple countries simultaneously<br />New, targeted banners and rich media creatives<br />New landing page optimization and geo-targeting capabilities<br />More detailed reporting capabilities for eBay’s programs<br />The eBay Partner Network and Commission Junction will run in parallel for one month through this process, so please plan to complete your migration by May 1st, 2008.<br />You can receive an additional 5% bonus for all traffic tracked through eBay Partner Network in April 2008 for specific countries (bonus applicable to traffic sent to Half.com and US, UK, Australia, Canada, Italy, India and Spain eBay sites). The sooner you migrate, the more you’ll earn! Just:<br />Register with eBay Partner Network on April 1, 2008<br />Confirm your registration, and obtain your new identifiers<br />Update your links with your new identifiers<br />Reminder: Please plan to complete migration by May 1, 2008<br />Programs that will transition to the new eBay Partner Network platform starting Apr 1st:<br />eBay Australia<br />eBay Belgium<br />eBay Canada<br />eBay France<br />eBay Hong Kong<br />eBay India<br />eBay Italy<br />eBay Netherlands<br />eBay Singapore<br />eBay Spain<br />eBay United Kingdom<br />eBay United States<br />Half.com<br />Programs that will NOT be affected and will continue their relationship with Commission Junction:<br />eBay’s Tradera AB<br />ProStores<br />Reseller Marketplace<br />Media Marketplace "<br />Heres the link<br />eBay Stores<br />StubHub"<br />Heres the link <a href="http://affiliates.ebay.com/NS/Blog.htm">http://affiliates.ebay.com/NS/Blog.htm</a><br /><br /><div align="left">Check out these posts:</div><div align="left"><a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/revenue-sharing-high-ranking-back-links.html">Get High Ranking Backlinks Free</a></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/using-content-pages-to-get-indexed-by.html">Using Content Pages To Get indexed by search engines</a></div><div align="left"><a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/basics-of-affiliate-marketing-and-seo.html">Basic Internet Marketing</a></div><div align="left"><a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/wordze-launches-free-keyword-open.html">Free WordZe Tool</a></div><div align="left"><a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/one-way-linking-blogs-to-niche-stores.html">Using Blogs To Promote Niche Stores</a></div><div align="left"><a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/get-quality-links-through-website.html">Get quality Back Links</a></div><div align="left"><a href="http://nichestoremarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/using-stumble-upon-and-free-stumble.html">Using StumbleUpon to Promote Sites</a></div>BlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596527978391748692.post-35143604360899250922008-03-16T10:14:00.000-07:002008-04-06T06:12:05.537-07:00Revenue Sharing, High Ranking Back linksWell for the last several posts here have been geared towards promoting Niche Stores and Blog's. Why stop now ? I'm on a backlink roll. If you are new to Internet marking or not you will find this usful. Recently I was introduced to <a href="http://maddog.qassia.com/">Qassia</a> by some Internet friends. It took me a few days to get back to it, but once I did I began to see the incredible uses for the site. I'll try to explain just how it works. Qassia is a user based revenue sharing and link exchange. The way the revenue sharing works is you input you Adsense ad code in your profile and when your site or article appears the ads on the page are yours. By that I mean you get all the revenue from the Adsense ads on the page. 100%. Qassia says they never even handle the money. Great concept. By simply putting your code in the ads the revenue go's directly to your Adsense account. How do you get users to see your ads ? Participate its that simple.<br />Though money is nice our goal is to get quality backlinks to our sites. The way you do this is by adding "Intel" or information. By adding Intel you are paid in Qassia cash points. Once you have a certain amount of cash your site and page links are moved into high traffic parts of the site. When adding Intelligence and articles you get a high quality Do-Follow Link. You can also add other links to each Intel that will contain the No-Follow tag. The validity of the No-follow tag has come into question by Web Masters over the last several months. The No-Follow tag may not be as bad as once thought. That's another post.<br />Another way to earn Qassia cash is to review others Intel. Every Intel go's through this process. It adds authority to there site which intern gives your back link strength in the search engines.<br />It is very important that you only ad original content. All your content is reviewed by fellow users 10 times. If it is duplicate content copied and pasted from another site they will know and your article or Intel will get very few votes or even get you band. This is the very reason the site has so much strength.<br />Sign up is simple and the learning curve is fairly fast.<br />Go to <a href="http://maddog.qassia.com/">Qassia</a> and find out for yourselves. I personally see lots advantages to the site and plan on becoming a heavy user. I love gardening so I'm writing articles about my garden.<br />Sorry about the <a href="http://maddog.qassia.com/">Qassia</a> link above not working it's working nowBlogMasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547272903949297863noreply@blogger.com2