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A few days ago I made a post about the BANS software. While I haven’t made any significant revenue yet from the sites, I haven’t given up. However, I have shifted my focus in regards to affiliate marketing. I’m not going to give out too many details just yet, but I’m working more with leads rather than sales, and SEO rather than PPC. A few days ago I spent three hours writing 20+ articles for this project. I’ve just started building everything on a solid website; I’ll post an update once more progress has made.
As for my other new project, AdminAddict.Com, I’m waiting on the design to be finished by the designer. I would guess it will be done within a week.
Another project I’ve had in the works for a while is focused around Fox’s new show, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I was fortunate enough to get the domain name www.sarahconnorchronicles.org; because the domain name is very search engine friendly, and because I started posting on the site months ago, the site is ranked in the top 5 for most terms related for the show in most search engines. The result is a massive amount of traffic (for me, anyway) coming overnight. I was already having problems with the new VPS, and the new traffic did not help whatsoever.
Traffic aside, I did have some problems monetizing the site. I tried various sale and referral campaigns with commission junction, but had no luck. Amazon ads had been running for the previous month with only a few sales. With the boom in traffic, I switched ad sense. Sunday and Monday I made a decent amount, but had a very low CTR. I made some changes and it improved. I’ll keep experimenting. I’ve added TV episode listings of the recent episodes on Amazon and iTunes for purchase, so we’ll see if they’ll convert.
Sorry for not posting for a week or so; I’ve been busy. 
BANS - Affiliate Marketing with Ebay
BANS, Build a Niche Store, is the new ebay affiliate software that’s been all the talk lately. The software takes ebay RSS feed with your affiliate ID and publishes them as it’s own store/site. BANS allows users to select which categories to display, enter keywords and descriptions, and even add additional content pages. Overall, the BANS software is very customizable.
There are some big affiliate marketers out there, some bringing in thousands and tens of thousands a day in affiliate revenue. I realize most don’t make it as an ebay affiliate, but some do. This is my first real step of getting my piece of the pie.
Over the next few months I’ll be working with a few of my own BANS site. I see real potential to make money here, though, to be honest, I haven’t made a cent as an ebay affiliate to date. I plan to build up revenue through BAN sites through PPC, SEO, and social bookmarketing and see which works best. I’ll be trying various marketing techniques and will report their success (or failure) back here in a month or two. Regardless of my level of success, I will share what I did right or wrong.
Until then, I suggest you check out BANS and build a site of your own.
Note that the links above are affiliate links.