Just an Update

August 10, 2008 | Under My Sites, Updates | 1 Comment 

Well, I realize I haven’t posted anything in a while. I’ve been pretty busy. My friend Gareth messaged me a few days ago and asked why I haven’t posted and for an update on how things were going, so I thought I’d oblige.

Firstly, I haven’t been posting lately for a few reasons. I’ve just been busy with projects and with things in the real world. Secondly, realmadhatter’s sort of taken a back seat. I was never satisfied with the domain; in the next few months I plan to buy a better domain name to better chronicle my webmaster projects/advice.

As for what I’ve been doing…

I’ve really started to get serious with affiliate marketing. A while back I posted on BANS. BANS has made me a decent amount of money - a few hundred each month. However, that’s not really much when you look at the big picture. Rather than commit all my time to build a niche store sites, I’ve migrated to other affiliate marketing tasks. I won’t give details just yet, but I’ve been promoting offers from networks such as www.cj.com and advaliant. I basically build a site around them and drive organic traffic. I’ve also been experimenting with PPC a bit as well.

I’ve also been posting on one of my projects, ForWhichItStood.org. Basically it’s a political blog in which I discuss current events, libertarian ideology, and promote economic education. I’m still working on the site and plan to contribute more time to it in the near future.

Aside from that, I’ve been learning a lot about SEO and affiliate marketing. That’s about it. ;)

BANS - Affiliate Marketing with Ebay

January 7, 2008 | Under Affiliate Marketing | Leave a Comment 

BANS

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.