Affiliate Marketing Programs – Proof Anyone Can Build A Niche Store with BANS with Ease

About a month ago, I made a post about one of the best programs out there for driving affiliate marketing sales through the roof for Commission Junction. It was a program called BANS, which is short for Build A Niche Store. The name says it all, because that is exactly what you can do with it. Now if you know PHP and HTML and all of that techie stuff this will work even better. I have a friend who just threw some sites together to start making money with this. Although he hasn’t revealed to me how much he makes exactly, I am certain it is decent money, especially with the niche markets he went after. That is what is so wonderful about this script is that you can pick and choose your niche and within a very short amount of time have an income stream setup with one of these niche sites. Well here is the list of his sites and his comments on BANS.

• http://niche-shops.com/
  • This site has a large selection of sailboats to choose from. Catalina, Hunter, Mcgregor and many other brands. 

• http://boats.niche-shops.com/
  • Large selection and great prices on every type of boat. Ski boats. fishing boats, bass boats, pontoon boats, sailboats, they are all here.

• http://turbo.niche-shops.com/
  • Eclipse turbo kits. Complete kits or get the parts you need. GSX, GST turbo, 420a turbo, intercooler, blow off valves, manifolds, etc.

• http://cameras.niche-shops.com/
  • Great selection and prices on many brands of digital cameras. Nikon, Canon, Fiji, Olympus and many more.

• http://nintendo.niche-shops.com/
  • Great selection and prices on Nintendo WII. Complete game systems as well as all the accesories you need.

• http://jeans.niche-shops.com/
  • Large selection and great prices on Silver Jeans. The perfect fit jeans women love.

• http://ps3.niche-shops.com/
  • Great selection and prices on sony Playstaion. Complete Sony Playstation 2 and Sony Playstation 3 game systems. Large seletion of playstation accessories.

His exact comments on BANS copied and pasted from the message he sent me:

I got into Bans through a post at WA on it. That is where I purchased it. The sites are very easy and fun to set up. After you create one site you can basically copy and paste the information to create other sites. Bans offers great support and a really great forum where you can get your questions answered.

For those of you who don’t know, WA refers to “Wealthy Affiliate“, one of the ideal coaching programs for those of you new to internet marketing. Also as you can see from his comments BANS is a wonderful program to use to make Commission Junction Affiliate Sales. So go ahead and get started building your own niche stores.

As you can see from above he also didn’t need multiple hosting accounts and domains to accomplish this. All you need to do is setup a single domain and hosting account. Then for each niche you come up with just add a sub domain for that niche. Not only will this make it simple it will also allow a single domain to get indexed in Google for a lot of high traffic keywords providing you choose the right niche. I plan on getting this script and putting it to good use as soon as I finish my current product launch. Thanks to Google it should be easy money, especially for those of you that already have some marketing skills.

How to Find Keyword Rich Internet Domains that Already Have Existing Traffic 

I ran across this video on YouTube the other day. It has an excellent way to find an internet domain that already has existing traffic. It utilizes Google’s Keyword Tool and GoDaddy’s Bulk Domain Registration Tool. This way it finds out which keywords are getting the most searches and how to apply that to finding the ideal domain for a niche. The video is a little annoying because this guy talks really loudly, but watch it all the way to the end and you will know it was worth it. I know this is an excellent way to choose a domain. I have used a similar strategy in picking a domain, but not on the level this guy uses. It is really an excellent tip. You can check out the guy’s website for other videos. His link is below the video. I am sure the content is valuable and insightful and worth checking out.

http://www.45n5.com/

This video is absolutely hilarious. The almighty google has struck again. Coming to a bedroom near you… Look away… zoom out… zoom out… Hurry! LMFAO. Great YouTube video. This video was directed by Todd Berger and Written by Jeff Grace. It is from TheVacationeers.com. It basically entails the true power of Google and Google Maps. Be careful about convenience in finding things… it could come back to haunt you.

Viral Marketing – URL Snippers Reviewed: Viral URL vs Tiny URL

Lately, I have been using Tiny URL, to shorten all of my URL’s and other links, especially when trying to get links stumbled on Digital Point Forums in a stumble exchange. It started to get a little tedious and time consuming to keep up with all of the links. That is no longer a problem; I found a program that not only allows you to cloak and shorten your affiliate links, or whatever links you need shortened, but it also allows you to give it nice name. Tiny URL doesn’t do that. It gives it some weird encryption number for the name.

Viral URL allows you to use a keyword to describe the cloaked link. For instance if you wanted to cloak a link to www dot crazy.insane.website.long.name.com, you could make it something like this with Viral URL: viralurl.com/crazyname. Not only does this allow you to shorten it, but it also allows you to recognize it in an instant. You may think that isn’t needed, but if you start putting affiliate links on your website and want to know exactly what links were clicked, it will be a problem.

 You may have 10 different tiny URL’s that get clicked. How do you know what they are? You don’t. Viral URL definitely solves that problem. In addition you also get some added benefits. For instance if you want to manage all of those links you are cloaking, you just go to the website and there they are. Not only that, it tracks how many clicks those links have received. How wonderful is that? If you are one of those people who are trying to hide affiliate links from hackers with php code, then this is the program for you. Viral URL also has a wizard that creates these PHP files for you. Now that is a nice feature.

You may be wondering why it is called Viral URL. As well as all of the other great features, you get advertising with Viral URL. Whenever someone visits one of your Viral URL links you can have it display a bar at the top or bottom, this earns you advertising credits. Whenever someone clicks on that Viral URL, your ad gets displayed somewhere else. It also has banner ad campaigns you can run.

The only thing I didn’t like about it was the email part. It works like ListDotCom where you can contact your downline. That is too much like spam to me. I don’t like lists like that, where they don’t even have to opt in. Although, I am not sure it is your email address that receives the message. Viral URL has its own built in inbox, which may be where these are received. Other than that, I absolutely love this program.

YouTube Videos – Yael Naim – New Soul Music Video 

I figured out who the singer was that was singing that song in the MacBook Air commercial from Apple Computers, that has been on the airwaves recently. I couldn’t get this song out of my head. I have been playing it non-stop since I found out who it was. Yeah. I am one of those people. The people who put the CD Player on repeat and listen to the same song, over and over and over again. Until I finally get sick of the song, and never want to hear it again. Anways, the name of the singer, is Yael Naim. She is from France, and the name of her song, is “New Soul“. She has done other music, and if you want to check out more than just the “New Soul” music video, then go to YouTube and lookup the user id, “totoutardnet”.

You may also want to check out her website at http://www.yaelweb.com.

Website Traffic from New Traffic Source via Traffic ERA Traffic Exchange

While searching for ways to promote my upcoming project on PHP Script Installations, I found a very new and possibly very good source to drive traffic to my site. There is a new traffic exchange, out there called trafficera. Or maybe it is actually two words (Traffic ERA). I couldn’t tell. Either way this site is brand spanking new and ready to launch live in about a week. I think as of right now there are only around 200 members on the site. This is good and you know why. All traffic exchanges drive their memberships by offering credits to members via referrals. This is the whole purpose of this blog post.

Traffic ERA is a little different from other traffic exchanges, in that it acts more like a social networking or social bookmarking site. How? Well there are two things you can do on this website that I have not seen with other traffic exchanges. You can add “teams” and “groups” to the site. The teams work in a way that allows membership in that team to be invite only. I am sure this is for the purpose of “you scratch my back, i’ll scratch yours”. Sort of like what you would see on the Digital Point Forums for Digg and Stumble Exchanges. Groups work somewhat different, as they allow you to join discussions or create discussions within a group. It almost operates like a mini forum within the site.

I haven’t created a group or team yet, but eventually I will. I know that the Digg and Stumble Exchanges work really well, so there is no reason why this setup wouldn’t work with this site. I believe this site will get very big very quickly. Why? Because people are always after that edge over their competitors, or a new way to get traffic to their site their competitors don’t know about. There is even an added benefit to this site, you can purchase credits for different forms of traffic for a very low cost. This could be a great way to either generate leads or if your copy is good enough even make sales from this traffic. I will give more details on the sources of traffic in another post tomorrow.

For now, just check out the website, and tomorrow or maybe even later today I will fill you in on the rest of the details on the Traffice ERA, traffic exchange. The sources of traffic are amazing. Until then I have a website to finish.

Social Submit Tool for Social Media Marketers

I came across a very cool tool that would be ideal for any Social Media Marketers arsenal of tools. I had been using Digital Point Forums as a means to get diggs, stumbles, etc. in exchange for doing the same for someone elses’s site. I was always ethical about it, and would never stumble or digg anything I didn’t like. In the process of doing this, I found it to be very tedious and quite boring. Although, I did come across some very, very cool websites doing this.

With that being said, I decided to use Google to find an alternative. This was actually sparked by a website I signed up for while perusing the forums on Digital Point looking for the solution to my quest for an alternative. A Digital Point member referred me to a website call Piqq.us. This is a very cool site, in that you can do the same thing as what you do on Digital Point with digg and stumble exchanges, only it is more automated. However, this is not the site I found to be the most useful.

I found another site when I started using Google to find an alternative. It was called Social Submit. This is a very good website to use if you are utilizing Social Media Marketing at all. I didn’t get a specific count on the total number of Social Bookmarking sites that it had listed, but it was a lot. I believe there were over 60+ social bookmarking sites listed on their website. Social Submit will basically let you do what their name says. You can submit your articles to Social Bookmarking websites. Now this may not seem like a lot, but you can actually submit the articles to multiple sites at once. This website is similar to OnlyWire.com, but it is better, because it has double the amount of social bookmarking websites to which your articles can be submitted.

So if you are into social marketing, and use that as part of your strategy for either driving traffic to your site, or to get leads, or to make sales, then this website is worth checking out. It can take a very tedious task of submitting articles and make it a piece of cake. Also Piqq.us is worth looking into as well, because you can automate those digg and stumble exchanges. Lastly, it may be worth the effort to compare what sites are used at OnlyWire.com and SocialSubmit.com, so if there are differences it would be worth using both as a tool in your social media marketing strategies.

Pay Per Play (PPP) Publisher Network

I just wanted to mention a little about a program that I found about a month ago. I can’t remember who referred me. It was either Joel Comm or Mike Filsaime. Either way for once it was a program that didn’t cost anything to join and could reap amazing revenue benefits by joining. I just want to provide you with a little snippet from the Pay Per Play blog post I just got an email about.

Thanks to your help, we have signed up over 24,000 core affiliate partners who were responsible for bringing on over 9,000,000 websites between December 6th and today. In all we anticipate our projected reach to be somewhere over 1 billion ad plays per month as verified by our 3rd party auditing company BPA Worldwide. That’s over 33 million audio ad plays per day. Revenue at $.02 per ad play (modest estimation) will be close to $700,000 USD per day… 35% of that revenue will go to PPP affiliates.

Granted that may not be a lot for one of the 9 million websites but if you are one that knows how to drive traffic to your site, this is an excellent program to join. It doesn’t cost anything and you get paid for every single visitor you send to your website. That is even better than Google’s Adsense or Yahoo’s Publisher Network. You don’t even have to get them to click anything. On top of that you earn a percentage of what your referrals make in revenue. Oh but don’t worry it isn’t part of their cut, it is an additional amount set aside for you as an incentive to refer people to Pay Per Play.

I have gotten several people under me already, without even trying to promote the program. This is easy to implement into your website and only plays a 10 second audio advertisement. Almost like what you would hear on the radio. It is almost like getting paid for an ad that the user doesn’t even notice. That is a huge, huge bonus if you ask me, because I hate those sites that are just spammy and loaded with tons of ads that makes the page load slow. This is a wonderful program and is even able to be put on the same page as adsense ads or yahoo publisher network ads. Go here to signup: Pay Per Play Signup Page. I guarantee that you won’t be sorry.

I will be making an upcoming post on exactly how to implement the audio ads from Pay Per Play. Check back soon!

Search Engine Optimization – Signup with QASSIA and Get Unlimited Backlinks

I just found out about this amazing program, called QASSIA. Once you signup with this program you are able to get unlimited backlinks to any number of websites that you own or operate. In addition you also get 100% of the adsense income generated by your intel. Intel is more or less the articles you add to their site. This site is a variation of wikipedia, but you get to make money and get backlinks from the articles you put on their site. In my opinion this is a good combination of ezinearticles and wikipedia. It combines the best of both worlds to create an amazing site that will both generate immediate income for you through adsense, and secondary income created through the traffic generated from the backlinks. On top of all of that you are still generating relevant backlinks to your site. This is site is going to grow by leaps and bounds.

 I don’t normally promote very many programs on my blog, because I like to keep my blog honest, but I really believe this is going to be one of the big sites for 2008. You can signup here: http://jjpmarketing.qassia.com/. Registrations are closed to the public so you will need to use my link to get in on this program. I think they are trying the gmail route at getting signups, which is good, because it will limit the amount of spammers getting in on this program.

 As a special bonus, if you signup with my registration link, because I do know there are other people promoting this program, I will give you the eWriter Pro PDF Creator, absolutely free. This program makes creating and organizing eBook projects very easy. It also comes with Master Resell Rights. So just click here and signup with QASSIA.