Internet Based Affiliate Marketing - Documented Success with BANS
71INTERNET BASED AFFILIATE MARKETING
What is Internet Based Affiliate Marketing?
There are 10,000's of companies on the Internet that are willing to pay a performance-based commission if you can drive sales to their websites promoting their products and services. To do this you join the "affiliate programs" run by these companies. Your job as an "affiliate" is to be the middleman between online consumers and merchant' products. By aligning consumers with the products they are looking for you get a commission for every sale from the merchant through an Afilliate program. Internet Based Affiliate Marketing is a great opportunity to earn money as well as have the freedom of owning your own business with next to nothing in start up costs. The opportunities are endless for those who are willing to work hard.
HOW TO DO INTERNET BASED AFFILIATE MARKETING
The most common way to do Internet Based Affiliate Marketing is to build a website which focuses around a niche.
What is a Niche?
Basically a niche is a certain segment of the population where you intend to concentrate your efforts. Some examples of niches include: Golf, Skiing, Health, Computers, Stamp Collecting... The possibilities are endless, as well as the sub categories or Micro Niches within the major categories. For example within the Computer category there are several micro niches which include, desktops, laptops, peripherals... Within the health field there are again thousands of smaller niches including acne treatment, hair loss, insomnia...
There are tons of Affiliate Programs from lots of merchants for every possible niche.
In this article I will focus on the eBay Partnet Network, and in particular my success with BANS.
WHAT IS BANS? BANS stands for "Build a Niche Store" and it is a website builder which enables you to create a network of traffic pulling, money making niche websites focused around the eBay Affiliate Program.
BUT BANS is far more than just a website builder it is an INTERNET BASED AFFILIATE MARKETING BUSINESS BUILDER with valuable tools that DO NOT come with the usual website software.
As an eBay affiliate your aim is to connect relevant internet surfers through to relevant eBay products and your BANS built niche stores are the medium through which you can achieve this in your Internet based Affiliate Marketing Campaign.
BELOW IS THE PROOF OF MY EARNINGS WITH BANS WITHIN 3 WEEKS of STORE LAUNCH:
SCREENSHOT OF MY BANS EARNINGS right from my BROWSER
Some might say that this is not alot of money. To them I say REALLY? You try getting sales in the highly competative world of Internet Based Affiliate Marketing and these earnings are within 3 weeks of site launch! And does not include the earnings derived from adds that I run on my BANS site for other merchant's affiliate programs which is up to $87.50 to date. PLUS I had NO Internet Marketing experience prior to launching BANS!
BANS is a very user friendly program which allowed me to build my first store in about 1 day and once I got the hang of it just becomes a cinch. The next two stores I built took about 3 hours total.
CHECK OUT MY 1st BANS STORE:
BANS COMES WITH STEP-BY-STEP INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
It was really easy to install and use BANS. The instructions were written very clearly and completely step-by-step, including how to choose a niche tutorial and tools, getting a domain, signing up for hosting and all the way to the actual install, it was totally stress free. The install process took 30 minutes.
Below is a screenshot of the BANS ADMIN SCREEN which is where you build the store from:
BANS ADMIN PANEL from where STORES ARE BUILT
STORE PAGES IN BANS LOAD AUTOMATICALLY
NO MAINTANENCE - STORE AUCTIONS UPLOAD AUTOMATICALLY!
BANS - 2 Steps to Build Store Pages:
1. Add the eBay Item Category numbers once
2. Add your eBay Campaign ID once
THEN:
RSS feeds automatically create store pages filled with the live eBay auctions as per the category numbers.
and
Updates are automatic whenever auctions on eBay end and start as per each item category.
BANS STORE SET-UP SCREEN
ACTUAL STORE PAGES RSS FEEDS
UNLIMITED CONTENT PAGES in BANS
Original and valuable content can be the difference between failure and success Affiliate Marketing, with the competition being so high on the Internet, just having a store is not enough - CONTENT is crucial!
With BANS you can add unlimited Content Pages to your store.
BUT, the best thing about BANS is that the content pages come with a WYSIWYG Editor.WYSIWYG is an acronym which means "what you see is what you get." This means that you don't need to know code or HTML. You type your content in English and the editor automatically converts it to HTML.You edit the content with colors, bolds, italics, add images and hyper-links and what you see in the editor is how your content page will actually look on your live site!Here is a screenshot of the Content WYSIWYG Editor.BANS CONTENT PAGES EDITOR
Everything is included in BANS for Optimizing an Internet Based Affiliate Marketing Niche Website:
- Style and color changing guides
- Niche research tools and other valuable tools and tutorials
- Different style templates or upload your own templates
- Ad boxes for adding additional revenue streams to the store like adsense and banner adds
- Content pages where I add original targeted content which really helps with SEO
- Each page has a Meta Tag (essential for SEO) input box for Title, Keywords and Description which BANS automatically fills for my relevant products OR that I can fill in myself if I choose to customize those tags.
- Store Pages have AUTOMATIC RSS feeds embedded with my eBay affiliate id of the product category I chose (depending on the niche) that is enabled from entering the product category number into a box in the set up
- Store search box where visitors can search for anything in my store, search within categories and even an advanced search option
- Sort box which enables visitors to view store items by price or time left in auction.
- With the purchase of BANS comes an unlimited license so every store you build is yours and you can build unlimited stores
- BANS is Compatible with MAC Computers
- 24/7 Technical Support
BANS IS ABSOLUTELY USER FRIENDLY
BANS is so user friendly and there are ABSOLUTELY NO PROGRAMMING SKILLS, HMTL, CODE or ANY TECHNICAL SKILLS required. Most Important is that I get to spend my time with the all important marketing of my business instead of trying to build websites from scratch. Because in reality the most time consuming and important part of Internet Based Affiliate Marketing is getting traffic and marketing sites in order to get sales and BANS gives you the freedom to do just that.
One of the Best Features of BANS is the Members Forum:
With thousands of members who share and discuss information about BANS, everything from set-up and store-design to getting traffic I am never alone. With thousands of postings it is a close knit community where I find answers for any questions I have about BANS and I get to interact with BANS people, it is a great and very tightly knit forum.
Also if you buy a website builder and build niche stores from scratch YOU will not get a valuable tool like a FORUM, so BANS is not just a website builder it is a BUSINESS BUILDER!
BANS is available for Internet Based Affiliate Marketers outside the United States.
eBay has affiliate programs in Australia, Austria, Belguim, Canada, Spain, France, India, Italy, Netherlands and United Kingdom and BANS has a program for each of these locations.
BUILD A NICHE STORE EQUALS SUCCESS
I have been VERY happy with BANS as my Internet Based Affiliate Marketing Business, and I am excited about building more and more stores. With over 60 million eBay products the possibilities are endless.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BANS and GET YOUR OWN BANS BUSINESS EMPIRE CLICK HERE: BUILD A NICHE STORE
How I Get Traffic and Market my BANS store
When I first contemplated getting BANS I thought, "Why would anyone want to buy from my store when they can just go to eBay, BUT then I thought about how eBay is not so user-friendly. The eBay website has become very busy and has hundreds of categories, sub categories, distractions, links etc... So I thought I will market my store as "eBay laptop auctions presented in a user-friendly storefront." And this must be working because almost half of my sales have come from allready registered eBay users.
HOW TO GET TRAFFIC AND SALES?
One of the most daunting tasks in today's highly competitive Internet markeplace is getting traffic and sales to your Internet Based Affiliate Marketing Campaign.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engine via "natural" ("organic") search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it "ranks", the more searchers will visit that site.
It is a well known fact that best way to increase ranks in search engines is with quality backlinks and that is one of the ways that I get traffic and sales to my site...
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BACKLINKS and SEO READ MY ONE OF MY HUBS (link below) THIS IS THE TECHNIQUE I USE TO GET TRAFFIC TO MY BANS STORES and IT IS ESSENTIAL TO ALL INTERNET BASED AFFILIATE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS:
MY HUB ON HOW TO INCREASE WEBSITE TRAFFIC - SIMPLE SEO GUIDE
Another great traffic source for an Internet Based Affiliate Marketing Campaign
US Free Ads is an Internet Classifieds Directory which ranks VERY high with search engines and especially Google. Google loves US Free Ads and usually the ads wind up on Google page 1 or 2 within a day for respective KW. Also Us Free Ads gets a lot of traffic on their site from their own visitors and so I get mazimum exposure for Internet Based Affiliate Marketing Websites!
If you have read my previous link Increase Website Traffic - Simple SEO Guide then you understand the concept of relevant targeted KW that have low competition and this same concept applies to creating ads with US Free Ads. To get my US free ads to rank high in search results for relevant KW I use relevant KW in the title, as well as the body of the add and make sure to use the h1 header format in the headline of the ad. With this format you can dominate the serps for your relevant keywords because you can write unlimited ads as LONG as the titles are different and get lots of traffic!
UPDATE: Here is a PRICELESS SEO CHEAT SHEET from SEOMoz to optmizing your websites for SEO. SEO_CHEAT SHEET.pdf (application/pdf Object)
BANS is a GREAT VENUE FOR INTERNET BASED AFFILIATE MARKETING
In conclusion BANS is an effective and strong venue for Internet Based Affiliate Marketing Business. AND I strongly recommend BANS to anyone looking to start an Internet Affiliate Business.
I will also tell you that I started in this business a total newbie about 2 months ago, except for limited article marketing I had NO experience and learned everything through my BANS store. If I could do it anybody can!! And you can ask any guru (that's honest) getting sales in this highly competitive market is NO easy task...
BUT BANS gave me the edge and venue I needed to succeed!!
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Your Comments and Questions are Welcome!
Your welcome Matt, Yes the features really make a great ressource, especially for the non-techie people, who would otherwise have a much harder time building a great site!! Make sure you focus on those backlinks for serps and here is THE greatest of ALL time SEO CHEAT SHEET from SEOMoz really is priceless in optimizing your store for SEO: http://www.seomoz.org/user_files/SEO_Web_Developer
I've been around the affiliate space for a number of years. BANS is one of the best investments I've ever made for a tool to grease the skids. It's a breeze to set up a site. The ultimate question, as always, is how you use it. BANS sites are no different than sites built on any other platform. You have to do the necessary seo work and promote them. Again there are two kings, content and backlinks. A dual regency.
One thing is for sure and that is that eBay converts. Do the work with your BANS sites, and you will make money! Did I say that you will make money?
So, there you have it all you BANS bashers.
Thanks Robert, and you are definitely right, hard work applies to BANS as well as any other site you may build!
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Matt H says:
3 months ago
Hi, Great article. I recently started an affiliate store without using BANS and it was interesting to read about all of the features you get with this software. I can't wait to see how my store will perform. I also just started a US Free Ads campaign to see how that will work out. Thanks!