I started my work at home venture with the Build A Niche Store software better known as BANS. For those of you who don't know what BANS is here is a small break down of BANS.

"Build A Niche Store (BANS) is a store / website development platform which enables you to create content based sites that generate income through the eBay affiliate programs. "

I bought this software and to my surprise it was really easy to set up. The problem was I had no idea how to get my site so the search engines would show it love. Also the BANS software comes with a few generic templates but they aren't very eye appealing.

So I started to research the BANS Forum and found a couple nice guys that do full store set ups and many other services including templates. I contacted them and let them do my store so I would have a template to copy from for future stores. They did a great job and my store jumped to a PR3 store and averages about 150 unique visitors a day.

One of the great thing about these guys (Start A Niche is their business name) they are making mods to help make the BANS software more flexible. So far they have created..

ezBANS mod:

This mod makes it easy to add articles to your BANS site. And they have recently upgraded it so you can auto ping and get them spiders on their way to crawl your site. ( See reading on the net even I can learn the official terms) This is a big plus because it is just like Wordpress in the way that when you would add content to your Wordpress Blog it would auto ping for you and this is what helps get Wordpress blogs so much love from the Search Engines. Now there is no reason to have to have wordpress and bans integrated together.

ezADS Mod:

This mod works with the Article mod. It will read the keyword you enter and automatically add a nice looking scrolling eBay ad at the end of the article.

ezContact Us Mod:

This will automatically add a contact page to your BANS store, which is required by the eBay Partner Network TOS. Very nice feature it pulls the email from the one you have setup in the security area for you and even includes a captcha so you wont get spammed.

ezPrivacy Policy Mod:

This will automatically add a very professional Privacy Policy for you which is another thing EPN TOS requires.

ezRSS Mod:

And here is the reason I write this hub today. The ezRSS mod creates a live RSS feed of your BANS site. With this mod you provide an xml feed of your site for their favorite feed readers, setup a FeedBurner subscription service, add your site's feed to many RSS directories, and more.

Noe if you are a BANS owner I suggest you run over to Start A Niche and get your ezRSS Mod today.And if your not a BANS owner you may want to look into it. But check these guys out because they are really helping out the new people.