Affiliate Programs

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Google and BANS. Once we thought this was a match made in Heaven. Nowadays, if you’re a BANS owner, you probably think you’ve been in affiliate marketing Hell. First there was the Ebay Partner Network canning hundreds of eBay affiliates, many who had Build A Niche Storesites up, and now Google has been either penalizing or out right deindexing BANS sites from the SERPS.

Yeah, for some of you BANS owners, it’s been a pretty tough last few months.

With the state of the economy these days along with the sky high price of Gas, many people are finding that their money isn’t making it as far as it once did. So it’s not surprising that many people are looking online to make money fast. With Winter just around the corner, many people are worrying about how they will pay their Winter heating bill. Some have already been surprised by unexpected large energy bills. This leaves some families scrambling to find ways of making extra money quick in order to prevent something from going unpaid.

Some of you may be searching for ways to add a little bit more get-up-and-go to your Build A Niche Store sites. Let’s face it. Most of these stores are old and boring and there is little you can do to make them look/work better unless you have some programming skills or the money to pay someone to do it for you.

I’ve been experimenting for a few months on my Build A Niche Stores to see what would increase traffic and rankings. Other than building links to the BANS store. Don’t get me wrong, without links, your BANS store is dead in the water.

It seems more and more people are starting their own blogs. Or at least I’m getting more and more emails asking if I can refer an affordable blog web hosting provider. Over the years, I’ve used many web hosting providers. Some good, many were not. In the early years I’m sure it was because I went with the cheapest web hosting provider or used the free web host. You know the kind, the ones that put a gazillion banner ads on your site because they were letting you use their service for free!

I know many of my readers are heavy Build A Niche Store users and PHPBay users. If you’re currently using Ebay as a source of income, or thinking about using them, here’s a warning for all Ebay affiliates. 

I’ve been watching the situation with the Ebay Partner Network unfold for about the last month. It seems to have settled down some, but most ebay affiliates aren’t breathing a sigh of relief yet.

What’s Going On At Ebay Partner Network?

Some of you may have not heard about the latest news concerning the Ebay Partner Network (or EPN as it’s more commonly known) and its affiliates.

You’ve probably noticed the Privacy Policy post below. You may be wondering why I posted it there. Well, the truth is because I’m old and getting absent minded!

Every blog or website you build should have a Privacy Policy and a Terms and Conditions or a Terms of Usage page.

Why?

Because not only is it good netiquette but it will also help you out with ranking in many of the Search engines. Yahoo and MSN are sticklers for a Privacy Policy and Terms page. I thought I had already put those pages up here, but apparently I overlooked them.