Internet Marketing For Newbies

I’m currently working on a new WordPress/BANS site and I thought I’d post here as I build it so you can see how I go about it. We talked about FOCUS, goals and organization in a previous post and I’ll get into some of that here.

The goal and FOCUS (why do you keep using caps for FOCUS? To stress how important FOCUS is!) of this project has several prongs.

1. To build a blog and BANS site with the niche based on computers and related items.
2. To post on the project here as an instructional aid
3. To test new wp-plugins
4. Produce a few videos to show you how some thing are done

First off, what is BANS (Build A Niche Store). This is a program (script) that allows you to become the middle man. When someone Google’s for say, golf clubs, your Golf Club BANS site listing should show up in the Google results (one of your jobs is to get your listing as close to the top as you can, hopefully the number 1 spot). When they click on your site they will see a listing of all the golf clubs. When they click on one of your listing it will take them to that listing on eBay with YOUR cookie attached. If they buy ANYTHING (not just golf clubs) on eBay in the next 7 days, you get a percentage of eBay’s fees. You can go HERE for a full explanation of BANS.

Before we start building the site we need to get organized. Below is how I go about  organizing my BANS project.

The folders above are all placed inside your main folder named after your site i.e. Golf Clubs or MyGolfClubs.com. This will save you a ton of time and frustration especially as you grow your site and your IM empire.

Next time we’ll cover setting up your WP/BANS site which will be covered over several post. I’m also working on a worksheet to help with the installation so I/you don’t forget anything. I’ll stick the worksheet in the download area for you to download. I’ll be building the worksheet as I go along so there will be many revisions. Keep checking back to make sure you have the latest version. If you signed up for my newsletter, I’ll add a link to the latest version.

PS  I almost forgot. I’m testing a wp-plugins called smart ads with this post. Smart ads - Automatically adds advertisements before and after your post’s single page content based on word count or post age. You can also ad custom ads wherever you like by typing <!-smartads- > into your posts!

I set it for 100 words and no delay. I’ll leave it up for several days then I’m going to reset it for a 20 day delay. If all goes well you should see AdSense ads on the top of this post or if you read this after I reset it you’ll not see it unless it’s after the 20 day delay in which case you should see the AdSense ads.

Till later…