Hi everyone, I'm making over $200/day with ebay BANS. This isn't my profits because I'm using PPC to advertise. What I do is test out a new niche; by researching it, and buying a "test" domain. Meaning - if I don't make money within 120 hours (5 days) I will return the domain for my money back. Namecheap works well for this. To make money you're going to need a good niche for your store. It can be anything. Because if people are searching for it and they are in the buying state then they will buy it. There are tons of websites you can use to identify the trends, here we go: 1. eBay Find out what’s hot on eBay now: http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html Depending on your area, you can also check the hot selling products from respective countries: http://pulse.ebay.co.uk- UK http://pulse.ebay.co.ca– Canada http://pulse.ebay.com.au– Australia At the column “Category” there’s a drop down menu where you get to select and check out the top items in each category. 2. Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_ts_h– List of top selling products from Amazon. There are various categories on the sidebar. You can select your niche and check out the hot items. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/ref=pd_ts_m_h__ldr/203-7082884-8022344- Popular items at Amazon UK http://www.amazon.ca/gp/bestsellers/ref=pd_ts_b_ldr/701-5398607-3228316 - Popular items at Amazon Canada 3. http://www.ciao.co.uk/ssp.htmllist of most searched products in UK 4. http://shopper.cnet.com/4005_9-0.htmllist of popular electronic products 5. http://pricegrabber.com/home_mostpop.phplist of popular products at pricegrabber.com 6. http://www.sharewareplaza.com/mostpopular_1.htmllist of popular products at sharewareplaza. 7. Yahoo! Buzz http://buzz.yahoo.com -Yahoo! Buzz publishes the most searched terms on Yahoo! Search engine daily. There are 6 main categories: http://buzz.yahoo.com/actors/ http://buzz.yahoo.com/movies/ http://buzz.yahoo.com/music/ http://buzz.yahoo.com/sports/ http://buzz.yahoo.com/tv/ http://buzz.yahoo.com/video_games/ The buzz log gives you good ideas on the current trend. How would it help you? Think about the products that the searchers might be interested in. For example, celebrities autograph/posters, video games console etc etc. 8. http://hotsearches.aol.com Similarly, AOL.com updated their most searched terms daily. The category includes electronics, gadget, celebrity, auto, movie, music, TV programs & vacation destination. You want to bid on keywords where users are in the "buying state". This will help you pay only for users INTERESTED in your product. First example- If you are going to market a product from ebay that gets a lot of searches, then you have to choose these keywords as your primary keywords— ‘Product name’ ‘Product name for sale’ 'Cheap Product name’ ‘Buy Product name’ 'Discounted Product Name' Example-2: You want to find long tail and all the other product variation for that thing. You have to use keyword tool, to find related keywords for the niches. Some keywords tool- [1] http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ [2] http://inventory.overture.com/d/sear...ry/suggestion/ [3] https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal These tools will give you keywords related to your niche. Please note that keywords consisting above 3 words are considered good and targeted , in fact more words your keyword phase have , better it is. For example , for online parenting keywords like ‘know what your children do online’ conversion ratio [traffic/sales] is great and look the keyword has 5 words in it and there are some affiliate program for online parenting software which you can market with this keyword. So, be selective and targeted while picking up keywords, broad keywords are bad, narrow AKA long tail keywords are great. For your destination URL in google adwords you want it to target the keyword. So lets say you do [Green handbags] your landing page needs to be site.com/search/green handbags In the beginning do not target specific keywords or use broad match. You want to let your CTR rise up first then you can start to use broad match and google will assign a better quality score. Chapter-2: Writing articles: If your product has fewer than 1 million searches then grabbing organic listings will save you thousands of dollars and your ROI will triple. Yes, writing articles is one of the key points to grab top position in Google. If you write articles on any topic, sooner or later it will bring traffics to your site. Google is in great love with quality and unique articles. All articles site like en.wikipedia , ezinearticles etc sites are in top position of google for almost all keywords out there. Now, what to write in an article and how to write: You have two options while writing articles – write your self or outsource it. There are many guys and girls who will write an article for $3 /article. If you want to write yourself: Go to ezinearticles.com Type your keyword in search box of the site. Many articles of your topic will shown up. Browse some articles and try to understand what to write, how to write. Copy some quality articles to a notepad file and make another article picking up related paragraphs of those articles. Add your one to two line at first and bottom of each article. Save the article. This is for if you don’t know about the topic you want to write an article. And if you know about the topic on which you want to write an article , then follow these format- Article title- You must use your keyword, in your title like I used – Google payload, What Is the Insider Story; look I have used my keyword Google Payload here cleverly. Article’s first paragraph: Write what you are going to say in the article concisely. Your keyword should appear in this paragraph at most 3 times and at least once. Next two paragraphs: Expand what you have said in the first paragraph. Using your keyword is good, but not very necessary. Closing paragraph: Summarize what you have said in the article , using your keyword in this paragraph is very necessary. So, in this way you can write out quality and unique articles very easily and within 10 minutes. Now, how much articles you need? I’ll say minimum 15 , more is better. A 40 articles site is best for Google ranking. ************************************************** ******** Here is a quick tip if you can write article- First thing you should note that to earn a relatively good amount of money [say $40 to $50/day] through selling your writing online, you should have good knowledge of english grammar, vocabulary and spelling. [Not bad english like me, english is not my mother language] It is better if you are from USA. Now i'll explain about some websites which pay you for writing for them. First, Associated Content . You can earn $3 to $10 for every article considering its quality and topic of the article. The payment is to your paypal account. You can write as much as you want. Articles should be about good quality and should have about 400 words at least. Topic usually differs from lifestyles like movie , music , gadgets , fashion , cuisine , travel , historical spots etc..and financial issues like credit card , credit score , credit report , bankruptcy ,banking , saving , insurance , stocks and mutual funds etc etc... Second, warrior Special Offer Forum . If you can write some body cant. So they need you. In warrior special offer you can list your service for $20 listing fee [once you earn that $20 from writing on Associated Content] and offer other forum members to write for them for a price of $3 to $4 for an article. Show them 1 or 2 demo articles. If quality of your articles are good you'll get plenty of orders. Well, now we have articles and we are ready to build our BANS site. Now what is SILO structure? I won’t make things complex, but simple a SILO structure website is well organized or well categorized website. For example, we are going to build a site on Golf and Golf accessories. So a SILO structure website will be like Homepage---- Golf Golf tips— > How to play golf > How to increase swing > How to hold the stick for maximum swing Golf shoes > Shoe Company 1 > Shoe Company 2 > Shoe Company 3 Golf cloths > Golf cloths company 1 > Golf cloths company 2 > Golf cloths company 3 Golf sticks > Stick type 1 > Stick type 2 > Stick type 3 Golf club > Club 1 > Club 2 > Club3 Golf field > Golf field 1 > Golf field 2 > Golf field 3 Golf coach > Golf coach 1 > Golf coach 2 > Golf coach 3 Chapter-4: Promoting and indexing it within minutes: Now, we have to announce that we have made a website and we want to indexed the site by Google and all major search engines within minutes , yes I said within minutes. How? Let me tell you straight forward. The quicker way of indexing a website is Digg it. Digg.com is a site which is crawled by Google after every few seconds and whenever you Digg a story, it is instantly picked up by Google. Go to http://www.Digg.comand register. It is a page rank 8 sites and PR8 link to your site will index it within minutes. After digging it move to propeller. Propeller.com: It is another site which will push your website to top of google through a PR 7 [Pager rank 7] link. This website is from Netscape [an AOL company] and have a very good reputation for good social bookmarking articles. Register with it and submit your story /website article to propeller with as many related tags as you can. A tag is a keyword phase in social bookmarking sites where your result is categorized. So, keywords related to your niche I mean website is your tags. Twitter.com This is one of the website which goggle crawls after every minute almost. Register an account and upload your link to it. Slashdot.org A PR9 social bookmarking website. All websites are not accepted for story inclusion; however you can save your bookmarks in your own account and get the link juice for your website. If you have little bit knowledge about SEO , you know that a PR9 link can do wonder. Connotea.com: Register and submit your site to ‘My Library’. Done. NewsVine.com Another PR 7 Google friendly website. Submit your website registering an account here. You must register with these 5 and submit your website to these sites: Rediit.com, Swik.net, Blinklist.com, Fark.com, Stumbleupon.com I am aware that 80% of these social bookmark sites are nofollow now , yet go and submit.You will laugh at many so called SEO theory at the end. Chapter-5: Laziest link building [without asking anybody for link] Till now, we have built a website /weblog with 1 or 2 articles and submitted it to high PR sites without nofollow tag. Now, our site should be indexed. So, now onwards we will keep submitting articles to our website after every 24 hours or 48 hours until we go to top 5 position of Google. It is very necessary because google love regularly updated article site. So, if you think that this is enough, sorry, this is starting only. Our next step will be link building. According to google’s new algorithm and link policy, it does not endorse any paid link or directory links. So, gone are the days when you make a website and hire somebody to submit your website to thousands of Directories and get a good google rank. Now, it is waste of time and google will not give you top position for it. What link building options left that Google love? Well, it’s all about authority links. What type of? Lemme show you. First: Own links. Do you own any blog or website which is indexed by google ? If you have , link from it to your new site with anchor tag [a Keyword phase linked with a website] . I have more than 20 sites so I can easily link to any new site whenever I launch a new website. Second: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/, http://usfreeads.com/, eBay.com about me page , http://www.webclassifieds.us/. Go to http://sfbay.craigslist.org/then ServicesSmall Biz Ads section.. Write an small article describing your website with linking back to your website. Next , http://usfreeads.com/, create an premiere account [need $9.95 , but well worth the price , I get lots of traffic from there] . Write a small article using your keywords as an ad. Link your keyword to your website. eBay.com about me page. Every eBay.com account holder can edit his ‘About Me’ page. Give a link to your website from there. http://www.webclassifieds.us/create an account and post your ad with link back to your site. Third: Bumpzee.com Submit your blog to http://bumpzee.com, you should be in google after 15 minutes. It is so fast and so good for google! Fourth: [1]Squidoo.com This is perhaps best way to occupy top position of google regardless how many competitors are there or how competitive the keyword is. There are countless number of keywords for which a squidoo lens is in top position. I don’t know why google love squidoo so much , but squidoo is really fantastic way of dominating google. There are countless examples in Google where top positions are dominated by sqidoo , . So, register your account with squidoo and make your lens. [2] Hubpages.com Same type of website like squidoo and google also love it as much as it love squidoo. Create your account and make your hubpages. It has a great inbuilt viral trafiic network which will add constant flow of targeted traffic to your hub page then to your website. Some peoples are making a lots of money using hubpages. [3] Zimbio.com One of the finest website out there for authority linking. Submit yuour bolg , write an article , add your pages , comments – a truly SEO optimized page which google will like. It’ll instantly add a strong link to your new site , pushing up your google SERP ranking. It is far more powerful than you can imagaine. Create an account and add your link , se traffics rolling in. [4] Quizilla.com One of the most under estimated but perhaps more powerful tool to satisfy google than squidoo and hubpages. Create an account; go to ‘My Journal’ section. Create your journal. Write some keyword optimized article for your journal. Then go to http://pingoat.comand see – it’ll be in google. [5] Free wordpress blog: Go to wordpress.com Create your free blog . Submit your articles and use as many tags as you can. A optimized blog in PR 9 wordpress.com easily give a massive boost to your website. Fifith Linking Strategies: Article directories. Submit your articles to these article directories. [1]ezinearticles.com [2]Goarticles.com [3]Ideamarketers.com [4]Articlealley.com [5]Searchwarp.com [6]articlesbase.com [7]articledashboard.com Rests are waste of time. Don’t go for every article directories out there. Blurbosphere Network: Go to http://www.blurbosphere.com/Post_to_the_Blogs.htmland announce your website. Forum Signatures: Register with these forums and make your signature link, linking back to your website. [1]http://forums.digitalpoint.com [2] http://warriorforum.com/forum [3] http://sitepoint.com [4] http://webproworld.com Sufficient!! Final Linking Strategies: Wikidot : Make your own wiki at http://wikidot.com Document Uploading: Write a keyword optimized article in Microsoft word. Link your main keywords to your website. I hope you know how to link words with website in MS Word. Now upload it to http://scribd.com If you can spend $2! isnare.com distributes your articles to HUNDREDS of article directories only for $2/article. I also use Press release submission service www.webwire.com[cost $20 per submission] for many great high PR backlinks. This will help you rank instantly for the keyterm that you are targeting. 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Added 5/31: Thanks guys for the positive response! If you are promoting X, do a google search for it. Do "Site:facebook.com [product name]" If a group exists; sign up with facebook and head over to the group and post your site. When I did it, it brought in about $10+/day in commissions. Some groups have up to 20k members. Simply post a bulletin; and you will get thousands of views. It's that easy I promise. Another thing you need to do is; if the product you are selling is an electronic or something that targets the younger 18-35 crowd; look at niche sites or groups to post to. What I did when promoting a certain electronic, was found a group of 10,000 members interested in X. This was the gaming niche. So everyone there was interested in X, and I made a mass post detailing a liquidation I was doing.