Always Check Your Campaign ID’s

As you become more and more familiar with the process of Building a Niche Store using the BANS software, the time it takes you to set one up will be dramatically decreased. However, that’s not always a good thing, as I found out today.

I’ve had a batch of new BANS sites getting indexed and starting to rank but I hadn’t seen any sales or even clicks being generated. Since the traffic numbers were relatively small I figured I must just be getting unlucky. However, after a couple of days of this, I decided to test it out for myself. I clicked through and generated about 10 clicks on one of these new sites. The next day when eBay’s stats had updated, there was nothing to be seen for that site’s click totals.

Obviously I became suspicious and I logged in to the site to make sure I hadn’t screwed something up. Well, as you probably can tell from the title of this post, I HAD screwed something up, and in a BIG way. I had entered the wrong eBay campaign ID in the field for EACH one of my 18 newest BANS sites.

I’ve begun creating campaigns in bulk in the eBay partner network interface to save time later on, and I just drop all the campaign id’s into a spread sheet and pull them out one by one as I build. However, this time I managed to insert the 18 campaign ID’s after the ones that I had actually just made.

So, for whoever was lucky enough to create campaigns 5336010161 - 5336010178 I’ve probably made you a few bucks over the past week or so. Consider it my gift to you (since I don’t believe there’s any way to go back and retroactively fix that) and consider it a lesson well learned on my part.

I’ve gone through and corrected my error, but always double check that you’re inserting the correct campaign ID when creating your BANS sites.