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.

There are currently 12 markets that the BANS software supports; this includes Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, India, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States, and Spain. These markets have a product inventory of more than 60 million.

So with the over 60 million product inventory, you can expect that you can sell products from every niche imaginable. But as an affiliate, your aim should be connecting your target audience with products they are interested in. The BANS software can help you achieve this.

The 4 Step Process of Using BANS Software

1. Choose your country. The country you choose will decide which marketplace products you can promote.
2. Choose your niche. After you choose your target country, you need to install BANS. The first option you will see inside the BANS admin panel is the niche selection. For example, if you choose the beauty products category, BANS will create a beauty product affiliate store.
3. Develop the Site for Your Target Audience. The BANS software helps you create a theme that matches the preference of your target audience. You can change the design so the Content Page and the Store page become suitable to your niche. And you cam also add more pages to your site in order to target more keywords in search engines.
4. Market Your Site. After you are done with the store, you need to focus on marketing. Using principles and tools such as SEO, forum marketing, article marketing, social bookmarking, Squidoo lenses, and link building can do wonders for your site.

After you become familiarized with the four step process, you can add new niches to your store portfolio in order to target a wider range of niche markets.