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There is an exciting and easy to use PHP script that has been on the market for a while called Build A Niche Store, better known as BANS. This script will allow you to make a niche website selling products through eBay’s affiliate programs. eBay, in my opinion, has one of the best affiliate programs, with payouts of 50% of eBay’s revenue. BANS lets you create your own eBay affiliate website very quickly, and you do not have to carry inventory or ship any products. Moreover, your site looks like an eBay page, and you have the option to customize it as well. The script comes with 8 or 9 template styles for you to customize, but I personally do not use them. There are individuals making BANS templates that are very inexpensive ($10 to $20), and most of them are really attractive.

 In addition, you can further monetize your site by placing Google Adsense on them. A word of caution and a strong suggestion.. before you put your site up and submit anywhere, create relevant content based on the keyword category that you will be promoting, and remember, you can never have too much content. Google will normally not index a site without content and will consider it a thin affiliate site. I normally don’t even place Google Adsense on a site until it’s indexed and ranked. For content, you can either write your own articles or have them written for you.

Before you begin your first or any site, let me add another word of caution based on my experience. I have been using BANS for about one year, and the absolute most important thing you must do first is to research the product and keywords that you want to promote. Don’t pick a niche just because a certain keyword has 10,000 searches a month, for instance. Your competition is going to be intense and it is doubtful that you will place in the top 10 on a Google search for that particular search term in your lifetime. Do the research and look for those lower number of searches, but still high enough to warrant putting up a web site. My own rule of thumb now is at least 50 to 75 searches a day and under 50,000 competing sites. Also, don’t purchase your domain name until you decide on the keyword, etc..What is extremely important, is to get your site linked with inbound links as early and quickly as possible. Social bookmarking sites work very well for this, as well as relevant directories themed with your site.

Check out this great and easy program and take it for a spin. It’s really easy to use and you can build a great looking website, and earn money as well.