My attempt at a poor man’s BANS
This is my first post on my new blog. I’d like to spend it talking a little bit about my new site. It takes the idea of the popular BANS (Build-a-niche-store) software and uses Wordpress + various addons to replicate it. The site, which I’ve called “Internet Coin Show” is my first attempt at BANS.The idea was taken from Guy Patterson at Nullamatix.com.
In a nutshell, it involves taking various RSS feeds from eBay (with my CJ.com affiliate ID placed) and using an addon to automatically populate posts in wordpress to various categories based on new posts to the RSS feed.In the 3 weeks it’s been active, internetcoinshow.info is already indexed by google and is receiving organic visitors. The visitors are searching for various terms and keyworks related to coin/bullion collecting. The cool thing is that since the eBay auction titles are already chock-full-o-keywords, keyword optimization is very easy.
Guy’s BANS seems to have produced him already $100 for its first month in existence, strictly from affiliate earnings at Commission Junction. I’ll post more about internetcoinshow.info in the next few weeks.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
damn d00d, didn’t have to rip my template
Just might have to rip your niche 
muhuhhahah. j/k - good luck! any earnings yet?
February 15th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
LOL. You know what they say. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Plus, if you’re getting earnings, you must be doing something right ;).
Anyway, no earnings so far, but I really haven’t put much time into developing better categories and some template changes that Iw anted to make.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
You could really go crazy with that niche. So many people are into coin collecting. Even without any research, many possibilities come to mind.
Vintage Silver Coins
Vintage Gold Coins
Antique Coins
Antique Currency
Replica Coins
Defective Coins
Flawed Coins
Foreign Coins
Retired Coins
Mint Condition Coins
Seems limitless - I say fly with it and see what happens. With the state of the US economy, many people are buying up gold & silver to prepare for the fall of the dollar. Very profitable niche right now.. Good luck - stop by Nullamatix after a while and let everyone know how you’re doing.