With our Honda leases expiring, and needing to make a decision, my wife and I decided to trade in one of our Honda Civics for a 2008 Nissan Versa SL Hatchback. After reading some cool forums, I found a few modifications to the stock versa that will really make it look slick. The first I’ll be trying is the grill mesh to keep rocks from damaging the radiator.
I’ll keep this blog updated with stories and pictures of the various mods.
I posted earlier last month about my blatant copy of Guy Patterson’s Poor Man BANS using Wordpress, and some RSS feed plugins. He reported after his first month that he made around $97 his first month in Ebay commissions. Well here’s the scoop for mine:
I started Internet Coin Show on January 23rd. As of February 29th, I made $25.20. While this amount isn’t $100, it did pay for the domain for 2 years + hosting for the next 5 or 6 months. All in all, I’d say that its a success. I think the reward is proportional to the amount of effort, and I simply didn’t put a whole lot of effort into optimizing the site or niche. I am getting 8-10 referrals from google organic searches every day. Steadily, as google indexes more and more of my pages (currently 3420), I think I’ll get more hits. I also need to change the 404 page to include some items similar to the one that was removed.
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.