Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Can You Still Make Money With The Build A Niche Store Program?

By Don Lawson

The Build A Niche Storm Program (BANS) took the Internet Marketing world by storm a few years ago. It was so easy to use. Just install the script on your host, plug in a few category numbers from eBay and the script spit out a ready made website populated by auctions from eBay. To say that the BANS program was an immediate hit is an understatement.

During that period time, beginning Internet Marketers as well as seasoned Pro's built multiple BANS sites. Some even went as far as to build huge networks consisting of hundreds of BANS sites. Many of these Marketers were pulling down 5 figures a month with their networks. Even the average Internet Marketer was making more with this program than they had with any other.

Then after about a year or so, a dark cloud came over the Owners of BANS sites. Google suddenly and without warning started delisting BANS sites from their search engine. BANS sites that were once sitting on the front page of Google for profitable keywords were no longer to be found. Some sites went from making 20 thousand a month to nothing as these sites lost their rankings.

Shortly after eBay took its affiliate department in house, they started letting many of their affiliates go. Some of these affiliates were making full time incomes from their BANS sites. Again, no real reason was given as to why this happened.

There are still people making money with BANS. But can the average or beginner Internet Marketer make money with the Build A Niche Store Program? In my opinion, yes. However the sites must be built as content rich sites with the eBay auctions worked into as an added benefit to the end user.

So can money still be made with BANS? Sure. The Owner should keep in mind though, that any site needs quality content. Some users are now using other programs such as PHPBay to monetize their sites with eBay auctions. Other scripts have come along that does everything that BANS does and a little bit. Now days, beginners are limited to just using the Build A Niche Store program.

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