phpBay Review: EPN Wordpress Plugin Beats BANS Sites

Author: Mike Johnson Category: Affiliate Programs, Black Hat Tools, Blog Tools, Site Builders Tags: Affiliate Store, Build a Niche Store, Ebay, EPN, phpBay, StoreStacker, Wordpress Plugin

Thursday
Mar 5, 2009

I am a long time user of Build a Niche Store (BANS) and even though I knew phpBay existed, I didn’t bother with looking into it due to my success with BANS and I wrongly assumed that phpBay was nothing but an inferior product. Mainly because I thought the name was a cheesy ripoff on Ebay. Ultimately the naming of a product doesn’t matter, it is the performance.

A few weeks ago I ran into a thread in the Warrior Forum in which several individuals talked about how they were doing very well with phpBay sites. After reading their comments I thought maybe it was time to test this product myself to see if it was worthwhile. I have stopped building BANS sites and haven’t built one in about 6 months. Most of the sites I had been creating were getting SLAPPED by Google rather quickly and I didn’t have the time to dedicate to them. Plus, I was a Beta tester for StoreStacker and I really like that program because if you know a little about PHP and web design, you can build 100% unique sites with StoreStacker. So let’s introduce phpBay into the equation.

I believe strongly in the ability of Wordpress to easily bring in traffic, but my worry with phpBay has always been that Google will spider my affiliate site with phpBay, see the plugin and I will get SLAPPED right away and lose a good Niche domain. So I decided to use just one good domain to test it and if that domain got SLAPPED I would be done with the Wordpress Plugin and go back to my StoreStacker sites.

I found a solid niche domain and started adding pages. I always use the Auto Social Poster for promoting my Wordpress Blogs, so I incorporated this into the mix as well. Google loves Wordpress Blogs and this was evident within 2 days as I finally decided to check if I was indexed and I was already listed at Number #1 for my chosen keywords (let’s just say the domain deals with Motorcycles and is a four word domain). After 2 weeks of posting and building a category structure of 4 main categories with 3-5 sub-categories each, I was done building and had a fairly nice site. I posted at least a 255 word article (what Google needs for a description) in front of all of my phpBay Ebay listings. After each page was posted I bookmarked the post at Digg and a few other top tier Social Sites and by the time I was done I was already averaging around 50-80 visitors per day.

Now I am just starting my 6th Week and I am averaging around $10-30 per day on the one site with Ebay (EPN) commissions. The range on profits is pretty wide and I tend to have higher profits on Tuesday and Wednesday for this particular site. I am getting around150-200 visitors per day and it is increasing steadily as I add new articles to the blog in an articles only category.

I haven’t been SLAPPED by Google and I am now working on building my second phpBay site. I have been very happy with the results and I can now say that it is definitely worth buying. I would skip over BANS and purchase this if you want to make money with the EBay Partner Network.

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