Are Build A Niche Store Sites Still Profitable
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.
In that time frame, BANS was the easiest program to use to make money online with eBay auctions. Whats more, Owners of the program could also use other ways to monetize their sites for added income. Programs such as Adsense and Bidvertiser were popular as was affiliate marketing products.
After a year or so the bottom fell out from under BANS owners. Google up and pulled the plug on many, but not all, BANS sites. The reason for this is unclear, as Google never gave an official reason. Speculation at the time was that it viewed these sites as thin affiliate sites and felt they offered no benefit to search engine users. Some sites that were making $10,000 or more a month went to making nothing as they fell out of the Google SERPS.
In a move that added salt to a wound, eBay then started dropping affiliates from their rolls. No one is quite sure why either. The official email that users got left more questions than it did answers. What ever the reason, some affiliates who were making a living off their BANS sites suddenly found their self without income.
The question now begs, is it even worth to use the BANS program? I think so. But the Affiliate Marketer has to remember that new sites must have quality content. Both eBay and Google want websites that are helpful and useful to the Internet user. Simply throwing hundreds of these sites up with no content is a sure recipe for disaster.
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.
