I had received few questions that I thought I should respond to on my blog, so if others are not clear on it to, they can learn as well.  These questions are:

When should you submit the site to google, yahoo, and msn?

How to Track the Clicks you Have?

What is RSS feed?

Can you Make serious money with Bans?

What are backlinks?

So let me answer each question as to what I do.  I normally have at least two articles in my content pages, and full SEO optimization (to the best of my abilities) before I submit to google, yahoo or msn.

I always have e-bay banner (for new sign ups) that I post as my ad on the site, this is to track impressions.  I use my hosting account to track the visitors, and clicks with eBay partnership are tracked by their system.

RSS feed is kind of like news flash.  There is a good thread in Wealthy Affiliate forum that explains about it, I believe in General Marketing section.  For example, if you have a blog, similar content to your store, you will update your blog each day or week (totally up to you), if you have rss feed on your site, it helps you keep your sites fresh, but you should still change some wording and add more content at least once a week or maybe once a month. (Once a week is a better!)

Can you make serious money with eBay Affiliate niche stores? Depends what your serious money is.  You see, when I started and that was in Feb. 2008, I set some goals for my self.  I wanted each store to bring in $200/ month and that means 10 stores, $2000/ month.  20 Stores $4000/month. Currently two of my stores are over 200 per month, and two are steadily climbing up.  My goal is a little of the course due to the family situation, but I have 7 sites, 4 set up and heavily promoted, 3 new one’s in the working stages of promotions.  I don’t promote only eBay products, so I have steady income of around 2K per month at this time.  (remember I started in Nov. 2007 and had zero tech experience!) Yes you can make serious money of Build a Niche Stores, but once you learn how this is done, don’t put all your eggs in one basket.  I never do as I had bad experience with it in the past.  I built a business that went down the drain with Real Estate market going down.   I don’t promote what I don’t believe in and the only thing in make money from home I do is this build a niche store training, this is because I use it and I am building my business.  I wanted strong foundation so my business does not cripple ever again.

Backlinks are when you have your articles that you post on different sites such as ezine, associatecontent, goarticles, usfreeads etc.  When ever you link back to your site, you get kind of like a point from Google.  It helps you rank higher for your keywords.  Your links back to your site should always include your main keywords: for example, click here to read more about discounted painted pictures (for example purposes). You can link back from blogs, (if they let you), forums, etc…Keep in mind that if your site is about baby toys, and you link back from car dealership, it does not help, but if you are linking from toddler toys it helps.  It needs to be relevant.

I hope this explains some of the questions in regards to eBay Affiliate Niche Stores and how to get it to rank high in the search engines.

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I hope you had a chance to look at the lesson two. It is very important aspect of making your online store or stores successful. So why are keywords so important for your eBay affiliate business? Because that is how people are going to find you. Often, people over look this part and they wonder why their store was no where to be found. You see, the high competition keywords are hard to compete with. Depending on the search volume if the keyword is searched for 30-50 times, I would look for the competition that is below 5000 in “” So if my keyword is eBay affiliate, and it only gets searched for 30-50 times, I would type it in Google search box with “”. If a keyword I am going after has 75-200 searches, I would push my competition to around 40,000. And so forth. The reason why we are inputing the keyword in quotation marks is because it brings you results only with pages that have those keywords in title or optimized text. It has nothing to do with how people are going to search for it. One of the free tools I like is the Keyword discovery. It is part of seobook.com. When you find your keywords, than look for the long tail keywords meaning more than 3 words less than 7. You see, with your keywords and your hard work, you won’t people to find you that are at the last leg of purchasing cycle. Person looking for the information is not yet ready to buy, person looking for the specific product is ready to buy.

For example: car is not a specific keyword, but red sports car is a specific keyword or treadmill is a generic keyword, but treadmill pro-form crosswalk is a specific keyword phrase.

Now I hope understand why I am stressing the importance of the keywords for your eBay affiliate stores, because they are important!

I know, you are probably wondering, how will you compete with other people for those keywords, and I will explain that to you later on. We are not there yet

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