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About Us 2007 is when I began creating niche stores. Many kind and giving people shared their knowledge with me, making it easier to improve my sites. I have gathered much of what I've learned and put it here, on this site, as a way of giving back. It is my hope that this site will help you improve your niche stores and sites, too. ~ Rochelle
Michelle’s Webinar Ran Over Time so Part Two is Tonight
If you caught the first webinar Michelle MacPhearson did earlier this week, on keyword research, then you already know that Michelle and her guest ran out of time. They scheduled another webinar for tonight (06/26/2008) at 6:30pm EST. If you want to catch this then sign up at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/714492771. Even if you...
I’m Working on Updating the BANS Toolbar for FF3
If any of you have my BANS Toolbar installed and updated your Firefox browsers to version 3 then you already know that the BANS Toolbar is not (yet) compatible with FF3. Many people have sent me emails asking when I will update it so they can use the toolbar with FF3. Well, here’s the deal. I want to update the toolbar to FF3 but am...
I Killed My Site (this one)
Hi there, Chances are good that you can read this post but won’t be able to access any links on my site. Earlier, you may have even seen a ’505 internal error’ message. Well, turns out I did this to myself. Just prior to this happening I had logged into my cPanel and enabled the ‘HotLink Protection’ option (to...
How to Move a Sidebar Menu From One Side of Your Site to the Other Side
If you have a Build A Niche Store (BANS) that has a sidebar menu on one side of your store but you would rather have it on the other side, then keep reading. You may be surprised at how simple this is. This will be easiest to achieve if you are using a template that has sidebars on both the left and right, so my instructions will be based on...
Michelle MacPhearson is Having a Free Webinar on Keyword Research
Doing keyword research is vital to getting traffic to any website, not just niche store sites. Today I received an email from Michelle stating that she is having a webinar on nothing but keyword research tomorrow, June 24, 2008. I’m going to sign up for this and wanted to pass the information along in case you want to, too. If you are...
How to Add a ‘Contact Us’ Form to Your Site and Display the Link in Your Footer
A few months ago I wrote about How to Add a ‘Contact Us’ Form to Your Site, a mod created by BANS forum member, mistermickster. If you follow those instructions you will end up with a ‘Contact Us’ link in your Site Navigation’s sidebar menu. After I posted these instructions many people said they prefered to add...
How to Change the Wording Shown When There are no Auction Results
Have you ever wanted to change the wording that displays when no auction results are available? Me, too. The default wording is, “No products matching your query have been found in our store. Please bookmark this page and come back soon to see if we have what you want.” I don’t like this wording because there is no way to...
How to Move a Site from a Subdomain to a New URL
Yesterday I wrote about why I no longer use subdomains to create Build A Niche Store (BANS) sites. Today I will explain how to move a niche store from a subdomain to its own domain. Before I go into how to do this I want to say that I have chosen to do this using two different hosting companies. In another post I will explain why you may want to...
Why I No Longer Use Subdomains
When I first got started with Build A Niche Stores (BANS) I created several stores that were done using subdomains. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, a subdomain is when a new URL is created using a primary URL. For example, let’s say the main your URL is www.MyDomain.com and you want to create a site called Site One....
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