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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

How to Deal with the Dreaded Computer Reformat

As many of you know, I had to reformat my computer not too long ago.  One of my readers emailed me and said he is now facing the same thing and wants to know what he needs to do regarding his niche stores. This is a good question, but fortunately, your niche stores shouldn’t be too affected by...

How to remove the ‘Contact Us’ link from sidebar and add it to the footer

Adding a ‘contact us’ page to a site will add value by making it look more professional. Some people won’t visit a site if there is no way to contact the site’s owner. And, I can’t remember where I read this, but it is thought that Google shows a bit more love to sites...

How to Add Images to Sidebar Menus and Auction Results

On my Tools For Ghost Hunters niche store I added images of a ghost that you can see links are hovered over or selected. I’ve been requested to share how I did this. Writing these instructions is something I’ve put off because I think it this is a rather difficult mod but have finally...

How to Create eBay Affiliate Links

You can easily create eBay affiliate links for use in your niche stores or elsewhere. When eBay’s affiliate accounts were still with Commissions Junction (CJ) you could create affiliate links using eBay’s Flexible Destination Tool. Now that eBay has moved their affiliate program from CJ...

How to Add External Links Alphabetically to Your Site’s Sidebar

I recently wrote about how to add external links to your sidebar menus. Those instructions tell you how to add external links that are either above or below your Site Navigation menu. Since that post I have learned how to add external links to your sidebar menus so that they show up alphabetically...

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