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Comment on Advantages of Combining BANS and Blogging by Alice

Alice — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:14:41 +0000

@Steve,

Well, you’ve just hit the rub that we’ve all been talking about on the BANS forum and especially Mark Hansen’s blog…

The problem, before Mark came to the rescue and put together some templates, was that there was NO integration between the BANS and wp sides. But Mark came up with some awesome templates including some free ones that we could use that did that for us. Check them out at:

http: //www.thenichestorebuilder .com/build-a-niche-store-bans-templates

Remove the spaces for the link to work - I think code doesn’t appear in posts if its intact. There are some other folks on the BANS forum who have done similar.

The latest buzz, which I wanted from the get-go, is a script that would let me convert ANY of the zillions of WP themes into an instant BANS/WP hybrid. Right now each theme has to be hand-coded to make the integration work, so no one’s volunteering to do this. If you’re skilled at programming you could probably do it, but most of us know nothing about it.

To be honest, I don’t know that it really matters if you have a BANS and a blog totally integrated, or if you just have the two linked. It certainly looks nicer to have an integrated site, but I’ve got BANS sites that just have the blog in a sub-folder. They’re too new to really tell if page ranks will be different one way versus the other.

Comment on Advantages of Combining BANS and Blogging by Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:10:28 +0000

Thanks Alice

I am quite happy being able to install WP into a sub-folder (probably titled ‘blog’ or something) but how do you link the two together so that the root (in this instance BANS) pulls in the content (WP posts)

at the same time maintaining the look, feel and useability of the designated theme (in this instance the BANS template currently selected)?

Comment on Advantages of Combining BANS and Blogging by Alice

Alice — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:54:07 +0000

I had the same issue, where several of my BANS only sites were doing well and I didn’t want to move them off the root just to install WP. You can create your WP folder at the same time you install WP if you use Fantastico at Hostgator. Right under the spot where you tell it what domain to put it in, there’s a box for you to specify the name of the folder to put WP in.

If you don’t use Hostgator, just create a folder called /blog in your main directory, then tell WP during installation to put the files there.

I have sites both ways, and have to say that sometimes leaving the BANS site alone is the best thing to do. Adding the blog makes it so much easier to add content though, and I think it accomplishes the same thing. Especially if you use one of Mark’s wrap-around templates, then its really easy.

Comment on Advantages of Combining BANS and Blogging by Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:37:06 +0000

At present I’m building a couple of WP/BANS sites with WP at the root and BANS store in a sub-folder. But I have 4x BANS sites that earn good money, are indexed AND ranking Page 1 Positions 1, 2 & 4 per site on Google US, Google UK & Yahoo, so I don’t want to break them or ruin the indexing or ranking.
Anyone know how I can add WP to these sites but in a blog sub-folder, so that it won’t affect indexing or ranking. For these I just want to add a blog facility & am happy with the BANS templates that are already being used?

Comment on My Site Was Down, and it was My Fault by James

James — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:51:18 +0000

Oh…this brings back wonderful memories from when I was still on the shared Baby Croc plan with Hostgator. After three shut downs I finally moved to a dedicated server. The peace of mind might actually be worth the high price.

Comment on How to Add a Single RSS Content Page to Your Site by Numismatics

Numismatics — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:53:06 +0000

The reason why all results are being displayed is because there is no iterator in the foreach loop. You will need to add “$n=$n+1;” to the foreach loop without the quotes in the last line of ex-rss.php before the closing bracket } and putting a “return;” statement without the quotes after the closing bracket will get rid of the “1″ that is being displayed after the rss feed. I have been unable to provide an example because the php code is not displaying properly.

Comment on Remove Google AdSense Ads from Your BANS Stores by Make Mone Online With Harry

Make Mone Online With Harry — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:09:39 +0000

Even BANS sites without adsense are getting deindexed now. Make Mone Online With Harrys last blog post..Why I won’t buy an iPhone

Comment on 30 Minute Backlinks is on Sale by Rochelle

Rochelle — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:09:20 +0000

To Gerry and Susan,

I just sent an email to Michelle about this. One guess is that she actually met her limit of 100 and that caused the bottom portion to disappear (even though it still says there are 10 left), or there may have been an error. If Michelle responds (which she probably won’t because she’s really sick right now) I’ll share.

Rochelle

Comment on 30 Minute Backlinks is on Sale by Susan

Susan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:35:51 +0000

I did too, couldn’t find the link to click for the sale! The count says that 10 are still available, but how can you get it without the link? I don’t want to miss out on the sale!! : }
So what can we do??

Thanks,
Susan

Comment on 30 Minute Backlinks is on Sale by Gerry

Gerry — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:57:56 +0000

Rochelle,

Went to Michelle’s site from your link prior to the deadline and the bottom portion of her order page was missing so I couldn’t order at the sale price (or at any price for that matter!!) She must have had a page edit problem when she made the markup showing 10 remaining copies. I tried !!

Gerry