Comments on: When to Send Visitors Away from Your Site http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/ Strategies to help you build your niche store empire Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:05:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rochelle http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-571 Rochelle Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:31:57 +0000 http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-571 John, I've done both (added content page with link that goes to eBay and added external link in sidebar that goes to eBay content), but what I'm mainly doing now is adding the external link. I'd rather drop my affiliate cookie, which is guaranteed if the external link is clicked. If I have a content page then visitors may or may not click the link. Adding external links to my sidebars is new for me (I started doing it a few days before I wrote about it here) so I don't have any feedback yet to offer on how well it works. But since my goal is to get people to eBay I like that this does it in one click to my sidebar instead of sending people to a content page with a link that might not get clicked. Rochelle John,

I’ve done both (added content page with link that goes to eBay and added external link in sidebar that goes to eBay content), but what I’m mainly doing now is adding the external link. I’d rather drop my affiliate cookie, which is guaranteed if the external link is clicked. If I have a content page then visitors may or may not click the link.

Adding external links to my sidebars is new for me (I started doing it a few days before I wrote about it here) so I don’t have any feedback yet to offer on how well it works. But since my goal is to get people to eBay I like that this does it in one click to my sidebar instead of sending people to a content page with a link that might not get clicked.

Rochelle

]]> By: Rochelle http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-566 Rochelle Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:00:01 +0000 http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-566 Paul, Congratulations on your sale!! The first one is the hardest and it just gets better. Thank you for sharing how you did this. I've never heard of jtpratt.com. There is some excellent information there, some of which I may impliment on this blog when I get a chance. Your site looks very nice! Interesting how you included your toolbar into your header. Have you had many downloads? I noticed that you include your email address. Be aware that it is likely to be picked up by spam harvesters and overwhelm your email with spam. Rochelle Paul,

Congratulations on your sale!! The first one is the hardest and it just gets better.

Thank you for sharing how you did this. I’ve never heard of jtpratt.com. There is some excellent information there, some of which I may impliment on this blog when I get a chance.

Your site looks very nice! Interesting how you included your toolbar into your header. Have you had many downloads?

I noticed that you include your email address. Be aware that it is likely to be picked up by spam harvesters and overwhelm your email with spam.

Rochelle

]]> By: Paul http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-564 Paul Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:30:12 +0000 http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-564 I personally don't like to send someone away from my site using Adsense. It doesn't make sense to me to get just a few cents from Google when I can get more through many other companies that use affiliates. I would much rather set an affiliate link with ebay, amazon, clickbank or a dozen or so other good name brand companies I have a relationship with. Don't forget about building individual links into your content. Many of the larger companies like Target, Kmart, and Northern Tool let you build specific links right to a product. If you are writing content you might as well take the extra few minutes and build those links. You can see an example of automatic links for amazon on the main page of my www.toolboxhero.com site. I personally don’t like to send someone away from my site using Adsense. It doesn’t make sense to me to get just a few cents from Google when I can get more through many other companies that use affiliates.

I would much rather set an affiliate link with ebay, amazon, clickbank or a dozen or so other good name brand companies I have a relationship with.

Don’t forget about building individual links into your content. Many of the larger companies like Target, Kmart, and Northern Tool let you build specific links right to a product. If you are writing content you might as well take the extra few minutes and build those links. You can see an example of automatic links for amazon on the main page of my http://www.toolboxhero.com site.

]]> By: Paul http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-563 Paul Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:09:38 +0000 http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-563 Thanks Ronni, I am used to Joomla where users have to register BEFORE they can make any comments so I had the "Users must be registered and logged in to comment" checked in Wordpress admin area. That's fixed, try it again if you want. Just a quick note: After posting this comment on the three blogs it only took the Google bot 45 minutes to come and completely index both www.toolboxhero.com and www.toolboxhero.com/blog. Yahoo and MSN showed up shortly after! Thanks Ronni,

I am used to Joomla where users have to register BEFORE they can make any comments so I had the “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” checked in Wordpress admin area.

That’s fixed, try it again if you want.

Just a quick note: After posting this comment on the three blogs it only took the Google bot 45 minutes to come and completely index both http://www.toolboxhero.com and http://www.toolboxhero.com/blog. Yahoo and MSN showed up shortly after!

]]> By: Ronni http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-558 Ronni Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:12:55 +0000 http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-558 CONGRATS, Paul, on your first sale! Just finished checking out your site - it's terrific! Great information, and very friendly. I tried to leave a comment on your blog, but it required a username and password. (?) Anyway, best of luck with it! Ronni CONGRATS, Paul, on your first sale! Just finished checking out your site - it’s terrific! Great information, and very friendly. I tried to leave a comment on your blog, but it required a username and password. (?) Anyway, best of luck with it!
Ronni

]]> By: John Harrington http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-557 John Harrington Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:12:46 +0000 http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-557 I was wondering if you had an example of creating a link to an ebay review or guide. Do you have a link in the sidebar go directly to the ebay content or do you suggest writing content and add the link in the page/ thanks \J I was wondering if you had an example of creating a link to an ebay review or guide. Do you have a link in the sidebar go directly to the ebay content or do you suggest writing content and add the link in the page/

thanks \J

]]> By: Paul http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-547 Paul Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:53:48 +0000 http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-547 I Made My First BANS Sale!!! Just wanted everyone to know I made my first BANS sale today! I did the following to make it happen. 1. Used Rochelle's "The Niche Store Checklist has been Revised" to create the BANS site. www.nichestorestrategies.com 2. Used Marks's "More Free Build a Niche Store templates - Come and Get Em!" to build the site. www.thenichestorebuilder.com 3. Used JTPratt's "Watch Me Build a BANS Niche Site from Scratch!" to fine tune the site. www.jtpratt.com 4 Used JTPratt's "Best Practices for Setting Up a New Wordpress blog in 60 Minutes or less" to set up a blog correctly. www.jtpratt.com Thanks to all the forum posts at BANS and all the people who commented on the sites listed above. Come take a look www.toolboxhero.com and make relevant comments at www.toolboxhero.com/blog. The blog is dofollow so go ahead and build some backlinks. Next, more backlinks, more BANS stores, and implement more ideas from Rochelle. Mark, and JTPratt!! Thanks again, Paul I Made My First BANS Sale!!!

Just wanted everyone to know I made my first BANS sale today!

I did the following to make it happen.

1. Used Rochelle’s “The Niche Store Checklist has been Revised” to create the BANS site. http://www.nichestorestrategies.com
2. Used Marks’s “More Free Build a Niche Store templates - Come and Get Em!” to build the site. http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com
3. Used JTPratt’s “Watch Me Build a BANS Niche Site from Scratch!” to fine tune the site. http://www.jtpratt.com
4 Used JTPratt’s “Best Practices for Setting Up a New Wordpress blog in 60 Minutes or less” to set up a blog correctly. http://www.jtpratt.com

Thanks to all the forum posts at BANS and all the people who commented on the sites listed above.

Come take a look http://www.toolboxhero.com and make relevant comments at http://www.toolboxhero.com/blog. The blog is dofollow so go ahead and build some backlinks.

Next, more backlinks, more BANS stores, and implement more ideas from Rochelle. Mark, and JTPratt!!

Thanks again, Paul

]]> By: Tao http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-541 Tao Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:07:18 +0000 http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/when-to-send-visitors-away-from-your-site/#comment-541 Hmmm! Nice idea! Hmmm!
Nice idea!

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