How to Easily Add eBay Listings to Your Site
Written by Rosalind Gardner on January 30, 2007 · Comments (5)
Filed Under Affiliate Programs, Software, Online Auctions ·
Check this out. I’ve placed eBay listings on our travel blog at Roamsters.com - the link goes to our Suitcase listings.
The eBay links are commissionable and eBay pays its affiliates between 40% and 65% on their revenues earned from a listing and between $12-22 per Active Registered User (ACRU).
Ah, OK. You’ve seen that type of page a thousand times before and maybe you think that incorporating eBay listings on your site isn’t such a big deal?
Well, doing so used to be a HUGE pain in the butt for us non-geek, tweak-hating affiliates.
Previous software solutions required that you had tp sign up for eBay’s developer program and do a WHOLE lot of tweaking before you’d see the listings on your site. Quite frankly, none of those solutions ever worked for me not even when the software developer was supposedly helping me out… which is why you haven’t heard me talk about other software in this category before.
So, I was therefore absolutely thrilled when Kelvin Firminger told me about his new “ Build A Niche Store” (BANS) software that does not require developer skills to incorporate commissionable eBay links on your site.
BANS uses RSS technology which makes it easy as pie to install and set up. Just plug the code into your site template and you’re up and running.
You can put all of eBay’s offerings on your site or choose from any of eBay’s 28,926 niche specifc categories…from golf equipment to digital cameras bringing relevant products to your site visitors at the click of a button.
The BANS package includes the script, 32 site templates, a manual, a members’ forum, unlimited site licence, the ability to build either an eBay.com or an eBay.co.uk store, an 8-week risk-free trial and the package is priced at a very modest $97.00.
Best of all, Kelvin is accessible, friendly and very helpful.
I won’t be surprised if Kelvin’s “ Build a Niche Store ” software qualifies as my ‘best of 2007′ software picks — maybe even my TOP pick. I therefore HIGHLY recommend the BANS software if you want to expand your affiliate earnings without the pain of tweaking. 
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5 Responses to “How to Easily Add eBay Listings to Your Site”
tuckskip on January 30th, 2007 5:42 am
I’ve purchased BANS and agree that it is a very neat software. However, I think they have a ways to go before they really unlock the power. Right now it is v-e-r-y easy to set up a basic store with basic navigation such as you have on your travel blog. But customized store menus and navigation that is more than the simple huge catagories such as “Luggage” is much more difficult. I know cause I’m hitting my head against the wall with it right now.
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Michele Ranieri on January 30th, 2007 7:18 am
Hi Rosalind, I recently heard of BANS myself and I absolutely love this idea!!! I’ve been selling on eBay for a few years now and recently decided to also become an Affiliate Marketer. I had ordered your Affiliate Handbook a while back and was in the middle of studying it when I heard about BANS. I am also in the middle of having my website designed. So I feel like it was all meant to be.
I ordered his program today and as soon as my website is finished, I’m ready to go. I respect your opinion and I am so glad to hear that you like this idea/concept also. Can’t wait to see how it goes. Thanks again! Michele
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Rosalind Gardner on January 31st, 2007 8:49 am
Hi Beth,
I forwarded your comment to Kelvin, and he’s more than happy to help you (and anyone else) out who might be having an issue.
I’m sure that you’ll discover that it’s a really minor tweak.
Don’t forget to ask him what he did, so that you can replicate the process on other sites, or other parts of your site.
Cheers,
Ros
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Kelvin Firminger on February 2nd, 2007 2:55 am
Hey all,
It’s Kelvin here from Build A Niche Store. First off thanks for a great review Rosalind
I just wanted to make a quick post re Beth’s comments about custom navigations. The way the script currently works is that you enter one of eBay’s 28,926 category numbers into your store setup file and Build A Niche Store will automatically return to you a fully functional store which contains all of the products inside that category and all of the sub-navigation (which you see on eBay).
Now, many BANS users are going beyond this standard navigation to open up access to more products inside their store and to give their stores more keyword targeted content pages for the search engines. This involves replacing the standard navigation (or adding to it) with a set of manual links which link to the particular products you DO want to promote.
The manual walks you through making this change and we have just set up a sticky post in the members forum which covers it in more detail.
If you have any questions about the flexibility of the script, be that extending a navigation, going “deep” in eBay or building a store which “cross-cuts” several different eBay categories then drop us a quick note through our Contact Us form (located on the left side of the BANS homepage) and I’ll explain how you can do what you want to do in more depth.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to meeting you in our members forum (nearly 600 strong now!),
Kelvin
PS: Welcome to BANS Michele…I noticed you had signed up after we spoke
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