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The other day I decided to evaluate what exactly it was that made some of my stores very successful, while others are not.
1. Niche - I started looking at my successful stores and noticed that all of them are in highly competitive niches which are fairly broad. I know this goes against the whole “micro niche” philosophy, but that’s how it has worked out for me. Surprisingly, I just closed down any of my stores that were in a tight niche because of poor performance.
2. Blog - All of my successful websites have blogs in wordpress, in the /blog directory. I try to post at least once per week.
3. Articles - All of my successful stores have articles on Ezinearticles.com and about 4 other article directories. I am getting backlinks from people publishing my articles on their websites. I’m not talking about a lot of articles - maybe 5 for each website.
4. Blog & Forum Comments - For my successful websites, I have commented on blogs and made a few forum posts in niche forums.
5. Directories - Whether they work or not, I have these sites listed in about 100-200 directories.
6. Squidoo Lens - These sites have a Squidoo lens. Not huge lenses, but ones with a few articles.
7. Social Bookmarks - I have utilized social bookmarking sites like: Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Propeller, Zimbio.
8. Content - These websites have content. Not as much as some niche stores, but most store pages have content, and I’ve written 3 or 4 good quality articles for the content pages.
9. Listings - All of my sites have listings on the front page, but not many, maybe 2. They act as more of a teaser and I sort the listings in BANS so that certain hot items at low prices will show up.
10. Style - My sites don’t look like BANS sites at all. I change almost every color including borders and backgrounds, and I change how the sidebars look.
That’s about all I have noticed about my stores that are performing well. I hope this helps in your success with BANS. If you would like some help, send me an email under my contact section and I will get back to you.
