Build eBay Store With phpBay Pro and Wordpress
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eBay affiliate store is a great opportunity to build passive income automatically. Some marketers report up to $500 per month passive income from one eBay store. Imagine having 10 eBay stores running on auto-pilot.
In my opinion, eBay niche stores should have their place among your online properties. BANS script is the most popular choice to build eBay stores these days. Recently, I found amazing script called phpBay Pro that anyone can use to easily add eBay products into wordpress blog.
What is a big deal about phpBay Pro? Well, BANS software does great job in creating static sites filled with eBay affiliate products, but does not integrate at all with existing php sites or Wordpress blogs. I think it’s a big limitation of BANS script, since Wordpress and eBay products combo will take your eBay affiliate store to the next level. Wordpress is the best content management platform around, and when properly used – will catapult your blog to the top of search engines for your niche.
Before phpBay Pro, it was not easy to add eBay products into wordpress blog posts or create blog pages filled with eBay affiliate products. phpBay Pro software changed everything and now you have a great plugin for wordpress blog allowing you to add any of 80+ million products available on eBay for practically any niche imaginable.
Here is a short list of phpBay Pro features:
- Add keyword rich eBay items to your php based web site.
- Earn revenue through the Ebay Partner Network, PepperJam, Mediaplex, TradeDoubler or Affilinet.
- List items from specific Ebay categories.
- Easily integrates into Wordpress 2.x as plugin.
- You can use phpBay tags to insert eBay items anywhere on your blog. (Ever thought about replacing Adsense with more profitable revenue model? Think phpBay Pro.)
- Sidebar phpBay widget is available, if you want to use it.
- Highly customizable item list – display them in columns or rows, change number of items or rows, item pagination and more.
- Affiliate links and eBay images are masked.
To find out more about phpBay Pro click here.
Not sure to choose BANS script or phpBay Pro? Here is a tip. If you want to build static eBay product sites or do not know Wordpress, then BANS is a choice for you. However, if you know Wordpress even on a basic level, then there is no excuse not to use phpBay Pro. Especially with a price tag of almost 50% less than BANS script.
6 Comments
August 25th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Hmmn, I was playing with the idea of creating a landing page for affiliates and here you show me how to use my existing blog to create one. Thanks for the tip.
However, I think the script at $79 is a little on a high side if you ask me.
Yan
Blog for Beginnerss last blog post..I’m in the Top 100
August 25th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Glad to help Yan.
When I bought phpBay price was $49, sorry to hear author increased a price. However, even at $79 it’s still a good deal (BANS does less and costs more).
I setup phpBay store for my customer, and 1st month profit was $100+ just for one site!
August 25th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Thanks, Max. I’m pretty new with all these stuffs like BANS but I’m picking it up the pieces day by day. A lot of informative articles on your site here so I’ve subscribed for further reading.
By the way, is WP Hashcash works together with Akismet or you either use one or the other?
Yan
Blog for Beginnerss last blog post..I’m in the Top 100
August 25th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
You welcome Yan, would appreciate if you’ll spread link love - digg, stumble, sphere posts you like!
WP Hashcash works together with Akismet and will transfer comments it’s not sure about into Akismet moderation queue. After playing with a LOT of anti-spam plugins, this combo IS the most powerful.
I have rarely see any spam at all (and no need for captcha or math calculation or …
August 25th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Wonderful. I’m going to implement it on my blog. The combo seems to look pretty good for me. Thanks for the heads up, Max.
We’ll keep in touch…
Yan
Blog for Beginnerss last blog post..I’m in the Top 100
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:05 am
There is a growing list of 3rd party plugins available for phpBay. I have written several myself that add more features.
A replacement to the standard geotargeting feature that ships default with phpBay. Mine uses the free database from Maxmind instead of the subscription one.
I have a revenue sharing plugin that allows you to automatically share the income from a blog amongst the owners. Each partners clicks and profits accrue to their own EPN account. Also supports Pepperjam network. Available for free.
Also available for free is a plugin that automatically reformats the auction titles to look a bit more professional. Gets rid of the the mixtures of upper and lower case letters guys often use to draw attention to their auctions.
My latest plugin automatically creates new fresh content for your site. It builds new pages/posts from the keywords that visitors type in to the search box on your site. Spiderable and indexable content just like any other page on your site. Its not free but its cheap for what it does.
If any of your readers is on the fence about getting phpbay then they shouldn’t be. Just go and get it and build yourself some stores. phpBay rocks !!
Alan