How To Build A Niche Store eBay BANS Site with a Wordpress Theme
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New BANS Wordpress Themes and Templates for Build A Niche Store eBay Affiliate Sites
If you ever wanted to Build a Niche Store using a Wordpress theme instead of a BANS Template, well now you can. There are now 3 different Wordpress Themes that you can use to build your BANS eBay store with more on the way from Mark Hansen.
These themes are super easy to install and configure and if you can setup BANS you will have not problem at all with creating a good looking BANS website using Wordpress. And because you will be using blogging software you will also have a blog included for easy content management with the bonus of great website promotion potential using the sites default RSS feed.
The BANS Template of your new site is totally integrated with the Wordpress Theme so that the Build a Niche Store and the Wordpress blog components use the same style sheet so that they look exactly the same giving your site the same style, look and feel throughout.
Mark has done a great job in getting these two software packages to integrate so seamlessly and the results you get should mean that Google will be a lot happier with BANS Build a Niche Store sites that are created with Wordpress, meaning you should be able to make more money from eBay in this way.
If you are going to build any BANS sites in the future it is recommended that you build them with Wordpress. Once you buy one of Mark's new BANS Wordpress themes you can use it over and over again on as many BANS sites as you want and they are really affordable too.
You can even get the themes installed for you but you will already need to have purchased the BANS Build a Niche Store software and you can get that HERE.
BANS FLEX Wordpress Theme and Template for Build a Niche Store Sites
This BANS Flex Wordpress Theme for Build a Niche Stores uses Wordpress as the Store Front which will display the store categories so that visitors can easily click through to the BANS ebay Store to view and select products.
This is definitely the easiest way to integrate Wordpress with a BANS store and only requires a couple of configurations steps to get your Build a Niche Store Wordpress site up and running.
The SIMPLE CSS Template Theme for BANS and WordPress
This Simple CSS Theme for Wordpress BANS sites is visually a basic looking template, but the advantage is that it is very configurable so you can make your eBay stores look just the way you want.
The great news is that this theme/template combination will also work with your existing BANS stores and you can install Wordpress as the front end or the back end to give a fully integrated solution. The theme is also widget ready so that configuring and extending Wordpress is really easy.
BANS Templates for the STUDIOPRESS Theme to build WordPress Niche Stores
This new BANS Template enables you to your niche Ebay store using the very popular STUDIO PRESS Wordpress Theme and provides a totally integrated solution using the same CSS style sheet for Wordpress and BANS to give you a great looking Build A Niche Store.
It is simple to install and configure with Wordpress running the main site and the BANS software stored in a sub-folder or directory.
Building a BANS Build A Niche Store just got a whole lot easier with Wordpress!
Now you can really have some fun with BANS and Wordpress!
Get BANS Wordpress Themes here.
You will need both to build your eBay affiliate stores.
Top 10 Best Free Wordpress Themes to Build a New Website or Blog
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The Best Things in Life are Free including Wordpress Themes
Free Wordpress Themes are one of the best reasons for building your next website or blog with Wordpress. Even if you are thinking of developing your own theme, why bother? There are so many good themes around to chose from at the moment that your biggest task is deciding which one to use.
Here are 10 of the best themes that are currently being considered for our next Wordpress project and hopefully one or more of them will be of use to you too. Enjoy!
Free StudioPress Theme by Daily Blog Tips
Free Revolution Blog Theme for Wordpress by Brian Gardner
UBD Moneymaker Free Premium Wordpress Theme
Rebel Magazine Free Theme by WP Theme Designer
Free WordPress Theme Illacrimo from DesignDisease
Maggo Mag Free Wordpress Theme by WP Theme Designer
Free Options WP Theme by Justin Tadlock
The Free Mimbo Magazine Wordpress Theme by Darren Hoyt
Unstandard Free Wordpress Theme from 5thirtyone
Free Dateless Sniper 2 SEO Theme by Courtney Tuttle
If you have any questions on these themes or any other aspect of Wordpress just leave a comment, especially if you find some better free themes that are not listed above...
What is WordPress? What are Themes? What is a Plugin?
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What is Wordpress?
Wordpress is Free!
WordPress is website Content Management software.
WordPress allows you to quickly and easily create and then maintain a Website.
It is super easy to use through an intuitive and quick online interface that you access through your web browser.
All you need to do to build a website with Wordpress is the following:
* Choose and buy a domain name.
* Select and buy a hosting account with a web host provider.
* Install Wordpress into your hosting account.
* Create and maintain your new website through your web browser.
Once Wordpress has been installed on your domain at your web hosting account all you will then need to run your site is your personal computer and an internet connection to create and edit the content on your website.
Using Wordpress is just like using a word processor as it is just point and click. No html or coding required!
Wordpress was originally developed as Blog software but has now been enhanced and developed to become the best website building software available.
Benefits of Using Wordpress for Websites
Here are some of the great benefits of using WordPress to manage your website:
Absolute Control
You can install Wordpress on your own domain name in your hosting account and do whatever you want with it. If you to sell your website to make a profit at some time in the future this is easy to do.
Total Flexibility
You have many options to do absolutely anything you want with your website as additional functionality can easily be added with Plugins and Themes can be used to restyle you site with one click of a mouse.
Easy Promotion
The search engines, especially Google, love WordPress. With a good SEO Theme and some additional functionality from plugins, you can develop your WordPress site to get your site indexed easily with Google and then rise up the search engine rankings.
No Cost
WordPress is totally Free and most of the more popular web hosting companies now provided it as standard with a one click installation facility, so check for this when you select your web host.
Many great Themes are available for free so you can give you site the look and feel that you want and many of the plugins you might need to extend the functionality of Wordpress are also free.
Simplicity
If you can use any of the Microsoft tools on your computer’s desktop such as Word or Excel you will find WordPress easy to use, configure, extend and maintain. Adding content and editing it is easier than using a word processor.
What Is a Theme?
Wordpress Themes are just like website templates.
A theme is the template that WordPress uses when it displays your site on the internet to your visitors and it determines how your site will look to those visitors.
A WordPress theme controls the colors of your site and where on the page individual items such as header graphics, menu options, content areas and footers are displayed and which fonts and sizes of fonts are used in the text.
Making a small change to a theme template means that this change will be seen right across all pages of your website as soon as the theme is updated. You could use this to change your site title or phone number for example.
The amazing thing about Wordpress themes is that you can install a new one with a single click of a mouse and totally change the look of your whole website instantly. Amazing!
Most Wordpress themes are free, but if you want that custom or unique look you can buy affordable premium or custom built themes.
What are Plugins?
Wordpress plugins are little pieces of code that can be easily added to your site with a single mouse click and which add some extra functionally to your site such as a Contact Form or extra Search Engine Optimization.
Most of these are also free, but some of the ones that add a lot of functionality may have to be paid for. Examples of a paid plugins are those for add affiliate datafeeds or membership site functionality to your site.
There are many different plugins available so that it is now easy to change what your website does and of course you do not have to pay a code or programmer to do it for you.
You need Wordpress!
If you want to build websites and would like to have the most powerful and easiest method for doing this then you need Wordpress and remember…
Wordpress is Free!
This site runs on Wordpress hosted at Hostgator using a free theme from Brian Gardner and a few free plugins.
How to Make Money with Wordpress and Free Datafeed Plugins
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Use Wordpress Plugins to include Affiliate Datafeeds
If you want to make money online with Wordpress then using affiliate datafeed plugins is any easy way to set this up. Currrently there are various Wordpress plugins to help you do this, but they all seem to be at different stages of development. Some work well whereas others may work in a fashion, but may not give the prettiest results or the full functionality that you might be hoping for.
However whatever you are trying to achieve with affiliate datafeeds you should now be able to do it with Wordpress. This gives you the advantage of free content management software to easily and quickly build your website with Wordpress and then just as easily add products to posts or even full affiliate stores to your Wordpress site. You also get the added bonus of a built-in Blog with an RSS Feed, so that you have the best platform currently available for promoting your new website to get traffic and visitors to buy your affiliate products.
Fortunately many of these Wordpress Affiliate Datafeed Plugins are free or have free lite versions and here are some examples of the best of the free ones.
All the links and images in these feed displays have an affiliate id embedded in the link so that if a visitor clicks on the link or image and then buys the product you get a commission payment for the sale.
Amazon Affiliate Datafeed with MultiFeedSnap Plugin
AMAZON ELECTRONICS BEST SELLERS
Most RSS/XML Reader Wordpress Plugins should be able to display the products form a Best Sellers feed like this. Just click the link to see one example that uses the MutliFeedSnap plugin to display the top selling electronics products at Amazon.com.
Ebay Affiliate Datafeed using the BayRSS Lite plugin
IPOD TOUCH 32GB Live EBAY Auctions from eBay.com
Checkout the BayRSS Lite Free Wordpress plugin here.
Ebay Affiliate Datafeed displayed with phpBAY Lite plugin
IPOD TOUCH 32gb Live Auctions at Ebay
Read more on the Free phpBay Lite Plugin for Wordpress here.
Affiliate Network Merchant Datafeeds using the PopShops plugin
GOLF PRODUCTS from an Online Merchant with an Affiliate Program
For more on PopShops™ affiliate stores and the free Wordpres plugin click here.
News Feeds and Blog Feeds can be added with many different plugins
DIGG Social Bookmarking Live Feed
The pages displaying these feeds were created using the MultiFeedSnap free plugin, but there are many other plugins around that can do this job. Read more about the god and the bad of the FeedSnap plugin here.
If you know of any other free affiliate datafeed plugins or want to know more on the above then just leave a comment. Thanks.
