Update: I got my problem solved. BANS is good to go. Not that I found help from “support”, but I was able to resolve the issue nonetheless.
BANS - it sucks. I’m done with it. I no longer recommend it. I am not promoting it. I effing hate that I ever did. I should have pushed through building a more final site, and not just install and adding products, before saying anything about it. I set BANS up on 25 .info sites. I went back and began adding content for each product page. There is a database issue that has not been resolved. At least for me. The content that I add cannot be saved. Support on the forum for stuff that hasn’t been answered before sucks too. There are four pages of people circling around this exact issue in the forum with absolutely no input to the problem from support.
I am using SS. It works for me and I can do exactly what BANS does. For those who have BANS up and running making $521/day on 362 sites, fantastic. It does not work for me and I tried it on two separate hosts. On the main domain, on a subdomain and in a folder. It doesn’t work. I am sick of wasting time with it when I can get a StoreStacker up and running in less than 15 minutes. I don’t care or know what the hell HalfAgain is doing about the caching of Ebay listings or whatever. I am super confident that Omar will get it fixed, with whatever we need. At least he responds to requests in the forum. Hell he’ll log into your setup and check it personally if needed
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Frank C // Apr 19, 2008 at 7:20 am
“StoreStacker has Closed to New Customers”
Great strategy if you’re selling a membership site or stupid “make money” eBook but very questionable if you’re selling software. There is too much competition in that marketplace to pull your product offline. Customers won’t wait, they’ll buy from someone else.
I’ve had a few frustrations with BANS also but I attribute it to a combination of a learning curve for me and that BANS is swamped with support requests due to their growth.
I’ve been building more Blogger/eBay widget blogs recently since I figured out (hopefully) how to avoid getting flagged by their anti-spam ‘bot. I also like the idea of hitting many long tails with a Griz-like ramble on these posts.
Chris // Apr 19, 2008 at 9:25 am
That is pretty crazy, I have never had an issue with BANS. Sorry it didn’t work out for you.
Good luck with sS.
Chris
Splork // Apr 19, 2008 at 11:18 am
“BANS is swamped with support requests due to their growth.”
Maybe that’s why SS decided on only 1,000. Better able to control the growth. Release a module - make sure it works for all - work out kinks where it doesn’t. I dunno but I’m pissed about BANS. It may very well be something that I am simply not doing. The damn thing installs perfectly. I just cannot get it to save for shit.
I’m doing long tail hubpages rambles. It seems they like hubs over 1500 words.
Speaking of Hubpages, I set up Adsense tracking. I made $3 this week. All together now: chuuummpp channnnggge. Eh, I didn’t build as many as I wanted but I added 5 to the collective - 1 a day. All but one indexed in Google now. I discovered during some Google searches that your tags are mucho important. The Hubpages tags are getting an index in Google. I make sure to add my site to very relevant keywords both short and long tail. Not spammy but enough to make sure I’m getting listed in Google searches. I may not be able to compete for certain keywords but Hubpages tags listings do, so I want to make sure I’m in that group if bored web surfer makes the click.
Chris // Apr 19, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Yea, I agree about the need to limit BANS. I don’t actually prefer BANS as you know, but I never had any issues with it.
A whole $3 from hub pages eh? I’ve created a couple here and there and haven’t really been tracking them. I don’t do as much hub/lense/blogger stuff as I probably should.
Chris
Splork // Apr 19, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Seems I’m not the only one. For those with BANS:
http://buildanichestore.com/members/viewtopic.php?t=10607
Splork Fan // Apr 20, 2008 at 2:38 am
Hi Splork,
Thanks for the heads up on BANS. I clicked on your link to StoreStacker but it says it’s closed to new members *sigh.*
Splork // Apr 20, 2008 at 6:35 am
It’ll open back up pretty soon. It’s not a membership at all though. They are just limiting the number of licenses for each new module rollout.
Dinheiro // Apr 20, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Splork, want StoreStracker have the same problems in getting rankings, etc. etc., like BANS does? Isn’t all a question of backlinks?
Splork // Apr 20, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I think every site has a problem getting ranked unless it has backlinks. That’s why I am burning up the web with directory submits and BMD runs specifically for those SS sites. I’ve submitted an article for two of the SS sites but it’s just not my favorite thing to do.
I’m also doing BMD runs for all my hubpages, lens and WPDFI script sites too. Mostly scuttle runs. Lots of scuttle runs.
I’ve been pretty sneaky about the BMD runs. I don’t want to get busted using the same IP for all those accounts (the real bookmark sites like simpy, etc., scuttle sites I care not so much about) so I just jump on different wireless networks available from the neighborhood
(lots of unsecured wireless). I do some from work too.
One thing I like about SS is the RSS feed it generates for each page. I submit those to RSS directories. And I’m thinking about the potential of taking my own feeds and using them with RSS2Blog onto Blogger blogs and WP blogs. That way I can control how they look with blog templates. Template modification is the one thing I’m not crazy about with SS. Plus I can spew my feeds all over the place.
Dinheiro // Apr 20, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Superb splork
I’m also using the BMD tactic. I run over and over scuttle runs, but i try not to replicate the runs for the same site too soon. My only concern is how much time will Goo…e permit this, i hope that last long.
I’m also using prstorm in some squidoo lenses, i’ll see soon how good or bad the results will be. If they’re good, then it’s another great tool for this get links quick and genuine
Dinheiro // Apr 22, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Splork, i’m a bit confuse, and since you also use BMD, i would like an opinion, since you use for more time than i do. Are you seeing results with BMD? Are you seeing your sites loose rankings because of BMD, or by the contrary, your getting better results?
Splork // Apr 23, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I’m not seeing results with BMD, but I’m not checking either. I don’t really know how Google works, but I suspect those backlinks not to count for a few months. I don’t really do anything expecting immediate results. It’s been my experience that what you do now is reflected months ahead. Strictly speaking for organic web traffic. PPC is obviously different.
digerati // May 11, 2008 at 6:49 am
I have been using BMD for the past few weeks, I am starting to see results on my blog at beatinghypertension.com
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