For those having difficulty finding where to put in their affiliate i.d for the RSS feed. Click on advanced search, scroll down almost to the bottom until you see:
Click on show and a drop down box will appear for you to enter your provider. Choose CJ then enter you i.d.
Hope this is clearer! 
Here’s a quick and easy way to make a site map for your store. You’ll need to be able to disable CSS styles. I use the Web Developer plugin for Firefox but there are many others you could use.
1) Make a new content page
2) Open up your store in another tab and disable CSS styles.
3) Copy all the links from Site Navigation to the end of your Store Navigation links.
4) Go back to your new page and paste the links into the content area.
5) Tidy up the links if needed. I usually indent the links and use a bullet style.
6) Fill in the Title, Page Name etc and save.
7) Finished!
1) on Astore settings tick - Hide the category navigation
Continue reading ‘How To:Embed an Amazon Astore in your BANS Site’
One way to increase your sales is to put an RSS feed with a specialised search including your CJ affiliate ID on your site.
Instructions
The first thing to do is to go to ebay and do an advanced search. Put in all the search parameters you need and ensure you enter your affiliate ID in the appropriate box. Tick the box to save the search in My ebay then perform the search.
If the search gives you the results you expected click on the RSS icon (in the address bar on Firefox or the bottom bar on IE) and save the RSS details.
Using FeedBurner to Monitor your RSS Feeds
Go to FeedBurner (and make an account if you don’t already have one)
Now enter the feed address you obtained from ebay into the box for new feeds. Give your feed a new name or it will have a long name from ebay including the search details. Activate your feed.
Putting the feed on your site
I put my feed in the right sidebar. To do this you’ll need to edit the footer.php file from your themes folder. If you want to put it into the left sidebar edit header.php. Instructions below are for footer.php
Immediately after <div id=”sidebarright”> or after <h2>Sponsored Links</h2> depending on where you want your feed, enter the following lines suitably edited for your feed.
<h2>RSS Feed</h2>
<strong><center>some heading text</strong></center>
some more text<br/>
<center><a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/your feed address” title=”feed title”><img src=”http://example.com/images/rssfeed.png” /></a></center>
The image for the feed must be uploaded to a folder on your server and the correct address included above.
You can get some feed icons at
10 beautiful RSS icon packs for Web 2.0
You can easily add more than one feed with different icons to give your visitors different specialised searches.
A quick follow up to my post Best BANS Templates : Publicise Your Store!
Neo over at Monetize Your Website or Blog has a pixel page where you can advertise your site. There’s a special page for BANS stores and it’s free, so head on over there and get some more publicity/backlinks for your store.
I’m also going to set up a page for links to BANS sites on Best BANS templates and my blog at Antigua Web Solutions. This site is new so doesn’t have any page rank yet but Antigua Web Solutions blog gets a fair amount of traffic and has a PR of 2. Not wonderful yet but it was still very new at the last PR update! So leave your BANS store address and anchor text and I’ll add your site to both pages. I will be limiting the number of links (don’t want to get in trouble with Google!) so don’t wait too long.
Many people are having good success with using USfreeads.
If you take the Gold option and pay the $10 fee, you can then upgrade to the premium for about $6 a month which is a big discount. A big advantage of using USFreeads is that your ads will be indexed by Google and can rank highly. Use your keywords in your ad title and also sprinkled through your ad for maximum SEO. I haven’t found a UK equivalent yet. Does anyone know one? Continue reading ‘Best BANS Templates : Publicising Your Store’
Blueberry Version 1
1) Comes with PSD header image for you to edit in a graphics program
2) Space below header image for 120 x 60 ad
3) Contact Link included in footer
Blueberry Version 2
1) Header has space for five images with alt tags, all with URL’s to point to your store pages.
2) RSS code in sidebar
3) Links in the sidebar to point to other sites.
4) Links to store pages (or other sites) above the products
5) Links to store pages (or other sites) below products
You can see a similar BANS template at my store Lawn Mower Auctions
Kiwi Version 1
1) Comes with PSD header image for you to edit in a graphics program
2) Space below header image for 120 x 60 ad
3) Contact Link included in footer
Kiwi Version 2
1) Header has space for five images with alt tags, all with URL’s to point to your store pages.
2) RSS code in sidebar
3) Links in the sidebar to point to other sites.
4) Links to store pages (or other sites) above the products
5) Links to store pages (or other sites) below products
You can see this BANS template at my store Lawn Mower Auctions
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As an introductory offer we will customise your header image for FREE! This includes changing the header text to your site name and adding an image suitable for your niche store.
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It’s easy to add a background image to your theme. Upload a background image named bg.jpg to your theme folder. For example if you are using the theme layout-3-both upload image to themes/layout-3-both/images.
Open up the styles.css file from the themes folder in a text editor.
Find the lines
body#background {
background-color: #dddddd;
}
change this to
body#background {background:url(’images/bg.jpg’) ;
background-color: #dddddd;
}
You should also change the background colour to a colour suitable to your theme.
You can find hundreds of free background images at GRsites
Pick a colour from RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart
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