see phpBay Pro in Action

Readers ,

see this is one of the great site using phpBay pro in action ....sweet .

http://www.ebid.ie

An ARCU, is an “Active Confirmed Registered User.” This is someone that you refer via your site to eBay. They’re confirmed as active when they:

• Signup
• Confirm their Account via Email
• Either Places a bid or Buys via BIN within 30 days

ARCU’s are easy money, there are also plenty of niches out there that you can really leverage this form of eBay income rather than the Revenue Share.

The Revenue Share is the amount of money that you earn when someone buys an item. You earn a percentage of the total revenue eBay makes (not the sale price of the item). So naturally higher priced items will earn you more. I’m also pretty sure that Cars etc earn a flat fee, so don’t think there’s huge money in them.

So if you refer a new customer to eBay & they purchase something then you get the ARCU & the Revenue generated.

eBay’s cookies lasts for 7 days so you’ll also get revenue from any other items that the customer buys within that time period (Amazon only has a 24 hour cookie time, so this is a much better deal for Affiliates). I find that people quite often buy more than 1 item.

So the theory is simple, we’re going to create a site that drives people to eBay via the various products we’re promoting.

read this article ....

1. Installation: With both, there is the installation hurdle, since with BANS you have to set up a mySQL database on your server. I know how to do this with cPanel, but it seldom seems to work seemlessly with me. After some tinkering, I was able to get BANS installed. Best to use a host with cPanel, IMO. With PHPBay, you simply upload and activate the plugin, but you have sime further steps to follow unlike some plugins. Nothing difficult, however.

2. Setup: With BANS, there was a steeper learning curve for me, since I have some solid familiarity with WordPress. With WP I already had a site up and running, so it was easier simply to plug everything into the theme. With BANS, while they will tell you it's really simple, if you want to get a better looking site than the generic template, and get the navigation right, you'll have some work to do.

3. The Biggest Differences: Speaking from my POV, the biggest difference between them is that with BANS you can't mask the eBay links and images so that you get a site that shows up as being saturated with eBay affiliate links and images. But, you can configure PHPBay to do the masking. I feel this is an important distinction, since your generic BANS site could be seen by Google as carrying a "thin affiliate site" footprint and tanked in rankings. Personally, the similar layout with the BANS template doesn't bother me, as I don't think Google pays a lot of attention to that.

In BANS' defense, you can pay on a per site basis to have your links masked ($30) and they are offering additional templates for a price. I don't know if this masks images as well.

Also, BANS has a forum and PHPBay does not, except there is good support, and much info about it available here at DP. Just do a search for "phpBay plugin".

Lastly, with BANS, there is a little more work involved to set up each store on your site, especially if you want to add some written content to each page which certainly should be done. You should do that with your PHPBay pages, as well, but with WP, it's somewhat simpler.

How to earn money online using datafeeds :

Here is 2 step quick startup how to on how to make money online using data feeds :

those who are new to online affiliate marketing and not sure what the heck is datafeed , see my earlier article on digitalhat : what is datafeeds in affiliate marketing

1.First Sign up for affiliate programs you are interested into , related to your favorite niche.

2.Get the datafeeds and use it to display products and offers on your niche site.

What is datafeed in online marketing -explained here

What Data feeds (xml feeds) allow you to keep your pages up to date with current offers and price information from the advertiser that you are an affiliate for.

this can be done using different approaches including but not restricted to , some of them are:

1. Create a dynamic page in ASP or PHP or .Net that reads the data feed as a database and creates a page based on the data in the datafeed.

2. Use a program or website such as goldencan.com to generate a page from the datafeed.

3. Use AJAX (which rocks but takes considerable programming skill) to read and display the products in the datafeed.