Build A Niche Store 3.0 Release Information
2008 is here and the corner and the new Build a Niche Store (BANS) update will be
following shortly. Our aim is to have BANS v3.0 under beta testing
by mid-January and released shortly after.
Some of the new features coming in BANS v3.0 are going to be:
BANS goes worldwide with 14 supported countries:
eBay.com - US
eBay.co.uk - UK
eBay.ca - Canada
eBay.com.au - Australia
eBay.at - Austria
eBay.be - Belgium
eBay.fr - France
eBay.com.hk - Hong Kong
eBay.in - India
eBay.it - Italy
eBay.nl - Netherlands
eBay.com.sk - Singapore
eBay.es - Spain
eBay.ie - Sweden
This is really going to provide the developer in you to extend
(should you choose) into many under-tapped national markets. You can open a store for each market as a subdirectory or create a new domain (or subdomain) for each country!
BANS 3 Goes Local
No longer will a store have to be targeted to the whole of a specific
country. You will now be able to build a store and quickly set it to
display items within a certain local position within any country
above. .ie: Tennis rackets for sale with 20 miles of Florida...or
Antique furniture for sale within 50 miles of Atlanta etc...
This new feature is a huge leap and will provide you with endless
choices when it comes to building niche stores :)
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Hidden eBay links for improved SEO
No longer will the search engines see all of the external eBay links
on your websites...both links and products are now hidden and appear
to the search engines as an extension of your own website :)
Product links will now appear like below:
http://www.yourdomain.com/item/Harley-Davidson-Touring-Harley-Davidson-FLSTC_W0QQitemZ220185125177
And product images like below:
http://www.yourdomain.com/pict/220185125177_0.jpg
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Product results no longer limited to 100 in BANS 3!
We have been able to come up with a new way of retrieving product
information outside of what has been a limited 100 results per
category or search query...if there are 6,000 products within a
category or search query then all of those products will now be
navigatable through your store :)
New Setup Options
A new ability to display products within a specific price and/or bid
range...
Using these options you could choose to display products which have a
minimum of 3 bids so that you're only displaying products which have
customer insterest...or you could display products which are at least
$10 so that you can quickly remove alot of the $0.01/$0.10 items which
clutter up your store results or you could setup a discount store with
a maximum price of $1 to display all items within your chosen niche
which are $1 or less :)
New Store/Home Page Options
- Display content above and/or below the product listings
- Choose to turn on/off store pages and/or delete them
- Choose to turn on/off products on a specific store page so that you
can turn it into a content page within your store navigation
Target the products on a specific store page with the following
options:
- Min/Max bids
- Min/Max price
- Buy it now items only
- Items within a specific local area
Change the number of products to display on a specific page.
Display different targeted ads above/below or in the right/left
columns of a specific store page.
New Content Page Options
Choose to turn on/off content pages and/or delete them.
Display different targeted ads in the right/left columns of a
specific content page
New Product Layout Options
2 new product layouts to provide more design flexibility between
stores
The ability to turn on/off specific product information...ie:
- Turn on/off the product title
- Turn on/off the product image
- Turn on/off the product end time
- Turn on/off the product price
- Turn on/off the paypal image
- Turn on/off the product bids