Opensource alternative to Phpbay & BANS

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I went and looked and my actual stats showed just over 40k visitors ... I overstated some but meant to fluff the numbers a bit as it takes a week or so to get (modestly) indexed and another week before you have 7 days worth of cookies (should have disclosed this info, sorry).

100k != $500 ... but everything depends on the product and the target audience (ebay savvy or noobs). It's all about the signup bonus.

Checking out rgordon's stats it shows under $500 for a couple of sites after a few months. One of the 2 sites has 2100 links (mostly sitewide footers and uber links 8] :: great find with that site that does myspace news articles) and the other has about the same. He has a total of 165 pages indexed.

He has worked hard on these sites way beyond setting up phpbay and it shows. But it didn't happen overnight or even in 4 weeks.
 


garbarg said:
Thanks for sharing this, I just downloaded it, the live demo looks good. I'm not a big fan of bans and I haven't been able to find phpbay on any torrent sites or warez forums so I'll give this a shot because I've been looking to start an ebay project, I was going to code a custom site but this might work too.
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here we go again....
 
rgordon83 said:
here we go again....
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Dammit RG, you don't say something like that to one who grew up in the 80's.

I dont know where Im going
But, I sure know where Ive been
Hanging on the promises
In songs of yesterday
An Ive made up my mind,
I aint wasting no more time
But, here I go again
Here I go again

Tho I keep searching for an answer,
I never seem to find what Im looking for
Oh lord, I pray
You give me strength to carry on,
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo* I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time

Im just another heart in need of rescue,
Waiting on loves sweet charity
An Im gonna hold on
For the rest of my days,
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo* I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time

But, here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go...

An Ive made up my mind,
I aint wasting no more time

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time...

But, here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go,
Here I go again...
 
rgordon83 said:
^^ i cannot believe you typed that out....

(please tell me it was copy and paste)
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It was copy/paste, but don't believe for a second that I wouldn't be able to type that one verbatim. (that one and about 1000 others!)
 
just wanted to say thanks to wickedfire for these threads... they've given me an idea for one of my domains i registered on an impulse last year. i'll be picking up phpbay through rgordons link on first of the week and giving it a try. once it's live i'll share the link ask for some flaming, err critiquing. cheers.
 
For the naysayers...here's my stats for 1 of my sites this month:

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stadanko101 said:
For the naysayers...here's my stats for 1 of my sites this month:
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Un fucking real. I just checked my stats. Mine are total ass compared to yours. Mine are from a combination of PHPbay sites and McJiffy.

Fuck that pisses me off. [EDIT: What report are you running in your example?]


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That's the daily report. You have to select a specific program (Ebay US) in the report options to see the bids/ winning bids. Hope that helps.

Hey...and don't be too discouraged. Your clicks are getting up there, and those are locked cookies. Anything one of those clickers buys within 7 days of the click will be yours.
 
Also, you should set up an eBay campaign for each website on which you run phpBay. In the reporting options you can then select the campaign name to to selectively report stats for that particular site.
 
stadanko101 said:
That's the daily report. You have to select a specific program (Ebay US) in the report options to see the bids/ winning bids. Hope that helps.

Hey...and don't be too discouraged. Your clicks are getting up there, and those are locked cookies. Anything one of those clickers buys within 7 days of the click will be yours.
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Cool, just updated the graphic. Thanks! I at least have a few bids out there!
 
bb_wolfe said:
Un fucking real. I just checked my stats. Mine are total ass compared to yours. Mine are from a combination of PHPbay sites and McJiffy.

Fuck that pisses me off. [EDIT: What report are you running in your example?]


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What the fuck are you promoting??? Elder underpants??? For that number of clicks, you should be seeing some money!!
 
Argh is right!! Are you pushing "I hate cookies" software? Is it possible that most of those clicks are coming from a tech savvy group that don't allow cookies?
 
It's funny. Those clicks don't show up on google analytics either. I just ignore them. That particular site is an automated rss read. Hmm, the clicks might be coming from me opening up each link and pulling out some details. That particular niche has some important details that aren't in the rss, but would make a difference in a sale. But there's certainly not 23K "reads" in a day.
 
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