phpBay: Start to Finish Tutorial

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Nice tute.

turbolapp, you might find the Firefox 'Web Developer Toolbar' handy for your journey into CSS.

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Thanks., Lapris. I'm starting to come along quite nicely in my CSS journey, thanks to the generous help from trig and all the rest of wf. I'm quite pleased.
 
Awesome post. I'm going to put one these into effect asap. You have rep and support coming your way. Thanks mate.
 
Very nice tut, very attractive site. Would love to see the product images be clickable though. Also, props to the first person who makes a plugin to combat CAPSLOCK-happy ebay sellers.

Site make any money yet?
 
Hey trigatch, great tutorial, but what's up with the site?

"EddieBauer.org is temporarily out of service... and perhaps permanently out of service. Thanks to everyone for their continue support... cross your fingers and we hope to hear from you soon!"
 
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Cease & Desist from Eddie Bauer's lawyers. Its the first one I've gotten that I haven't been able to convince them into letting me keep.

I'm sure a lot of people here are turned away by this, but there is a very, very simple way to refocus your energy with the same technique. Focus on something like... Watches. Register a domain name with "watches" in it like "watching4watches.com" or something I don't know.

Use the same approach as my Eddie Bauer tutorial but use brand names down the left side instead of clothing categories. So you could have:

Eddie Bauer Watches
Guess Watches
Rolex Watches
Timex Watches

Etc....

And each of these would lead to a page like:
watching4watches.com/eddie-bauer
or
watching4watches.com/eddie-bauer-watches

Depending on your preference and what keywords you're looking for. You could also try and focus even more by trying to target something like "discount watches" and getting a domain like "MyDiscountWatches.com" (didnt check to see if its taken).

Then the title of each page could be "Discount Eddie Bauer Watches" or "Discount Rolex Watches".

You'll have an easier time ranking if its more specific, but you'll also have less search volume for those targeted words. Its a tradeoff and you have to learn where to make concessions and where not to make concessions.

For those interested I DO OWN other domain names with trademarks in them and have had no problem. It is a risk that I gladly assume depending on the potential gain. The site only took me 1 day (or less) to make so it wasn't a big deal to lose it. The perceived/potential gains were worth it to me.

That being said, I think diversifying and making lots of sites will help you manage risk. It doesn't matter to me because I have lots of other sites with/without trademarks in the domain.

Moral of the story?

Don't worry so much about petty things. Build a crap load of sites with a system that works for you. Then, if something bad happens to one site, it won't make too big of a difference because you'll have lots of others as well.

Build and move on. Build and move on. Build and move on.

And then, a few months down the road, revisit the sites you built to see if they have gotten traffic and/or made money. If they have... optimize them and show them a little love.

But if you build one site and look at your stats all day to see if you've beat your record of 12 visits and $1.13 total profit you're never going to make it in this industry.

This is kind of a rambling and I'm too busy to re-read it for errors but, hopefully you've learned something from this.
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Trigatch your tutorial is awesome and sorry to hear about the cease and desist but it wasn't really too shocking considering it was the exact brand name, lol. It's beyond me why a company the size and brand of Eddie Bauer wouldn't purchase the .com/net/org at a minimum, and probably all the major country codes as well...

your tutorial inspired me to give a phpbay site a try. OnlineMilitaryGear.com Still very early in development but eventually want to have content similar to what I have there for the Rambo Survival Knife page as well as get a static front page that is pleasing to the eye. Probably dump the soldier graphic on the right as well.

I'm using the flexi-page widget and assigning parent pages. The plan is to have pages featuring the most popular military gear, each with quality content and links out to other relevant websites.

feedback welcome, still very early in progress.
 
Is phpbaypro licensed per domain you install it on or can you install it on as many sites you want once you purchase it?
 
rgordon83 said:
How to make images clickable with phpBay 3.0 | phpBay Tips
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your phpbay blog is really helpful. thanks for putting it up. before i knew about that awesome flexi pages widget i was wasting time editing themes and posting everything as categories in order to get a navigation hierarchy going. everything is MUCH faster and better now.

before: (will probably revamp at some point)
Canadian Gold Proofs, Maple Leaf Gold Bullion and Rare Coins

after:
Harley Davidson Jackets - Buy Leather, Denim, Nylon and Canvas Jackets
 
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