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Building An eBay Niche with WordPress – Part 5

Alan — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:02:26 +0000

Here is the final video. Part 5 of 5. This video will show I build a niche store using WordPress with the help of the phpBay plugin.

I’ll walk you through as I create my campaign at ePN and maneuvering around the phpBay plugin. In the end you will see a functional eBay niche store.

Build An eBay Niche Store with WordPress – Part 4

Alan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:11:29 +0000

In video #4 of the Build A Niche Store with WordPress video series, we get into the nitty gritty of starting to build our eBay niche store. The first step is to upload the phpBay Pro plugin, activating it, and setting up a few options so we can start building our niche store.

Building An eBay Niche Store with WordPress – Part 3

Alan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:25:45 +0000

At the end of video 3, we had WordPress installed for our niche store. In part 3 of this video series, I will show you how to easily change your WordPress theme.

It is this flexibility that makes WordPress such a great tool for building affiliate websites like the eBay niche stores. You literally have access to thousands of WordPress themes for free.

That is one of the reasons I prefer WordPress over BANS to build my niche stores. The process of switching WP themes is very simple as you will see in this video.

I suggest using an FTP client to upload your new themes. I use two free FTP programs: FileZilla on the PC and Cyberduck on the Mac. Both are free.

Build A Niche Store with WordPress – Part 2

Alan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:00:26 +0000

In the first video I showed you how to setup your domain account using WHM. The second video will show you how to setup WordPress using cPanel which is the first stage of building your eBay niche stores using WordPress.

I suggest using a web host company like Host Gator which provides you with cPanel and Fantastico with your hosting account. It makes setting up WordPress a snap. Only three steps and you’re done.

Building A Niche Store with WordPress – Part 1

Alan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:03:15 +0000

I’ve recorded a five part video series which walks you through the entire process of building an eBay Niche Store using the phpBay Pro plugin.

Part 1 of 5 starts right at the beginning. All I have is a registered domain for my new niche store: ShopArcherySupplies.com.

The first step is to setup my domain account. I use a re-seller account for my niche stores. A reseller account allows you to setup a stand-alone account for each domain vs. adding sub-domains under one main or master domain.

Each domain is assigned it’s own hosting package with cPanel accounts and all the other goodies. But the best feature is that since each domain is setup under their own account, they each have their own disk space and bandwidth allocated per domain vs. all domains sharing the same resources. That way you don’t one domain affecting the others because it got a flood of traffic for whatever reason.

I recommend using a re-seller account with Host Gator. Currently a re-seller account costs $24.95 per month for the Aluminum account. If that is out of your budget starting out, do not let that stop you from building your niche stores.

Just grab Host Gator’s Baby croc account which is only $7.95 per month. You can host unlimited domains as sub-domains under that account. Once you’re making money grab a re-seller account. But if money is tight start with the baby croc account.

Since I use a re-seller account (and no I do not re-sell hosting, I use the re-seller account for my affiliate websites) that is what is shown in this video.

Video #1 walks you through the process of setting up your domain using cPanel’s WHM (Web Hosting Manager) interface. WHM makes it very easy to setup account. (Side note check out my video review of Domain-Dashboard which makes setting up multiple domains a complete breeze).

Video 1: Setting up the domain for my eBay Niche Store in the archery niche: