The same people who created BANS have now produced a new guide that explains the niche store building process and this guide is called The No.1 Way To Make Money Online, or N1WAY for short.

A chap called Mark Hansen runs a website which helps visitors understand how to turn the BANS software into a sustainable method of making money from home and he's currently running a competition to win a site that's built precisely on the N1WAY model.

Instructions for entering the competition are on his site. It's free to enter so you may as well give it a go. Who knows, in a couple of months you could be the proud owner of a professionally built niche store created by the very people who are experts in their field.

If not, well, better luck next time, but if you're trying to earn extra income or even going full throttle to create a full time business then you may as well benefit from the advice that is present within the forums and blogs frequented by the BANS and N1WAY owners and users.

It's not easy (is it ever?), it does take work (doesn't it always?), but surprise, surprise it does work. The process of finding a niche, building a site with fresh and original content, acquiring backlinks to the site and otherwise working on the SEO does bring traffic, and if it's enough traffic you will create sales and earn commission.

I bought N1WAY when it was released about a month ago. Since then I've created four new sites and I have two more under construction. These were all built from scratch - new domains names based on what I had identified as a niche market and a keyword or phrase associated with that market, new content, and a site plan based on the N1WAY model. I did this for the first two. The second two also had the above but don't have as much content - yet. I'm marketing them and I'm referring back to the guide to remind myself of how to keep the ball rolling.

The sites are attracting traffic, clicks, and EPN sales so I'm earning commission and Adsense clicks. It's a trickle and I haven't yet made back the money I invested but it's only the first month, so early days yet. If I can do it, so can you. It's not technically difficult. You don't even have to know HTML or web site design. Just use a Wordpress blog and choose a template, or buy BANS and use one of their templates.

The forums are full of people who will help you out if you get stuck and they're a friendly bunch of mixed abilities. Newbies are always welcome because they have all trodden the path from complete beginner onwards. Some of the forum members make a full time living from their sites so you'll be in good company.

More website traffic is what everybody who owns a website wants, but with every increasing amounts of websites to choose from it has become necessary for webmasters and site owners to fine tune their sites and provide some reason why visitors and potential customers should visit their site rather than the rival and competing sites.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) has become an industry in itself with plenty of companies, small and large, offering to change and tweak your website in order to make it easier for search engines to analyse it, to increase its page ranking, and draw more visitors to it. Naturally, the fees such companies will charge you will vary from the small to the large too, and there's no guarantee that the traffic will start flowing nor that it will remain constant even if they succeed in generating some.

So what can the site owner do that is both free of charge (or at least low in cost) and which is proven to improve the chances of generating new traffic, encouraging former site visitors to return, and which will make the site more appealing to search engines? The answer is - plenty. There's a lot you can do without spending a penny. All it take is time and a little thought.

Here is a list of ideas to get you started. You may find more as you go along and research these techniques. New initiatives emerge all the time so this list is by no means exhaustive, but if you can put half of these things into practice then you will have developed an advantage over many of your competing sites.

1. Add plenty of fresh and original content to your site. Keep adding it on a fairly regular basis.

2. Write articles about things that resonate with the theme of your site and submit these to article directories. Your author bio at the foot of the article should contain a link to your site.

3. Swap links with sites that have something in common with your own. Choose the better quality sites i.e. ones that appeal to you and which you would be glad to associate with.

4. Visit blogs that write about your site's subjects and leave comments on them. Most comment forms allow you leave a URL so you can add a link to your site there.

5. Register at forums that are in the same vein as your site's topics and participate in discussions. Add a signature to your profile containing a link to your site. Don't add too many as this can be considered poor netiquette. A discrete signature containing two or three links at most.

6. Post adverts in classified ads websites like Cragslist, Gumtree, or Vivastreet.

7. Look out for review sites and endorse products. You might be able to add a link to your own site from there.

8. Add a blog to your site and write reviews, tell stories, share ideas, and otherwise 'talk' to your audience.

9. Use a domain name that is both easy to remember and that also describes what you're selling.

10. Add something to your site that is free to download. Use a loss leader to draw traffic.

11. Compile a mailing list by having subscription form clearly visible on your site.

12. Send regular, professionally produced mailshots to your mailing list and measure the results.

13. Learn how to use the mailing list account fully and adjust future mailshots according to the results of those previously sent.

14. Optimise your site's code. Verify it according to a recognised standard and remove anything superfluous.

15. Familiarise yourself with Google's Webmaster's/Site Owner's Guide and act on its recommendations.

16. Join Facebook and make use of the free to use Facebook pages, and/or create a Facebook group and use that to market your site.

17. Join other social and business networking sites and use them i.e. create and expand your network.

18. Use good old fashioned business cards, leaflets and posters on notice boards to advertise your site and its services or products.

19. Advertise your site on promotional merchandise like car stickers, mugs, key rings, pens, and calendars.

20. Start an affiliate program and keep in constant contact with your affiliates.

21. Get someone to proof read your site. Make sure the content is correctly spelt and punctuated and that it is grammatically correct.

22. Submit your site to search engines and web directories. Make sure it's added to the correct ones and not worthless sites or those which are in the wrong niche.

23. Configure a 'tell a friend' link in your site. Make it easy for visitors to tell others about your site.

24. Configure a signature in every email account you use. Make it discrete but interesting.

25. If you've added a blog to your site or you have one that refers to your main site then submit the blog to blog catalogues and directories.

26. Write press releases a few times each year and submit them to the free PR directories.

27. If you're site is a blog or contains a blog, enable RSS feeds so that visitors can keep up to date without returning to the site.

28. If you're site would suit it, add a forum to your site so that visitors can discuss your products or services. You can also use this list bugs and beta releases, to encourage feedback, and to provide support.

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The solution I'm now using is datafeedr. Datafeedr is a tool that takes all the hard work out downloading datafeeds from various affiliate networks. This tool enables me to update several sites with product information from merchants in each of the networks with which I'm registered.

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