Remembering to consider the market trends in a niche is one of the most important factors to take into account before you persue it and it will be a deciding factor in whether your website makes money or not.

When you decide to pursue any niche there are usually a few factors which should have played a part in helping you to make your decision. The following factors are most probably the ones which you were able to confirm:

• Your niche has enough search demand in the search engines
• Your niche is not too competitive in respect to competition
• Your niche has enough products within it to promote and are selling well

But did you ask yourself if your niche products are selling all year round?

There are certain niche products which will have an obvious search trend, seasonal items such as Christmas decorations or Easter costumes are prime examples of these. But there are other niche products which have slightly more complex search trends which you absolutely must take into account before moving any further with that niche. Read the rest of this entry »

As we all know there are several ways for you to build an affiliate website, you can hand code it, build in in a CMS (content management system) like Joomla or WordPress or use a built for purpose affiliate builder such as BANS, Storestacker, Multiprofit Websites, Blog profitz etc. When you are considering building an affiliate site which promotes Amazon products you need to consider the tools available to enable you to fully utilize the Amazon affiliate program.

Whilst I've used Joomla and a lot of the built for purpose site builders my favorite tool always has been WordPress and it's the tools which integrate into WordPress that I want to briefly cover today. It's important to point out that a tool is a tool, they won't research, build or promote your website for you and they certainly won't be the deciding factor in allowing you to succeed or fail. For this very reason I currently only use 2 WordPress based tools which enable me to promote Amazon products. But after some research I did find a lot more which will also allow you to integrate Amazon products into WordPress.

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I just wanted to let those of you who still use Build A Niche Store know that I've created a new BANS theme pack which you can download for FREE right here. If I'm honest I quite enjoy putting these templates together so it wasn't much of a hardship.

The theme pack consists of 4 main color variations which you can use on as many sites as you wish. These themes also come with a copy of the html used for the home page layout which you can see in the image preview below, perfect for your review style websites.

These themes are coded to W3C standards and there shouldn't be any issues but I did put them together quite late last night so if you do find any problems them please feel free to let me know via the comments section below and I'll rectify any issues. Also if you have any requests with regards to other versions of the theme then once again please feel free to comment below. Read the rest of this entry »