Many bloggers who are blogging to gain some part time/full time income from their blogs, use pay per click or other form of advertising networks that make them earn money. To make it more clear, I previously used adsense on this blog to make money and now I am selling ad spots for some fixed cash per month. However, if you are using adsense or other pay per click ads, you must be knowing that users need to click the ads in order to make you money. The most common problem that most bloggers face is regarding the placement of ads. They are in search of most ideal locations for placing ads so that they can earn better revenue. Everyone knows that a perfect location of ads placement can boost your revenues greatly and this leads to a great dilemma.

If you are having the same problem and you are using wordpress blogging platform, there is a solution. You can download the Heatmap Plugin and use it to analyze the most suitable spots for placement of ads that can bring the most ads revenue for your blog. This Heatmap Plugin will help you find most suitable spots for placing banners, organizing navigation, adding advertisements and everything that deserves the hot spot.

You can download the Heatmap Plugin by clicking here and follow the following steps to install the plugin -

1. Upload plugin to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Set permission to 777 or 666 for /wp-content/plugins/heatmap/cache folder.

Once you have installed the plugin, you can go to your blog’s homepage to see a small arrow at the top. Clicking on the arrow will reveal the heatmap for ads placement on your blog.

BANS stand for Build A Niche Store. BANS is a store/web development software that enables you to create content based webstores that earns you money through eBay affiliate programs. Actually, it will list eBay products o your website and when someone purchases that product through your website, you will get a percentage of sale.

eBay sells millions of products and so it is possible to pull out only those products which suites your website or are relevant to your content. This provides you with the ability to focus on a niche and get a better conversion ratio and thus make you more and more cash. The idea is to use BANS to create a content based niche store that can be ranked by search engines. The search engines then send you targeted visitors for your niche and when someone will make a purchase, you will get a share of the sale.

It is one of the best business model for making some handsome cash online, but there is one downside to it. The downside is that the BANS version 3.0 costs $97. Well, $97 is not a big deal for many online marketers out there, but it is really that big deal if you have no money.

The same work can now be done by “Affomatic’s eBay WordPress Plugin” and that too at the very right price of $0 (free is the right price for anything).

Affomatic’s Ebay WordPress Plugin

Most of the functionalities of BANS is given by this wordpress plugin of Afffomatic with the greatest advantage of being priceless(ya, it is valued at $0, the priceless). Here is what Affomatic WordPress Plugin can do:

Create ebay listings in your posts based on the keyword you choose.

Input your own affiliate id so you keep 100% of the profit.

Choose the country to show ebay listings from.

Choose the category to narrow down your results or choose “all” categories.

Limit the ebay results shown or show as many as possible.

Change the way the ebay results are ordered.

Installation of this plugin is easy. You just need to upload it to your plugin folder and then activate it from your wordpress control panel. Now go to settings and click on the brand new Affomatic Ebay link. Change the ebay affiliate id with yours. You can also configure options to determine eBay country, eBay category, results to show per page and criteria of sorting the results, but that all is not a must and will work fine even without those configurations.

After installation, you will have to place your listings in your post. In each post where you want to put ebay listings, get into the HTML view of your post and put this text – [AffomaticEbay]Keyword[/AffomaticEbay]. Now, replace Keyword(in red) with your own keyword.

This plugin can be seen in action at BonsaiTraining.com. Now the question is that whether this plugin will rank as well as BANS in search engines? To answer, ya it seems so. The BonsaiTraining website has PageRank 1 in its first ‘Google Page Rank Update’ itself. Whether other such websites will or will not rank well in search engines, is can not be definetely be said. However, Affomatic’s WordPress Plugin is worth a try when the price is just so right( $0/nada/nothing/priceless).