BANS creates website stores or shops using information from eBay and gives you several advantages over most niche website builders.

Firstly, BANS is unbelievably cheap for a micro niche builder. Many website builders require you to pay quite a large sum upfront, pay a monthly subscription fee (which is quite annoying if you haven’t started making the money they promised you would) or pay for each extra site you create. With BANS, your payment is a one-off payment, quite low and you can build an unlimited number of website stores.

Next, BANS helps you to create a high quality website. You may have seen several adverts advertising niche website builders only to click through to find a that either the website itself or examples of live stores that have been created with them appear so poor you wonder if anyone would buy goods from them. In many instances, the shops all look almost identical. BANS on the other hand not only creates attractive high quality professional sites but also gives you the power to modify the design quite easily – and there are more than 30 designs to choose from.

Apart from these, with most website builders, once you build your store you have to go off and seek the products you want to sell – BANS brings the products to your site by tapping directly into eBay listing of 25 million products any of which can appear on your site. So all you have to do is select your niche and gain access to the exact products you want to sell online.

With BANS you don’t need any investment beyond your initial outlay, cost of domain and hosting and your time. In short, you don’t need to buy the products you want to sell online, receive them, store them or organise delivery to your customers. All you have to do is choose a profitable niche, attract traffic to your site and persuade visitors to buy the products.

BANS also helps you make money in other ways – you get paid each time you get a new customer to sign up to eBAY, you can add adverts to your website and you get a percentage of revenue if any of your visitors clicks through to a bid and succeeds in purchasing the item.

Finally, BANs is incredibly easy to set up and use. You are guided through every step including how to get a website name (domain) and web hosting. Even without technical knowledge beyond knowing how to operate a computer you should be able have your online website up and running within 2 hours and if you have ever built a website before you could be up and running in 10-30 minutes.

To summarise, BANS is a great choice of website builder for most people since it makes your website building easier, faster, cheaper and yet helps you produce a great looking, professional and functional website.

Check our full Niche Builder Review for BANS

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eCommerce Website Hosting

When you consider getting hosting for your website, you can’t afford to just get bog standard hosting. There are several different types of hosting aimed at different users. The main types are shared hosting, semi-dedicated hosting, VPS hosting and Dedicated website hosting.

Ideally you should used dedicated or vps server rather than shared hosting even though its much more expensive.
Shared hosting means you share the facilities on a server with hundreds or thousands of other websites. The trouble is that if some of the other sites experience very high demand from users, your users may experience problems accessing your files, logging in to their accounts etc.

With a dedicated host your site is provided with adequate facilities for all your needs. However, dedicated website hosts cost quite a lot e.g. more than $100 per month, compared to shared web hosting facilities which you can sometimes get for $5 per month. Since you can always upgrade you web package, you may want to start with shared hosting or semi-dedicated hosting initially.

Web Host Reliability or Downtime

Web hosting reliability is generally measured in terms of how long your website host is capable of keeping your site up and running expressed as a percentage. Most hosts can keep your site up 99.9% of the time, but others can keep it up for far longer e.g. 99.9999%. Within reason you should look for hosting that keeps your site up for the maximum amount of time but you shouldn’t pay ridiculous prices for this.

Website Hosting Security Security Issues

Since your eCommerce website carries out transaction it needs to be secure. Some eCommerce software protect just the shopping cart so monetary transactions are secured, but you also need to be able to protect your visitor or members account details and personal information, so you should ensure that you get hosting that provides Secure Socket Layer facilities or certificates – which adds security (https) to the standard web protocol you normally see as http at the beginning of web site names (URL’s) indicating that the pages are secure. If not, you may later find yourself needing to purchase a separate security certificate for a hefty yearly sums.

eCommerce Hosting Tech Support

Various hosts offer different levels of support when things go wrong with your site. Some provide email support, others chat, others phone during working hours, while still others provide 24 hour support. If you have an online shop, you can’t afford to wait for a day or two while your hosts technical staff get to your problem. You should definitely seek a web host that provides you with 24hour phone support if possible.

Website Space and Traffic Facilities

Most web hosting packages provide you with enough space for your files (unless you’re hosting videos). If you run out of space, you can always upgrade to a package with more space. Whenever visitors come to your website and view your pages or interact with your web pages, they use some of the memory (bandwidth) available. This isn’t usually an issue as for most websites your visitors will only read a few pages and there tend to not be that many visitors any way. For eCommerce sites however, you may have hundreds or thousands of visitors, so it can easily become an issue. For this reason for an eCommerce site, always seek hosting that provides you with unlimited bandwidth.

Web Hosting Administrative Facilities

Every online store stores it’s data in a database so you must choose hosting that comes with the ability to create several SQL (structured query language) databases. Nowadays almost all hosting provides this facility but you should check first. Also since there are two major platforms -Unix/Linux and Microsoft, you need to check which kind of platform your shop software will work on. This however doesn’t matter if your shop software is provided by your host as it will then cetainly work.

Web Hosting Free Software

Nowadays many web hosts provide you with scripts that you can use to automatically install software that is included with the web package such as Content Management Systems, blogs, and eCommerce Stores without you needing any special technical ability. Many also come with facilities that you can use to enhance your sites function such as newsletters, and auto-responders to send automated mail responses.

Web Hosting Control Panel

You may feel that the look and feel of your Control Panel is not very important (and it isn’t relative to the first few points in this article, but it is still important in that anything that makes it harder for you to complete your tasks will hinder your site building.

In conclusion, especially with regard to the first few items on this list anything that affects your installation or how optimally your web shop works is critical to how successful your shop will be. So choose carefully taking all these factors into consideration.

What is Web Hosting

Website hosting is space reserved on a website server to cater for your files i.e. space and facilities for storing and managing your files so they are available to visitors to your site without them encountering any problems.

For this to work, your sites files need to be stored on a very high speed internet connected server with huge storage capacity, as well as the memory and the power to serve up your sites files to as many visitors as demand them at the same time.

Website hosting also provides updates, protection from attacks, backups, technical support, and a guarantee of reliability through things such as storing your data on many different storage areas.

eCommerce Web Hosting Services Guide

You need a website host and account to be able to run your website or shop. For any website, you need a domain name which is basically a unique label you assign to your storage area that allows visitors to see and access your files.
But for a shop, you not only need to store your pictures, prices, descriptions etc. in a database, you also need the software that runs your shop to be stored and managed on a web server.

There are many factors that determine whether your website hosting s poor, adequate or great. The most important of these include:

Website Hosting Space

This means how much space on a server is allocated to your files. 1 Gigabyte of space (1024 megabytes) lets you store 10,000 images of your products. Unless your shop is very large or incorporates lots of videos you are highly unlikely to run out of space with most paid for web servers.

Some in fact offer unlimited space as the majority of users only use a fraction of the space available. For example I have 10 sites running on a server with 10 Gigabytes of space but only use a third of it despite many of the sites having thousands of posts.

For a small Online Store, 1 GB is adequate, while 10GB should be more than enough for any medium store. In any case every website host will let you upgrade to a package with larger storage capacity without any issues.

Web Hosting Bandwidth

This is a measure of how much data can be transferred from your sites at any one time. Every visitor to your site has to be served pages consisting of text, images and possibly videos which take up memory. The total of this for all traffic or visitors to your site and all pages loaded at a particular time is known as the bandwidth or capacity. This is also measured in Gigabytes.

Many hosts offer unlimited bandwidth as they rely on the fact that few sites use a lot of bandwidth since they don’t actually receive many visitors to their pages. You however need to study your hosts terms as often, they reserve the right to charge you extra or move you to a more expensive package if you actually do use large amounts of bandwidth.

Website Hosting Uptime

One of the major advantages of hosting your website on commercial host is uptime. Maintenance often has to be carried out to ensure that your site runs smoothly. Because website hosts have a huge number of servers and can mirror your data (store it on several different servers and keep each of these up to date with your current file information), they can generally guarantee that your site will be up and running at least 99.99% of the time – which can be referred to as 99.99% uptime. This is important for any website and especially for one that runs transactions such as your shop because the last thing you want if for your site to stop operating in the middle of a sale.

Web server, Servers—ketmonkey (Flickr.com)

Is there any such thing as a free eCommerce Store Creator?

Of course there is. But they also say there is no such thing as a free lunch.

There are two main variations of free store builder both of which rely on the fact that at some point in time you will (if your eCommerce website is successful) want to upgrade to a paid version that offers you more features and facilities.

Hosted eCommerce Website Builders

There are many fantastic hosted eCommerce or online shop builders such as Volusion and BigCommerce. With basic computer literacy and no need to install any software, you can build yourself a high quality shop with a massive set of features you would normally find in top range website builders or features that would cost you thousands to implement if you had a website developer create your store.

The only issues are that, firstly you need to pay a monthly or yearly fee, whether or not you make any sales or not and secondly, you run the risk that if your host goes bust for any reason, your store will vanish – especially since they use proprietary software which means you cant just download your store and upload it to some other vendor.

However, some of these eCommerce Vendors offer either a free trial (usually a month) to get you started during which time you have the chance to use all the facilities and find out without any risk whether the package is ideal for you.
You can also test your markets viability for free.

In addition, and perhaps more importantly, some of these vendors also offer a free package that you can use for as long as you like without payment. However, the free package is likely to be hindered in some way so you have to determine if the feature it lacks are important to you or not e.g. some online store builders will only let you create a maximum of 100 products – which is useless if you want to build a store on camping with 1000′s of product items but could be great if you rely on selling a small number of high value items.

eCommerce Website Builder Plugins for Open Source CMS

Open source software is basically software created by a large community of expert developers. In most cases it is absolutely free to use.

Content Management Systems are basically software systems designed to let you manage your information flexibly and easily.

They let you have several users with different levels of control through passwords e.g. editor, administrator etc. and the ability to easily plugin modules such as an on-line shop or shopping cart to add more functionality.

Since the open source software is free to use, almost all the plugins are free to use, so not only can you build your website for free, you can easily plugin a shopping cart or full blown shop into your website for free as well.

You will of course need to pay for website hosting (from 5-20 dollars a month) as well as learn how to set up the software (or pay a website builder to install it for you). However, from then on though your costs are minimal and you also have the advantage that you have full control over your site, your site name (domain) and your hosting, so you can change your sites features or even the software as you like.

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There are several different ways in which you can build an e-eCommerce website or online shop.
Each has their own advantage, for example if you want to have total control over your site, then rather than just creating products and their product descriptions on your website, you will also need to pay for web hosting, buy e-commerce software, configure and run installation routines to install the software.

On the other hand, especially if:

• You are not highly technical in the area of website development
• Have no interest in programming but just want to get your products online and sell
• Would prefer to spend a small amount every month perpetually e.g, 20-50) rather than a large amount (thousands) now

- it will be much easier for you to build your e-commerce site using an off-the-shelf hosted commercial eCommerce Package such as Volusion or BigCommerce.

Hosted eCommerce Website Development Solutions and Software

Essentially your shop will be hosted on the suppliers servers but appear to visitors as a completely independent shop.
This way of building your shop means you don’t need much more technical know how than you already have if you are computer literate.

It also means you’ll automatically be able to benefit from any technical changes and updates the providers make to their packages without having to pay for upgrades or having to install the updates yourself. In short these packages can be much easier to use and also provide you with more support. However, you will need to pay the vendor regularly e.g. monthly, for as long as you maintain your shop. On the other hand, the price of your package may be dependent on how many products you have on your shop and you need to pay monthly whether you make sales or not.

The main advantage is you can build your website online quite easily and publish your products almost immediately.
Another advantage is that both packages offer you and absolutely free trial for one month with lots of technical support available to help you if you get stuck.

BigCommerce eCommerce Website Builder

With BigCommerce you get a web based control panel where you can easily manage all aspects of your shop from any computer connected to the Internet.

In addition BigCommerce also offers multichannel retailing which means that no only can you sell your goods via your own shop, but you can also sell through eBbay, export them to several comparison websites.

Also you get automated email marketing so you can easily make your clients aware of your new products and prices.
Your site is automatically optimised for popular mobile devices so customers can easily browse your products on Apples IPhone and Ipad, as well as on Blackberry phones and Android based devices as well as on social site such as FaceBook.

BigCommerce lets you easily distinguish your store by using one of 96 themes or designs and there are several other features available to you (Watch the Video below to find out more).

Volusion eCommerce Website Builder

Volusion on the other hand offers a large number of free (and commercial) designs that you can easily customise.
Your shop is optimised so that it can get top ranks for your products in search engines, but in addition, Volusions packages include a Newsletter Generator, ability to offer your customers Gift Certificates, a coupon and discount generator, an Affiliate program for your site so you can pay your customers to market your site out of sales they generate and a customer loyalty scheme.

In terms of your products you can add an unlimited number of product images to each product, allow your customers to easily carry out product comparison or like on BigCommerce sites, market and sell your products though Social sites

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Just as a physical shop or store needs to be housed in a physical location, in order for you to have an online website, it must be hosted somewhere in a similar way.  So why do you need it to be hosted?

The Internet (or rather the subset of the Internet known as the World Wide Web) is a network of incredibly powerful computers arranged in a hierarchy from the most powerful downwards.  Each of these 10 major servers is connected to thousands of less powerful ones, which in turn serve hundreds of thousands of computers that hold or host many many websites.

Web Hosting Servers—ivanpw (Flickr.com)

These network hosts as they are known, host and serve up millions of website pages each with their own unique address. Website hosting allows your site to be plugged into the system so that your pages can be linked together and can be accessed by other people through their browsers from wherever they are in the world.

You may wonder, “why can’t I just connect my site directly to the Internet’ – well to a degree you can. If you buy an expensive server computer, get the specialised network operating system and are ready to do the management. However, this will need a lot of expertise and will cost you far more in terms of time, effort and safety.

Firstly, you will need to spend valuable time monitoring and maintaining your web server, time you should be using to build and develop your web site.

Secondly, web services hosts include redundancy which means your site is not stored in a single location or computer. Essentially, if one server breaks down or loses its data, they can easily and automatically get it from other servers. You will rarely know that anything happened and most hosts guarantee that your site will be up and running 99% or 99.99%  of the time in their web hosting service level agreements.

Website Hosting Providers

Website hosts serve up website pages on demand to the Internet. Basically, they act as stores for your website as well as providing other services such as email, editing or the database facilities required for a dynamic or interactive website such as a forum or online shop.

A lot of the methods that used to be useful for getting high rankings on Google don’t work any more since Google updated it’s search engine codes. For example some website owners would use automated software to go out and copy articles and information from other websites and publish it as their own work. Google can now detect this and instantly demotes such sites, destroying their revenue.

Website traffic, Live traffic information on the web—Highways Agency (Flickr.com)

As a website publisher, you can always create and distribute for publishing or syndication articles with links pointing back to your own web site. Article syndicates allow anyone to copy the articles and use them on their own sites as long as they keep your links is intact. However, this is no longer as effective since Google considers it poor value to return hundreds of similar results to searchers. For this reason, where previously you could get hundreds of links from publishing a single article, nowadays this is likely to only get you a handful of indexed links.

The more visitors you can get to visit your website, the more revenue you can expect to make from it and the closer to the top of search engine results your web pages appear, the more visitors you will get to visit your site so you need to make it a priority to increase website traffic.
When you search for a term in Google, the first two results end up with over 50% of the website traffic or visits.

So, what factors determine which results Google displays first in its results?

It is essential you understand this as it is a major factor in determining if your site is able to get traffic, and how many visitors you receive. The number of websites that link to yours is a major factor in how highly your site is rated by search engines. Apart from this other factors can play a role in determining how important a link is such as the rank of the site linking you yours, the text in the link and relevance of other text surrounding it.

So how can you boost your website traffic? By ensuring that more and more related websites link to yours.

1. Use keyword research tools to find terms people are seeking and write articles based on these topics with several of the keywords in the title and body of the article.
2. Publish these articles on your website
3. Rewrite or spin these articles and publish them on Article directories with links pointing to your website.
4. Exchange links with websites that have similar topics.
5. Guest post your articles on other web sites.
6. Submit your website to as many web or business directories as possible.

In conclusion, you need to obtain as many links as you can with legitimate methods i.e. things that don’t violate Google’s webmaster guidelines or terms and conditions.

As much as is possible, seek to turn your website into the best resource on the web for your niche topic or products.

What determines the cost of Hosting your site
Web hosting can be grouped according to the kind of software used, how resources are allocated and what kind of facilities you are provided with.

Though Website Servers usually run on either MS Windows or Unix software. In most cases, you will find it is safer or easier to choose Unix which dominates the server world rather than Microsoft..

There are 3 main types of website hosting you may want to consider for your business.

Shared Website Hosting

Website hosting, Control Panel—Tim Dorr (Flickr.com)

Most websites are built on shared hosting. Since website servers are very expensive to buy and maintain, website hosts both reduce the cost of hosting by sharing the resources the hosted websites use assuming correctly that users will not need them all at once or may never need more than a fraction of these resources anyway.

Shared hosting is adequate for most small businesses with a few informational pages.

Cheap shared hosting packages tend to be very basic and may lack help facilities, phone support, software features, installation wizards and a wide range of facilities so they could cost as little as $10 per year. For more extensive packages you should expect to pay anything from $7-10 per month.

Dedicated Server Hosting

In Dedicated website hosting you get hosting dedicated exclusively to your sites. It is usually extremely expensive compared to shared hosting. Sites hosted on Dedicated Server Hosting may be more stable as they are never starved for resources. There are also cheaper variations of this such as semi-dedicated hosting which still shares resources, but among far fewer websites.

You may need dedicated hosting if your business is very large, you want thousands of your workers to access your sites resources, you have a very large online store, a huge volume of traffic to your website or the things your website does are ‘mission critical’ and you can’t afford a blip where your site fails. So you only need dedicated server hosting if your website uses a very large amount of resources and you don’t want it to slow down and become frustrating to your visitors.

This kind of hosting can cost you anything from $149/month depending on the resources available such as how many visitors you can receive per month or how much space is available.

Managed Hosting and Self-Managed Hosting

Managed hosting is where the hosting company manages all the resources in your dedicated hosting package while self-managed hosting is for networking experts who want total access and control of facilities for example the ability to wipe the hosting completely and install their own software or operating system and start from scratch.

Reseller Hosting

If you plan to get into the business of selling web space and packages, then your best option is probably reseller hosting; in effect becoming a mini website host. Reseller website hosting allows you to rent space and features from your website host, and create your own website packages which you can then manage and sell.

Reseller packages vary widely in cost e.g. $15-50/month depending on the resources and capacity.

Website Hosting Packages

Web hosting vendors offer website hosting packages with various amounts of web space and other facilities. For example, basic hosting packages might be cheap but not include facilities which allow your website to become interactive.

Almost all website hosts package website resources in bundles that vary in terms of the facilities they provide both in relation to quality and quantity. So you can have standard packages, business packages etc. You should choose whichever package gives you the maximum amount of resources at the lowest cost while taking care not to pay any extra for features you don’t need since you can usually upgrade later.

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There are at least 3 ways you can go about this

1. Build your website by using a free web hosting solution.
2. Build your website by using a hosting solution that is free to use but supported by advertising i.e. they
3. Build your website with almost free hosting or a free hosting trial and open source software.

There are quite a few website building packages that allow you create your website for free such as Yola and Moonfruit. The provide you with a free website builder, free hosting and templates or designs you can use. In some cases, while website hosting is free, you may need to pay for your website name (domain) if you want an independent website rather than a derived one e.g. if you want joebloggs.com rather than joebloggs.mywebsitebhost.com.

Build website, Web Building—B Garry (Flickr.com)

In other cases the free package you get is branded i.e. the hosts logo and branding must remain in place as a permanent feature of your site. As a business, you may not want this as you probably don’t want your customers to know you are using a free service if you want to appear professional. It could imply you want your clients to pay for your services or products but are not ready to invest your own money in providing them with quality service.

The reason many of these systems are free is because they limit the number of features of facilities you can access on your website such as how much space is available for your files, how big a file you can upload, the number of sites you can host, the number and quality of designs you can access and the degree of support you are offered by the vendor. Usually, the plan is that as your business and website grow you will opt to move from a free package to a paid premium one with more useful features.

Some website builders offer you a website that is not restricted in these ways. In these cases they may recoup the cost of providing you with website hosting by placing advertisements on your website that they control. Since you have no control over what is advertised on your website, these adverts could easily be ones for your competitors, or could be advertising products that you don’t want shown on your website such as smoking aids on an anti-smoking site, you will need to consider carefully before opting for this solution.

The final solution if you’re seeking to build a free website is Open Source Software on cheap of trial hosting packages. Now, what on earth does all that mean? Open source software is software developed by groups of software developers, experts or sometimes companies and released for general use – usually for free. The fact that is free doesn’t mean that is low quality. Often, the sheer amount of expertise applied to it by so many experts results in a very high quality product regularly updated. Sometimes companies will make software free to use, but charge for support or receive royalties for plugins, or special themes, templates or designs.

In most cases open source software developers offer a simple installation routine that requires you to follow precise instructions. While some website hosts provide a wizard that makes installation semi-automatic. You will need to obtain your own website hosting which in most cases isn’t free. However, you can get fantastic hosting offers at prices such as free for 1year then $10/year subsequently making the whole package effectively free apart from the cost of your domain at anything from $5-15. This is a little harder to install and use but offers you the advantage that you retain absolute control of your domain and software. The software is commonly used and not proprietary so you can move it or easily transfer to another website host if you like.

In summary you can build a website for your business either for free or at little or no cost by using either reduced feature website hosting or by creating your website with free open source software and free website hosting.

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