Make Money Online - Free Reviews by Grace

MY EBAY SCRIPT
http://www.my-estore.net

COST:
$95

THE PITCH:
"Discover The endless number of websites you can build with 'My eBay Script' ... ability to choose from over 1 million products being offered from eBay"

PRODUCT TYPE:
Make Money As An Ebay Affiliate with an Automated Content Script, which pulls active Auctions from ebay using keywords, and/or categories.

THE CONTENTS:
- Web site files (php)
- Installation Guide (pdf)
- Developers Guide (pdf - for creating your own templates)
- SEO E-Book (pdf)

Here's a video on how the system works - CLICK FOR VIDEO

SERVER REQUIREMENTS:
You'll need a server that can handle php (Linux, Unix, etc). If your running Windows server, this might not work, unless you have PHP module installed (talk to your hosting company about this). You'll also need to set up a MySQL database. If you have no idea how to do this, then I'd either suggest hiring someone who does, asking your hosting company, or not using this system. However, I believe anyone who wants to make money using a web site should know basic web site stuff, like setting up a MySQL database. (psst. Here's a tutorial video on what I'm talking about)

SET UP:
Pretty simple. Just upload the included files to your server. Point your browser to the Installation folder, and follow the instructions. Make sure your MySQL database is already set up, and you have all the log in and database name information.

There are 13 templates included, some are horrible. Some are good. Just modify according to your use. Upload all of them, then play around with each one until you find one that works for you. You can also build from scratch, or modify any web site template with the plug-in codes, which is outlined in the instructions. The templates are already populated with existing data from Ebay. Essentially, you could just leave it at that, and just start building traffic. But if neither of the template products interest you, just go into the admin, remove the products, and update with whatever you want to sell. I say study the way the back end is set up, before you start deleting product feeds - an easier way to learn -vs- starting from scratch.

All in all, managing the site is very easy via the admin section. If you want to customize the front even more, you can edit the php files locally with your local html editor (Dreamweaver or similar), and upload the changes. The site we set up was modified on both the front end and back end to our needs.

TOTAL TIME TO SET UP = 60 min
Most of my time was taken up by customizing one of the templates to suit our needs. Plus, we like to tweak the code to see just how much flexibility there is... with this script, there is more than enough.

IN ACTION:
Here is a site my husband set up using this script and one of the included templates - DENON DJ EBAY STORE

HOW DO I MAKE MONEY WITH THIS:
- Ebay Affiliate (already set up, just plug in your id)
- Adsense (already set up, just plug in your id)
- You can customize the templates to your needs, and serve any ad/affiliate network you want.

COST -vs- VALUE:
Cost = $95
Value = $395
I gave it a higher value, because you truly can create unlimited amount of sites using this script and pulling content from Ebay as an affiliate. Essentially, you can just build the site, using one of the templates, plug your ebay affiliate id, adsense id, market it, socialize it, and move on to the next one. You could even plug in this script to an existing site, and let it do the work for you by adding additional niche rich content.

PROS:

• Fairly easy to set up, but you must be familiar with html and uploading files to your server
• Sky is the limit with this script. If marketed properly, or in conjuction with an already niche site - use this script in conjuction with the VIDEO NICHE SCRIPT - and you'll have a seriously automated niche site, updated hourly with content for under $250! Plus you can have as many as you want. There are no limits or restrictions! Build 10 niche sites, cost is $25 per site!
• Good Value
• Good Instructions
• Instructions on developing your own custom templates, and being able to plug in the various codes for this script
• Customizing is made simple
• Support forums are good. Quick response from the developer. My husband was having some slight issues with customizing, and he posted in the forums. The author responded almost immediately, and offered to go into our server and correct the mistake my husband made. Even offered to modify his code so that it would be easier for us to customize our site. There's also a board for suggestions and improvements!
• After market support is also good. An email was sent within a week asking how we liked the program, and if we needed any help.
  

*** SIDE NOTE ***
DEVELOPERS, AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS, whoever you are, SUPPORT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT! You have our money. We believe in your product. Why not help us out when something goes wrong! Even just setting up a simple forum, so that everyone could help each other out, is a great way to do business. Not only will you receive tons of loyal customers, but the word of mouth referrals will increase dramatically!
*** END SIDE NOTE ***

CONS:

• Experience with web sites and knowledge of your server is required. In particular, setting up MySQL, and possibly some PHP, if you want to modify/customize anything.
• Admin side needs more features and controls. Some things we modified to reflect on the front end, had to be done by editing the code - much of what we changed, could have been written into the script and controlled via the Admin panel - this was already suggested in the forums, and the author promised an update
• Ability to take the feed from multiple sources, such as Amazon or other affiliate store programs. As it stands, it only reads Ebay feeds. Can easily be modified to pull other content - my husband is working on this for his site.
• Better template designs. I think we only liked 2 out of the 13 templates, and we still had to modify those!
• No Social Network buttons/functions (this would make life easier when marketing)
  

FINAL THOUGHTS:
This was a very good script. There are other ebay scripts out there, but many cost 3-4 times as much, and deliver the same. So, if your going to pay for the same thing, why not buy the least expensive one. The code itself is well written (so my husband says), and easy to customize. You just have to figure out his layout and order. Once that's done, anyone knowledgeable with php can customize this to your desire.

I like the fact that there are no limits with this. Meaning, I can create as many web sites as I have time. Market them, then leave them alone. The script does all the work in pulling content and monetizing the site. You can test different products, different ebay keywords, different sections of ebay. We have 4 sites up right now, we are testing. We've SEO'd them, and added SOCIALIZE BUTTONS on each. My husband is marketing each one now, and we'll keep you updated on their progress.

As of today - Jan 15th - Google had indexed 33 pages from our DENON DJ STORE / SITE (sorry, just boosting the backlinks!) - and we set the site up on Jan 4th - Not bad! The problem is that we chose an EXTREME niche product, so we didn't expect that many pages to be generated or indexed. But, this was only a test. BTW, we didn't create any of those 33 pages. We only created the first page. Not a bad little script at all.

Till Next Time!

- Grace.