There is one prerequisite:
CPanel based hosting

A support panel and forum is being created along with the website to promote ThinBay. I was able to successfully launch the site below in under 15 minutes. As we continue, we will enhance the process to cut time. While many of the plugins are freely available that are packaged with Thinbay, we are using proprietary code and will take necessary action to protect it.

Latest ThinBay Site

Thanks! I know you will like the speed of releasing thin sites using this process.

I have been working alot on my project “thinbay” which will be the fastest way to setup thin affiliate sites geared toward the eBay partner network. Once I get it done and wrapped I’ll be looking for a few testers. While the package won’t be free once offered it will offer the user a great way to minimize setup time while maximizing sites put out.

Please contact me if you wish to test early in 2011! Thanks for reading!

Clicks – 7,501
CRU – 21
ACRU – 14
Bid/Bin – 569
Winning Bids – 360
Winning Bid Revenue – 1,451.42
GMB – 14,516.72
EPC – .16

Earnings – 1,196.61

Amazon Associates

Earnings – 59.23

Google Adsense

Earnings – 68.22

Stay tuned as I’m aggressively targeting a launch date that will allow you to simply plug-n-play various techniques to target these visitors. Long tails by far are the way to go and thin can win.

Start by registering an account with identi.ca. The main page is currently a PR8.

1. Create your account and verify your email link.
2. Put your website address in your profile
3. In the full name put your long tail keyword phrase or whatever you are trying to rank for.
4. In location put something related to your website.
5. In the tags section use all the keyword phrases you are attempting to rank for.

Create an avatar with an arrow that points to the website address in your profile with words like “Ready? Click Here!” It’s a clever way to get folks to click over to you. Now if a member visits your profile they will more than likely click over. Just an added way to get users to follow your links.

You are now ready to make your first post. Don’t be too spammy but write a little sentence and then include your url back to your site. But WAIT! Don’t submit it just yet. Go to pingler.com and get everything setup to ping identi.ca. Ok, split your screens and submit your post over on identi.ca. Immediately go to the homepage of identi.ca and wait for your post to show up. Once you see it go back over to pingler and submit the site for pinging.

Now, go back to identi.ca and join several groups that are either related to your niche, or that you can make a sensible post to. I usually join up with like 10-15 before I submit another post. Again, DO NOT SPAM, or you will be booted. Make your posts and follow the exact same thing we did above with Pingler.

You have just created a bunch of powerful links, regardless of nofollow attributes. You are linked to a high PR8 page for your first post. You are on all the profiles and groups with your link from PR4-6 rankings. Your profile will have some good interlinks from high PR inside pages. People who view your profile see your avatar and just might click over to see your site.

Within 2-12 hours your site should be indexed. Again, this has worked for me at least twice now. Now it’s time to start backlinking!

EPN
Clicks – 6,141
CRU – 37
ACRU – 23
Bids – 436
Winning Bids – 314
Winning Bid Revenue – 1,181.94
GMB – 11,299.50
EPC – .16
Earnings – 994.26

Adsense
October – 45.55

Amazon Associates
October – 0.00

October – Total Earnings:
$1,039.81

Goal – $2.5k

As I wrote this post I just checked Twitter and @hostgator…..

We are actively working on affiliate links, unfortunately no ETA. We apologize for any inconvenience. about 4 hours ago via CoTweet

Too bad it’s too many days too late for me. I already made the move. Can’t have this happen again.

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This past weekend I went through some major drama. I checked my EPN stats and they were no where near any other day. I noticed that traffic to my sites was down about half on 10-15-10 and it was non-existent on 10-16-10. I started my triage. I went one by one and checked all sites hosted on our HostGator shared account. Everything appeared to be ok except that all EPN queries were taking FOREVER! Immediately I began checking the forums for any notices regarding the API and if eBay was having any issues. I didn’t find anything so I made a quick post to see if anyone was having issues.

After this I began a chat with HostGator techs and told them of my issues. Of course, the only answer they gave was, “it must be a WordPress issue.” WTF! WordPress issue? I told them that WordPress was just fine and they continued to harp on this plugin, and that plugin are causing your slowness. So, one by one I disabled all wordpress plugins and enabled the default theme. Ah ha! Everything came back fine EXCEPT the EPN API queries. Damn was I stumped. I knew on one my homepages I had just a simple query going out to retrieve one result. I attempted to hit the page and NOTHING came back. Luckily for me, I have another reseller account with HostGator and moved the file over to a site I have over there. Hit the page with the query, BAM, instantaneous result, no delay, no hanging, no spinning, nothing. I noted this to the tech and they FINALLY began to investigate on their side. After about a 2.5 hour online chat I was finally given a ticket to up the ticket to Level 3 support.

Once the ticket was logged I immediately gave HostGator a call. Nothing. Waited an hour, nothing. Called again every hour throughout the day and during this time moved my highest earning sites over to my reseller account. Finally, I was able to get a hold of someone that guaranteed a call back within the hour. Finally, that call came at about 7pm EST that night after this debacle started around 8am EST. I spoke with the level 3 tech and he ran a traceroute to the EPN API and it was being “blocked?” Blocked by who I thought. Well, of course the pissing match was about to begin. He stated that EPN has been known to block HostGator at random for no apparent reason. I asked him, if the ip range I was coming form was being blocked then WHY were the queries returning horrendously slow? No answer. Again I asked, why are the queries returning so slow? No answer again. He gave no indication that anything was wrong with the server after my insisting that there had to be a problem.

Summary of the day is HostGator was in no way willing to work with my $9.95 a month account to figure out the true root cause of the issues. The only thing they did mention was that my account violated the total inode count on a shared server. My inode count was near 2.5 million and they stated they begin to look at accounts once the reach 250,000. WTF? Who cares, it’s files dudes. An inode in UNIX is simply a file on the system. I thought I had unlimited space? Apparently not. Moral of the story here is if you, as an online marketer you are taking a HUGE risk with your earnings running through a third party shared server. At anytime they could pull your plug and you’d be screwed! Watch your sites carefully and seriously consider the move I’ve just made. I purchased a month-to-month lease on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) through ServInt. This is the first site to move and all others are on the way. Please do let me know if you decide to move and I’d be glad to assist you through the process.

Good luck, and move to VPS as soon as possible. Take back the control, be your own server admin!

EPN
Clicks – 8,404
CRU – 28
ACRU – 14
Bids – 685
Winning Bids – 384
Winning Bid Revenue – 1,590.32
GMB – 21,656.21
EPC – .14
Earnings – 1,217.25

Adsense
September – 38.81

Amazon Associates
September – 0.00

September – Total Earnings:
$1,256.06

Goal – $2.5k