Unless you are going to be constantly blogging about the niche that you have chosen to target then a Wordpress built site is not what you should do!

If you are going to write quality content (articles) which will be of interest to your niche then adding those articles to a BANS built site will prove to be of greater value…

Personally, I’ll be using BANS to set up sites with bigger niches that have greater number of daily or monthly keyword searches and use Auction Master plugin to

1. Set up auction pages in existing blogs and

2. Set up WordPress Blogs in smaller niches.

I believe that the extra time required to set up BANS sites in bigger niches with greater number of daily keyword searches is well worth it. This is because I’ve observed the BANS auctions results are more tightly targeted that Auction Master auction results and hence the pages are better search engine optimised.

Being new to BANS, I’m still trying to figure out how to integrate WordPress and Bans 2.0 using the WordPress template. I understand that there is a tutorial for this for integration with BANS 1.3 but this does not appear to have been posted in this forum. I have PM’ed one of the administrators to send me a link to this tutorial but have not received a reply. I do not know why it has not been posted in this forum - or perhaps it’s been posted and I’ve missed it. Can anyone who has the link to this tutorial or know where the link is point me to it please.

I’m unable to find categories at eBay for my various niche products to enter into BANS for page setups. I find that I’m able to find the products that I wish to display on a page by keyword search at eBay but unable to find their category number using the category search in BANS during setup.

Can someone please guide me on how to get the categories to keyword specific search results and also how to change the large search box at the top of auction pages to only display the categories for the niche as I have often observed other sites are displaying?

- 200 people were injured, and another 50 are missing.

- The crash occurred because of a faulty signal.

- Firefighters and ambulances were still on the scene at 3 p.m.

- Line 1 is expected to be out of service until 8 a.m. tomorrow.

- Subway officials blame the problem on a corroded relay that wasn’t replaced because of budget cuts.

- City Hall urges the public to remain calm and blames the problem on cuts in state and federal aid.

Now let’s look at another kind of story–a five-page travel article about a city or town. In this case, the organization could be:

- Overview
- What to see
- Where to stay
- Where to eat
- How to get there

But it could just as easily be:

- Overview
- How to get there
- Where to stay
- Where to eat
- What to see

Or even, in some cases:

- Overview
- Where to eat
- What to see
- How to get there
- Where to stay

For a travel article (or a camera review, or a how-to piece), the best structure might simply be the structure that the Web site or publication normally uses, on the theory that familiarity enhances usability.

Jakob Nielsen has an article on his site titled “Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster” Just google it if you are interested.

The fact that people are going to take a quick peek at your site then move on certainly supports the inverted pyramid. At least that way people will get a bit of information before moving on. In Nielsen’s words, “Be a snack”.

If so, using the IPW approach is of great benefit. When writing a Meta Description, you ARE writing a concise summary or abstract of the page content.

Google has been displaying Meta Descriptions for quite some time now (at least for sites I manage) and using the Inverted Pyramid Writing approach has produced many positive benefits. For one, Meta Descriptions are being displayed verbatim, word for word, as they are written in the Meta Description tag.

When I was working at a newspaper, the inverted pyramid style was used for two reasons: to give readers enough info right away to get them interested in the story (or decide they’re not interested, and go on to the next article), and to be sure the most important part of the story actually made it into the paper - You never know where someone on page layout is going to have to slice off the end of your article so it will fit.

(That’s why it’s a continuous pyramid and not just a sharp drop - Most important info in the first paragraph, next layer of importance in the second, and so on to the end of the article.)

On a website, the second reason wouldn’t make much sense, but I’d certainly think the first reason would.

If the guy’s employer is happy with it, then get the money from the employer.
By issuing a chargeback, PayPal has basically said that they are siding with the customer and not you. As has been pointed out in other threads, payment by credit card (or through PayPal) is only one method of payment.

Assuming you had a valid contract with the guy, he is still legally liable for payment of services delivered according to the contract. If you’re in the U.S., send him a certified letter demanding payment within a specified amoutn of time, otherwise you will take him to small claims court to recover the amount due. (Different countries may have different recourse methods.)

I just re-read your post and I think some more clarification is needed.
1) Who was the client?- the employee or the employer?
2) Was it a company credit card issued to the employee or personal credit card belonging to the employee?

It seems that you should be trying to collect form the company instead of the ex-employee.