This is a great concept. I’ve owned BANS for a couple of months now, but I must be dumb, as I never did get the hang of building sites with it. It’s not a bad system, and there’s plenty of good tutorials out there. I’m just more comfortable with wordpress.

I’ve recently set up a couple of sites using this widget. What I like about it is, that using the keyword function, I can build almost unlimited pages/posts, and target a variety of keywords … and since I’ve left the blog function, I can still take advantage of some plugins I’m already comfortable with (All-in-One SEO, dagondesign SiteMap, Ping Optimizer, etc).

Plus, I can add content slowly over time … and if I do it as a blog post, the SE get pinged each time I add a new widget.

I don’t want to spam your comments with my links, but if you don’t mind I’d like to email you the two sites I’m working on, to see if you might be willing to give any constructive advice.

Thanks in advance,
Todd

Thanks again for your article.

I had seen that eBay was putting together widgets a few months ago but it was listed as coming soon at that time and I hadn’t checked back on it. Your article reminded me about them.

The neat thing about the Sniplets is that they’re easy to use and can be inserted into just about any site ranging from WordPress to Blogger to plain old HTML.

Thanks for the mention and the link. I have to give credit to Terry for this one though, since he actually told me about this and then I thought, what the…let others know too so they can then decide on whether they rather pay for the full bells and whistles or make do with a cheaper option.

Good to hear about that Plugin though too.

phpBay, as best I can tell, is a decent enough paid alternative if one wants the extra bells and whistles and wants to stay within the WordPress paradigm. There are also some other alternatives, free and paid, that can take the feed and plug it into WordPress or another site.

It really comes down to what you’re most comfortable doing and how much advantage a particular tool will give you for what you want to do.