Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Installation/Activation
• Configuration
• Testing
• Per-Post/Per-Page Settings
• Geo-Targeting
• Making The Images Clickable
• Replacing WordPress Search With eBay Search
• Inserting phpBay Code Into Theme Files
• Buy phpBay Pro (20% off coupon: DA9CD69F42)
• From Picking A Market To Building/Managing Your phpBay (Or BANS) Site

phpBay installs just about like any other plugin for WordPress, but there are a few extra files.

Firstly…

1. Download the plugin to your desktop
2. Unzip it (free unzipper: WinRAR)

After unzipping the package you will see…

An ‘images’ folder, a ‘wp-content’ folder, an ‘auction.php’ file, the instruction manual and a troubleshooting text file.

Upload/FTP Steps (free FTP’er: FileZilla)

1. Upload all the images from the ‘images’ folder to the ‘images’ folder in the root of your blog. If you don’t have an ‘images’ folder in the root, just upload the entire folder.
2. Upload the ‘auction.php’ file to the root of your blog.
3. Upload the entire ‘phpBay’ folder that is inside of the ‘wp-content/plugins/’ folder, to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ folder of your blog.

Now, login to your WordPress Control Panel, click ‘Plugins’ from the left menu, and Activate ‘phpBay Pro Plugin for WordPress’.

Now, phpBay is installed and activated! Good job! Move on to: phpBay Pro Configuration

More info: phpBay Pro: The Extended Manual – Installation and Activation

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Installation/Activation
• Configuration
• Testing
• Per-Post/Per-Page Settings
• Geo-Targeting
• Making The Images Clickable
• Replacing WordPress Search With eBay Search
• Inserting phpBay Code Into Theme Files
• Buy phpBay Pro (20% off coupon: DA9CD69F42)
• From Picking A Market To Building/Managing Your phpBay (Or BANS) Site

Assumptions

This guide assumes that you know what phpBay is, that you have a license for it, that you have an account with eBay Partner Network and that you have the latest version of WordPress installed.

If not…

1. Learn about phpBay here.
2. Use this link to buy phpBay and when prompted for a discount code, use: DA9CD69F42 to get 20% off.
3. Sign up with eBay Partner Network here.
4. Use the WordPress auto-install on your host if available or try the 5-minute install instructions here.

You may also want to check out this 9 step guide if you would like to start from the ground up.

Next post: phpBay Pro Installation/Activation

More info: phpBay Pro: The Extended Manual – Introduction

phpBay Pro is a WordPress plugin that allows you to list eBay auctions directly into a post or page. It is extremely simple to use. I’m going to point you to a phpBay Pro example site as well as provide you with a phpBay pro coupon which will allow you to get 20% off the price. To jump to the coupon code just scroll to the bottom or top of this post.

Features of phpBay Pro

Even though phpBay Pro is very easy to setup and use it does have many powerful features. I won’t get into all of them in this post but here are a few…phpBay offers SEO benefits, eBay category targeting, keyword targeting and with a few quick minor enhancements you can get keyword tracking and geo targeting.

phpBay Pro Example

You can specify several parameters for the auctions but all that is required is a keyword (or keywords).

If you want to fully customize the listing you can also specify the number of items to display, the category number as found on eBay, exclusion (or negative) keywords, a postal code to show local auctions, a seller ID for a particular seller, a min price, a max price, a min and max bid, whether the auction should have a BIN price, an alpha-ID for tracking purposes which can be hard coded globally or by post or set with a variable, how to sort the auctions, a specific country, the number of columns and whether to display only items with free shipping.

As stated, the above are optional parameters. Most can also be set globally.

Here’s a quick example of eBay auctions inserted into a post. I specified the keyword “affiliate” for the auctions. A couple of other non-default options were set globally, like including only auctions with photos for example. EDIT: A new feature in the latest version is to turn off “paging” at the post level. I did that in this example as well, plus I set it to just one column.

Notice that when hovering over an auction link it appears as though it is a page on this blog that you will be brought to. That’s the SEO benefits of phpBay at work. These pages can be indexed. Also, if you check the properties of the images, they also show as being local when in fact they aren’t.

[phpbay]affiliate,5,,,,,,,,,,phpbayex,,,1,,0[/phpbay]

phpBay Pro Extended Manual

If you want to learn how to do some upgrades/tweaks to phpBay, including setting up geo-targeting (which shows auction listings specific to the country of the visitor to your site), then check out the extended manual. Additionally, if you want to learn how to build a phpBay site from the ground up, check out this 9 step guide from the creators of Build A Niche Store (BANS), which covers everything from picking a market to building and managing your site. They cover both phpBay and BANS in the guide. An excellent read.

phpBay Pro Example Site

I created a Marvel comic books blog/site displaying Marvel comic related auctions using phpBay Pro that you can look to as an example.

phpBay Pro Coupon

To take advantage of the phpBay coupon, use the phpBay link below and enter the coupon code: DA9CD69F42 when prompted.

Click here to buy phpBay Pro now

More info: phpBay Pro Example Site And phpBay Pro Coupon