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All just about eBay5 Route to Driving Traffic Away from Your eBay Auction
by:
Jason James
Copyright 2005 Auction Resource Network
eBay is a one-stop resolution to any one who wants to do money online. Whether you just commerce a few unwanted items from about your home or your want to develop a activity from home business, eBay removes many a of the obstacles for you. Not many a different websites can help you drive targeted traffic towards your sales, process the order on your behalf and accept payment tho'
paypal. All you need to do then is dispatch the item to your winning bidder.
And let's not forget the biggest advantage over commerce on eBay. The majority of users have money in their hand just waiting to find the right item.
So if eBays so great why would-be you want to drive traffic AWAY from your auctions?
Well there are a few reasons why you'd be better off commerce from your own website, rather than tho'
eBay. First of all & most importantly, think of all the listing fees & final value fees you could save if everything you sold-out
on eBay you could sell on your own website. In person
it would-be save me thousands of dollars per year alone in listing fees.
Secondly, you'll be protective
yourself from eBay policy change. Imagine you were commerce thousands of ebooks weekly and then suddenly eBay policy changed to prevent any ebook listings.
Overnight your business would-be just disappear & your financial gain
would-be vanish. It's the same with listing fees - A explosive hike in fees could wipe out your business & profit overnight.
With any business, especially an online one you need to safeguard yourself against measures that are out of your control. So by drive traffic away from your auctions to your own website you'll slowly start building up an alternative source of revenue. The following methods can be used on eBay. Several are on the borderline of eBay policy & you should check out any policy violation before mistreatment them. Language that, a brobdingnagian proportion of sellers use these on a daily basis.
1) Pictures Hosting
All the better sellers have auction templates developed to maintain a professional listing. And of course those sellers ALWAYS use pictures or graphics to accurately show the condition of the items their offering.
eBay itself allows you to transfer
the pictures to their servers, different commercial & free services are available. However actually you want to store any pictures on your own server. Not only wish search engine robots follow the links from your listings to your site (helping in improved visibility in any search engines), but many a browsers wish show the address of wherever
the pictures are loading from in the status bar - For instance "Loading Pictures From http://www.visitmyshop.com" or "Waiting For http://www.visitmyshop.com". This is a great way for your visitors to see to become familiar with your site.
2) Feedback
Many sellers include their own website in the feedback comments they use. Strictly it is against eBay policy but many a Powersellers use comments like "Thanks for your custom from http://www.Visitmyshop.com" as standard. This is maybe one of the wide
desecrated
policies on eBay. I've ne'er
best-known of anyone obtain a warning for this policy, but use it with caution as you could be the first.
3) Email Address.
eBay allows your listings to contain one email link address, in addition to the "Ask The Merchandiser A Question Link" they already provide. Use the possibility to show the an email account associated with your domain name for example sales@visitmyshop.com. The only condition just about showing your email address is the one shown must as well be your registered email account with eBay. Before you list it, do sure they match up.
4) Just just about Me Page
eBay actually allows you to link to your own website from your Just just about Me page, as long as the actual page makes not directly offer to sell items. Therefore do it an information or just about us page that you link to, BUT one wherever
visitors can easily navigate to your catalog of items for sale. To boot
drive traffic to your Just just about Me Page by including a link on every listings, for example "Click here to discover just about me". An average basic shop on eBay wish get over 1500 item views inside
a month. If you can drive just a small proportion of these to your just about me page & then to your site you'll for certain see a difference in your non-eBay sales.
5) User Id
While eBay makes not allow your user id to be that of an website, you should have it as closely to resembling your site name as possible. You CAN NOT attach .com, -com or *com to the end of your user id - this is strictly against eBay policy. However nothing would-be finish your id being VisitMyShop. The idea is to get your eBay visitors comfortable with dealing with you away from eBay.
I hope these tips help you drive traffic away from your auctions towards your site & lessens eBays grip on your business. Remember, Cognitive content is not an excuse eBay accept if you do violate their policy. Patch you at first get a warning for policy violation ceaseless offences may result in your account being suspended. Having aforementioned that, eBay mostly bank on policing from different users to enforce their policy so as long as no reports you should be in the clear.
Good luck with your eBay activity.
Just just about the author:
Mythical being
James is a 10 year Cyberspace marketing veteran and an eBay Power Merchandiser of 4 years. His website "The Auction Resource Network" reveals his inside private secrets and sources that help him pocket over $10,000 a month on eBay.
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