I’m playing around with techniques to get your auction listings show up in the Google results. As such I’m including a link for a book that I have listed currently on eBay:
Introduce Your Child to Classical Music 52 Easy Lessons.
My listing is currently showing up at position 6 on the first page of the Google search results. My intent is to create some text links to the listing that the Google spider will find and follow – improving the listings position in the search results using a search engine optimization (SEO) technique called link popularity.
Here’s a little bit about the book in case anybody is interested in reading more about it:
Introduce Your Child to Classical Music 52 Easy Lessons will introduce your child to some of the most famous pieces in classical music. These lesson plans open the door to the instruments, musicians, periods, and musical forms of the classics. Each work included has background for the parent, followed by tips on introducing it to your child (at four different levels, beginner to advanced) including a “What to listen for” section which contains questions you can work through with your child. What sets this book apart from anything out there in the market is that it is designed to study entire pieces of classical music.
Hopefully, the book will stay on the market long enough to have some discernible results for the experiment!
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V interesting idea, I’ve worked in search marketing for a couple of years, and never thought about optimising for a specific item on an online auction, if you’ve got a couple more blogs linking to the listing will help, also make sure the image’s alt text is correct and that you’ve got relevant keywords in the item’s description
good post!
Great work!
Can’t wait to hear the results.
John B
I have been using Twitter to promote my store and eBay items and it appears that the more I promote my items, the higher they have been climbing up the ranks in Google Shopping. Today, my eBay items appeared at the top of Google Shopping search list! I’m not sure if this is because of the amount of traffic Twitter sends to my eBay items or not, however it is interesting that the more traffic that is sent to my eBay store, the higher up the search results my items climb.
It appears to me that this works like any other strategy for getting something to the top of google – namely by increasing the number of links to it, you increase its position.
One quick question – for optimum results is it better to link to your listings, your ebay store, or even your “about me” page or my world page?
You would then be linking from these other pages to the actual items for sale.
Or would any of that not make the difference I thought it would?
I remember when you paid to have your listing on the home page. Now you can pay but it doesn’t seem to show up anywhere special at all. Ebay has become a near complete losing proposition for us. That’s why we’ve moved on to other business.
I don’t see how anyone can be making money on there anymore.
Mike