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Old 18-02-08   #1
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Default Driving traffic to my ebay store?

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Has anyone got any good ideas on how to drive traffic to your ebay store.
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Have you tried putting leaflets/cards into your shipped items? This is usually a good form of driving targeted traffic to your store.
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How about simply having a link to your eBay store in your listings? That should filter through some traffic to your store.

You could even work on search engine positions...
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Buy a domain name , forward it to your ebay shop.

Put the link in your forum signitures, upload relevent videos on youtube with a link to your domain that forwards to your store.

Submit the domain name to google.

There are quite a few other ways but it really depends on the product you are selling.
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Thanks very much for the advice chaps i will put some of these ideas into practice and see how things go.
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You could also use pay-per-click marketing, writing articles and submiting them to article directories, social networking sites, social bookmarking your site, and/or a blog.

All great ways to drive traffic.
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Is pay-per-click to an ebay store advisable?
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It depends on the keywords you use. If you choose correctly it can be very profitable. Choose incorrectly and you'll go broke.
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Hi
do a search for metatags, make sure you have the correct tags for your kind of store,this will help web serches in plces like google to find your ebay shop. setup your store emails and flyers. but what works for me is make sure you have 1 low value item, list it for a 1 day auction. then make sure you have in the description everything to say visit my shop,that way with a 1 day auction your item will show closer to the start of a search for the item.
and also if you have a basic understanding of html then the following 2 can help improve your auctions.
turbo lister and photobucket. free to use and photobucket will let you add super pics and slideshows and special effects...
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Hi,
all good advice i will be trying out most of your ideas IceGamesCenter can you please tell me how to do a search for metatags
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