Get Your Free Traffic To Your Auction Listings With Ebay Blogs
December 31, 2008
eBay is the #1 auction site on the internet. eBay is the fifth most visited site on the Internet. Now, eBay jumped on the blog bandwagon. They have opened a brand new section of their site called eBay blogs. This area allows a registered eBay user to sign up for, and maintain an eBay blog.
Blogs are here to stay. So, if you’re serious about growing your eBay business then you should definitely consider signing up for, and creating your very own eBay blog. eBay has done a great job of making the process simple and easy so that almost anyone can navigate through the steps and easily set up their own blog. You do not have to have any programming experience or special html knowledge. Just visit the following url: blogs.ebay.com/ and click on the large button that says “Start Blogging”.
What Are Blogs?
In the simplest of terms, a blog is basically an online journal. Blogs provide a place where you can easily write news and information about yourself and your auction sales on a daily basis. The word blog is a combination of web and log combined together to make the word blog. Blogs are a hot internet craze because they allow anyone to easily publish their own thoughts and content online – instantly.
Blogs are also wonderful for creating a ton of extra traffic and visitors to your auction listings. If you frequently post great content to your blog it will quickly be picked up by the search engines which will create more visitors to your blog and your auction listings for free.
What Should You Blog About?
In this day and age, it’s hard to imagine being an eBay seller and not immediately see the benefit of having a blog. It provides an easy way to interact with your customers. You can provide updated information about your auctions, the products you sell and general info about your business. Once you get used to blogging, you should consider making posts to your blog on a daily basis.
To get the most from your blog you want to think about writing content that is useful to your customers. eBay sellers should use their blog to provide more information about what they sell. For example, a seller who specializes in model cars might take some time to write a few articles or create posts about “tips for building model cars”. Another seller who sells wedding related goods might write blog posts about “effective wedding planning on a shoestring budget”. The point is this: you want to make the content useful to your customers so they will come back often. The more you write good quality content and inform your customers, the more they will want to purchase products from you. Another benefit is that you can quickly establish yourself as an authority on the subject.
If you’re not sure what content to post in your blogs, simply do a google search for your subject and see what comes up. Use this information to create your product content. Caution: stay away from having a blog with very little useful content and a lot of sales ads for your auctions. It’s good to occasionally write a blog post to promote a new item you have up for auction, but if that is all you do then you’ll get very few repeat visitors to your blog. eBay is a very community oriented platform and the more community friendly information you provide, the more potential you have for repeat customers to come back to your blog… and hopefully visit your eBay auction listings.
How do you Promote Your Blog?
Like any other site on the internet, your blog will have its own unique url or website address. You will want to make sure that you keep this hand and start promoting your blog. There are a variety of ways that you can promote a blog. Some of these would include submitting your website to major search engines, and blog/website directories. You can easily further promote your blog by taking the content or articles that you write on the blog and submitting them to some of the major article directories. You can also create your own domain name and then forward it to your blog, so that you have a link that is easy for people to remember. In the past, I have used www.highfivedomains to secure my url’s for blog promotion.
What about Blog Comments?
Another great way to promote your blog and build traffic to it is to comment on other people’s blog. As a general rule, you should only post to other related blogs and post meaningful comments. If you start leaving a bunch of random comments that have nothing to do with the blog, or the blog post in general, then people will see this as “blog spam” also known as “splog content”.
Does eBay have Blog Tags?
Another useful feature that eBay has included is blog tags. When you first set up your blog, there are some important fields to fill out including the selection of the tags that people will use to find your blog. These tags are basically keywords that people might use to search for your blog. If we continue with “wedding” example above, a seller of wedding related items would want to use common wedding keywords in their tags section. This could include tags like wedding, invitations, cake toppers, and wedding planning. Now, when another eBay user searches for wedding related blogs this blog will show up in the listing and again bring some free traffic to the blog.
In the not too distance future, eBay blogs will be commonplace. It is now that you have the opportunity to set yourself apart from your competition by setting up your blog – and using your blog to get free traffic to your eBay listings!
Useful Pointers When Sending Shower Invitations
December 26, 2008
Showers are gift giving parties. Shower invitations are given for different reasons, such as for bridal showers to give gifts to the bride, couples showers to shower the couple with gifts and baby showers to shower the mother or parents-to-be with gifts. Bridal and wedding showers are traditionally hosted by the maid-of-honor and she sends out the invitations to female friends and relatives of the bride. Today, couples’ showers are becoming more popular in the co-ed society that we live in. Baby showers are typically hosted by members of the family in honor of the mother-to-be. Today, however, both parents get involved and a baby shower for both parents is popular. Ready made or custom shower invitations will reflect what type of shower being given.
Shower invitations, shower invitations, shower invitations! Wedding showers are normally held about two weeks before the big occasion and should be mailed well in advance to reach guests in time so that they can save the day for the party. The date time and venue of the party including a map, if required, should be clear to make arrival easy for the guests. Guests who are invited to the shower should be, as a rule, invited to the wedding. Since showers are essentially parties where gifts are given, some shower invitations carry the details of the registry of stores to which the bride subscribes. In today’s busy world, guests find this a big help when looking for a gift that will be cherished for many years.
Shower parties today usually have a theme to make them more enjoyable and memorable to the host, the guests and the guest of honor. Popular themes for bridal showers are lingerie showers, recipe showers and pampered bride showers. A couple’s shower may have themes like handyman or handywoman, or a stock the bar theme. Whatever the topic, the shower invitations should carry a picture and details to add to the guest’s anticipation of the party. When a surprise shower party is held, the invitations should definitely state the time by which the guests are expected to arrive. You may even decide to purchase custom invitations for your shower.
Many shower invitations request those who plan to attend to RSVP according to the date that is written on the card. By asking for the guests to RSVP for the shower, the hostess is better able to plan for food and drink supplies that will be needed. It is important that your bridal shower invitations, or baby shower invitations are eye catching and make those invited excited about the upcoming event. Look over some invitation samples online and consider purchasing some special invitation paper or a kit that will help you design your own.
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December 26, 2008
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Candlestick
December 26, 2008
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Bridal Guide
December 26, 2008
Bridal Guide, the how-to for “I Do”, is a guide for couples planning to be married. The magazine, which features remarriage, homemaking, wedding fashions and unique honeymoons, also includes information about modern etiquette and today’s wedding trends.
Mazel Tov Planner
December 26, 2008
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