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Gator08041971 • Volunteer Community Mentor 2024
@fern*wood wrote:Your titles could easily be tweaked to fit vintage or vtg in there somewhere. Abbreviate or leave out a lesser searched word if need be. Prepositions can usually be left out and aren't used in most searches. They help make titles make sense, but titles don't need to make sense. They need keywords. I also see many where it would fit without any adjustments.
- Use "promo" instead of promotional
- Use "vtg" instead of vintage
- Use "90s" instead of 1990s
- You don't need both "comedy" and "comedian" in the title
- You can omit "music act" in titles. People searching for singers or music will search the artist's name. They know it's music.
- Unless you have extra spaces to fill, you can omit "&"
@elcamino59 wrote:
@iamalwaysright wrote:Last I checked the word “vintage” has less than 80 characters so there shouldn’t be a problem putting it in the title.
Remember when the title used to have a 55 character max? As a buyer and seller, I miss that.
Why the unhelpful response? You have 0 listings running and you are on here not adding anything valuable to the conversation. I'm not selling cheese graters and knock off cologne, I'm selling very specific local historical items of which most of my items cannot be gotten ANYWHERE! Titles with under 55 characters are fine for drop shippers and stuff you can get on Amazon, not items in the antique and collectible categories.
You’re absolutely right and have put me in my zero rating place. Keep fighting the good fight and rather than adjust, maybe persuade eBay to implement an 88 (vintage plus a space) character max because an 8k feedback rating seller with 20k listings deems it necessary. But what do I know, I have no listings. Maybe I’ll eventually list and sell my cheese graters. But the title of your post coulda been one less character (term).
I know I mentioned this earlier, but can some of your items be grouped under a Variation listing to both potentially cut down listing fees and also make it easier for buyers to group items that may interest them.
For example, one of my listings contains Coca-Cola playing cards. Various themes, etc. I have one listing, with 9 actual card deck items. They are all around a singular theme, but this way it takes one listing slot, not 9 listing slots.
Not sure if it would apply to you or not, but its something to consider. The names for each item has to be limited more here (30 some characters maybe?) before it truncates, but you can also put in a plethora of words about each item in the main description page.
As an example, it could be a listing for 1955 post cards, and then each item would be one of those cards. You also can have a ton of pictures, because each item in the listing is allowed 12 pictures! Even if you have 50 items listed, each one could have a photo.
Not sure if there is a limit to it, I haven't reached one yet. But its something to consider. Not only that, you can do discounts on bundled items the buyer may want from that listing.
