@selsa84 wrote:
Use Google to find eBay items about 80% , when I do I actually see the items I'm searching for not 1000 items that have absolutely no relation. In my saved searches I have " Denver map" saved and for the last year it has constantly shown me every coin minted in Denver with the word "map" NOWHERE in the description or title. Sorry but this isn't the was a search should work.
Allot of people use Google and MSN to shop as well as many of the price comparison engines and I do mean allot of people. The numbers have skyrocketed with mobile voice search as it's natural for folks. Don't need go eBay, Amazon etc just speak into the phone no different than "Call Gizmo's Pizza" or "Macy's hours." Voice search is the now and the future.
Most folks don't understand how to target search engines, they just don't nor for that matter how to organically aggregate traffic within a venue via they're own listings. A similar example is how people drive a car or truck and miles per gallon. MPG results are based how people drive. My lady gets 18-22 MPG out of her car, I drive it I get 26-28 and have done high as 31 simply due to driving styles.
So how I drive different? Well, I look for every opportunity to coast for starters be that a hill or there's the red light and I can happily coast to it whilst some bean bag has often crawled up behind me. I brake before I turn, seldom if ever do I brake within a turn unless I have no choice. When braking within a turn your asking the tires to do several things using its grip to both maintain traction and remove kinetic energy, wear the tires quicker and loosing more kinetic energy that needed loose. In other words your using the tire to do two things. Know the transmission shift points of a car and you can use that to extend mileage as well, if you happen to have a car where you can shift it as a manual even more the better yet. Highway driving, tuck in 8-12 car lengths behind a Tractor Trailer, let it break the wind watch your mileage go in big fashion. When we go to camp if my lady drives takes 1/4 tank a gas, I drive, near half that.
Internet is same thing... If you know how to maximize its potential and take the time to learn and do you're going to get better results. I don't go out of my way to maximize the Internet towards my sales of ancient PC games but if I were to, what might that look like?
Well first I went make sure my listings are best case for search/price engines. That means single line description, full description and in eBay's case Product Details be properly addressed. Used to drive me nuts when I built web storefronts for people, I show them what they need do to drive the search oriented traffic and they not do the work. I go back, show em' again, edit some of their product listings and wait... Lo' and behold 200,300, 500 on and on percent more traffic on those SKU's.
Now for ancient PC games or say I do music or Stamps or Coins, doesn't matter. On the Internet via existing or created "social media" and that means traditional like FB, X, Instagram etc but also forums and sites just like this forum can be aggregators of traffic. Just need do the work and perhaps look at ways monetize that as an aggregate. For example, maybe do song reviews or reactions as they call them on youTube or speak of given Stamps, history or coins etc. Now you're creating a doorway to your sale products whilst building a following at say youTube that you may monetize on and use other social media operations to aggregate more towards those videos. These are the simple ones. Throw you're own CMS website into the mix and all the above can be automated as well as having its own social media built in. Atop that now you've a new skill set, building websites which literally has a zero cost to you. Might charge to train whomever to administrate their site or do so under maintenance agreement.
All that aside make no mistake about it, Google Mobile shopping search in requests per second make this place look like its barely moving in numbers. I wouldn't even hazard guess how large that difference is in general search terms, could be 10,000 or 100,000 to one. It's why eCommerce APPs exist for mobile. I've never understood why eBay doesn't assign some real-estate front and center from hompage to every page saying, "Get the App."
