5 ways to drive traffic away from eBay auction

eBay is a one-stop solution for anyone who wants to make money online. Whether you just to sell some unwanted items around your house or your want to develop a work from home business, eBay removes many of the obstacles for you. Not many other websites can help you drive traffic to your sales target, process the order on your behalf and if you accept the PayPal payment. All you need do is send the item to your winner.

And do not forget the biggest advantage of selling on eBay. Most users have money in hand waiting to find the right point.

So if eBays so great why do you want to divert traffic to your auctions?

Well there are some reasons why it would be selling its own website, but instead of eBay. First and foremost, think of a list of all fees and final value fees you could save if everything can be sold on eBay sell on their own website. Personally I would save thousands of dollars per year just in sales commissions.

Second, it protects you from changing the eBay policy. Imagine you're selling thousands of ebooks weekly and then suddenly eBay policy changed to prevent any list of books electronics.

Overnight your business would simply disappear and their income would vanish. It's the same with the inclusion of fees – A sudden surge rates could wipe out their business and profits overnight.

With any business, especially a line that you need to protect yourself against the measures that are beyond their control. So by directing traffic outside of your auctions to your own website which you will gradually begin construction of a source alternative income. The following methods can be used on eBay. Some are on the borderline of eBay policy and you should check out any violation policy before using them. To say that a huge proportion of sellers use these on a daily basis.

Image Hosting 1)

All the best sellers have auction templates developed to maintain a list of professionals. And, of course, sellers always use images or graphics to accurately show the state of the elements of its bid.

eBay allows himself to upload images to their servers, commercial and other free services are available. However really want to store images on your own server. Not only robots search engines follow the links on your ads to your site (helping to improve visibility in any search engine), but many browsers will show the address where the images are loaded from the status bar – for example, "Loading Image of http://www.visitmyshop.com "or" Waiting For http://www.visitmyshop.com. This is a great way for your visitors to see to become familiar with the site.

2) Comments

Many sellers include their own website in the feedback comments they use. Strictly speaking, it is against eBay policy, but many Powersellers use to comments like "Thanks for your custom http://www.Visitmyshop.com" as standard. This is perhaps one of the policies widely violated eBay. I've never met anyone receiving a warning for this policy, but use it cautiously as it could be the first.

3) E-mail address.

eBay allows your listings to contain an email link, plus the "Ask the seller to link with the question "they already offer. Take the opportunity to display an email account associated with your domain name to sales@visitmyshop.com example. The subject only to show your email address is the one shown must also be your email account registered with eBay. Before from the list, make sure they match.

4) About Me Page

eBay actually allows you to link to your website from the About page Me, as long as the current page does not offer to sell goods directly. Therefore, make it an information about us or page you have links to, but one where visitors can easily browse their catalog of products for sale. Besides driving traffic to your About Me page through the inclusion of a link in each listing, for example, "Click here to learn about me." An average basic shop on eBay will receive more than 1,500 hits element within a month. If you can handle only a small proportion of these to About me page and then your site will likely see a difference in your non-eBay sales.

User ID 5)

While eBay does not allow your user ID is that of a website, you must have as close to resembling your site name as possible. You can not attach. Com-com or * com to the end of your user ID – this is strictly against eBay policy. Without But nothing will stop her VisitMyShop id. The idea is to get your eBay visitors comfortable with dealing with you outside of eBay.

I hope these tips will help to drive traffic away from your auctions to your site and reduces eBays control over your business. Remember, ignorance is not an excuse eBay accept if they violate their policy. Although a start receiving a warning for the offense of violation of the continuing policy may result in your account is suspended. Having said that, eBay is mainly based on surveillance of other users to enforce their policies so long as no reports that should be in the clear.

Good luck with your eBay activity.

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