How To Attract Bidders - The Group Method

Written by Neil Bartlett


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How To Attract Bidders - The Group Method

“I need to get more people to view my auctions!”

Next to getting a bidder to bid, this is probablyrepparttar 120811 most frustrating issue for sellers.

What a lot of sellers don’t realize is timing is everything. I have heard from sellers that when they have an auction that didn’t get any bids and they re-listrepparttar 120812 same auction atrepparttar 120813 same price just a week later they get lots of bidders, some even make more profit than they expected. So what’srepparttar 120814 deal?

The ‘deal’ is that you never know whenrepparttar 120815 people likely to bid on your auction are going to be looking at your auction.

So, here we are back atrepparttar 120816 beginning, how do we attract bidders? Well, one method that I have used to create traffic to both my website and my auctions is to participate in or create your own discussion group.

What are discussion groups you ask? Well, asrepparttar 120817 description for Yahoo Groups puts it, discussion groups “offer a convenient way to connect with others who sharerepparttar 120818 same interests and ideas.”

There are three key ways to use groups to increase your auction traffic. The first two are 1) Join groups that let you post links to your auctions, or 2) Start your own group and invite others to post links to their auctions while you dorepparttar 120819 same.

The two methods above are a quick and easy way to get started on driving traffic to your auctions, however,repparttar 120820 third and best way to utilize groups is to create a specialized group based around a theme, for example, collectors of die cast cars. This way people that are interested in your theme will be more interested in joining that kind of a group rather than a group that just lists various auction links. You can then setrepparttar 120821 rules so that members may post related auctions.

This last method focuses you audience and gets your auctions what is reffered to as ‘targeted traffic’, which isrepparttar 120822 best kind of traffic.

How do you get started? Glad you asked, shows you’re paying attention.

Discussion groups are free and both easy to join and easy to start. All you have to do to get started is go to one ofrepparttar 120823 main discussion sites below and signup.

How to use keywords to improve your ranking in search engines

Written by Kathy Joyce


The importance of keywords Keywords or key phrases you choose will determine how your site is positioned inrepparttar search engines. It is always better to have lots of pages each focusing on a small group of keywords. This will give them more relevance to each individual page. For example if your site is about shoes you may have lots of different types of shoes. Your index page should have a menuleading into each ofrepparttar 120808 differentcategories of shoes. You might have a page for sandals, one for platform shoes as well as stilettos, court shoes and flat heel shoes. Choosing keywords First you have to think like your customer. What would they type into a search engine if they wanted to findrepparttar 120809 products you are selling. Use phrases as well as single words. Often someone looking for a product or service will type in several words. For example a customer may want to buy a shoe with stiletto heels. They may type in "stiletto heel shoe", "black stiletto" "stiletto heel","stiletto high heel" or "high heel shoe" brainstorming keywords. Start by thinking of as many keywords associated with your site as you can. To make it easier there is a free tool for this which can be found at http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ It will give yourepparttar 120810 number of times this word has been searched for inrepparttar 120811 last month. This will also give you a guide torepparttar 120812 popularity ofrepparttar 120813 keyword. Try looking for similar sites to your own and viewingrepparttar 120814 source code. This will give you ideas for keywords that your competitors are using. Viewingrepparttar 120815 source code is easy, just right clickrepparttar 120816 mouse somewhere onrepparttar 120817 page and click on view source. A good idea is to open a file in wordpad or other text editor and call it "keywords" then if you find words or phrases relevant to your site copy and paste them into your file. You can then view them offline and even printrepparttar 120818 page out to study it. This can give you ideas for keywords you may not have thought of. When you have made a list of keywords relevant to each page you will then need to checkrepparttar 120819 supply and demand if you want an edge over your competitor. You will already knowrepparttar 120820 demand of each keywordrepparttar 120821 next thing you need to do is to take a sheet of paper or use a spreadsheet onrepparttar 120822 computer and make 3 columns naming them keyword, supply, and demand. Inrepparttar 120823 first column listrepparttar 120824 keywords that haverepparttar 120825 highest demand. Then inrepparttar 120826 supply column type how many times it has been searched for. Lastly in http://www.Altavista.com or http://www.Google.com type in your keyword surrounded by quotation marks like this "stiletto shoes" and see how many sites come up. They will listrepparttar 120827 number of sites with that keyword in it.

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