Tips for getting ebay items to the top of search results
Now I have experienced first hand ebays new policies to do with search results and whether you rate high in them, at the bottom, or worse not at all.
I had an item that I could not find at all when logged out and doing an ebay search, it only came up with I typed the the title exactly. This can be a real pain for auction items as they will undoubtedly end lower.
Here are a couple of tips to keep your items higher, please feel free to add other tips.
Tip 1) Unique titles in each listing. If you have the following items for sale:
STAR WARS LUKE SKYWALKER LIGHT SABRE
Say you have 10 of these that you bought at auction and you list them, did you know that due to ebays "new" search criterea only 1 will show up in search listings?
So if you have listed 7 at auction you will only have one showing. When one is sold then another one shows.
You can do better to change the title slightly for each one such as
Light sabre - star wars - Luke
For example.
Tip 2: Apparantly if you offer FREE postage you have a chance of rating higher aswell. Now I have never been keen on this but it seems to be the way ebay wants to go
Tip 3: DSR's
this is the biggie. if your DSR's are suffering a bit then your items will have less exposure. There are lots of threads on the new DSR format. No matter how hard you try you can find yourself on the bad side of these regulations and they will be getting even stricter in April 2010.
My DSR's are all perfect except for P+P where I have 2 buyers thats have selected 2 stars out of 84 buyers.
I guess In this case I need to consider offering Free postage to try to reverse this trend.
Also if you have too many low ratings in item as described, dispatch time or communication these are things that you will have to address to avoid restrictions. Make sure you check these ratings out regularly by going to your "selling dashboard" under "account"
Tip 4: Always fill in the item specifics. If you use inkfrog or auctiva you can fall into the trap where you dont bother, I know I did. But to rate higher in the searches fill in all the boxes you can where possible.
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