Driving more traffic to my eBay shop

[dave7923]

I've got an ebay shop at ebayworldshop Amazon shop at Amazon haggmcd

I'm often struggling to get traffic/hits/visits whatever I do to optimise things.

Please take a look and let me know what you think I'm doing wrong.

Thank in advance
David

[MH1]

11 ebay stores of that name.

[Winthrop]

It would be better to opt for the best SEO services. These people helps you in driving some traffic to your site.

[fisicx]

What is the incentive to visit your shop? What are you offering that is different, that entices me to take a look?

How much competition is there for your products? Are your prices comparable to the others? How good is your sales copy?

[dave7923]

11 ebay stores of that name.


I've got the domain ebayworldshop at .com and .co.uk

ebayworldshop is my unique ebay shop and if I search for shops with this name mine is the only one.

What makes you say that there are 11 stores with this name?

Thanks for the input
David

[dave7923]

I concentrate on high quality products only and no dodgy foreign imports. Everything is at between 20% and 80% of UK RRP and is brand new.

My feedback is 100% and I always ship within 1 day of an order. My comms to customers is always as fast as possible to customer service is good.

I try to maintain a good range of products to attract as many potential customers as possible.

My product descriptions are as clear, complete and concise as possible and I always include good quality product pictures.

I also keep my P&P charges as reasonable as possible too.

Thanks for your input.

David




What is the incentive to visit your shop? What are you offering that is different, that entices me to take a look?

How much competition is there for your products? Are your prices comparable to the others? How good is your sales copy?

[MH1]

I've got the domain ebayworldshop at .com and .co.uk

ebayworldshop is my unique ebay shop and if I search for shops with this name mine is the only one.

What makes you say that there are 11 stores with this name?

Thanks for the input
David

I searched for worldshop, since no shops have the name ebayworldshop, that is using the ebay search function on the .co.uk site.

This shows one major problem, if I am struggling to find your shop when looking for it, how hard is it to find it when not looking for it.

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/_stores/storenamesearch?sofindtype=18&MfcISAPICommand=GetSNResult&from=R7&nojspr=y&pfid=0&_userid=ebayworldshop&_nkw=ebayworldshop&rd=

Ebays search system is broken very badly at the moment, only returning clients will search on the shop, most clients will search on the products. I still have no clue what you sell, what you offer etc, and after three searches I can't be bothered to look any further.

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[dave7923]

I searched for worldshop, since no shops have the name ebayworldshop, that is using the ebay search function on the .co.uk site.

This shows one major problem, if I am struggling to find your shop when looking for it, how hard is it to find it when not looking for it.


Ebays search system is broken very badly at the moment, only returning clients will search on the shop, most clients will search on the products. I still have no clue what you sell, what you offer etc, and after three searches I can't be bothered to look any further.

Try.
haggis7923worldshop or go directly to my ebayworldshop at .com or .co.uk

[Online Trader]

Try.
haggis7923worldshop or go directly to my ebayworldshop at .com or .co.uk

Neither work in the search option, please post a url to your shop ;)

[dave7923]

Neither work in the search option, please post a url to your shop ;)

I'm afraid the forum won't let me post urls.

I just did an eBay shop search for haggis7923 and found my shop.

If you google ebayworldshop you'll find me easily.

Thanks so far and sorry it's frustrating.

I had to use haggis7923 as my shop name/link as eBay don't let me use ebay in ebayworldshop

David

[fisicx]

I concentrate on high quality products only and no dodgy foreign imports. Everything is at between 20% and 80% of UK RRP and is brand new.

My feedback is 100% and I always ship within 1 day of an order. My comms to customers is always as fast as possible to customer service is good.

I try to maintain a good range of products to attract as many potential customers as possible.

My product descriptions are as clear, complete and concise as possible and I always include good quality product pictures.

I also keep my P&P charges as reasonable as possible too.

Thanks for your input.

David
None of these is different to many other ebaysellers. I brought an item off ebay at the weekend. I didn't care about who they are or how effective they were. The price was right so I clicked 'buy it now'. Don't know or care where it came from only that it met my needs.

People use ebay to buy products. They don't necessarily have a favourite seller so will just buy from the one that offers the best deal. You are competing with everyone else selling the same products at the same prices with the same delivery arrangments. Not so sure there is an easy answer to your problem.

<edit>Just looked at your shop - there is no consistency. It's just a mish mash of products with no real theme. Concentrate on one type of product</edit>

[dave7923]

Thanks for the input

[Online Trader]

Tend to agree with (http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/member.php?u=7996) fisicx you need to specialise otherwise you look like jack of all trades
Try to find a niche (easier said than done on eBay) but there are pockets out there you just need to be able to find them
Don't follow the crowd ;)

[MH1]

You are wasting a lot of listings, you duplicate the same item, ebay will only show one in a search, so the other two are wasted money, why not list once with a qty of 3? If you insist on multiple listings, spread them around, don't list 3-4 within a minutes time of each other.

Your refusal to refund original p+p, is not condusive to giving clients a good feel about dealing with you, plus it is of course totally illegal.

Dispatch time of 1-3 days is too long, why not dispatch everything in 1 day? I wouldn't order off such a vague listing myself. Also, whilst 1st class postage is fine, you are leaving yourself opent to losing every paypal dispute you get, since you will have no proof of deliveries.

One last thing, your ebay shop is called haggis7923 WorldShop

[Cheaperwebsites4u]

I would have ago at twitter with links back to your shops, or a website with a blog perhaps with some SEO work can all link back to them aswell.

[cmonline]

"Your refusal to refund original p+p, is not condusive to giving clients a good feel about dealing with you, plus it is of course totally illegal."

This is illegal on your Buy It Now Listings but your auction format listings do not fall under the Distance Selling Regulations. It may help if you change this though.

Have you tried combinging your P&P in the cost of the items and changing all your listings to Free P&P. Ebay places these listings higher in search results. It will cost you more in fees but could improve sales? I tried this a few months back and it did have a postive impact.

Also have you tried writing product reviews and guides related to your products. There is a feature within eBay which allows you to do this and can improve your sales.

Hope this helps,

[silvermusic]

Several problems.

Wouldn't want to take on eBay in a case of using a URL with it's trade name in it for starters. And that why you can't use it as an eBay shop name.

Your eBay shop is held in a frame, the URL might look cool but it's crap for SEO and for getting your items/shop in Google. Have a look in the source code in the browser and you'll see what I mean. If you want to use a memorable URL to point to your eBay shop that's fine, but just get the index page to re-direct to the eBay shop URL, in your case, you might have additional problems as it doesn't break out of your URL when you leave your shop to the rest of eBay, I'd lose that ASAP if you value your eBay account. you ebay URL to re-direct to is http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/haggis7923WorldShop

Your prices are nothing special as an example searching "Energizer AAA 1000 Rechargeable Batteries 4 Pack" you're the most expensive. Doing a broader search on "Energizer AAA 1000 Rechargeable Batteries 4 Pack" and it's no better.

[silvermusic]

A couple of other problems I've just noticed. Having you .co.uk domain on your listings is against eBay rules, trust me, you'll get reported eventually by someone and you could lose a lot if too many listings are pulled including your selling ability.

Don't see a physical address either, that's the law, not just eBay rules. It has to be on each listing, or on your "me" page or on a seperate shop page, which is where I have/had mine.


"The buyer is responsible for shipping costs incurred shipping products back."

Not if the item is faulty.

[deviltronics]

nm here sorry

[papverpoppies]

I've got an ebay shop at ebayworldshop Amazon shop at Amazon haggmcd

I'm often struggling to get traffic/hits/visits whatever I do to optimise things.

Please take a look and let me know what you think I'm doing wrong.

Thank in advance
David

I copied your link into my browser which took me to the Orange Search Page for some reason - you site came top of the page (which is a bizzare way to have to find you)!!

I then looked at your store - which is a mixture, from gardening, to baby items! So if people do find you, do you have what they want?

You first need to sort out the finding you!

Poppy

[dave7923]

Hi and thanks for the advice.
I've made some more changes now including my refunds terms, and dispatch times.
I list some items across both BIN and auction formats and list multiple items over server listins and several days. Sometimes I do screw up with this of course.
Regarding posting. I use a business account that includes proof of posting for all items sent and I do send higher value items recorded delivery.
My webforwarding has been sorted out now too.
Best wishes
David (haggis7923WorldShop)



You are wasting a lot of listings, you duplicate the same item, ebay will only show one in a search, so the other two are wasted money, why not list once with a qty of 3? If you insist on multiple listings, spread them around, don't list 3-4 within a minutes time of each other.

Your refusal to refund original p+p, is not condusive to giving clients a good feel about dealing with you, plus it is of course totally illegal.

Dispatch time of 1-3 days is too long, why not dispatch everything in 1 day? I wouldn't order off such a vague listing myself. Also, whilst 1st class postage is fine, you are leaving yourself opent to losing every paypal dispute you get, since you will have no proof of deliveries.

One last thing, your ebay shop is called haggis7923 WorldShop

[dave7923]

Hi and thanks for the advice.
I've made some more changes now including my refunds terms, and dispatch times.
Business address included now too on home page.
I've changed my listing template to remove the URLs, and will work thru' correcting all my live listings.
Best wishes
David (haggis7923WorldShop)

A couple of other problems I've just noticed. Having you .co.uk domain on your listings is against eBay rules, trust me, you'll get reported eventually by someone and you could lose a lot if too many listings are pulled including your selling ability.

Don't see a physical address either, that's the law, not just eBay rules. It has to be on each listing, or on your "me" page or on a seperate shop page, which is where I have/had mine.


"The buyer is responsible for shipping costs incurred shipping products back."

Not if the item is faulty.