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Grow Your eBay Business – Use Your About Me Page to Generate Leads

Google Base Store Connector is a free application offered by Google. If you have your store indexed using Google Store Connector, your items will appear as search results on Google.

This application is free to download and use. Just download Google Base Store Connector and add your items either individually, using a spreadsheet, or as an XML file.

Popular product types in Google Base correspond with most categories on eBay including clothing, computers, books, automobiles, vacations, household items, just to name a few. Experiment with Google Base and study your store traffic reports to determine if Google Base Store Connector helps increase your traffic.

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eBay Sellers, Are You Using Google Base Store Connector?

Stumble Upon is a bookmarking social networking site with over 5 million members (called stumblers). eBay acquired SU back in April, 2007.

In a nutshell, users download a toolbar that allows them to stumble, or rate web pages they find on the internet. When a site is stumbled, other members see it, visit it, and may also rate it. The site has a very high “hit rate” as new content is constantly being added.

More and more entrpreneurs are using SU for business purposes. eBay sellers can use Stumble Upon to promote their eBay stores and listings. You can stumble your store pages, About Me page, item listings, and so on. If you submit new items to SU on a regular basis, the traffic will come. Stumble Upon works over time. Check your store traffic reports to verify that SU is sending you traffic. Click here for the exact steps on how to use Stumble Upon for your eBay items.

If you join Stumble Upon, be sure to add me to your friends!

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Use Stumble Upon to Drive Traffic to Your eBay Listings

Article writing is a technique used by bloggers to generate traffic to their blogs. eBay sellers can also this technique for increasing traffic to their stores. There are many sites where you can submit articles for publication on the internet such as eZine Articles, Articles Base, and Go Articles. You are not paid to submit articles, much like you are not paid to write your own blog, but there are several advantages to article writing.

First, these are quality links on quality sites. Article writing is much different than throwing up a bunch of your links on groups and forums. Take a look at my bio page on eZine Articles. I’ve only been submitting articles for about a year, and started as a way to direct traffic to my eBooks on eBay (when eBooks were still allowed). You can see that my articles have had over 15,000 page views in about 13 months. Not a bad return for submitting about 3 articles a month during that time.

Second, if you have a speciality niche, you can find potential customers looking for your product. Customers seeking what you sell may find your articles online when using search engines to find your product. For example, if you sell BMW collectibles, you can submit articles about BMWs. Some of your readers will end up in your eBay store for a look.

Third, article writing is free advertising. Just write some decent content that is related to what you sell online, and include your link at the end of the article.

Fourth, the purpose of these article sites is to serve as a source of content for eZines, newsletters, blogs, and websites. Article writing is viral marketing at its best – you want your articles to be picked up by other people and posted in as many places as possible on the internet. So, write your articles, put them out there, and let them take on a life of their own.

Learn more about how to write articles for the purpose of generating traffic for your eBay store.

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eBay Traffic Tip – Write Articles to Drive Traffic to Your eBay Store

So, what is the strategy? Answer questions in your field of knowledge or that relate to the products sold in your eBay store. For example, if you sell cosmetics in your eBay store, answer questions regarding skin care, makeup or fashion. If you sell pet products on eBay, answer questions about pet care, pet grooming, obedience training, service dogs, or animal shelters. At the end of your answer is a box to enter a link – this is where you should add the link to your eBay store. (You can check your eBay Traffic Reports to determine where your visitors come from.)

Answer the questions in a helpful, friendly, professional manner, then include a link to your store. Present yourself as an expert in your field. The original asker will read your answer, and any future readers who ever visit that question will also see it. I use Yahoo Answers for marketing my blogs, website, and eBay store and continue to receive traffic from questions I answered over a year ago. You can also receive eBay Store Referral Credits for purchases made by buyers directed to eBay as a result of a link outside of eBay.

Learn more about how to use Yahoo Answers for marketing your eBay store and listings.

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How to Use Yahoo Answers to Drive Traffic to eBay Listings

Have fun with video, and increase traffic to your listings by posting them on YouTube!

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Increase Your Sales on eBay by Using Video