HI,

I personally think an eBay store has to fit into an overall business plan and need.

For us, it is a perfect solution to keeping seasonal items online at a low cost. eBay store listings are fed to Google product shopping . Auction style listings are not. I am not sure if eBay feeds 30 Fixed price listings or not to google product shopping.

If eBay does not, the basic store subscription cost in itself is worth having items fed to Google shopping. About half of our traffic comes directly from Google product shopping.

If you are going to offer product on sites that do not have software support, such as Bonanzle, your store listings can be imported which greatly helps in populating a Bonanzle booth quickly.

The search results on eBay are so skewed by such diverse factors that electing to have a store based on search really isn't even a consideration. At least in my opinion anyway.

And if I can throw in something about using GTC listings. Google loves new content as do most search engines. If the listings never end, they become "old" content. On eBay those listings never move to the "ending soon" or "newly listed" and Google and Bing never see them as a "new" listing anymore. If the listings end and you wait at least 24 hours to list the store listing again, then the item is removed from Google product shopping search results. Then list the items again after a 24 hour period. Google will pick up the "new" content. And the listings show up in the "newly listed" results as well as in 30 days show up in "ending soon"..

Just something to consider.



Judy Oglesby
Judy/blue
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