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24-02-2015
twinx05

Ebay Shop

Hi,

I am looking to try and sort an ebay shop out to sell my mugs & phone cases etc on....

Can anyone recommend anyone that designs them or anyone that can sort the graphics / templates out ?

Thanks in advance.
24-02-2015
GoonerGary

I would only use the existing ebay shop layout and not bother with templates. Using a third party template will slow the load up of the page, insert a lot of code annoying the cassini search engine and possibly ebay's mobile app. The only graphic you need is a 1200 x 270 pixel banner which you can easily do yourself if you are printing mugs anyway.
24-02-2015
bigj2552

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoonerGary

I would only use the existing ebay shop layout and not bother with templates. Using a third party template will slow the load up of the page, insert a lot of code annoying the cassini search engine and possibly ebay's mobile app. The only graphic you need is a 1200 x 270 pixel banner which you can easily do yourself if you are printing mugs anyway.

any concrete evidence for that gary ?

we have a full ebay store design, front page and on all listings.
it hasnt stopped us getting sales, view or watcher's on listings......yes it is about 1.5 sec slower to open on mobile app, but considering the amount of coding thats on it, its way fine ;-)

to much **** surrounding cassini search engine gary - its getting taken out this yr apparently ...replaced by ? who knows- cant be any worse than what they have now
24-02-2015
GoonerGary

Nobody has concrete evidence on anything regarding cassini, but any search engine doesn't want a load of irrelevant content on the page. It just wants to read your keywords and yes the rest talked about seo as you say is *****. I did read some interesting test results a couple of weeks ago which is why I made the comments, but I'd never find it again.

I see some shop templates and they annoy me as a buyer because the layout is different to a standard ebay page or I can't find a search box. Some templates are badly written, some are fine, some are out of date and look seriously bad. There are dozens of variables which put you on page one, firstly a cheap price when comparing that keyword with competing keywords.
25-02-2015
viccar

I wouldnt bother either, how do you shop on ebay?

I use search, then click on product, maybe if i want something similar i click show sellers other items, i have never shopped on ebay searching by shops, have you?

Seems a waste of time and money, never once have i brought from someone just because they have a nice shop.

I have also heard that cassini doesn't like the extra code.
28-02-2015
we-print

I have a shop and thinking of ditching it for a personal account. For the qty of stuff I'm selling is about the same cost but without a fixed monthly fee

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28-02-2015
GoonerGary

Quote:

Originally Posted by we-print

I have a shop and thinking of ditching it for a personal account. For the qty of stuff I'm selling is about the same cost but without a fixed monthly fee

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You will loose out on your SEO value, having a shop means that your listings are fed into Google shopping and anyone searching on google images or on the organic results will find your product. Having a listing which ends in 10-30 days will not have any long term value.
28-02-2015
we-print

I didn't know that. I didn't give google a thought. I was only thinking about searching on ebay.
So are you also saying only have 7 day listings?
28-02-2015
viccar

I like having a shop, its easy to close it at a minutes notice and hide your listings, i often have to shut up for a day at busy times just to keep up or take some time off.
28-02-2015
GoonerGary

Quote:

Originally Posted by we-print

I didn't know that. I didn't give google a thought. I was only thinking about searching on ebay.
So are you also saying only have 7 day listings?

No, I'm saying that you need to keep your listings in a shop GTC, so that they are permanently there and the url doesn't change. Keeping them as GTC also retains the buying history keeping you high up in ebay searches.
01-03-2015
James990

Also to keep the rating up, if you run out of something, just edit the price to a silly amount, Coralgraph do that all the time, especially when they run out of 11oz mugs etc!
01-03-2015
bigj2552

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoonerGary

Nobody has concrete evidence on anything regarding cassini, but any search engine doesn't want a load of irrelevant content on the page. It just wants to read your keywords and yes the rest talked about seo as you say is *****. I did read some interesting test results a couple of weeks ago which is why I made the comments, but I'd never find it again.

I see some shop templates and they annoy me as a buyer because the layout is different to a standard ebay page or I can't find a search box. Some templates are badly written, some are fine, some are out of date and look seriously bad. There are dozens of variables which put you on page one, firstly a cheap price when comparing that keyword with competing keywords.

wasnt having a go at you gary, and yep some shops are dated to say the least....

tbh, shops now are not really needed, apart from the holiday settings...if you look at omniture on ebay, and check out shop store front visits, that will say it all for ya bud....
most punters use search and very seldom look at sellers full shop front ect...

but it is handy for sorting out your cats, eps if you have lots or products for sale....it can assist buyers

but most of all for the hols settings - when it was busy ( ha, long time ago ) you had to fire on the hols settings to catch up....if you didnt have a shop then, you would be in the **** if you couldn't cope with orders :tongue:
02-03-2015
GoonerGary

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigj2552

tbh, shops now are not really needed, apart from the holiday settings...if you look at omniture on ebay, and check out shop store front visits, that will say it all for ya bud....
most punters use search and very seldom look at sellers full shop front ect...

I mentioned this on another thread, but the shop is more important for google that it is on ebay. The shop feed gets sent to Google Shopping and having a permanent static shop with keywords in the categories are great for the organic results. Using 'disposable' 7 day listings doesn't benefit your Best Match or selling history. In the past when I did ebay seriously, I'd always benefit from multiple purchases from the shop instead of the customer straying off to a competitor in ebay search.