eBay Listings - how can I get more traffic?

Just try to use category featured options provided by ebay for your listings. You can also order Homepage Featured Gallery. It will help you to see your listing by lots of people.

Hompage featured is expensive, I need to find some free ways of generating traffic... any suggestions?

If you mean pulling in traffic to eBay from outside of eBay, then I would recommend pulling that traffic to your own site instead. The only point of being on eBay is to benefit from their existing traffic.

But if you just mean optimizing your listing to maximize the amount of eBay's internal traffic that your listing receives, I suggest Googling around for some articles on how to optimize your listing.

put your links on social media platform and try to go viral with them....
If you have some money to spend, you can also buy targeted traffic and send it to your ebay listings (if allowed)

hi jon,
that works everywhere the same - doesn't matter where you try to get traffic to. i have a post with traffic tips here - Traffic Generation Tips With Basic SEO : Living For Mondays
maybe that helps

You need to be exploiting your views to actions ratio.

A lot of people think that 'lowering your price' equals higher turnover, but that just isn't the case.

If you find yourself listing, relisting, and relisting, you're doing something wrong.

You need to know 2 things before you list an item on eBay.

1, the price it WILL sell for - because if you're grossly overpriced from the eBay market worth, than it won't sell.

However, if its fairly priced, then you're great! But now you need to be RANKING higher than the other people.

So, that plays into the second thing you need to know before you list something on eBay - the FORMAT!


When researching, you need to look at those 'smartest kids in class' and replicate their strategy, so you can replicate their result.

Once you do that, then you need to list your items specifically to exploit the views to actions ratio so that you can be perceived as a seller that will CONVERT.

From there, you're rankings will increase, even above the top-rated powersellers.

It's a great technique - far above the 'just go to social media' techniques. It's just not practical.

Heck, Why not go to the news! You'll get a lot of traffic then, but it's just not practical, nor is it necessary when eBay's algorithmic strategies of ranking high are pretty open when it comes to 'how' they want to make money.

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People typically use eBay as a resource to generate more awareness of their own company, products, website, etc. Ideally you could generate a customer base from eBay and move them over to your own website where profits are greater.

I've also seen people post Craigslist ads to promote their auction. This only seems ethical if it is something that is attractive to local buyers. ie. a vehicle, or some kind of local memorabilia.

I was a power seller on eBay a few years back. I've also been selling some things there for the past few months. I was determined to prove or disprove eBay was now a bust because of higher fees and more seller control. I've come to the conclusion that not only is it as good as it ever was, it's better because there are far more free tools available to sellers than ever before. But I digress...

I'm a bit baffled by the question. Here's my take on this. If you're selling the right stuff traffic isn't a problem. Do an eBay search for a popular video game. Notice all the listings. They're all getting roughly the same number of views/hits because the game is popular and potential buyers will look at nearly everything. That's going to happen consistently when you're selling STUFF PEOPLE WANT TO BUY.

I shout because that's the key on eBay. Do a search for buggy whips. You won't find much. There are a couple of vintage whips there and a bunch of unrelated stuff. There is no legitimate way to boost views of stuff people aren't looking for.

One thing I do that many don't is I sell almost everything auction style and start the bidding at $.99. I know that helps a lot because buyers looking for that item know they have a chance of scoring a great deal if the item doesn't get bid up very high. Starting low just about guarantees you're going to get views if the item is popular. And... I know it's unlikely I'm going to lose on the auction because I only list STUFF PEOPLE WANT TO BUY, ensuring the item sells, sometimes for more than I would have been able to get with a "Buy It Now" listing.

There's a certain psychology that takes over almost forcing early bidders to go beyond what would otherwise be a reasonable price when they've been involved in the bidding since the beginning.

Good luck.

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