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Service that helps sell more on Ebay

I remember a while back there was a service you could use with a monthly fee which would tell exactly what pictures and keywords to use, how to word your title, what description to have etc to maximise the selling potential of your listings. It seemed to have a lot of positive reviews. Does any one know of such services?

Thank you

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  • soolin
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    I've moved this across to the eBay board for better responses.

    If you move over to the seller hub on eBay there's quite a lot of info there that analyses your business and suggests tweaks and marketing . I don't know if that also applies to private sellerss well but your question implies this is for a business.
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  • RFW
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    If you look at Tamebay there are lists of resources on there. A lot of the big selling assistant companies offer those services.

    The problem with a lot of the third party add ons is that they struggle to keep up. Ebay are more bothered about negative keywords than positive ones as far as I know. If you cram your listing with lots of words to get views then you're more likely to be pushed down the search and not up. Similarly on titles.

    It depends what you're selling but traffic begets traffic so the more people you can get to look at listings linked from social media the better you will be. Again, this used to be the reverse if they weren't buying but now seems to help.

    I get a fair amount of SEO sellers offering their services, giving a spiel that is 18 months out of date.
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  • Marcon
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    I remember a while back there was a service you could use with a monthly fee which would tell exactly what pictures and keywords to use, how to word your title, what description to have etc to maximise the selling potential of your listings. It seemed to have a lot of positive reviews. Does any one know of such services?

    Thank you

    Don't forget that a lot of positive reviews often turn out to be fake reviews...
    Googling on your question might have been both quicker and easier, if you're only after simple facts rather than opinions!  
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,972 Forumite
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    Positive = SPAM Negative = SPAM from competing companies?

    Re the keywords, probably explains why items that match my search drop off when i try and narrow the field a little. The perfect item fell of the search results because i added -spam word.
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

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