Thank you Jan. Your info is very helpful. One more question... eBid submits our items automatically with the parameters you described above. At one time there was a box to uncheck if we wanted to submit our items to Google ourselves. Do you know if that option is still available? I unchecked the box prior to the new eBid layout because I was going to submit my items myself. Now I'd like eBid to submit my items for me. However, I cannot find the "submit to google" box with the new eBid format. Thanks to anyone who may have an answer for me.
Go into your My Defaults area, you'll find the "eBid to upload my BuyNows to Google Shopping?" As far as I understand, Google made changes concerning online auction sites ie eBid now automatically upload/update our listings within hours of creation/relist. You cannot submit your own any more. ~Jan~
Thanks so much, Jan. You are a wealth of information AND a Sweetheart!
Hi - I'm new to this group. Just wanted to mention that you should be sure to include tags when you post to the Plug Your Auctions thread. I recently found my post on google when I was checking page rank, so it definitely helps, especially now that google search has become so twitchy.
Welcome pugcentric! So glad to have you here. Thanks for your info on tags. Good tip! More about tags: When linking pics from a photo hosting site into your html auction page, include the tags in your photo. Spider Bots crawl on your pages more frequently (adds your pages to Search Engines) if you put tags on your photos. The optimin number of tag words should be between 5 - 7 words. And be sure to use these tag words on your auction page also (descriptions). Thanks again for your excellent tip on tags and Plug your Auctions, pug.
Tags are something I'm really lazy about. If anybody were to wade through my thousands of forum posts they'd find about a dozen with tags, I suspect. Same goes for my photos. It's just one of those areas I've never got into good habits about. I shall be reading the colour sites links today (thanks again for those). On a related subject I enjoyed this that I found some while ago: http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-desi...of-perception/
That's a very good read on design, Kimbo. Planning to read the rest of the pages on design tomorrow. Thanks for the link.
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can anyone tell me a better way to get in contact with ebid, i've sent several emials to their support address, and have heard nothing back the last few days. thanks for any help.
Hi Platinum, Ebid has a contact page where you can submit a support ticket. Per Ebid: "Due to the enormous workload and time gaps involved with dealing with email support, please be warned that if your request is for a query that is already covered within our FAQ pages or Community Forums your ticket will be placed to the back of the queue to allow us to tend to customers that have problems that cannot be sorted out via our FAQ pages." This may be why you haven't received a response as of yet. http://us.ebid.net/help_main.php Ebid is very quick to respond to problems. Ebid FAQ Pages that provides Pages of Information and Video (HTV): http://us.ebid.net/help_main.php Continued...
