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This post is going to be slightly different to my normal posts, in fact what I’ll be doing here I have never done before……more on that in a moment.

I sell information products, both on eBay and from my websites and I have recently found a jewel that I just have to bring to your attention, especially if you also sell (or are thinking of selling) information products.

Whether you are an established eBook writer or a newbie with an idea to create an eBook something you are going to need are

eBook Graphics

I personally have only ever used Planet Divinity, No that is NOT an affiliate link, my earning money is not the point of this post….

I could go on and tell you about the Cheap Prices, the Quality of Work Produced or the Speed at which it is delivered, but that’s not the point of this post….

I could go on even further and tell you that Planet Divinity ask a series of simple questions and from your answer they will produce a first class cover, but that’s not the point of this post either….

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Today I would like to cover keywords and keyword spamming. Keywords are used all over the internet to increase search results, but today I would like to concentrate on eBay.

As you know the use of keywords plays a large part in being a successful seller on eBay. By placing the relevant keywords in your titles and descriptions your items have a much better chance of being discovered in the search results.

More views = more sales.

Because keywords play such an important part of our listings and their success some people are keyword spamming to try and increase their sales. This is a major No No on eBay and, when caught out, will get your listings removed.

So what is keyword spamming?

Basically keyword spamming is when people enter keywords into their titles and descriptions that have nothing to do with their product but could influence the search results.

For example:

Some people selling non branded goods try adding a few brand names to their listings so as to get the item found in more search results, remember More views = more sales.

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We are all aware that eBay are forever changing things on their site.

Over recent years the changes to their feedback system and policies have seen some sellers throw the towel in and give up.

Some of those changers were:

• Restricting the sale of digital download items, music, eBooks, images etc as they believed these sales could lead to feedback manipulation.

• Removing the ability of a seller to leave Negative feedback for a buyer. Which for many sellers was their protection from buyers being over excited and leaving negative feedback. Or if negative feedback was left some buyers would use threats of returning the negative feedback unless the buyer removed it from seller.

• Adding the DSR (Detailed Seller Rating) feature, where a buyer will rate the seller on 4 key areas: Item description, Communication, Dispatch Time and P&P charges. Scoring from one to five, with five being Top Marks. The sellers DSR is then calculated and their fixed price listings are then placed on the eBay pages according to how good their DSR is. Which basically means if you have a good DSR your items will be well placed, but if you have a poor DSR your listings will be lower in the listings.

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In the last video we dealt with uploading your website and testing that everything worked as it should do. If you suffered any problems or are stuck in any way please let me know and I’ll help you through it.

If on the other hand you have completed the uploading process then Congratulations you are now online and ready to go, pat yourself on the back: You’ve got your website online for the world to see….

…..Now that your website is online and ready to make sales we need to start generating traffic to it.

Now, I’m not an expert in traffic generation but I know a man that is. As I said in the last video, I have had to get special permission to create this video as I’m showing you the members only area of Total Web Traffic.

Before we get to the video I would like to thank Dave Nicholson for allowing me to create the video and for making a special offer available to my readers, more on that below the video.

As a result of the world wide recession many people have turned to eBay to try and make money from home. Some have found success and some have found that it can be very frustrating to list items over and over on eBay without making sales. Most of us have been there and many of us have, at some point, found the eBay fees catch up and sometimes overtake our profit, which only adds to the squeeze being put on our finances.

Many people have then become disheartened and have left eBay without trying to research their market. There are various ways of researching your market on eBay to help you find items that are selling successfully. But what if I told that there is an area of eBay where people are actually queuing up for items, and telling us what those desired items are?

Want it now: Is an area of eBay where people who cannot find what they are looking for, or cannot be bothered to look, list details of the items that they want to buy. There are literally thousands of listings there but what you are looking for in this area is either high value items or repeated listings. Repeated listings mean that many people are looking for the same items. If you can source those items you will obviously make lots of sales, and if you can find them at the right price your profit will increase dramatically.

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Have you ever wondered why it is that some people make really good money on eBay when you can not make regular sales yourself? Frustrated and banging your head against the wall trying to figure it out? If so keep reading and i will try to explain the (not so) secret to their success.

There are all sorts of people that list all sorts of items for sale on eBay. There are those that list successfully and those that list items unsuccessfully.

There could be a number of reasons for unsuccessful listings:

• Poor sales title
• High postage charges
• Poor quality, or no photo of the item
• Poor sales letter
• Silly terms and conditions of sale
• No Returns policy
• Poor feedback
• Listings ending at the wrong time

Or it could simply be the item is not in demand. If you list the same items over and over again without the success you long for, try doing an advanced search of completed listings and see if that item is actually selling. If they are not selling then why bother to list them? Why not move onto items that are in demand?

When I write about eBay it is normally with the business seller in mind and I offer advice on how to improve listings, titles, pictures and of course sales. I also try to bring my readers all the current Business Seller news and tips etc.

Today however I have a little strategy that I hope will help everyone save some money on their next purchase on eBay, and indeed every purchase there after.

As you know, when you look for an item to buy on eBay you enter a couple of keywords, relating to the item, into the search box and then make your way through the listings.

Next time you are looking to make a purchase on eBay try this:

Click on the Advanced Search link, beside the main search button. On the next page enter a couple of keywords, relating to your desired item, into the search box and add NR for No Reserve.

Scroll down the page a little and you will see Search Including and a check box for Title and description, click in the box to reveal a tick.

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I wrote a blog post last August about eBay changing the policies over postage of items within the media categories, (books, comics, magazines, DVD’s, Music etc). eBay felt that the postage prices were putting people off of making purchases and stopped sellers charging postage in all media categories.

I’m very pleased to be able to tell you that eBay have now changed their minds and have returned to the previous policy. You can now charge postage again, however it is set to a maximum limit to stop excessive postal charges.

Although if you continue to list your Fixed Price items with free P&P they will appear higher in the search results.

Further Changes, Coming Next Month:

Items listed as GTC, (Good Till Cancelled) that haven’t sold in 16 months will automatically end as from April. If this affects you I suggest that you have a good look at what it is you’re selling or how you’re trying to sell your items as 16 months without a sale shows that something is going wrong.

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In my last blog post I told you about my aims for 2010; to create more products in a brand new niche and to create a video series to show newbie’s exactly what they need to do when they purchase their first website.

I have since had a date through for my operation, 02/02/10, which is my wife’s birthday and the first birthday of this blog. I have been told that I will have to stay in hospital for at least 2 weeks, if all goes well. Which means I may be in hospital for longer if the operation does NOT go well, grrr.

As a result of this I have decided that the brand new niche idea will have to wait until I’m discharged from hospital as I don’t want to be stopping and starting with my research. I think it would be better to complete the challenge in one flow.

So, what about the video series that I’ve spoke of…..

Let me introduce you to:
‘The Newbie’s Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website’ in which I intend to take you from the point of purchase to the point of uploading the completed website.

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A personal update first:
As my regular readers will know I’ve been fairly quiet lately because my mum suffered a bleed to her brain and has been in hospital for the last 10 weeks. Her life is no longer in danger but her mental state is now very concerning. I’m spending as much time with her as possible to try and bring her back to current affairs.

As she is now in our local hospital I’ve got a couple of hours spare each day and am trying to catch up with everything, it’s slow going but the beauty of internet marketing is that if you do what you can when you can you will   progress.

Onto the blog post:
I’ve created a couple of brandable ebooks and have made them available to my subscribers, free of charge of course.

A brandable ebook is an ebook that allows people to brand it with their own details. Some allow websites to be inserted and some allow people to add their ClickBank ID’s. The reason for this is that the ebooks, (once branded) allow you to earn a commission forever more. The two that I’ve recently created allow you to enter your ClickBank ID and earn 50% commission from all sales, generated from your link, of my main product:
Ease The Squeeze With Auctions.