I was hoping to get this post written at the start of last week but my mum’s health has deteriorated so I’ve been by her side every day. She has now been admitted to hospital again, which has given my the mornings to catch up with some work.

That’s one of the beauties of Internet Marketing, it allows us to take time out when life’s hurdles present themselves.

Onto The Blog Post:

Now that Christmas and the new year festivities are over it’s time to crack on with making plans for what we wish to achieve this year. If you haven’t created a plan yet maybe seeing mine will help you get one started.

Personally I’ve never made any plans for my Internet Marketing and have just done what I knew needed doing, but over the past year or so I’ve come to realise how important it is to have a plan to work from. So between Christmas and new year I sat and got my ideas written out on paper and got them into some sort of order so as to map out my plan for 2011. I then transferred my plan to my new whiteboard, a Christmas gift from my daughter, and placed the whiteboard beside my desk so that it is in my face every day.

During the course of the year I have written a few posts regarding eBay and each time I do some of my readers state that they’re yet to get onto eBay although it is on their to do list.

With this in mind I thought that I would bring a free ebook to your attention. The eBook is called Newbies Auction Profits and was written by my online friend John “Ed” Edwards who also wrote Skincare Profits Auction Goldmine. As I said Newbies Auction Profits is totally free of charge and can be downloaded from this post.

I have read the eBook and can tell you that it is 19 pages long and is full of good solid info without all the fluff that many people include to bulk out their products. Ed has included illustrations to make it easy for you to follow his guidance, with examples of everything he tells you.

As it is only 19 pages long I urge you to download it, print it out and read it during the new years holiday. Then when you’re ready to start the new year you’ll be armed with a plan of action for starting your eBay careers.

In my last blog post I told you about Goofbay and my favourite search methods that Goofbay offer: Misspelling and Not in Title searches. While these are great for finding bargains, either for your personal use or to resell on eBay, it struck me that if some people found their own listings it would be very disheartening for them.

This got me thinking about those people with listings that receive a low amount of bids, if any at all, and how they could improve the quality of those listings. I have previously written posts offering advice in this area, but an eBook that I had read, on this very subject, came to mind.

The eBook is called Magic Auction Words and was written by Randy Smith. Anyone that knows of Randy will know that he is one of the leaders in writing sales copy, with his skills and services being called upon by people such as John Thornhill, Dave Nicholson and Lee McIntyre, to name just a few.

It seems like ages since I’ve posted anything regarding eBay, but with Christmas only 40 days away this couldn’t have come at a better time.

Whether you’re an eBay buyer, eBay seller, have an eBay business or have never been on eBay before you really should check out the new look Goofbay.

Goofbay is a website dedicated to helping people get results on eBay and it’s totally FREE of charge

Listed below are some of the features you’ll find available to you and I highly recommend that you pop over and check it out. As I said, Christmas is around the corner and we can all use a little savings right now.

eBay Sniper: A fantastic tool for making purchases in your absence. You basically tell the sniper the item number and how much your maximum bid is and they will place the bid for you in the closing seconds of the auction. The real beauty of the sniper is that it will only enter the amount needed to win the auction regardless of your maximum amount. Say for example the item is at £55 and your maximum amount is £100, if £60 wins the auction then that is what you’ll pay, saving you £40 and time spent on the PC.

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A quick catch up:

I’m sorry for my recent absence and lack of blog posts this month, but as my regular readers know I had to go into hospital for an operation at the end of August and have been in bed recovering since then. The operation and recovery both went well, however I’m still in a lot of pain so whether the operation was a success or not is still unsure.

I’d like to say a huge “Thank You” to everyone that has left comments, sent tweets and emails with your well wishes. They really have meant a lot to me and have helped lift my spirits every time I’ve received them, thank you.

Onto the blog post:

The Newbies Guide Part 11: Adding Products With Resale Rights To Your Website. Including: A Gift, A Guide and A Video

We’ve all come across products with Resale Rights and a few people have got in touch asking me how to add them to their websites, so I thought I’d put this video together to show you exactly how easy it is to do.

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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.