Settle a debate involving "Keyword Spamming" on Ebay auctions!

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

I haven't delved to deeply into it, but in addition to being against policy, supposedly keyword spamming actually works against your search ranking on eBay. Something to the effect of the more impressions your item gets without a click-thorough or sale, the lower it sinks in Best Match search ranking. eBay tends to promote listings that have a higher likelihood of selling, and bury (or not show at all) stale listings that have lots of views but no turnover.

You're correct that many views without a sale will hurt your search ranking, works the same with watchers as well.

Seller promote their own listings. Just in case anyone doesn't know, sellers bid a percentage to have their listings towards the top of searches. I promote all my listings at 1% and the extra views help make more sales.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Jim65

You're correct that many views without a sale will hurt your search ranking, works the same with watchers as well.

Seller promote their own listings. Just in case anyone doesn't know, sellers bid a percentage to have their listings towards the top of searches. I promote all my listings at 1% and the extra views help make more sales.

I used to do 1% as well, but I was paying extra money and got zero results. If someone outbids you and offers up a bigger percentage, yours doesn't get any exposure and you still have to pay the extra fee for nothing. Not worth it IMHO.

[rsdill2]

EBay keyword spamming bothers the heck out of me. And what bothers me even more is that ebay doesn't do a darn thing about it. Look at this clown. He's been clogging up my saved searches for months with erroneous years and card numbers in the title that are obviously not the item for sale. I've reported his listings no less than a dozen times for keyword spamming and yet it continues.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fsr...sasl=mintsquad

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

I used to do 1% as well, but I was paying extra money and got zero results. If someone outbids you and offers up a bigger percentage, yours doesn't get any exposure and you still have to pay the extra fee for nothing. Not worth it IMHO.

You only pay the extra if the item sells through the promoted listing. You still have the regular listing as well, if item sells that way, you don't pay the extra. If you paid the extra then your item sold though the promote listing.

If you promote and someones bid is higher, theirs just shows up more times than yours for example, theirs comes up 3 out of every 10 searches and yours shows up 1 out of every 10 searches, etc. Your listing does not go to zero exposure.

My 1% bids increased my sales at least 10%.

[bobbyw8469]

Looks like common sense wins. Someone should tag that SGC Facebook group with the results!

[BRoberts]

Great job Bobby!!!!