How do you drive traffic to your Ecrater store?

zickit · Posts: 21857

This was posted in the wrong forum so it was moved --

zickit · Posts: 21857

It's not ebay illegal to link to your ecrater store IF you do it on yur ebay ME PAGE and you link to YOUR ecrater home page.

Read more about it in the thread pelow on the bottom of page 3 continued to page 4.
http://www.ecrater.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=4&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

just-for-cats · Posts: 4

But do you think many people even read the Me pages? I sell cat products here and on eBay, and my most popular item is a harness called the WalkingJacket. I'm about to list some on eCrater, but I want people to find them. In my eBay store header could I say something like, "our WalkingJackets have moved to a new location" and make the word "moved" link to my Me page where there's a link to eCrater.

Can I have a link to eCrater in my eBay blog entries?

This is so frustrating. Things are selling on eBay but not here, even though shipping is less expensive if people buy on eCrater.

zickit · Posts: 21857

I don't wish to get anyone in trouble with ebay and therefore since I am not 100% sure about links in store headers and blogs - I am not going to suggest anything.

Do you have a link in EVER email to your ecrater store? Put something like Find our lowest prices in OUR store at www.just-for-cats.ecrater.com
Put it on EVERYTHING YOU DO!

Have you sumbitted to search engines?
What about cat lover forums - join and put your link in your signature and post away!

There are tons of advertising ideas in that thread I posted.

poopsheet · Posts: 4865

Or in each eBay listing put something like "For more info on our other items see our About Me page." Link to the page, put the eCrater link on that page and also maybe some actual informational stuff so that it cuts the mustard policy-wise.

just-for-cats · Posts: 4

Thanks for the ideas. My eCrater store's not quite ready for the search engines, but I'm going to submit it tonight anyway.

I ordered some refrigerator magnets with my store address that I'm going to include in every package I mail. They should be here any day -- can't wait to get them!

zickit · Posts: 21857

good idea to submit early --- search engines can take 4-8 weeks to find you!

rhtc · Posts: 9

Hi....

Careful with the ebay linking - they been getting a lot nastier
about pulling peoples ME page for policy violation.

Their policy states: ""The About Me page may not promote outside-of-eBay sales or prohibited items, nor may it contain links to commercial Web sites where goods from multiple sellers are aggregated by a common search engine.""

The policy is here [url]http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-aboutme.html

What I've been doing since I closed my ebay store has been to
direct people to a web page & from there to ecrater, etc.[/url]

just-for-cats · Posts: 4

They certainly are making it tough for us, aren't they. Thanks for the warning.