Low Sales on my ecrater store

goodrock · Posts: 19

I have had my eCrater store online since July of this year and have very low sales on electronics. Have filled out every page, including Terms, About, Contact, Home, and Faq. Have made local categories to best describe my items with keywords being used. Still no sales. Are there any major noticeable problems with the site that could be causing low, to no sales ? Will they pick up ?

SammysSupplies · Posts: 1631

You have on 9 items listed. It will be very hard for you to get noticed. Have you thought about adding more items? Do you go in and tweak things to keep search engines interested?

goodrock · Posts: 19

I am trying to add items, how many items once search engines begin to notice, and does content within pages on my store and descriptions appear to be original in that a good model to follow for best SEO optimization in future items ?

A-Better-Way · Posts: 3297

I think it is more like, say if you went to some store and had 10 aisles, tons of items available, you will most likely walk out at least a pack of gum.

Now you go to a store, it has 9 items in it, I think would be the way to look at it, not so much search engines or ecrater, or other selling sites.

Also the more items you have, a wider range of keywords will attract someone for buying something they found in your store.

Say a stuffed animal (plush toys) they search for, but they see a calculator and buy that instead.

elpereles · Posts: 3405

tigercreekgifts · Posts: 6293

No, it's not how many items you have. I will tell you, you are selling electronics and they can be very hard to sell online for a few reasons. One reason is because they make all these new products and used to be you could guarantee at least 10 years worth of use out of something before the newest version came along but these days, it seems like every few months there's something new. We spend all that money on the latest dvd player then 6 months later it's already outdated so, it's hard to keep up with.

Also, it's hard for people to buy electronics if they can't see them or test them out in person. There are too many scammers out there selling electronic items that don't even work so people are just more nervous about buying electronics from 2nd hand sellers online. What I do is take photos of the items while turned on and in use so they can see that the item does work. If it's something that has to be plugged in or hooked up to something else to work, I'll hook it up and film a video of the item working then upload that video to youtube and put a link to that video in my listing. It won't be a clickable link but you can tell your buyers to copy/paste it.

MoonwishesStore · moderator Posts: 17043

What kind of promoting are you doing? You do understand that at ecrater we are all responsible for promoting and marketing our own stores? and yes 9 items is not even a drop in the bucket of item for sale on the internet. It may take a lot more items to start getting noticed. I know as I added items to my store, I got more and more sales. If you had even one high selling item in new condition and had 500 of them, you might have them flying off the shelf. But you don't, you have older used items. I saw a laser disc movie once. I've never seen another one or the equipment to run it, since then ~20+years? At least 2 of the 9 items in your store are laser discs. They aren't probably going to have a lot of takers unless you can find a forum of people that is devoted to laser discs.

Currently many of us have been experiencing slow sales for the past several months. Part of it due to changes (big ones) at Google. While we can sit back and blame Google, it is much more important to figure out what you can do to get noticed and that is where marketing comes into effect and listing more items.

thecheapskirt · Posts: 2123

You might have better luck selling the bigger items (computer, amp, etc) via Craigslist. Sometimes expensive shipping turns people off, plus selling something locally means they can check it out/power it up first.

goodrock · Posts: 19

Must be the time of the year, but sales are slowly coming in. Perhaps new feed backs will help to start the year out on a good note Exclamation

girlsandglamour · Posts: 1

Does anyone aell used clothing?

maggiethehousecat · Posts: 2401

The OP is no longer in business.

A-Better-Way · Posts: 3297

If you guys see ads that redirect you to a site in which the title don't match up (bogus keyword)

And it is going on a lot against "ecrater".

This is what I got from google

"Thank you for posting our Community forum. If you suspect an Advertiser, Agency or website in violation of the AdWords advertising policies, please use the link below to report them. For your reference, we do proactively look for websites that are in violation of our ad policy but we also will review any sites reported by Advertisers such as yourself.

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/176378?h

Use this for: Ads on Google that you believe might violate our advertising policies.
Best way to reach us: Fill out our ad feedback form.
What we'll do: Look into your comments and, if appropriate, take action on the ad."

I clicked the first topic "adword ads" then feedback
https://support.google.com/adwords/contact/feedback

A checkbox

"Landing page/site where you end up after clicking on the ad"

And I am going to spend some time searching a finding these bogus ads and report every dang one. And they are not hard to find, I seen one in the second page from googles front page.

marzyfashionoutlet · Posts: 29

tigercreekgifts · Posts: 6293

MoonwishesStore · moderator Posts: 17043