EBay Offers Blogging Tool
I must admit that it has been a while since I listed items for sale on eBay recently but a need to de-clutter a room in the house led to some recent frantic listing.
So I was interested to discover that eBay now has a newish tool for it’s sellers, a Blogging Service where sellers can create and post to their own blog on eBays own site. The blog service can be found at http://blogs.ebay.com or the uk version at http://blogs.ebay.co.uk.
Seems a great idea as it provides serious sellers another vehicle to shout about their products and to offer advice and information in finer detail and best of all its free. EBay has this to say about their blogs:
‘An eBay Blog (web log) gives you an online publishing tool to share your opinions with the rest of the eBay Community. Blogs can be used for a variety of purposes: to enhance an eBay Shop, share personal experiences or talk about collectables you like to buy on eBay. What you write on your eBay Blog is up to you because it’s all about you.’
If you do have an eBay Shop or a particular niche that you are passionate and knowledgeable about then an eBay blog could be just the mouthpiece that you were looking for.
The set up and operation of eBay blogs seems very similar to all blogging platforms, in that you can create, name, title, post, edit, customise and alter personal information.
On initial impressions, advertising your eBay blog to fellow eBayers seems confusing. It is difficult to find information on the linking strategy covering your eBay blog. EBay has always been very strict about banning any external links from auction item listing pages. As far as I can see, you cannot link to your eBay blog from a listing page and my guess is that you can only link to your blog from your own ‘AboutMe’ page.
I’m not sure how popular eBay blogs are in the eBay selling community but as I stated earlier, if your serious about an eBay niche or sell collectibles to a close knit or specialised group of buyers, then an eBay blog is another attractive weapon in the sellers arsenal.
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