04-30-2007, 07:19 AM
From ChannelAdvisor Scot Wingo's blog:
full article: http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_str...ng_re.html
from rksmythe's blog:
full article: http://rksmythe.blogspot.com/2007/04/wha...sting.html
Quote:Sellers are reporting that eBay either has some unusual bugginess or they are doing some A/B testing on store discoverability...
For the last two weeks, sellers have been speculating something is coming because this page changed.
Under the ÂPromote Your Store section, it used to offer more exposure to higher-end stores and now as you can see, there is no increased exposure on eBay.
Then I started to get reports that sellers store traffic was dropping. Then sellers started to notice that the ÂShop eBay Stores box was not showing up on some SERPs (I unfortunately donÂt have a screen shot of this). Still others have reported that instead of sponsored listings showing up on null search results they have replaced store discoverability (I have not seen that or a screen shot of it)...
Finally, a seller yesterday was able to get a screen shot that showed an interesting twist. eBay had replaced the store discoverability with eBay Express listings...
full article: http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_str...ng_re.html
from rksmythe's blog:
Quote:A friend of mine suggested I search on the word "twine" and see if I came up with the same result as she did. The screen capture above is the result I received. It may be difficult to read but this result showed more than 30 CORE items (in fact there were over 200 items in CORE )and then directly below the Core listings on the first page of search were Express listings. No store listings were to be found. It was indeed a test because I asked some other sellers across the country to do the same search and they received normal results.
Now, what are we to make of this test? It appears that eBay wants to determine the most productive method for displaying Express items in eBay.com search and this was one attempt. I would imagine this approach would not go over well with either Core Sellers or Store Sellers...
full article: http://rksmythe.blogspot.com/2007/04/wha...sting.html