Using Blogs to Promote Your eBay Listings

[mandy]

How do you reach potential buyers outside of eBay, including the millions who read "Web 2.0" content like blogs and RSS feeds? You can create a blog and include a text link to one of your sales in your blog post. But eBay sellers know how important it is to include a photo. A simple text link doesn't induce anyone to click and shop.

I noticed that Skip McGrath, author and eBay PowerSeller, uses MyST Blogsite to post miniature eBay sales items alongside his own blog (http://blog.skipmcgrath.com>. "I wasn't getting any traction with my blog on Blogspot," he says. "I never got over 100 visitors a day and rarely made the first page of Google search results. Within two months of launching my Blogsite blog, I was getting four times the traffic. I am regularly indexed on Google in the first couple of pages."...

full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y207...bu0190/s03