These days it seems like you can't turn around without bumping into someone selling a book on "How To Do eBay".  It's no wonder, with eBay's massive customer base, it just makes good sense to market your goods and services via the online auction giant. I'll offer my eBay tips here in a series I'll call "Auctionwally's eBay Secrets".  I don't have a How to do eBay Book,...yet, but my advice comes from ten years of selling on eBay, so take it or leave it, but rest assured, anything I offer here, I've tried and used.

 I'll try to keep it to uncommon content which I feel the average eBay user might not know.


Wouldn't it be great if you could link to your website or blog right from your eBay auctions? You can.

 Many people are under the incorrect assumption that you can't link to your website from eBay and that's not true. Ebay DOES allow you to link from your eBay auction to another site provided that the page on that site's purpose is to provide relevant information about the product on eBay which you have linked from. For example, if your selling a collection of "widgets" on eBay and you link to a page on your blog that explains how to care for or collect these widgets, it's allowed by eBay. What you can't do however, is try to entice the reader to make a purchase off of eBay. Still, there is an obvious benefit from having eBay traffic come to your blog and having your blog traffic check out your eBay auctions.
 This type of linking will increase your website traffic dramatically in proportion to the popularity of your eBay auctions, and it will introduce a new bidding pool from your website to your eBay auctions, provided of course your site has traffic. Make sure to have a  clear link on the page to get back to your eBay auctions.
 There you go. You work hard enough on your eBay auctions, now start having them do extra work for you!

If you have  tips or any advice for eBay users, please  email me at wkolenda@gmail.com
If you have a website or blgo please include a link to it with your tips, if I use your tip in a future article I'll post the link and credit you.

Thanks for reading,

AW