Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

Professional eBay design is an investment, and should not be taken up on this level by smaller sellers. Don’t make the mistake of investing in eBay design before your eBay business is even off the ground. You don’t need professional ebay design to start up an ebay business.
The listing design (ebay item template) is very [...]

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Redundancy just before Christmas is not pleasant as the job market is not at its best, specially if you have had no warning.
As well as training to be an eBay education specialist I have secured consultancy and web development in the last few weeks of December to take me though to January.
In pure on-line entrepreneurial [...]

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Colour symbolism and psychology refer to the use of colour as a symbol or emotional effect throughout cultures, religions, art and nature. We can also use that psychology to choose a colour scheme for web or eBay design using its effect on customer behaviour and feeling.
Grey – Grey is often used as a subtle [...]

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Well the conclusion was that the URL with /ebaydesign did a lot better than the rest! It is hard to quality such results, but the url /ebaydesign/ was constantly higher in the rankings with 60 hits over the period 18th June to 18th July compared to the other formats /ebay-design/ at 28 hits and /ebay_design/ [...]

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eBay design may improve your appearance and branding on eBay but how can a better design ‘actually’ yield more sales?
Sell it smart says ‘Increase you sales volume through cross-selling and through a user friendly and seamless navigation’
and Frooition says ‘We dedicate a lot of time to development and because of this our eBay Shops and [...]

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Well as I have already added far to may tags to the ebay design pages I will see how optimised we can get for eBay Design in the main European languages!
French: conception ebay
Dutch: ebay ontwerp
Italian: disegno ebay
Spanish: diseño ebay
According to altavista, the german translation of ebay design is the same so we shall use ebay [...]

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Remember this post? Search Engine Friendly URLs Dashes or underscores? well…. it is quite hard to determin the ranking of said URLs, but lets just say for one this if you search for “ebaydesign” the url kidsontalks.com/ebaydesign/ turns up 5th.
Comparing the traffic for each URL:
First is http://kidsontalks.com/ebay_design/
Second is http://kidsontalks.com/ebaydesign/
Third is http://kidsontalks.com/ebay-design/
For their respective keywords /ebaydesign/ [...]

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OK, I had to answer my own question!
Using the SEO Book again (I think I might have to add these guys to my blogroll) the closest keywords/phrases that would fit a company selling ebay design are:
make money on ebay - 22,614 apm
ebay business - 27,090 apm
*apm = average search volume per month
and in order to [...]

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Just reading an article about the link building mindset.
It lists 13 valuable points about the mindset to start a link building campaign:
1. Know your marketplace
2. Obsess about your customers
3. Understand the language that your customers use - this was a big one for when i decided to use cybergoth as a keyword for Hairfreax, and [...]

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Using other high ranked sites is great to get you a glimpse of the top rankings. I set up an ‘ebay blog’ at blogs.ebay.co.uk/efreax called ‘eBay design’ with one ebay design related post. After 3 weeks the blog is 53rd on google.com for the keyword ebay design and 66th on google.co.uk.
Go me, so why [...]

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