Anyone have ideas on how to drive more traffic to my ebay store?

I sell laptops and laptop parts on ebay. I am looking for ideas on how to drive more traffic to my store. If anyone out there has any ideas I would love to hear them. Thank you.

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One way is by doing a press release. Below are suggested PR web sites

PR Directories
http://www.press-release-writing.com/
http://www.brandrepublic.com/directories/
http://www.prweekblackbook.com/
http://www.online-pr.com/markpr.htm
http://www.netpreneur.org/Resources/prservices.html

PR Announcements
http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/index.html
http://express-press-release.com/
http://www.theopenpress.com/index.php?a=index
http://www.publicityinsider.com/PRlinks.asp
http://www.free-press-release.com/
http://www.prleap.com/
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/News_and_Media/News_Services/Press_Releases/
http://www.prfree.com/
http://www.pr.com/press-releases
http://i-newswire.com/
http://www.freepress.net/press/release.php?id=73

There are two easy ways to get your link on other sites that you should be using.

#1. Find sites that you want to get links from and then custom write articles for each site and send them to the editors. Include your link in the "credits" at the bottom of the article, of course.

Make the articles interesting and useful to the readers of the sites and you can be sure that most of your articles will get published.

Take some of the articles you have already written and customize them for a niche. It's easier than you think and it does get results.

#2. The second way to get articles (with links) published is to submit the articles to sites that accept articles for distribution.

http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.articleblast.com/
http://www.valuablecontent.com/

Answer peoples questions about their laptops, and laptop parts on forums, Yahoo Answers, and other websites.

Always include a link to your ebay store in your signature line or resource.

Start and maintain a blog, giving advice on laptops, and laptop repair, with links to your ebay site, also list this site in your answers to the first step above.

By creating links to your sites through these methods, and by helping other people, you will drive more traffic to your store.

By the way? What was the address of that Ebay Store?

It is very important to promote one's website by first publishing one's domain named website on these major search directories. For example, to publish your website's domain name for FREE at Google's search directory, visit "http://google.com/addurl/?continue=/add... and fill-in the form. In another way, Google, Yahoo or MSN provide a Yellow Pages kind of advertisement for every website according to a set of ranking protocols. And there's where web designers and search engine optimizers play an critical role in marketing websites which in turn, display goods and services to be discovered [via search directories] by the rest of the world. The greater the appearance or presence that one's website can generate on search directories, the greater number of customers will accordingly visitor one's website.

As for the cost to market one's website via the Internet and more particularly -- search directories, will depend initially with the proper design of webpages and the proper placement of metatags which are: <Title>, <Description> and <Keywords>.

A searchable <Title> would be "[name of the goods/services - a generic domain name is okay unless you own a well-know brand], [city], [state - postal abbreviation]" -- up to 65 characters and spaces. The <Description> would be up to 20 words comprising a complete readable sentence which promotes interest in your business, i.e., "We sell quality _____ at a reasonable price, etc." And <keywords> would consist of 12-15 compound plural words separated by commas, i.e., "cars, planes, transportation, etc."

In conclusion, webpages can either be rather straightforward using only HTML text or be crafted totally as a graphic Flash configuration. Either way, care should be taken to complete the Properties entries for Title, Description and Keywords so that there is something that search robots can index. The more one is educated in crafting effective webpages along with metatag placement, the less will be spent to hire third-party consultants to assist you in this matter.

To demonstrate how search engines/directories work, go to Yahoo.com and type in the following search query: "pizza downtown los angeles." [Note: do not include the quotes (").] Again, this is a very generic query which means you want to order a "pizza" from "downtown" and in what city -- "Los Angeles." Sounds fairly simple and then hit Enter. In a moment or two, there will appear some 1.3 million search results and among the top Five rankings will be a business called "Pizza Next Door, etc." The significance of this demonstration is to illustrate that most Interest shoppers will discover "Pizza Next Door," forthright because of its high web presence and ranking within the Top Five. So these shoppers are more or less likely to patronize this pizza establishment and hopefully in the long term; validate the owner and his family as having a profitable Internet enterprise.

To further illustrate how one can achieve a TOP 10 page ranking on Google.com, type in the following search query: "ecommerce tutorials seo." [Note: do not include the quotes (").] Again, this is a very generic query. Then hit Enter. In a moment or two, there will appear some 1.44 million search results and among the TOP 10 rankings will be a website called "Welcome to Downtown Los Angeles."

Good luck!

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