Top of the mornin'
Let's see..
I have 5+ ecrater stores. Love em and I sell from them, too. I have several of my own domain(s) purchased and have the URL to forward over to the stores. Google/Froogle pick those up and are Search Engine Optimized. Strong keywords and meta tags also draw customers in. Plus, with my emails, I do have links back to my URLs. Alot of my customers will buy directly from my outside of eBay as I can offer them coupons, buy five get two free, etc deals.
I have an MSN Spaces..that shows up high in the rankings due to MSN being an SEO. On that I have lists of sellers I trust, my blog, my own list of shops and items for sale. Most persons that see that choose the link to buy from my eBay store rather than my ecraters. Don't know why, but a sale is a sale.
Yahoo 360. I loved having that site, it was great for getting me into SEO. But I don't have it any longer but I do have my free pages with geocities/Yahoo which keep me high in the Yahoo SEO.
I'm in Google Base and have GBuy Google checkout..so we'll see how that goes, too. That's new.
I can't tell you honestly which one does the best because it's a collaborative effort on my part to keep them all strong and indexed into the search engines.
I belong to Bidville (which just got purchased by UBid), Overstock, Yahoo, Blujay and more. I do make sales from these venues when I have items up. Wait, scratch that..I don't make that many sales on Overstock or Yahoo..but next time Overstock has a sale I'm going for it. On my list of things to do is get a cvs file of my eBay auctions and upload it to Bidville and Yahoo this week.
It's all too crazy, isn't it?
It's hard because what works for one person, doesn't for another. The forwarding of a keyword strong and meta tag strong purchased domain name...even if it's back to your ebay for right now works quite well to bring sales.
My Best,
Donna
