Link to Your Own Website
If you are selling on eBay there is a good chance that you are also selling on your own website. The majority of my online sales go through eBay right now, even though I’ve had a website up since I started selling online. I’m just starting to get to the finer details of SEO so my website is not found real easily through the SERPs. Chances are you may be in the same boat as well. Why not bypass eBay all together and link directly to the products on your own site through Squidoo.
I started doing this sometime last year with my UFO Extraterrestrials lens and it has worked well for me. Squidoo is the #1 referrer to The Software Castle right after Google. So, even though Google is not picking up my product pages in the dog eat dog world of online sales, it is picking up my Squidoo lenses. I also offer products from other sellers on lenses like this for a couple of reasons:
- I’m not the biggest guy on the block so I understand why customers may not want to purchase from me.
- I may not have the cheapest price on a game.
- If they are not going to purchase the game from me then I may as well earn a commission from the sale.
Do you currently link to the products on your own website? If not, why?
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Tags: drive sales, product linking, Squidoo
August 12th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I’m doing that with my product website but no sales yet. I’m thinking about linking from my blogs to my products on my Squidoo pages. Is that what you meant? I don’t have my own eBay products to sell. Everything I sell is affiliate based. It seems impossible to get sales that way though. People buy directly from the main websites (I think).
I will keep trying and try some different linking back and forth. Still learning.
Thanks!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:24 am
I apologize for any confusion mrsjordanjr, I was referring to linking to products you physically have in hand that a person may sell from a website.
From your blog, you could link directly to a mod where you have a specific product featured, but I’m not sure if that would help you out as far as SEO is concerned.