Recently, I talked about why it’s important to choose your words wisely when writing item titles, descriptions and tags. I first reviewed some basic vocabulary–terms you need to understand when you think about your listings. Next, I emphasized the value of selecting good keywords and directed you to Google’s keyword tool for assistance in making those selections. I concluded the series with an explanation of the need to (more…)
We often receive this question in Support from new sellers, especially from those who are selling online for the first time. Here’s how to list an item:
As I’ve been discussing, search engines use keywords that they ‘find’ in the text that we write when we title, describe and tag our item listings. They can only find those keywords if we include them in our text. I hope you’ve taken some time to do some keyword research for some of your items and that you’re ready to do some writing. The most important thing to remember about creating SEO friendly text, besides including (more…)
Last week, I defined some important terms that you need to understand when you’re writing titles, descriptions and tags for your items. Search engines use keywords to index web pages so that when you conduct a query, a list of relevant pages are returned in a ranked list. Selecting good keywords and weaving them organically into your text should be your number one consideration when preparing a (more…)
While high quality photographs are probably what actually sell your items, it’s the words that you choose to name, describe and tag your items that get your items found. If your items can’t be found in web searches such as Google, or in Zibbet searches, it doesn’t matter how wonderful your photographs are. So even though a picture may be worth a thousand words, that picture can’t replace a few well chosen (more…)
