I’m still confusing myself a little on the Keyword issue with mis-spellings.

Does the mis-spell have to “literaly” be on the product page,to be included in the keyword list? I have several words that are consistantly mis-spelled and I will use them on article pages but would rather not use them on the product pages as I think it gives a bad impression.

Finaly finished writing out my main and sub cats last night, a couple more mods to the site ( rss,bookmarking, trackback and a custom ebay link) and then I can build the pages, make the site map and launch this puppy.

This really is fun : )

Thanks,
JohnT

I try to stay as specific as possible for each individual page, that does however include some mis-spellings if they are appropriate!

For instance, if the page is about “Charcoal Barbeque Grills”, the page specific keywords may include barbeque,bbq,barbecue,barbeqe, etc.

I do try not to have any mis-spellings in the viewable category tree… but you never know, if it is mis-spelled 150 times each day, I might! :-)

Mark

When filling in the the keyword list do you only use the words/phrases that are actually used on “that” specific page ? or can you slide some misspellings in as well ?

and is the rss feed onto the home page worthwhile ?

Thanks
JohnT

Honestly, there is really no set number on the categories, it is more dictated by researching the niche itself. I have a site or two with 10-20 main categories, each with 10-15 subcategories, or product pages, and I have others with NO main categories, just 15-20 main category/product pages.

The research is the key… if you find your niche is broad enough to support MANY main level categories, add them and complete the structure with several sub/product pages within.

Mark

During the creation of the subcategories, just choose your parent category in the “Page Information” section at the bottom.

Mark

I have created the top-level categories for my niche and populated them. I am ready to move on to creating sub-categories to drill further into the niche, but whenever I create new pages, they are inserted into the top level of the store.

How can I create a new page that is a subcatergory of one of my top-level cagegories?

As you know, CJ is not the easiest to get good metrics. When possible, I generally try to use 1 CJ banner on each site in addition to the ebay listings. This gives me a more precise way to see how many times the ads / eBay listings are being displayed (impressions) and reflected in CJ.

In October – There was a total of 34,145 “impressions”, of those, there was 5022 clicks to eBay (approx 14%) and 126 completed transactions. (2.5%)

The Grill Auctions site, which has been up a very short period of time has already had 2-3 sales in CJ and just over 10 Adsense clicks. Not much… but when you consider the site is still less than 30 days old and only patially indexed, it makes a big difference 30-45 days from now!

Thanks,

Mark

How many clicks are you getting from the site as a percentage? How many buy?

Thanks for the nice comment… :-)

In regard to renaming the default categories from eBay, the main reason to do so is in the efforts to capture search visitors. eBays default categories are spread in thousands of places on the internet by folks like us, trying to gain some affiliate revenue. By renaming the categories to the most popular, least competitive phrases, you are setting your site apart from all those others.

Just like a store… if there are thousands with “Nuts and Bolts”, and all are the same, chances are you would just choose the one closest to you when you need one, no matter what size the nut and bolt is. If however, one of them was named “Extremely difficult, hard to get, one specific size Nuts and bolts” you are more likely to go there when you have a need for a specific one.