It's been 10 days since I listed my 3 text links on ebay and the auctions have now ended and the results have been rather disappointing. I'm not sure what I really expected to be honest, but I sold 2 of the links for £0.01 each, leaving one unsold. It didn't bring much in the way of traffic either only resulting in 6 referrals from ebay in the whole 10 days. Not exactly a rouring success and seeing as it cost me £0.45 to list the links, I actually made a loss. At the end of the day though it was an experiment and it failed, some of the factors that may have had an effect are, poorly written listings, blog not receiving enough traffic and blog having no pagerank. It might be worth trying this again if this blog ever really takes off and I start getting a lot of traffic and pagerank.
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Tags: ebay, auction, experiment, traffic, money, bid
5 comments:
If we don't try different things then we probably won't get anywhere. I wouldn't be too disappointed if I was you. Some ideas might not work, as hoped, but it only takes a couple that do and 'who knows'....
Good luck with your next idea.
Mike.
Hi martin,
try blogmad for trafficking (url: http://www.blogmad.net). It gives very good trafficking for me...give me a feed back if u try it...
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Thank You for renting to me this week.
Sometimes listing on Ebay can be a bit flaky - I don't know of many people who look on Ebay for link buying.
Maybe a different avenue to take is a free online classified like craigslist.org or something as popular in the UK.
I would also recommend getting your name out there - visit other sites that are on a similar quest to making money online and chat about what's happening on their site in their comments. People will visit you because of what you have to say and you'll get backlinks.
... my 2 cents :)
Good luck!
i liked the idea so i used it
i sold a 7 day text link ad for 50 cents. Of course after paypal fees and the cost of posting it on ebay, i get like 14 cents.
I guess it wouldn't be worth it to list unless its worth a lot.
Maybe a year for 50? I dunno.
http://ffnstuff.blogspot.com/
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