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Looking to buy a starter electric guitar for my nephew I searched for “guitar” on eBay. eBay brought back 77,853 auctions with guitar in the title!

That was rather a lot to scroll through, so I thought to myself, “I wonder if I can be devious here?”.

I changed my search to “gutar”, deliberately omitting the letter i.

That search brought back 9 items. One of these was a Yamaha guitar with practice amp. Ideal for what I needed.

This is an important lesson for eBay buyers and sellers.

If you’re buying, remember that sellers can make spelling errors in their auction titles. If you’re looking for an item, remember to try misspelled versions of your search words. You might just uncover a real bargain!

Here’s an excellent online tool you can use to instantly find those misspelled bargains:

http://www.bargainchecker.com/

Incidentally, if you’re selling on eBay, you’d better make sure your auction title is spelled correctly. If you don’t, you may find you have to sell your item for a much lower price than you expected!

Did you know when you sell on eBay, you can also get traffic to your eBay auctions from Google.

I use, and am an affiliate for a product called Build A Niche Store (BANS). In summary, BANS enables you to instantly create an online store comprised of live eBay auctions from any category you select. You can place these niche stores within existing websites or blogs. Or you can use a niche store as the basis of a new website or blog.

Anyway, back to Google traffic.

I currently run this Classified Ad format auction on eBay for BANS.

In creating the title for this auction, I considered carefully the type of words which potential users of this system were likely to use in their searches. The auction title I wound up with is:

MAKE MONEY eBay affiliate store on YOUR website / blog

This is showing reasonable eBay traffic. But what I also know is that I am getting additional traffic from Google. This is because the keywords in my title earn me good positions in Google search returns. Try keying this into Google search, and you’ll see what I mean:

make money ebay affiliate store

Last time I checked, my auction was in 3 rd position on Google for that search term.

Incidentally, if you scroll down the Google results page, you’ll find my auction also appears in position 6 too. If you click over to eBay you’ll see this is a search results screen which eBay has created on the fly for MY Google query.

So, whilst many internet marketers spend time and money in trying to get listed high in Google search returns, we eBay sellers can achieve this for nothing!

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Don't buy any ebooks which tell you about the basics of eBay. You can get all this information without charge, courtesy of eBay in their new video series. You'll find the videos here:

http://www.ebayuniversity.com/features/ebay_live_2006/?ssPageName=CMDV:AB

When you're ready to exploit the real power of eBay, read my top seller "The eBay Formula" - http://www.more-auction-sales.com


eBay Approved Video Hosts

Speaking of videos, you may know that an increasing number of auctions include embedded video in their auction description pages. This makes perfect sense, as video is an excellent way to showcase certain items.

But did you know that eBay only allow embedded videos from sites that they have approved? If you plan to use embedded videos in your auctions, make sure you use an approved video host. You can check out the approved list here:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-links.html

You'll find a further video list update here:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200706.shtml#2007-06-01120450