yes marianne thats what I ment.... if I have enough room I put place/county/postcard and our code in the title... the first 3 are keywords and the code for ease our end... if we dont have enough room then "postcard" becomes "card" or is left out compleatly... I try to put as many keywords in as poss.... some keywords are more important than others, so I do have to "play around" with them sometimes.... I.E (for obvious reasons ) the word "tuck" is more important than postcard.
Of course, postcards used to be know as "PCs"... but I guess that one's been hijacked rather.
in Maples case they still are but then she has been a dealer for 30 years
PC is still regularly used, as is RPPC, but if it's our continental cousins selling we also find cp, ak and other abbreviations.
A lot of the time it's done accidentally on purpose to get visitors like yourselves who are searching for a particular field to drop in on the off chance that they can tempt you into buying or bidding. It's often a case of you have to look just in case there's something on offer that you want. Very annoying but necessary.
It would be impossible for Ebid to look at every auction to make sure it was listed correctly. Or would it? They could pick a small section every week and look to see if this is happening and ban the offender for a month from selling. Having thought of that, would those sellers then go elsewhere?
Searchability of title is #1 concern in a listing. All postcards should say "postcard" in the title or in a search for Milwaukee postcards, yours will not come up. Neither will titles with Milw, Milwau, or Milwauke some up in a Milwaukee search.
Searches do not pick up partial names, that is why the shire listings and searches are inconsistent. Even makes a difference if you leave a S off. i.e. postcard versus postcards.
So technically, I think, if you want a bigger search result, you should include both 'postcard" and "postcards" in title. But you certainly can not leave it off altogether and think a search for seaside postcard is going to bring yours up.
Or I could be wrong on the sensitivity of the ebid searches. Some search engines can be more sophisticated and will ask, "do you mean Milwaukee" but most do not and leaving off important words or letters limits who sees your auction. Just the same as spelling it "postcads".
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