Our Alexa rating is rissing steadily !

[Gothicina]

When I was actively listing here I could have easily increased my listings by 2500% not a typo. I had well over 5000 football cards I could have listed seperately. Several sellers could do the same. Find 1000 sellers to do the same and we reach ten million items listed immediately. Is this what we strive for?

I'll be honest, anything to do with sport doesn't float my boat at all,
but why shouldn't you list them if you have them to sell & people want to buy them?

Is a sale of a sports card to somebody who collects them, any less legitimate, than a postcard to a postcard collector, a stamp to a stamp collector, a book to either a book collector, or even just somebody that wants to read it?

They may not have the same monetary value, but they are just as desirable to the person who buys them.

Yet so many people seem to want to label items they are not interested in as "junk items" or "cheap tat",

I've seen posts on other forums deriding sales made by people, because of the type of items they sell, the point they miss is these items are being bought & paid for, so the BUYERS must want them!

Yes eBid could do with a greater variety of goods, & more listing in all categories,
but I've seen people say we have too many books listed, that certainly hasn't hurt amazon, other sites have started from "niche" bases.
We should welcome all new listings in whatever category, not try & put people off because the category of items they have to list, is not something we are interested in.

[adruml]

I'll be honest, anything to do with sport doesn't float my boat at all,
but why shouldn't you list them if you have them to sell & people want to buy them?

Is a sale of a sports card to somebody who collects them, any less legitimate, than a postcard to a postcard collector, a stamp to a stamp collector, a book to either a book collector, or even just somebody that wants to read it?

They may not have the same monetary value, but they are just as desirable to the person who buys them.

Yet so many people seem to want to label items they are not interested in as "junk items" or "cheap tat",

I've seen posts on other forums deriding sales made by people, because of the type of items they sell,
the point they miss is these items are being bought & paid for, so the BUYERS must want them!

I agree however I do not have enough time on my hands to list that many items. They would be low value and to me just isn't worth the time and effort. I will most likely save them and when I do retire then I will list them seperately but for now it just isn't worth it to me.

I saw another poster on a now deleted thread calling items such as this "junk". That kind of irritated me. What gives anybody the right to call anyones listings junk! That just wasn't right and maybe what I am trying to say here isn't right either but it's the way I see it.

Yes eBid is #2 and is #2 due to the amount of listings and I guess how else can you measure your rankings other then listings. Now I see nothing wrong with sellers having 5,000 to 20,000 individual listings of low priced items. If this is what they want to sell and they enjoy what they are doing then more power to them. The nice thing about eBid is they can do this very inexpensively.
However when we speak of building the site and this rating says that and this one says this we need to take a step back and look at what we are getting excited about and that is why I posted what I did. An additional 5 million items such as I have mentioned above will in fact raise our ratings on toolbars and searches but so what!
25% of eBids listings are in Comics, Books and Magazines (a bit over a million). We (eBid) need a million listings in each category to make a difference.
Again I will never knock what folks sell or how many items they list there is absolutely nothing negative about it but to hear we're #2 because of the QUANTITY of listings doesn't help sales if our categories are lacking in listings.
I started on eBid in Sept 2010 I sell in the musical instrument category. When I joined there were about 3800 listings in musical instruments we now have just under 5000. There is a long way to go to get our categories filled and that is what we need to strive for. When and if the musical instrument category gets to one million listings there will still be quite a few listings for low value items such as picks or posters but we will have a whole lot of bigger value items along with it. The site needs both low value and bigger value along with unique items as well as what I call garage sale/flea market items but when you have too many of either it doesn't make for a good mix.

Thanks for the response...I just think outloud sometimes that's all.

[Gothicina]

I answered your post, although in many ways my answer wasn't aimed at your post, but more in general frustration at the way some people seem to be trying to manipulate, how others use the site.

Statistics are just that, they are frequently easy to manipulate, they can also be flawed, they are at best a tool or a guideline,
they are not a gospel.

If you are interested in numbers they can be fun, but they are not the be all & end all.

I must admit I used to be really into all that, but it was a long time ago.
There are many many more sites than Alexa & PSU, if you want to compare data, you should keep an eye on them all, if you have the time.
For ranking, there are Alexa, which can then be broken down into regions,
but there is also Compete, Quantcast,Ranking com,Netcraft
Then you have Google page ranking, Bloglines, Technorati Blog Reactions.

You can also check the links that come up for eBid in the main search engines.

There used to be a site that would tell you where to find all the available info, if I can remember what it was I'll add it. In the main this stuff is of much more use to site owners, than it is to site users.

This site lists all that was available, it's rather old now, so I don't know how many of the links/sites still exist. Should keep those into number crunching happy.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-list-of...icly-available

[adruml]

I answered your post, although in many ways my answer wasn't aimed at your post, but more in general frustration at the way some people seem to be trying to manipulate, how others use the site.

Statistics are just that, they are frequently easy to manipulate, they can also be flawed, they are at best a tool or a guideline,
they are not a gospel.

If you are interested in numbers they can be fun, but they are not the be all & end all.

Indeed. Most here are really trying to help eBid grow and as always if someone believes in something they become very passionate about it.
So hats off to all who try and help.

[happycockers]

The Alexa rating is now 8188 in the world and 4355 in the US.
This is a positive step forward.
Don't overly analyze this. Take it with a grain of salt and move on.
There is no doubt that Ebid is the better site of the two.
Now if only the masses knew that as well...
It is up to all of us as a group to help Ebid be successful in order to help ourselves become more successful.
The old-school term is 'this for that'....
Go Ebid............

[emporiumdays]

The Alexa Rating for eBid (Thread started by Juliebabe25)



11.03.2011 to 27.05.2011 inclusive

The higher the graph rises - the more 'logins' are being made to eBid.

For anyone viewing: - Installing the Alexa extension on your status bar will help our rating! You can get it here:


Originally Posted by gazza
Here's the alexa extension for all you Chrome fans
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...ipinkifmmegdel

G.

Originally Posted by gazza
and Firefoxers
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir.../alexa-sparky/

[Cancelcollector]

Rankings are nifty, but tell only part of an overall picture.

The world's second largest online auction site (which many here have probably never heard of) is Delcampe.net, based in Belgium. It's a "specialty" site, however... stamps, coins, books, paper collectibles. It currently has a little over 41 million listings and 600,000+ members. Like eBid, it has free listings (FVF only, except for listing upgrades); like eBid, it has a "premium" seller program; like eBid, it has been around for a long time (since 2000); like eBid, it has multiple free-standing country/region sites and like eBid, its primary domain is a ".net" not a ".com" (although they do own the dot-com and use it as the landing page for the US site).

UN-like eBid, the monthly number of "sold items" runs in excess of 600,000.

And yet? Their Alexa rating is in the 17,000s.

How is this possible? Well, for one, their "bounce rate" (e.g. percentage of users who load only ONE page and move on, rather than stay on the site) is only 19%-- eBid's is in the mid-30% range. Second, their average visitor looks at 15+ pages-- eBid's looks at around 10. Third, their traffic is relevant/targeted... not "just traffic."

I bring this up because (A) it seems like a more reasonable comparison than eBay (B) perhaps it is more prudent to learn from another "alt" site that has done very well.... with MANY sellers who have gained feedback ratings in the 10,000, 20,000, even 50,000+ range selling ONLY on that site.

I've been selling there since 2003... and it was VERY slow in the early going. However, as soon as revenues from sales started to ramp up, the company founder invested heavily in server capacity, bandwidth and generating targeted global awareness of the site, both through printed specialty media and online venues. Which, I might add, paid off quite well.

Bottom line, really... if you've got good and desirable merchandise at a fair price, it should sell. If it doesn't, there's a good chance something is not right with your selling method. Or venue. Or auction site you're using. One the other hand, if you're offering the 373rd copy of the same used book 372 other sellers have on offer, then the web site/auction site is not at fault... it's probably your sales strategy that needs to be examined.

Maybe that sounds harsh... but when I look at people who enjoy success with online sales, they tend to be highly "differentiated and specialized;" that is, they take a small niche and do it really, really, really well... often with some kind of approach nobody else is using. I think the days of being able to make an income from simply "selling stuff online" are long gone.

Well, I've probably been too outspoken, already...

Cheers,
~Peter

[adruml]

Rankings are nifty, but tell only part of an overall picture.

The world's second largest online auction site (which many here have probably never heard of) is Delcampe.net, based in Belgium. It's a "specialty" site, however... stamps, coins, books, paper collectibles. It currently has a little over 41 million listings and 600,000+ members. Like eBid, it has free listings (FVF only, except for listing upgrades); like eBid, it has a "premium" seller program; like eBid, it has been around for a long time (since 2000); like eBid, it has multiple free-standing country/region sites and like eBid, its primary domain is a ".net" not a ".com" (although they do own the dot-com and use it as the landing page for the US site).

UN-like eBid, the monthly number of "sold items" runs in excess of 600,000.

And yet? Their Alexa rating is in the 17,000s.

How is this possible? Well, for one, their "bounce rate" (e.g. percentage of users who load only ONE page and move on, rather than stay on the site) is only 19%-- eBid's is in the mid-30% range. Second, their average visitor looks at 15+ pages-- eBid's looks at around 10. Third, their traffic is relevant/targeted... not "just traffic."

I bring this up because (A) it seems like a more reasonable comparison than eBay (B) perhaps it is more prudent to learn from another "alt" site that has done very well.... with MANY sellers who have gained feedback ratings in the 10,000, 20,000, even 50,000+ range selling ONLY on that site.

I've been selling there since 2003... and it was VERY slow in the early going. However, as soon as revenues from sales started to ramp up, the company founder invested heavily in server capacity, bandwidth and generating targeted global awareness of the site, both through printed specialty media and online venues. Which, I might add, paid off quite well.

Bottom line, really... if you've got good and desirable merchandise at a fair price, it should sell. If it doesn't, there's a good chance something is not right with your selling method. Or venue. Or auction site you're using. One the other hand, if you're offering the 373rd copy of the same used book 372 other sellers have on offer, then the web site/auction site is not at fault... it's probably your sales strategy that needs to be examined.

Maybe that sounds harsh... but when I look at people who enjoy success with online sales, they tend to be highly "differentiated and specialized;" that is, they take a small niche and do it really, really, really well... often with some kind of approach nobody else is using. I think the days of being able to make an income from simply "selling stuff online" are long gone.

Well, I've probably been too outspoken, already...

Cheers,
~Peter

Not harsh at all, if the truth hurts...oh well!

[DZAMBO]

Well…I check this auction site and particularly for my soccer card and I find it many soccer card but most from Europe sellers with prices in about 7 times higher for each one from my prices in here and ‘’of course’’ every seller charge ‘’extra’’ shipping if you buy two or more cards in one time…personally for me I never will charge extra shipping for THAT small each item…I not charge my buyers for my work online because this is my hobby I just charge regular and real price for the shipping and for every one more extra item it’s all on me….this is just my way of selling…and by the way I check how many soccer cards is in this auction site from seller in U.S.A. and I find NONE…zero…nada…nothing…all other soccer seller’s cards is from other countries…
Maybe Dzambo will pay visit in this auction site and bring some of my soccer cards…and ''maybe'' bring price down too......

[adruml]

Well…I check this auction site and particularly for my soccer card and I find it many soccer card but most from Europe sellers with prices in about 7 times higher for each one from my prices in here and ‘’of course’’ every seller charge ‘’extra’’ shipping if you buy two or more cards in one time…personally for me I never will charge extra shipping for THAT small each item…I not charge my buyers for my work online because this is my hobby I just charge regular and real price for the shipping and for every one more extra item it’s all on me….this is just my way of selling…and by the way I check how many soccer cards is in this auction site from seller in U.S.A. and I find NONE…zero…nada…nothing…all other soccer seller’s cards is from other countries…
Maybe Dzambo will pay visit in this auction site and bring some of my soccer cards…and ''maybe'' bring price down too......

If items are in fact selling there and you can offer a lower price you should make a killing!