Ebid and google shopping

[cclark]

Hi

I am listing my unwanted comics and have listed some on eBay and some on Ebid as I had a store. So thinking a good idea to get more views is look at getting my items on google shopping I did two listings to test it searched for them but couldn't see them on google. I then noticed none of the items that came back were on Ebid but at least half was on eBay.


So I did a another experiment and put in superman comic and searched loads came back including a lot from eBay none from Ebid, searched again but put Ebid in as well and pages of superman comics come back.


Anyone know why seems a bit pointless being on google shopping when the only way to find the item is by including Ebid in the search as if you don't your only going to see eBay items.

[astral276]

The first observation I would make after looking at some of your items...

I can't see that any have the barcode field completed despite their accompanying images clearly showing one printed on the front cover. Google are very fussy about this and will reject listings that do not provide the information if it is available.

A few other tips I posted earlier: https://www.ebid.net/forums/showthre...=1#post1712542

[cclark]

I have only started looking the whole getting them listed to show on google.

The thing that worried me is with a search string of superman comic in google shopping no ebid listings come up until you add ebid to the search string.

[hush77hush]

Hmm Not sure why this is happening to you have just checked one of my comics by title and it was in the top five? didn't add ebid in the search either.

As astral said think it is important to add the bar code but sometimes the bar codes on comics can be strange beasts. I think a lot of mine are set up in the template as EXEMPT (has to be in caps apparently).

What also helps with getting in to google is keywords use as many as the spaces allow. for example I would use for superman comics Superman,Super-Man, DC Comics, Comics, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, etc etc.

I would also add the comic book writer and artist and also add variations of Comic eg) Comicbook, comic, COMIC, dc comics, DC COMICS etc etc.

If you think about how many different ways you can search for a comic book the more keywords are better.

Hope this helps.