There is an amazing amount of new auction information and tools that come to our training facility everyday. We have one person that purchases products and evaluates their worthiness as to if we should get licensed and give to our students.

Sometimes we all get so involved with the latest and greatest traffic tool or product source I forget that some folks need to remember some of the basic tools and systems that were new once and are still good. Here’s a couple of standby free tools that everyone should have if they have a website.

The following is a basic toolbar, when you enter a web address a number will come up on the toolbar (that number is not always accurate but it is the number that the site is on the search engine directory). The smaller the number, the better. When you click that number you can do many things. Some I’ll talk about in the next article, but primarily you can check the traffic of that site. Our product evaluater uses that first before buying a new tool or service (if someone is selling you traffic and they have none, it’s a good idea to stay away from them).

Download the Alexa toolbar here
http://download.alexa.com

The next thing to help with your SEO (search engine optimization/ranking) is to check and see if your web designer (we do this constantly with the websites we build for our students) has got your META tags entered properly. There are lots of variables here and the robots change their perameters all the time. You can go to this site and it will run a free analysis. Then it will also let you regenerate the way it should be.
http://websitesubmit.hypermart.net/metataganalysis.htm

I’ll be posting regularly on our sites.Why am I writing about websites when we are an auction training company? Good question. We feel your website is your business hub. The auction sites like eBay, Yahoo and Overstock are income generators, but your site is the headquarters. You can also make income off Clickbank products, affiliate programs, newsletters, auctions and your own web site.

A quick tip. Whenever purchasing an item from eBay, fill out the feedback form and make sure you include your site URL. This is one more little thing that will drive somebody to your site.

First, its about margins. Then, its about traffic.
Well, one more thing. We all know about link exchanges (they help with getting you traffic and most importantaly they help your search engine ranking). There are many free systems you can install on your site. The one we use for our students is http://www.cplinks.com/cpdynalinks. We like it because it’s automated and your link partners can set up their link without you spending a lot of time.

Next, you need link partners. This site lets you select the categories you are looking for link partners in and it sends a request to all members inviting them to link with you. It’s a super tool and again, its free. Go to http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/

Hope that helps you out.

If you have questions or having any problems, we offer a no cost 15 minute consultation. Just call 800-827-0282.

Kirk Meyer
Auction trainer

www.freeauctioncourses.com

Kirk Meyer,head of auction education at http://www.freeauctioncourses.com, speaker at top internet summits.

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EBay wants its buyers and sellers to register with eBay. This simple process takes no more than 10 minutes to complete (one has to have credit card for this purpose). Once you have registered yourself with eBay, you can now start bidding or buying from eBay.

The buyer should go to home page of ebay.com and start looking for the products he is interested in purchasing. Alternatively, one can browse the products portfolio through search function provided. When a particular product of interest is ascertained, the buyer will have a list of all the products from different sellers on the page. Buyer can sift through the listed products on display, and decide the one he is interested in and finds the value.

Each product on the list will have a minimum price to bid on with increments in the bid price. There will also be a reserve price for the product. Once the buyer places a bid amount on the product of interest, his bid will becomes the maximum bid unless other buyer places his bid for the same product. This bidding goes on till the end time of the bid (which ranges from one day to 10 days). If your bid happens to be the maximum bid amount, you are selected as the winning bidder. One you have been selected, you will receive an email from eBay for the product you have placed bid on. You have to effect the payment through the specified route, and you will receive the product through the specified shipment mode. That’s it to eBay.

Donny Lowy runs http://www.closeoutexplosion.com an online wholesale and closeout business that supplies eBay sellers, retailers, and flea market vendors.

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