Adding Ebay Listings To WordPress Blogs

Are you active on Ebay and wanting to use a blog to help get additional traffic to your listings?

When there’s so much junk on ebay and your website is pulling in leads too, it just makes sense to control as much of the auction experience as possible by sending your own traffic to the ebay auctions, and when possible, capturing traffic from that site, but that’s another post.

Here’s how simple it is to redirect visitors to your ebay listings using a Word Press blog as the software for building your site.

Solostream Blog tells how to add Ebay Listings to WordPress Blogs

The secret is to use the eBay Editor Kit, which will produce some Javascript you can insert into your Worpdress template or post. Here’s the description of the Editor Kit from eBay:

The eBay Editor Kit (EK) is one of the most innovative and effective affiliate tools available. With the EK, affiliates can add relevant, real-time eBay listings to their Web sites in just seconds. Best of all, the EK produces click-through rates two times greater than traditional banners!

Whatever your Web site’s content or user demographic, eBay’s Editor Kit will dynamically list pertinent eBay auctions and listing details, including product information, gallery images, bidding prices, and ending times. Each specification is completely customizable.

If I understand it correctly, the Editor Kit is designed to show context-based ads (like Adsense). However, there’s a way to add just your own listings the way I did with Hi-Way Campers. In each of the ebay listings, the URL of the company’s website was added to the item description. The Editor Kit allows you to enter search terms that dictate which ads to show on your site, so I simply used the company’s URL as the search term. You could do the same with your own listings; just enter some unique word in your eBay lisitings, and use that word as your search term when you set up the Editor Kit.
You can read it all and see a sample here…