brickolodon Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I never heard about it until now....just goggled <slow traffic eBay 2014> worried about bubble? not anymore... http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/05/21/panda-4#. My traffic very slow last week cause of this? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djim Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Very likely related to decreased traffic: http://searchengineland.com/panda-4-0s-big-loser-ebay-winners-losers-chart-192123 I read another article last week (that I can't find right now) that explains that Ebay uses a lot of "landing pages" which are essentially product searches on their site (which Google considers low content value) coupled with the fact that there are spammy web links to other products on those pages (meant to increase search engine ranking for that term to the page the link directs to). Last year, Ebay abandoned their paid-search advertising in favor of organic SEO. They did a study that concluded their PPC campaigns were ineffective, so they abandoned the effort. Aside from the obvious (that Google wants them to pay for ads), their approach was not at all clean and it is really no surprise that this happened as a result. They tried to game the Google system and got punished. The same article claims that the study ebay did where they abandoned paid-search was flawed since all their campaigns were poorly managed (the examples given were pretty bad, so I tend to believe the article's opinion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbacunn Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I've had one of my best months this month on eBay so take that for what it's worth. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Raichu Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I've had one of my best months this month on eBay so take that for what it's worth. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker Were you mainly selling the Panda Guy from The LEGO Movie CMF ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anakinisvader Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Stupid Panda. Now I want fast and fresh Chinese food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I've had one of my best months this month on eBay so take that for what it's worth. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker My traffic reports seem to indicate this as well. However, I have also hit a high in terms of listings too so it could be a coincidence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justafrog Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 May has been way better than April, just like every year since the dinosaurs first invented shopping online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Raichu Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 May has been way better than April, just like every year since the dinosaurs first invented shopping online. My eBay history begs to differ ETA: Granted if someone buy xxxx worth of stuffs from my store in the next 3 days, I will happily support your claim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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