Hey everyone I plan to make an eBay Advice/Resource website where ebay users can go and learn a ton of stuff on eBay and how it works. My plan is to create the site with Joomla and write 1-2 quality articles per day. I was wondering: If i keep on schedule of writting 1-2 quality articles per day, will this bring my site into the search engines top pages eventually? If so how long? I want to get the majority of my traffic from search engines and I was wondering if this is the way to go about it, or do i have to submit my site to google and other search engines for them to pick up my site? All the help is appreciated!
Submitting your site to google is useless. Try to find some inbound links and search engines will find you anyway. This will also affect your search engine rankings.
Just writing is not enough. You will need at least few good backlinks. I also advice you to take keyword reach domain name. Might work.
Writing quality content is always good. I would say, you can write 1 articles in 1-2 days but have something original and useful. Something that makes the webmasters to link to you. To get serious serach engine traffic, you will have to do some real SEO. Tons of incoming links from related sites will help. Its easier said than done, but you must keep in mind that its difficult to do somethign very original related to ebay, so you will have to do lots of link building and other marketting techniques. Adwords won't help for sites like the one you have planned. PPC is just a short term plan which works well if you have something to sell, a concrete revenue plan from the visitors.