So my homegrown ebay script made its first sale

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    for a whopping .62, feels good to see something I did actually work. Now I have to work on getting a mass amount of visitors.
     
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  2. drapton

    drapton Well-Known Member

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    whats ur site? Maybe I can give you a few tips.
    I made 5800.74$USD this month with ebay :D :) and still counting.
     
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    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    Kudos for doing the DIY thing ;)

    Yeah, the secret is traffic. Most people will click a semi interesting looking auction and get your cookie, and that's half the battle won.

    Want to share your URL?
     
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    Very nice!! I can't wait to start making those numbers. You use PPC?

    hanji
     
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    Yes.. KUDOS.. for rollin' your own eBay script. That's the way to go for sure. Traffic is key.. but also, make your net bigger.. make more and more stores.

    hanji
     
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    It's always nice to see that something you did really works.
    Good luck in the future. :)
    nadavs
     
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  7. darkmessiah

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    the thing is, it's not a store, it just picks keywords from wordpress tags and displays auctions that way (based on "articles" written). granted, I am sure I could take full advantage of this if it were a store, just don't have that kind of time these days. http:www.darkmessiah.com
     
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    I think you should put one auction item for each post on your front page. Most people won't bother clicking to read the full story, and won't get to see your auctions.

    It's pretty easy to do using WP, just set the number of auctions to display using a variable (e.g. $auction_count). Then you'll get 1 auction per post on the front page, and multiple auctions on the actual post page. Something like:

    
if (is_single()){$auction_count=3;}else{$auction_count=1;}
    PHP:
    Just my 2 cents :)
     
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    hrmmm, I did something like this before but got rid of it soon after my site got "sandboxed". I'll investigate this again.
     
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    PM me ur link if you want ;)
     
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    I think it's worth giving your visitors every possible chance to click an auction and get your cookie.

    I've got a few sites where there's absolutely nothing to click that doesn't give them a cookie :p
     
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    I agree 100%.. it's all about the cookie.

    hanji
     
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    I never thought of it that way, but it actually makes sense. Thanks.
     
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    Cookies make the world go 'round.

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    I like the suggestion for another reason, it's forcing me to update the script so I can make one request at the top then format the results into an array that I can pick off randomly. Maybe turn it into a nice class or something.

    update: I've taken your suggestion and got everything set up now.. We'll see how this goes.
     
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    good work dakmessiah, that's the way to do it! excellent work.
     
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    Thanks Jon, I've been hard at work getting the script fixed up and I've made some major improvements. I've turned it into a nice class, and added functionality of parsing out the 4 types of href links, link title, image src, bid count, end time, etc..

    I'm using an example on my sig. My only question is, do I use the thumbnail border around the images or keep it as is.
     
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    @ darkmessiah : I think you might be onto a winner just showing the images (and no text) from the auctions. I've never thought of doing that before. They're intriguing and very clicky, nice idea (I'm stealing it!) :)
     
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    Woot Woot!
     
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    Woot Woot!
     
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