Happy New Year! (A bit late...)

Hi Everyone,

I'm very late wishing everyone a Happy New Year, nearly February already :(
Where does the time go?

It's been a busy start to the year- I'm looking at the possible take-over
of another business and researching various aspects of it and the options
for expansion.

I've also started writing eBay related articles which you can see here:

Dont Keep Losing Money On eBay

Seven Ways To Build Your eBay Business

That's it for now,

Please come back soon...

Keith

Free Listings Report Challenge 4 Results

RE: Challenge part 4 detailed on my blog
http://keith-purkiss.blogspot.com/

Here are the highest ranked sites from each person whether they wanted to enter or not!

I've Excluding Johns Diggs that dont work anymore and various CB malls and blogs where I dont know who the owners are.


"Avoid eBay Listing Fees"

The results are full of blogs and squidoo lens by Colin, John (and I managed to get a few in there as well).

1 Colin makefasteasymoneyonline.blogspot

6 John freelistingsreport.blogspot


"free listings report"

8 Colin makefasteasymoneyonline.blogspot

9 John del.icio.us/thegoodread/listings

23 PapaGrizz bearmountain-ebooks

24 Colm recalibrating.blogspot

26 Rick daelectronics


As Colin and John had already won there isnt a prize
winner for "Avoid eBay Listing Fees" so to be fair
there's now 2 winners from "free listings report".

As the top 3 have already won that means the prizes
go to the next two

Congratulations Colm and Rick.


[Sorry the prizes won't be available for a while...]

Free Listings Report Competition Challenge 3 Results

These are the qualifying lenses I have found for Challenge 3

Position
Lens
Owner

226
http://www.squidoo.com/freelistingsreport-listfree-ebay
John (The Good Read)

508
http://www.squidoo.com/FreeListingsReport
Me - so not eligible

1387
http://www.squidoo.com/Free_listings_Report
PapaGrizz

2651
http://www.squidoo.com/freelistingsreportreview
Colins (Colin Southgate)


Congratulation to John for having the highest lens excellent work again.

Because John has already won the prize it goes to the next highest entrant.

Congratulations PapaGrizz.

Free Listings Report Challenge 2 Results

Here are the results of round 2
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ENTRY 1 John (The Good Read) [EMAIL OR FORUM SIGNATURE]

Shhhh...Don't Tell Anyone, but I've learned how to LIST

FREE ON EBAY!!!

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ENTRY 2 John (The Good Read) [EMAIL]

Subject: {name_fix}, what would you say if I told you

can list for free on eBay?

I don't know about you, {name_fix}, but when it comes

to eBooks, it's a struggle these days to make enough on

the sale to even cover the eBay listing fees, much less

actually turn a profit!

It seems like all I do is turn over my hard earned cash

to eBay...the listing fees are ridiculous and they just

keep going UP, UP, UP!!!

But what if I told you that you could sell an eBook (or

any product) on eBay at reduced fees or even keep ALL

of the proceeds?

That's right...I'm talking about FR'EE LISTINGS!!!

Sounds pretty good, eh? Fr'ee listings...just like the

good ole' days...(sigh)

Well {name_fix}, the good old days are here again!!!

Announcing FREE LISTINGS REPORT by eBay expert and

massive PowerSeller Keith Purkiss!

Keith is a true expert on eBay, with over 30,000

positive feedbacks...that's right, that's no

typo...Keith really has OVER 30,000 positive feedbacks

from happy eBay customers. Let's face it, you don't get

that kind of incredible feedback record unless you're

doing something right!

In his new eBook, FREE LISTINGS REPORT, Keith shares

his significant wealth of eBay knowledge and experience

by showing you his amazing discoveries on how to list

on eBay for reduced fees and in many cases absolutely

FR'EE!

I got to tell you, Keith's method's are so simple that

once you learn how he does it, you'll have one of those

"Why didn't I think of that" moments!

This eBook gets straight to the point about "The

Secret", followed by detailed examples of how to take

advantage of Keith's clever money-saving strategies.

Keith's advice on the "pros and cons of free listings"

is absolutely priceless!

If you sell on eBay, you owe it to yourself to check

out this amazing (and reasonably priced) manual on

beating the high cost of trading on eBay. I can highly

recommend this great new eBook!

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ENTRY 3 Colin (Colin S) ([A FORUM POST]


List on ebay for free!

Note to moderators: if this is in the wrong place,

please move
it, if it violates the forum rules please remove it.

I have just downloaded and read this report and thought
that I would give everyone the heads up on it. The

report will
help members here to reduce their ebay costs.

Keith Purkiss,an ebay seller with over 28000 Feedback

has
written a report showing some of the methods that he

uses
on ebay and how he lists his items for free.Everything

he
shows is legal and doesn't violate any of ebay's

policies.

This report is, less than $10 , it is 100% Legal and

Ethical,
it 100% Conforms to eBay Rules and is 100% Guaranteed

(56 days)

From the sales page:
"Many Sellers use the lower price shop listings to

reduce their cost eg by pointing standard listings to

their shop listings.
There is a better way...
You can list free, and the listings will appear in your

shop. You pay no listing fees and no commission for

sales."

I have read the report and it is full of easy to

follow, very well explained information.
If you sell on eBay and want to look at cutting the

costs of listing your items, this report shows you how.

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John found a legal loophole and entered twice.

The winner is John with entry 2.
Congratulations John

Free Listings Report Competition Challenge 1 Results

Hi Everyone,

Thanks to Colm Butterly of Search Domination Challenge for Judging. I'm glad I didnt have to enter or judge this one.

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"To be fair to everyone involved, I researched every single keyword or phrase that was entered. One thing about keywords is that you just can't judge them on looking or sounding right. There are a few criteria that have to be applied in each case:

1. Are the keywords relevant to the market the product is aimed at? Are they targeted?
2. Are they being searched for? Are real users typing them into search engines?
3. Are they saturated keywords? Are too many existing sites competing for the same phrase?

Wordtracker offers a tool that applies a score to these items to produce a Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) and I can see that some of the entrants were familiar with this tool. They spotted that "eBay" and "eBay.com" have a very good KEI score and included them in their list with one or two other words as variants.

The research was well done, but the wordtracker tool is not going to be accurate for such a highly branded keyword. "EBay" is a very highly searched for keyword, but only in combination with other words. It's when you put it into the wordtracker engine with those other words that you see more accurate results. Another test you can try is actually do a search for "eBay" on Google. The results are all eBay properties except for a WikiPedia entry. This also points up the importance of having your main keyword as your domain name.

However, having "eBay" as part of your keyword phrase was the right way to go. It covers the first 2 criteria nicely. It is "relevant" and "searched for". Saturation is where our researchers went a bit adrift. Despite "eBay" having a KEI score of about 125, the combinations they offered with one other word as a variant dropped drastically down to 0.001.

Bear in mind that a keyword is best in the plural. "Widgets" will be returned in results of a search for both "widget" and "widgets"; "widget" will most likely only be returned when searching for the singular "widget".

Another item to be considered today with keyword phrases is Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). This means that Google offers results that are from words in context. They try to serve results that supply answers to users. Because of this, we can get very good rankings on fairly competitive terms by framing our keyword phrases to match.

The 2 best results came from a single entrant and that determined the winner. The KEI scores are not very high, but that reflects the competitiveness of the eBay market in search terms.
"Avoid eBay Listing Fees" and "How To Avoid Paying eBay Listing Fees" are almost the same search and get a KEI score of 2.25.

Check them out in Google.
"Avoid eBay Listing Fees" has blog links as 5 of the 10 results on the front page. This also makes it very suitable for round 4 of the competition as it is attainable!

"How To Avoid Paying eBay Listing Fees" has 6 blog results.

Another one from the same entry was "How to Save Money On eBay". This scored small in KEI at just under 1, but the results how it as an easy target. On Google it has 4 blogs, 2 articles, 1 video, and 1 Digg.

Optimise for the main keyword and also for the others as secondary keywords and you should be able to pick a lot of what SEO people refer to as "low hanging fruit".

Congratulations to the owner of Entry 2"

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Well done Colin, and thanks again to Colm for a great article - I've printed this one out to keep in my files.

Thanks

Keith

P.S. The term to aim at in 4b will now be "Avoid eBay Listing Fees"

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Free Listings Report Competition Entries Challenge 1

Thanks to Vince, Colin, Diana, and John
for taking part in Challenge 1, and of course
to Colm for taking on the difficult task of
judging.

These are the entries.
Have a look through them and see if you
can choose a winner before I announce
the results,

Thanks

Keith

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ENTRY 1 - Vince (Vince Andrews)

01 Ebay START and END fees for FREE...
02 I Love Free ebay Listings...
03 Sick of eBay FEES...
04 I want ebay for free...
05 Free Ebay Listings...
06 Really FREE eBay Listings...
07 No Free Lunch, How about FREE ebay fees...
08 List on ebay for free...
09 Get those listings on ebay for free...
10 Pay nothing for starting and end fees...

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ENTRY 2 - Colin (Colin S)

Free Listings Report
How To List On Ebay For Free
Keith Purkiss' Free Listings Report
How to List For Free On Ebay
List On Ebay For Free
List For Free On Ebay
Avoid Ebay Listing Fees
How To Save Money On Ebay
Slash Your Ebay Listing Fees
How To Avoid Paying Listing Fees

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ENTRY 3 Diana (dbwright)

1 ebay stores
2 how to sell on ebay
3 ebay selling
4 selling on ebay
5 ebay profits
6 ebay power seller
7 ebay auction
8 ebay.com
9 ebay charges
10 ebay seller fees

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ENTRY 4 John (TheGoodRead)

free ebay listing fee
keith purkiss
save on ebay fee
reduced ebay fee
lower ebay fee
free listings
lower ebay fee
no ebay fee
cut ebay fee
pay lower ebay fee
save ebay listing




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Free Listings Report Competition

Hi Everyone,

To promote my recently released report
I am running a competition.

The competition has four independant
challenges each one ending a week apart.

Each of the winners will receive my next product free
as soon as it is available (I cannot reveal yet if this is
going to be an eBook, or software)

To enter the competition please post your name here
Challenge 1 and 2 - entries can be PM'd to me in any
forum I'm in.

You can start your entry for them all straight
away if you like (except for 4b).

Post your entries for Challenge 3 and 4 as well so

people can tag
them etc.

Thanks

Keith


The challenges are:

1) Best list of 10 search keywords/phrases for promoting The Free Listings Report.
Order them with one you think is best at the top down
to the least best at the bottom.
eg 'Cut your eBay charges', 'Reduce Ebay Fees' etc
Ending 5pm GMT 17th October

2) Best Affiliate Tool
(Sales Email, Signature, Banner or anything else)
Ending 5pm GMT 24th October

3) Highest Ranked Lens
(By Squidoo rank number not by search results)
Ending 5pm GMT 31st October

4) Highest place on Google for search terms:
a) "Free Listings Report"
b) The top term from the challenge 1 winner's list.
This will offer everyone a chance to use the Colm's
Search Domination Challenge eBook.
Ending 5pm GMT 7th November

(If the winner of a challenge has already won a
previous challenge then the prize will go to the
next highest placed entrant who hasnt won so that
there will be five winners.)


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