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| sunray |
 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:33 am |
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Many of our home page articles receive 1000+ unique visitors within days of publication. Our articles are indexed usually within minutes by Google blogsearch and are often included in the main Google web index the same day. So how can we capitalise upon this exposure?
Obviously people find our content by searching by keywords so I'm considering starting a weekly article highlighting "penny auctions".
If there are venues (or sellers) interested in getting this FREE publicity, we will run a thread in the forum for people to tell us about their penny auctions. All of the auctions starting that week will be included in the weekly article.
The idea is that we publish the article each Monday and include details of auctions that started the previous Sunday with a 1p/1c opening bid that will finish the following Sunday.
Each article will cater for up to six listings on a first come first served basis and a description paragraph wil be included in the article (plus a link) for each listing.
The qualifications I envisage would be:
1) Item must have a realistic retail value of £10/$20+
2) Start Bid must be 1c or 1p
3) Only auctions (no fixed price or buy now option)
4) Duration to be 7 days - Sunday to Sunday.
5) No "adult" type items
Obviously there is a risk that the seller/venue might sell an item for less than they would like but hopefully the publicity gained will make that bearable even if it happens.
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| Ronny |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:56 am |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:59 am |
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That's fine Ronny.
If enough sites or sellers show an interest in having a listing promoted each week then I will commit the time and effort here to do it. |
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| Ronny |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:02 am |
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Personally I only normally sell at Fixed price but I am willing to put a few things on at penny auctions.
Anything that might draw a little interest I am up for taking that chance.
I will commit at least 10 items to the cause. |
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| sunray |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:21 am |
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Make it one item per week so you get included in ten weekly articles. With luck the publicity will drive a few bids to you and it will end up costing you nothing and getting you some visitors, page views and new members.
If there's another five venues willing to take part - which could be a seller at a particular venue - then we have something to run with. |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:24 am |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:27 am |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:32 am |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:35 am |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:39 am |
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I'm up for it Sunray - think it's a great idea. Like Ronny, I usually list at fixed price but for marketing purposes will commit to a listing or two on a weekly basis at Biritzs. 
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:02 am |
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So that's three. If we can have six sites offering a listing by the weekend and the listings start Sunday for 7 days then we can get the first of the weekly articles out Monday.  |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:12 am |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:15 am |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:36 am |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:02 pm |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:04 pm |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:14 pm |
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:09 pm |
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:21 pm |
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I will post one item each week for a different site each week....does that make sense?
I owe a favor to my good friends at Zolanta so I will post the first item there. MilBid...WOGO.... others to follow....
*Off to find an item that has a brilliant key word in the title.....a 'hot' item..... likely to cause a stir when listed for 1c........hmmmmmm |
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:36 pm |
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| Sunray I will commit MilBid to it. I don't know who or what but I am sure through all the members we will have one a week. Just give me a heads up when it starts. |
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:43 pm |
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:49 pm |
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:00 pm |
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OK - looks like we have enough support to give it a go.
If qualifying auctions can be listed Sunday and links posted here then I can write the article and publish on Monday.
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:20 pm |
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