eSeoBay

Pros

• Can drive more traffic to eBay listings

Cons

• Lack of transparency

eSeoBay is a paid service that markets eBay listings in order to drive more traffic to them.

With auction-based eBay listings, increased traffic increases the chances for a greater top bid. The eBay service itself only gives you so many tools in which to enhance listing visibility, and those tools mostly involve just the eBay website itself. eSeoBay exists to provide you more options. This isn’t a listing tool, but rather a service you use once a listing has been posted. Using this program you provide the unique ID for your eBay listing, and then this service does its thing to drive more traffic to it. The developer asserts that eSeoBay users experience a 50 percent increase on sell rate and selling price on average.

This eSeoBay tool is freeware. It’s free to download and use as often as you like, but be mindful that the service it provides access to is not. The program installs in a simple manner, takes up very little space, and is rather straightforward to use. The user interface has just a place to enter the ID for your listing and a submit button. The cost of this service per listing is about $2. You can provide payment information in advance so that the service charges you as soon as you submit a listing. Alternatively, you can provide an email address. In that case, the service will send you a request for payment via email.

How worthwhile the eSeoBay service is is based on a number of factors that are hard to quantify. On listings with potentially large profit margins, then a service like this can make a lot of sense and offset its own cost. The problem lies in answering the questions of how the eSeoBay service works and how well. SEO methods are implied, but there’s no easy way to tell where the posts are made or to track them. This is a potentially amazing service, but the lack of transparency will be a deal-breaker for many people.

Pros

• Can drive more traffic to eBay listings

Cons

• Lack of transparency