This eBay Hack Will Change The Way You List Forever
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2024
- Keywords mean everything on ebay. Visibility is king. We are paying for promoted listings. What if I told you I discovered a Hack to increase your visibility with any keyword on ebay? Why isn't this widely known?
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My name is Rachel Strickland and I am a full-time reseller reselling online on ebay, posmark and mercari. My passion for thrifting and treasure hunting has enabled me to quit my job and become an ebay reseller full time. I am so excited to be self-employed that I want to show YOU how to quit your job and start reselling too! Selling on ebay and making money on ebay is something ANYONE can do. It's a great side hustle as a part-time reseller or a phenomenal full-time income you can work from home. My desire is to share and teach you HOW TO BE A RESELLER. I fill my videos with ebay tips and tricks to help you learn how to sell on ebay.
Mainly I source and buy my reselling inventory at thrift stores because I simply love to thrift, take you guys along on a thrift vlog and film and showcase thrift hauls full of vintage and designer goods. I shop goodwill, salvation army, small town thrifts, the Goodwill bins ( Goodwill outlet) and more.
When I am not thrifting, I love to shop yardsales and ensure you know a good BOLO when you see one and what to buy at yard sales.
I also source at auctions including online auctions, estate auctions, and live auction houses always showcasing my auction haul and auction scores with you guys. I take auction go pro style first-person videos.
Even more than showing you guys my hauls, I love to educate and show you what sold and why so that you can learn how to source as a reseller as well.
My Friday night live shows are a great way to get involved in the online reseller community and learn tips and tricks from the reselling pros.
So come along with me and my American Picker style UA-cam Channel as we find and flip the coolest vintage and designer goods, learn how to ship breakables, authenticate coach, nikes and Louis Vuitton and more! I am so glad you are here!
I am a new seller on eBay, but I have a slight understanding of keywords from another endeavor. But I guess I am missing something here with this Jentacular key word. Isn't the purpose of keywords to use a word that a lot of people are searching, and not some ultra obscure word that most people have never heard. I can understand inserting the word Christmas, because people will be searching for Christmas things, but like you said, there were zero searches for the J word. Please help me to understand, somebody.
Do NOT use the word Jentacular. I used an ultra obscure word in order to control this experiment. You are supposed yonuse YOUR keywords. Sadly, ice seen folks using jentacular on ebay. There are hundreds if listings. That was not the point. I was using a word no one ever would in order to see if I could influence Search results.
@@RachelStrickland I was never going to use that crazy word (although I am a literary genius), it just threw me off. Now since we are here, I have another question. I looked through my listings, and i didn't see anywhere on a current listing where I could insert keywords as you suggested. Does this action need to be taken when making a new listing? Like I said, I am new, so I have so much to learn, and anything I can do to increase sales, I am all for it! And thank you for your prompt response, I appreciate it, and I promise not to be too big a pain😏
@@RachelStrickland yeah I thought it was a searchable word ..nobody is searching that word. So idk either and was wondering the same.
I have been aware of this for several years, and have shared it with others a few times, and I always got "poo pooed" and told "That doesn't work!", so I quit sharing and just used that knowledge to my own benefit.
Thank you for confirming, and attempting to share with the community.
I hope you'll keep sharing your knowledge!
Thats what i did when trying to tell people about the 2020 Covert19 bill gates Flu Plandemic
Lies again? Rating Pending USD SGD
I'm to ADD to understand what we're talking about here.. maybe I need visuals or something 🥴
I contacted eBay about using words in item specifics that are not listed in the drop down list; whether or not we should use our own words, and their answer was, “As long as it is relevant to your item, YES, and if it is used enough, it will be added to the list automatically or you can request that it be added by eBay immediately”. As an example for them, I asked why cowboy is in theme but cowgirl is not. As a TEAM RACHEL reseller, I have learned that being bold and asking questions and devising methods on your own can definitely get you somewhere, but, help others with that knowledge once discovered. You’ll go farther in life when you do!
Oh my gosh you're such a queen! I love this! ❤️
Been a reseller for 25 years I always looking for advantages. This video may be the single best, most important & informative hack I’ve seen. Thanks a ton for the info. First time watcher and new subscriber, indeed.
Thank you so much for your support! Happy I could help!
@@gateway2themagic It removes your listing entirely from left hand navigation when you type in anything that isn't an option. Go try it.
This is the most valuable piece of information I believe I’ve learned since I started watching reseller content! Thank you for doing the research and then sharing it with all of us!
Ohemgee thank you! Wow!
Honestly so surprised that this was only a week’s worth of data (especially with the 24 hour updates) because that was DETAILED! Amazing job and thanks for the invaluable information! 🙌🏼
Wow! Thank you!
I have heard about " make sure you fill out as many item specifics" because they are searchable...BUT YOUR INFO is way more in depth and time saving. Specific areas to focus the keywords is KEY ( all puns intended) THANK YOU!!!!!
Thank you! You totally get it!
20yrs seller here... we all made more money when 'title' was king. Now, we're literally doing battle with a system that is rigged against us... there are 'rules' which obviously affect us.. but we are not allowed to know what they are. It's like being pulled over by the Highway Patrol for speeding ... but they won't tell you how fast you were going. or what the speed limit is.. "" But officer how fast can I go?""... Answer; "I can't tell you that, just slow down or you'll get another ticket"... 🤪🤪
Hahahahah you ain't wrong
I agree. eBay is ruined.
Exactly. 26 year seller here. Crazy
Yeh, I already knew all that 😂
Seriously, can we all appreciate that Rachel, once again, went above and beyond to share what she knows to make our lives better?
Truly Rachtacular! ❤
Thank you my friend!
This video started playing after another one and at first I thought it was stupid because I knew this as well but yeah the details were actually very informative! I'm glad I continued to listen....and now subscribed 😊
Thanks for subscribing
This strategy is a major score for resellers! I will be looking back at my own listings and trying words about holidays, wedding guest, & football game. Thanks, Rachel.
I'm just trying to sell my extra household stuff and noticed items weren't selling much lately. This is awesome! I am trying this today. Thank you!
You are a Genius Rachel ! I adore your curiosity that led you down the rabbit hole & back out to share this with us. This is a game changer for all of us. Thank you - it was so kind of you to help us all raise our game to another level. I’m still in shock that no one from e Bay ever Shared it with us! Wow! Thank you!
You are so welcome! I'm glad if this helps 1 person sell 1 extra thing. We are all here to win!
This is exactly the information that I’ve been trying to find. Thank you for doing all of the testing, which I know takes a lot of time and you have to be very methodical about it. Your tests were very imaginative.
Took you a week? Wow, i respect your commitment and dedication.
Yes because you have to wait 24 hours for many changes to go live. And I made several changes. Each change was another 24 hours Trying to control the experiment as much as possible to ensure accuracy.
Thanks for sharing this information. If anyone didn't know this, they never learned how to properly list items, just did it. Like someone putting together a desk. They never read the instructions. When there are any upgrades, I read everything about it and learn it.
I used to do this is the beginning of selling this year and then when I noticed no one else did I stopped since I thought I was filling it out wrong, maybe that is what is slowing my sales so bad. I am going to go back and fix some listing and see what happens. Thanks! Love your energy and your content!
Thank you!
This is excellent information to know. I guarantee some of the self-proclaimed elite UA-cam resellers are going to claim they always knew this. Sure they did. Sure.
😂😂😂
I have been a seller on Ebay for ten years, I never knew this! I also noticed, that when I go to buy stuff, No matches found message will pop up, yet the item I am looking for is right below in the listings. Most of the time it is not visible w/o scrolling, but it is there. The listing could easily be missed by the casual Ebay buyer,IMO. Thankyou for Sharing!
Hate to say it, but eBay has been saying the item specifics is used in the search. They've said this for a while. Good to know you tested it.
I mean, we knew things like size and color were searchable, but I never knew (and doubt most did) that individual keywords could be plugged into certain (and not all) item specifics. I hope that it translates in the whole video.
@@RachelStrickland Good to know that some of the item specifics are not searchable.
Thank you Rachel for the experiment and taking the time to figure this out!
This really is your best video yet! Working on relisting a bunch of old listings - going to try this out and see if I can get some of these moved quicker!
Wow what an awesome compliment! Thank you!
Not gatekeeping! I already knew this because before I sold on eBay, I was a buyer. I’m used to searched and choosing “include description in search.”
I just applied to my products whatever you said and its works. Thanks a lot
Great to hear!
Thanks so much. I was just ignoring the recommended specifics- I'm going to include my keywords in all of my new listings and will start going back to all current listings and adjusting them.
Fantastic! I'm listing right now and including keywords in item specifics too
Great video! Thanks for taking one for the team!
I have tried this over the past few days and can confirm it is true for me too! I'm recording a podcast about it tonight. I will link to your video in my show notes. :)
Thank you! I really appreciate that. I'll check out your podcast.
Thank you for investing all the time and effort on this and sharing. I appreciate you so much!❤
Thanks for watching!
What a rabbit trail that landed me here at 4am…
It started on an Instagram story from Vad is rad about a rockstar flipper video made accusing daily refinement of scams then checked to see if he had any other videos that offered actual reselling advice and thankfully landed on a video that talked about THIS video.
Now it’s almost 6am and I gotta get ready to head out to yard sales but excited to try this hack in future listings! Thank you for sharing!
I hope you find the best thing you've ever sourced today!
I think I have been doing this unknowingly on some things ..butI will be sure to be more diligent on EVERYTHING. Thank you, Rachel! Another good video! You are the best! 😊😊
You are so welcome
I couldn’t get to my computer fast enough to start improving my listings! Thank you so much for the information and for all of your time and research! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
A) Thank You, Rachael for all you do!! B) I just revised a clothing item - on computer, I found no "recommended", but I did on cell phone. Added keywords to Theme via cell; however, those keywords do not show up when I go to computer listing and hit revise/refresh - frustrating... I am old gal, and really prefer using the computer for my listing versus the phone... Thanks again, Rachael!!
You're right, they aren't on pc. I didn't realize when I made the video or I would have pointed it out. You may grow to love the app.
You are definitely the best!! Thank you for always having our backs and teaching us!!
Happy to help!
I found it out a few months ago when stuff popped up that wasn't related to what I was searching for and I found the word WITH A LEAST 9 OTHER WORDS listed on one line in the item specifics. I thought I was the only one that didn't know about it because I've been on ebay longer then most people so I just started doing it. PERIOD
I think its gonna change a lot
Very very valuable info, Gained you a new subscriber for sure! However I wouldn’t say people were necessarily gatekeeping just not listening and/or connecting the dots. eBay has been pushing item specifics and telling us to fill in as many as possible and this is clearly why. This is why I almost always follow what eBay pushes or recommends even when it doesn’t make sense at first because there is a reason behind it. But anywho love your breakdown, your research, and your whole overall attitude and approach. Keep up the great content.
Very professional video. Full on information, no padding or waffle. Very thorough. Thank you. Implementing it now.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have never ever heard any other eBay content video say this!! I bet we will now that you posted this!
I bet you're right!
Sent over from Rockstar Flipper-new subscriber now! As small reseller, contrary to most reseller recommendations I fill out as many possible fields with multiple relevant key words. Was never sure if it made any difference and many times felt I was wasting time but now I know it does help. I just need to improve on trending key words. I’ll check out your other videos. Thanks.
Thank you! I'm glad you're here
It can be so tedious. And I never know which fields to plug words into because they're all such similar areas. ...theme, occasion, type, character, etc. all kinda seem like the same thing to me haha
Rachel....I can NOT believe you didn't know this.....well I didn't either. But it is VALUEABLE info. Thank you so much for doing all this research and sharing this with everyone. For all your hard work I think I owe you a coffe!
Hahaha you had me for a minute
You are an amazing young lady!!! There needs to be more in the world like you!!!! I have the same philosophy... if I find something that helps me, I will share it with others. Whether they do it or not is on them. LOL!! God bless you also for your amazing content and generosity!!! ❤
Wow, thank you! I appreciate you! God bless you too!
All I have to say is this... This video is JENTACULAR!
I LOVE this video! I'm going to share it to my friends new ebay Facebook group! There are like 3 members but they're all getting this useful information now! Please keep it up.
Thanks for sharing!! I appreciate you so much
Thank you!!! You one bright, generous lady! This will change things.
I hope so!
During the moment you asked to take a moment to be grateful for the week it took you to wait for all the 24 time limits to check listing results for I did I said out loud thank you for thinking to make this to create value for your viewers
Love that! Thank you!
TREAT YOUR BUSINESS LIKE YOUR BUSINESS! So true! Thank you for your research! As the CEO of an SEO company, we performed similar actions with Google back in the old days and it worked!. I've been re-inspired to do it again with some new business ideas I have. Glad I found your channel!
I started off watching this and I honestly was not expecting this to be so interesting and helpful as it was... so many UA-cam vids end up being a waste of time but this was great.. well done. Subbed! 😊
Yay! Thank you! I appreciate you
Thank very much for doing the research Rachel 💯🤙🏾
Thanks for watching!
I'm embarrassed I didn't realize the description wasn't searchable. 😮 How did I miss this? Well, the good news is now I know and can apply your research. Thanks a bunch.
Hey, I've been in that boat. We can only be happy we know now.
Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this keyword research and then sharing it with us! ❤❤
WOw. I'm just beginning so I am super grateful for all your tips and your amzing energy and passion for what we do!
And this video is just one of the many reasons why YOU ARE AWESOME! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thank you my friend!
Great information. Thank you so much for sharing! I started selling on eBay in 1997 when it was pretty new. I burned out after a few years, worked full time as well, but now I’m retired thought I would start reselling again. I still have my original account because I do buy and sell sporadically, but it is a different animal now and I really appreciate the info on the title listing.
You got this! Jump back in!
I always assumed that the additional keywords in the description were searchable, but I see that there is a click box under the search bar for "Include Description". So, I guess that isn't searched unless someone intentionally clicks that box.
Hope this isn't a stupid question, but when you say our listings get pushed down, you mean when a person just searches with no sorting? I would assume if it's sorted by like lowest to highest, for instance, that it would show up the right way.
Noy a stupid question. Yes, with organic results which are typically sorted by most relevant. Anything else is sorted by price, edinh soonest etc and placement goes accordingly
Blown away by the results! I’m definitely doing this!!!
And the award for best eBay tip of the year……
RACHEL STRICKLAND 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Wow! I'd like to thank rockchicavids for nominating me for and giving me this award! 🏆 😢 😭
This might be the most useful Ebay info I've gotten from any youtube video, ever. Thank you for sharing this.
Holy cow what a high honor
Awesome. Thanks so much! They have been nagging me for months to add specifics. I cross list and never go in to add more I will work on the specifics from now on ,
Same here!
Phenomenal & Ultra helpful can't thank you enough Rachel and I'm so glad I recently subscribed!
First time watcher=new subscriber! I so appreciate the info! And thanks for giving us the definition. 😊
Thanks for doing the work for us- Great info!
Absolutely
The Auction Professor has been talking about this for years, perhaps you should watch him. But you did go more in depth and I appreciate your work on this and letting us all know, Thank You.
For me, since the update, style is a required and you can only choose one. You can choice pretty much all the “themes” you want which is under recommended.
Yes. Some have one and others have the ability to choose several.
You’re definitely my favorite reseller teacher!!
Wow, thank you!
Thank you for all your hard work on throughly testing this out.
Very welcome!
I've been doing this all year- thought I'd eventually get in trouble for it!
Not at all. Seems it's how they want us to play
By the way, your lighting, sound and video quality in this video is outstanding.
Ahhhh thank you! I've been trying to improve
Just found your channel and I have to say you are on it. Thanks for the update and isn't amazing that even on EBay that even a half of the users are once again at an advantage and keeping some secrets for their sales. I am not a reseller but enjoy hearing about these platforms.
Ebay does recommend filling out as many details as possible. This not only makes it searchable through ebay but web searches which further drive their income.
Ok now I bought a vintage board game from the library of all places. It was eight dollars. Still new, though the seal was ripped up in places. I wanred to use it as an experiment. There are two listed and none sold. Its an obscure game that im sure nobody is directly searching for. I wanted to experiment with key words to see if I can get it sold based on its subject matter. This video will be invaluable!! Thanks so much. I'm eager to see if I can put this info to good use.
Thank you for takibg the time to research this. I will definitely be trying it on my listings ASAP.
Please do!
Thank you, one of the best eBay videos I've seen.
Thanks! That means a lot
ive known this for some time ,just makes sense..but I love your passion for learning new things
I love to learn!
Thanks Rachel! Great tip! Question-So lets say I have an item that I think is a good present for let’s say, Christmas (since it’s coming up). If I put Christmas (or even Birthday, etc) in one if the recommended items specifics (let’s say-TYPE for example), then that’s ok since I would want it to be pushed up higher in Cassini’s search algorithm. BUT if someone were to put, as you say, GUCCI into a listing of say storage containers, that’s where you’d get in trouble cuz it has absolutely nothing to do with the item. Just want to make sure I understand correctly. Tried this hack last night. In a CD Changer I put “audiophile” in as a custom recommended item specific because audiophile relates directly to the item being sold. I guess we’ll see how it works in 24 hours. 😀
Yes! You got the idea! Don't use any words that don't apply to the listing
@@RachelStrickland thx Rachel! Have a great weekend
First-time watcher to your channel. Not only are you gorgeous but exceptionally savvy as a reseller. I've never heard anyone else talk about this on UA-cam. Great and beneficial content and suggestions in this video! Thanks for taking the time to share these ideas 💡 😊
ooooo this is interesting. The future of reselling!
Thank you
I love how you "reversed engineered" the search rank and formed a hypothesis from your "black box" testing. Will give it a try!
I really REALLY want to understand what you are talking about because I want to start listing my over abundance of stuff ... but i have no idea what you're referring to! Do you have a video breaking down the parts of an ebay listing? Something like an instructional diagram for ebay dummies (like myself)?
That's actually a fantastic idea for a video. I got you girl. I'll add this to the videos to work on
I'd never really thought about it but it makes sense in hindsight. I sell lego sets on ebay. I will look up sold listings to see what a product is selling for like everyone else. I search for Lego and the set number. I will see sets pop up that are not the set number I am searching for. Sometimes the error is in the title, but other times the set number is listed incorrectly in the description or in the field for the set number.
Thank you so very very much! This took a lot of time and very generous of you to share!!!!
You bet!
Awesome video Rachel, a long time ago I suspected this might be true but never tried any experiments. Thank you for sharing this content and have a blessed weekend
You are so welcome! God bless you too
I had to watch your video twice to understand because I’m slow to learn some things. Thank you for the video. I’m going to revise all my listings ❤
Required is only giving me 5 options: Brand , Size ,Color ,Type and Department. Then there is a section that says additional with ( optional) I don't have a "Recommended" section when creating my listings. So this means it won't work?
Every category has a different list. Some categories have no recommended. A different category may offer you recommended on a different listing.
Great video! I love this! I wonder if you were to delist, make those specific changes, and then relist if that would circumvent the algorithm? When you list an item usually in the first 24 hours you do see some traffic (like/offers) which leads me to believe eBay gives some priority to fresh posts.
That would be interesting to find out as well
I didn't know I "knew" this, but I did know it. I used to do this in my listings, but the UA-cam experts said to use only the available choices. So, that's what I've been doing, and my sales have slowed. I suspected that was my problem, or at least part of it. Now you've confirmed it. Thank you!
I thought the item specifics were searchable, especially Theme words. I'm just not that great at coming up with the words. I've always heard too that the description in Poshmark listings is searchable, just like the title. I also have heard UA-cam people say you have to use only the item specific choices eBay gives you, like color and I'm not sure that's true.
Katy of the UA-cam channel Katy and Vikki has often mentioned that she puts extra keywords under Theme (she's a vintage t-shirt seller) but I doubt she's ever done any research like you did - she probably did it from a gut feeling she had. Thank you for doing the research. I guess I gotta start doing it too. Cheers!
Interesting! She was onto it!
Was sent over by Rockstar Flipper. This is excellent information. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you! Im glad you're here!
Thank you! I will now hopefully be able to sell more of my items 🤞🏻
You got this!
"The juicer was more jentacular than the shoes..." 😆😆hahaha! Great video!
Lol it was!
Your keyword videos are the best! Thank you for taking the time to research this. I have to go back and watch the video with the core words again 😊
Wow, thank you!
This will be my new favorite" I only have one minute" activity.
Excellent idea
Thanks for the great info…Subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
Rachel may have mentioned it but I was shocked to find two items without Christmas in the title but in THEME on the 1st page of search out of 1.9M is crazy. I have kicked promoted listings to the curb, bye Felicia!
Upon further review I wasn't able to add my own keywords into theme.
Thank you❤. I am editing my listings today.
You got this!
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your funds from all of this research! You're the 💣!!!
Glad it was helpful!
How would you use this if you sell comics & collectibles? Thanks. Great video!
I would search for specific fields I could use a characters name or even the franchise (ie marvel, Spider man, DC,) but also use trending words for comics when applicable like: first appearance etc...
My brain sorta knew this but not how or exactly or for sure if it worked and now it’s clear. Thanks you rock!
You rock too!
I can tell other resellers withhold stuff we know who they are .Thankyou for being honest !I will go over your video it was a bit confusing you will probably get more views that way right 🤪
Great video, thank you for sharing your results and research!
My pleasure!
Thank you! .. you used to be able to add an *before a word at the end of your items description and the word would become available in a item search.. not sure if it still works.. eBay has horribly changed over the years makes me sick.
Oh! I wonder if that still works!
Rachel do you use List Perfectly? If so, don't they have an area where you can include hashtags? I am wondering if the general description area is searchable as well. I have seen listings with a bunch of keywords at the very bottom in the form of hashtags. Maybe this could be another level to test out?
I use Vendoo. I list on ebay, import from there to vendoo and cross list
@@RachelStrickland I love Vendoo. I've used almost everything and I always go back to Vendoo.
I just found your channel, as a new seller things are tough getting anything to sell but wow your videos are sooo helpful!! I’m going to change my listings and do this! Thank you for making these videos!!