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psunite
Joined: 27 Jan 2005
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Location: Columbus OH
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:41 am Post subject: eBay Ads Still Off Google: |
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The "experiment" continues. It appears that eBay ads on Google are still nowhere to be found, consistent with what eBay spokespeople said last week -- that the company would continue its AdWords fast for an indefinite period. As one example, the quintessential eBay search for "collectibles" reveals a top organic link but no paid eBay ad.
Without citing a source, Did-it's Mark Simon says in this MediaPost piece that eBay spends -- or used to spend -- $26 million monthly on Google AdWords in the U.S. market. If true that's $312 million annually.
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The following comes from qSearch Marketer, our web-based search marketing competitive intelligence tool, and is from March 2007 for the US market. This table shows that Google accounts for 45.7% of total search click-thrus to eBay, and 39.2% of paid search click-thrus. This measures search click-thrus from the main web search channels at the leading search engines in the US. Other Web Search is predominantly AOL Search and Ask.
Source: comScore (June, 2007)
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nopaypal
Joined: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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holy crapolie! looks like google is the ebay of search engines!
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all i can say is, this is pretty horrible...my hits on ebay have gone down to bidville levels!
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EleganzaJewels
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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If Google ever decides to land a counter-punch, they could easily hold Ebay to task for their continued cloaking. I wonder just how high in the SERPs Ebay would be WITHOUT cloaking? Food for thought - be careful, Ebay, you may bite off more than you can chew - Ebay could conceivably be dropped from the index, even.
Take this URL from Ebay:
Ebay Buying Hub
Plug into this cloaking detector, and see what you see...
Cloaking Detector |
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nopaypal
Joined: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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well, i see an error msg...
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nopaypal
Joined: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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oops, sorry, my mistake! this time i did it right. but i didnt see much difference, except fer the ebay store listing.
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EleganzaJewels
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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No, you don't see much difference, but then that's just the homepage. See the percentage difference between what you see and what the googlebot sees?
I've always wondered how Ebay and Amazon got away with it, while Joe Small Potatoes gets booted from the index for the same thing.
The answer must lie in all those millions of dollars in advertising, eh? :oops: |
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Earthfragments.com
Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 1031
Location: Pocono Mountains, PA
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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experiment grade: F-
Thanks for experimenting with my money ebay. aaargh!!!! :x
In other news, I just got my 1000th FB today. eBay keeps pulling this carp I'll quit before 1100. |
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nopaypal
Joined: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: Re: eBay Ads Still Off Google: |
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Quote: › docWrite("quote")See the percentage difference between what you see and what the googlebot sees?
yeah, i did see the stat. but unless i can finger out what is missing, i cant really decide if it's crucial or not...that's just me.
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Eastwood4460
Joined: 28 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: eBay Ads Still Off Google: |
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| Any bets on when the Yahoo ads start appearing? :lol: |
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