Dupe Content on Ebay Shop vs. Main Site

Listing products in ebay shop effect own website?

[suggy]

Hi all

I have a successful and very well ranked website.

I want to hedge the risk of the likes of another Florida-style axe fall, by creating a successful ebay shop too.

To keep things simple, I could use my product descriptions and a portion of the copy as shown on my website, straight out of the database. Obviously, terms, etc and the html itself will be different.
Will this hurt my websites rankings?

Anyone got any experience. To avoid damage, what level of uniqueness is required?

Cheers,

Suggy

[suggy]

Er... help?!

[trinorthlighting]

Honestly, I was in the same boat last year. I just ended up advertising our better selling items and it did not seem to effect things to much.

On a side note, our ebay sales are down. Its not that we have competition, honestly people are starting to shy away from paypal sales because of all the pfishing schemes and fraudelent auctions for high dollar items.

[suggy]

Hi trinorthlighting

I know it's a bit off topic, but how did ebay work out for you? Was it worth the effort? I just want to underwrite my mortgage and the payments for the finance on my SUV!

Thanks

Steve

[colin_h]

Hi there, Just a quick note on Ebay ... I find it a huge amount more productive than Google and would never look at paying Google for listings again. If you have a product that is sought after and the right price, you will succeed on Ebay, whereas on Google there is a lot of spam waiting to poach your business.

All the Best .. google has had its day

Google Hating Col :-)

[trinorthlighting]

Steve,

It really depends on what you sell and your competition. My advice, take your top 10 selling items, and research them on ebay. That will determine ebay "market value"

From there, look at the cost of your items, take into account selling fees and advertising costs and see if its really worth it to advertise all of your items you sell. Ebays fees account on average of 5-20% of the selling value of the item. This depends on how you advertise it, if you use pay pal, time to make advertisements, etc...

What we do is advertise our top 10 items, and on our ebay homepage we mention our website. Now, according to ebay policies you can not advertise your url, but you can drop a link to a page that has more detailed information like instructions. We do that and on those informational pages, we have links to our online store.