Best Match - I improved my ranking!

[stampingpaws]

Hello,

About 6 hours ago, after studing "Tips on ways to improve your listings" I changed the photos on one of my listings. Previously I had just one photo measuring 510 on longest side, this I replaced with 8 photos that were 1270 on longest side. I just checked my ranking for this item, it has improved from 131 to 97.

By no means definite but Best Match seems to take quantity and size of photos into account. Will be changing all my photos in the next few days.

Best Wishes

[dylan11235813]

It would seem that not only the best mach system does not work very well but the whole site and ebay blame the sellers

[dylan11235813]

I would not do the free post to get the so called higher ranking. Add express post to your listings and it will increase sales, even if no one uses it. Make it real expensive too, I charge $13 but will likely increase it to $15

[harley_babes_hoard]

no one I know uses best match anyway the first thing they do is search lowest price + postage or ending soonest.

You are going to be forever changing your listing trying to achieve the unachievable.

[harley_babes_hoard]

This is how stupid best match rankings are. I have items that have sold 30 pieces of that are not in best match however I listed a brand new item I have never had before and it is on page one of best match.

[digital*ghost]

A lot of people have suggested that there are certain things the search engine on eBay favours (other than the suggested things by eBay) when it comes to BM rankings - none of the following is info from eBay, just people that use it, and I can't vouch for how much of an impact they have, or how consistently they affect things).

New listings (not sell similiar or relisted items)

No HTML templates (the SE supposedly picks up on the duplicate content of templates)

Photos with relevant keywords as the file names (helps with google search, at any rate)

SKUs

Brand new condition

[harley_babes_hoard]

hmmm I have a template in both items in previous post (same item, same category), the same picture size, everything exactly the same apart from a section of the title and a section of the description. One item has sold over 30 of and the other is a new item never listed before. You would think the one with sales history would be more prominent than the new listing.

[digital*ghost]

Actually, I understand the theory behind eBay favouring newly listed items.

Now that there are so many business sellers on site with GTC listings that have been running for years, it's probably their way of trying to maintain fresh content in search results so that theoretically (if not actually), people see new and different items rather than the same ones all the time.

The theory is sound, but it neglects to truly take into account how diversity is achieved and why people like it.

[shoptilludroptara]

hi

as a buyer i automatically click off the best match

so for me its not relevent not sure how other look

tara

[sueken4812]

So Digital, what do you mean by photos with key words?