Google Shopping Keywords and Selling on Ecrater

Google Shopping Keywords, and Selling on Ecrater is something to consider. 

Hi All, and Welcome to LilacsNDreams! I have been gone all day again on Wednesday. Busy busy busy. Each time I have a day like this I make sure to still stay up at night to read my emails, read messages to me, check my shops, and of course read what is being shared in all the forums I like to frequent, and roam through. 

Many of us who are sellers have many shops. Some of our shops are all in the same place, some of us use different venues to sell with, and some of us also have websites that we like to sell with as well. Some day I hope to be more active with my website, or maybe just do everything from my blog here too. Anyway, I am getting ahead of myself there a little bit.

One of the shops I have is with Ecrater. I have slowly...and I mean slowly been adding my inventory into this shop. My vintage collectibles, items found when thrifting, and I have also been adding in my items that I repurpose too. Ecrater is free to list, no final value fees, has been around for a while, and they do offer choices of paypal and google wallet as payment services to use too. As some of us, or many of us are aware soon Google Shopping will be completely different for use. In order for our products to show with Google Shopping you will have to pay to be a part of it. I have heard it can get quite spendy too. I have never really worried too much about Google Shopping as I am seen in Google Organic searches, found in yahoo searches, product images show at The Find, and etc. But, let's admit it, the more we can get seen by others, the more exposure, the better chances of sales, right? In the forums at Artfire tonight another seller there who also sells on Ecrater shared something interesting with all of us. TheLivesAndLovesOfMaggieTheCat shared this with us: 
                   "For all who are or are considering opening on eCRATER I just learned that the admin is paying Google for minimum key word bids so our items will still be picked up by Google Shopping. How is that for a totally free site?"

WOW! This is good news, and even more incentive for me to start working harder on those listings I have slowly been adding in there. With this kind of announcement it is time for me to step it up a bit more with the Holiday Shopping fast approaching for us too. 

So, for those who are sellers visiting with LilacsNDreams, and if you use Ecrater I hope you find satisfaction with this announcement as I did myself. I wish you all well, and many happy sales to you too!

Thanks for sharing your time with LilacsNDreams, and hope to see you again soon. Take care till the next time everyone. Toodle Ooohhh....

Google Shopping Search Changes Have a Nice Weekend

Google Shopping Search Changes Wishing You All a Nice Weekend!

Hello, and welcome back to LilacsNDreams. Yippee! It's Friday, and weekend here we come...LOL:) I am sure by now most of you have heard the buzz with Google Shopping Searches. Yepper! Google is making another change, again. When don't they, right? Well, unfortunately this one is gonna hit with many small businesses, and effect quite a few online sellers. Great for the bigger business, but here we go again. 

It's really easy to just go to your addy bar at the top, and put in for google.com to do a search of something you are looking for. Sometimes you will go to Shopping in Google for a little more of a break down for the item you are looking for too. By this fall expect that Google Shopping search to be quite different. In order for sellers, and businesses to be seen with Google Shopping it will have to be paid for. Kind of like a paid advertisement. Yepper! Gonna be a fee to submit your stores, your products, your goods to be seen in Google Shopping. The Google Organic searches will still be free, and that is a much wider spread to search through, but this is the big spin on news in Google world. 

So, by this fall when you are searching for something you will see some differences than you do now. If you like to bargain shop...which many of us do. We like to search for the best deal possible, and save that penny where we can, Google Searches will not be quite the same. So, when you do a search don't use Google Shopping, but just use the organic shopping with Google. Also, there are other search engines out there to use as well too. Bing is the next one under Google, you can use Yahoo, try Ask.com, and another one I seen is DuckDuckGo.com. There are many more, and sometimes breaking habit of use is a good thing too.

I myself went into Bing searches this morning. Looking for some images to use with some of my postings for here, and I was quite happy with what I had found there too. 

Hey, I hope ya'll have an enjoyable weekend....it's Friday, and here it comes! Thanks for sharing with LilacsNDreams, enjoy your weekend, and see you again next week everyone. Take care.