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Black Hat Experimental: Ebay – Want it now

Ebay has a little feature called “want it now”.  It’s a place where people who want something can list what they want.  You can also contact them.

Now I’m not suggesting that you sell folks things from there – and spamming is wrong. Cough Cough.  Ebay doesn’t like it, but you could probably find a few bucks this way (or the safe way – I’ll get there in a minute).

BUT let’s say you have a free afternoon, and all these affiliate programs you belong to.  Between C.J. and Linkshare you can probably find lot’s of things that people are looking for.   Throw up a blog real fast, and start listing what you see people looking for.  Direct those ebay searchers to the page where you put the product.

I’ve used this feature only as a research tool in the past.  Let’s say I’m thinking about something to create a “ebay site” on.  I like to find little niches that don’t have much competition outside of strange people searching for them – and then direct them to ebay to make the purchase.  I’ll build a site that’s only going to make 200 a year if it only takes me 30 minutes.  400 dollars an hour is usually worth it in anyones book right?

Here is the ebay “want it now” page:

http://pages.ebay.com/wantitnow/index.html

If you’ve got ideas, or have used this feature on ebay a little further – speak up.

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Optimizing for Bing

Well it’s a new game out there.  Bing is competing with Yahoo for 2nd place in the Search Engine wars – and Microsoft is planning to pour in a crap load of money over the next 5 years (I just read that they planned on putting 5 to 10 percent of their annual operating costs into it).

So what’s the deal with optimizing for bing?  I’ve just spent the last hour or so digging for the dirt while taking a break from creating sites.  Here is what seems to be important to Bing right now:

1. Having an older domain age.
2. Having inbound links from websites that included the primary keyword in the referring site’s title tags- in other words, building inbound links from other SEOd sites and directories as opposed to being from just anywhere.

It’s certainly a easy place to break into right now – buy a domain on the aftermarket.  And build a mini network around it that follows number 2.  If you are already building mini networks like we talk about in the 30 day guide – it should be a breeze to impliment.

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Your favorite registrar?

I’m just curious where you guys/gals register your domains.  I usually use namecheap because I like their interface better than any others I’ve tried.  If you have more than 50 (hehe I wish that’s all I had) with them they will give you a special code to get a discount on renewals.  That’s always nice – but since they raised their prices there are other places that are cheaper.

If they had a better interface I’d deal with them – so time to try a few places out.   Let me know your favorites.

(if you say godaddy I’ll have to drive to your house and beat you).

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