Sunday, December 9, 2012

eBay RSS Feed Box

To drive more traffic to your eBay Store make sure the RSS Feed is activated. This is found in eBay's Sellers Manager or Sellers Manager Pro.

One would go to Manage My Store, Marketing Tools, Store Marketing. In Store Marketing click on RSS Feeds.
  Once this is open make sure to have the top button clicked that says Activate your Fixed Price listings via RSS, then apply.
 
So now you wonder what an RSS feed is and how this will help me with items in my store.
A RSS feed is a summary of Web content that is updated on a regular basis. It is a way for users to keep informed of a Web site's latest changes. The feed format that eBay uses is Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0.

Feeds help eBay make content more accessible, and they allow you to easily see new content. A summary or "headline" view lets you quickly scan recent content changes, and headlines are linked to their appropriate content.

How to subscribe to a feed

Before you subscribe to a feed, you'll need an RSS reader or aggregator to view content in RSS. Several free and commercial RSS readers are available on the Internet. Once you have an RSS reader, simply right-click on an RSS link, copy the URL, and paste it into your reader to display the content in RSS.

The eBay Stores, eBay Discussion Boards, eBay General Announcement Board and System Announcement Board are places where content is changing on a regular basis. To make it easy for you to see recent changes and updates on these Stores and boards, you can view their content in RSS
  
For ones who were using  RSS feed run by Feed My In Box for your store is shutting down on January 10, 2013. http://www.feedmyinbox.com/
For more on eBay's RSS feeds http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/exporting-your-listings.html