Comments on: Get more clicks by removing bids

By: Frank C

Frank C — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:57:00 +0000

Removing bids makes a huge difference in click-thru and conversion in my experience. Remember the main thing that you want is a click-thru that sets a 7 day cookie. That’s why you want them to surf for the best deal on eBay, not on your EPN site.

By: Mach1Canuck

Mach1Canuck — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:26:26 +0000

@Turbolapp: Yes, you need to upgrade.

By: turbolapp

turbolapp — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:38:56 +0000

Where is the templates file?

Also, Josh said “Display Listings in Columns? – Listings are displayed in table columns rather than rows.”

I don’t have this option for some reason…do you have to update to 3.0 to get it?

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:47:09 +0000

@Alan, don’t test vs. other sites. test on the same sites. Take your clicks for the month of June and divide by the amount of visitors, so u know the avg clicks per visitor. then remove bids for all of july and do the same and then compare…

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:43:53 +0000

Robert,
I’ll be posting June earnings in a week. I started this technique beginning of June, I’ll post the details then. But in short, yes.

By: Alan Petersen

Alan Petersen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:33:10 +0000

I’ve heard other recommend this before but I’ve been on the fence about it. I just removed it from one of my sites so I can compare how it does vs the other stores that still display bid info.

I couldn’t get the comment tag to work since the bid display was still visible as was the tag. So I just delete that line and it worked.

Great step by step tutorial. Thanks.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:39:14 +0000

What I am asking, is DOES it increase your revenue, or do you think it SHOULD? Did you do any before / after numbers checking?

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:22:44 +0000

Ah, got it. If you select column-mode, the bids do not show up. In the phpBay settings, it is:

Display Listings in Columns? – Listings are displayed in table columns rather than rows.

I had that selected instead of the native row-based format.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:24:10 +0000

This is odd. I’ll have to look into it, but I do not get any bid numbers next to my listings. I do not think I configured anything special in my phpbay code, but again, I should look into it.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:30:08 +0000

Robert,
extra clicks does not necessarily mean higher conversion rate. But it can still translate to more money. If you get 100 clicks and they convert at 5%, then you get five conversions. But it you get 200 clicks and still convert at 5%, you get 10 conversions.

Even if you get 200 clicks, but now only convert at 3%, you still get 6 conversions. That’s one more than you had with 100 clicks.

More clicks=more cookies.
More cookies=more CHANCES to convert.

Remember, i don’t care if they buy what they saw on my site, as long as i set the cookie i get commission for anything they buy on ebay in the next 7 days…