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***eBay Stores Policy Change: Custom Category Names***
Date: 05/11/04 Time: 05:13:48 PM PDT
Over the past several months, we have been working on ways to drive more traffic into eBay Stores. An important way for Stores to gain visibility and traffic is through appearing in search engines off eBay, so we have worked to make it easier for search engines to read the content of your Store so it can be included in the appropriate search results.
As part of this effort, we will be making a change to the way members can name their custom categories. In about a week, Store sellers will be required to have unique names for each of their custom categories (i.e. you will not be able to have the same name for more than one category). If Store sellers do have duplicate category names after this change takes place, eBay will add a number after each duplicated name to differentiate them. Please note that this will not affect the content or operation of your categories; this is merely a name change.
For example, if you have two custom categories in your Store that are each named "Video Games", the second category will be renamed as "Video Games1" in about a week.
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Good to know.
On a side note, I've often wondered why some sellers don't use any catagories in their eBay store.
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I think Store Categories is important. We need buyers to reach a point where they have limited choice, so they can make a final decision. If there are no categories, I feel buyers end up glazing over your listings and not give it the attention you want. But if you have categories, you filter the "noise" and present products in an efficient ways which, I think, shows you care about your customer's time.
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I have over 600 items in my store, if I didn't have categories who would want to wade through all of it to find something they want?
I know sometimes when I click on the link to someone's other auctions and there's hundreds of items listed, I usually back out because frankly I don't feel like wasting time wading through stuff that doesn't even interest me in order to find the one item that does.
I kept that in mind when I opened my store.
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I think eBay should offer more category choices than the limited number they offer.
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What I'd like to see is the ability to catagorize within a catagory. For example, I am selling those popular Italian charms, and I would like to be able to have a top catagory of Italian charms, and within that have Animals, Sports, etc.
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I've been begging for sub categories for ages... I'm using most of my current categories for different sets of Pokemon because there are too many to put in one category...
I'm going to be out of space very soon 8(