Jim Cockrum has released a newly updated 2011 version of his Silent Sales Machine ebook. Here’s my Silent Sales Machine 7th edition review. I’ve been telling my readers to get his book for years. It’s that good.
Read my Silent Sales Machine Review and get a Free interview I did with Jim.
Please share links to sites where you research antiques and collectibles here. Use this format:
http://www.abebooks.com is a site with lists of used books without ISBN numbers.
http://www.amazon.com is a site where you can look up newer books with ISBN numbers, and recently made toys and board games.
Share your links below.
Terry
My toy train website train99.com dropped off Google years ago. I thought Google had banned the site because it was over optimized. I was writing articles about specific toy train models like the Lionel Mickey Mouse Circus Train, Lionel’s 402 locomotive, and American Flyer’s K335 Northerner Loco One of the plugins loaded links to eBay auctions below the content. The allowed readers to see what the trains were selling for on eBay.
Initially I did OK with the site. eBay paid me a few hundred a month for the traffic and the articles were based on trains in my collection, or on items I’d sold on eBay so I didn’t have to spend much time adding new articles.
Just before train99 fell out of Google, eBay changed their affiliate program and my earnings dropped so the site was only making about $25 a month.
I assumed Google had blocked train99.com and the money wasn’t worth the time to try and fix it.
Recently I’ve been playing with Google’s Webmaster tools for my ebay advice website. I added train99 to the list of my websites in Google expecting to see the site had been blocked.
It turned out there was a robots.txt file on train99 telling search engines to ignore the site. I wouldn’t have added this to my site, but it’s been years so I can’t say that for sure. I don’t even know when it was added since my site has been moved to different servers. I changed the robots.txt file and now I’m waiting to see what happens.
Two weeks after I changed the robots.txt file Google crawled train99, but has yet to index any pages.
I just added an interview with Sydney Johnston called Adding Backend Sales To Your eBay Sales to IWantCollectibles.
It’s a PDF that explains how to sell low priced items on ebay and then sell the buyers more expensive items. The process works for affiliates too.
Terry
I wrote two articles last month relating to Jim Cockrum.
Actually, one’s not an article, it’s an interview Jim and I did about how we went from eBay sellers to building online businesses. Great stuff, and FREE!
Jim Cockrum on building an online business
The other article is a Review of Jim’s Fullfillment By Amazon package. My article explains when you want to sell on Amazon rather than eBay, and my thoughts on Jim’s package.
Terry
Antiques, Collectibles and eBay Advice
