![]() ![]() Or at least using them withing general Search. Item Specifics are the new kids on the block - eBay's only recently begun using them, from what I gather from what they publish. Product name should be left, brand can generally slide right, unless it it commonly associated with the brand. ![]() And the left-most keyword(s) have the greatest value, with those further to the right having lesser value. Title is the primary index - that's why everyone tells you to fill your titles full of good keywords, regardless of the resulting syntax and grammatical dysfunction. You have three primary source of indexed data: Title, Item Specifics, and Description. If you change nothing that is indexed, then there is no reason to remove/replace, and no benefit will be gained. Re-indexing, or "refreshing", a listing requires making a change that will force eBay to remove your old index entries and create new ones. Indexing has been around for decades within IT - all the best databases had it, and the ones that didn't were desperately trying to fill that void. A shortcut, of sorts, to make searching thru millions upon millions of records without having to read every last one of them. Indexing is a function of modern databases wherein you can tell the system what you are most commonly going to search the database for, and the database software will create a special index, just like the index of a book, for that data. ![]() There are a few things I've noted over the past dozen or so years, especially lately.įirst - a small definition. As others have said, with all the 'disruptive innovation' eBay's been using to disrupt the site, it's sometimes hard to tell what gains advantage and what is just a waste of time.
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