eBay Related Searches through Get Search Results
Ok I am simply blown away by the latest offering from the eBay API as an awesome way to make a bunch of money. eBay is now revealing (without the data + formula behind it of course) the results of their related searches algorithm. When you search on eBay for "tmx" on eBay at the moment it will give you 937 items but just above that it will give you the following related searches: ps3, wii, tmx elmo, tickle me elmo, playstation 3
This is really useful information you can use to determine (as a paid search advertiser for example) hey I don't want to buy keyword "tmx" it's too pricey but keyword "tickle me elmo" is closely related... I will buy that instead and send the clicks to the same page as TMX. This data is quite simply awesome and exposed world wide for free. Make use of it and you'll do great, esp. as an ebay affiliate and you can access it via the REST API, I am playing with this and a little bit of MAA right now :)
Well I guess it's not easy but I think it holds a lot of potential. Certainly the future of Adwords reselling into adsense is going to be interesting. Keywords however have a lot of different variables related to their value and one has to be the keywords they are related to.
Re how is it going for me I have done the research on one category of keywords and have it in a database but for the last week I have been working on my skype alerts project www.evilsearches.com which is going really well. It is for an internal competition with $1000's in prizes so I am actually keen to try and win it. I will let you know how MAA goes when I get started in March.
Posted by: Alex Schultz | February 10, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Hey Alex! Easy way to make money... hmmm.. sign me up! How is it working out for you?
Posted by: Keith Mander | February 10, 2007 at 10:18 AM