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 🙂
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