Instructional eCommerce Videos
At VendLab we love sharing our knowledge of all thing’s eCommerce, so we have created VendLab eCommerce School – a YouTube channel dedicated to eCommerce instructional videos. Alongside our educational videos, there are recording of our eCommerce Odyssey Podcast which features interviews with interesting people in the eCommerce world Amazon Understanding Amazon FBA SettingsUnderstanding what […]
eBay Seller Hub – Performance, , Listings, Orders, Marketing, Payments, Research and Reporting
Seller Hub is the central place for managing your eBay business. It consolidates all our selling information and activities into one location. It also gives you useful data and recommendations to help you grow your eBay sales. Seller Hub gives you tools to: Manage your listings. You’ll find all the listing, reporting, and order management […]
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO): Website Crawling
As we have discussed previously, producing search engine results involves several distinct processes, and many factors must be considered to build and maintain a high performing website. Crawling. Can search engines find your pages and read their contents? On-Page SEO. Creating compelling content which answers searcher’s queries and ranks highly for relevant keyphrases Technical SEO. […]
Understanding eBay Settings – Postage, Business Policies & Buyer Requirements
Account settings is where a seller customizes the setting which are required to run their account Business information This section is where your business details are specified. These include: Username. Your username can only be changed every 30 days. Your usernames can include letters, numbers and some symbols. Usernames must be at least six characters […]
Understanding eBay Fees, Discounts and Invoices
eBay charges several fees for listing on its marketplace: Insertion fee Final Value (FVF) fee Payment processing fee Listing upgrades Note: Fees vary across eBay territories. What may be free in one territory may not be free in another. Insertion fee The insertion fee is the fee to list an item on the eBay marketplace. […]
Black Hat and White Hat SEO
Search Engine Optimisation techniques divide into two types: Black Hat and White Hat SEO. Black Hat SEO Black Hat SEO techniques try to trick search engines into thinking that a website is relevant for a particular search term by manipulating weakness in the search engine’s algorithm. One example of an old black hat technique is […]
eBay Account Types and Selling Limits
Before you can start selling on eBay, you first need to set up an account. There are two types of account: Private and business Private seller account To sign up for an eBay account, all you need is your email address. Before the account can be used for buying and selling, this email must be […]
Interview with Jamie Riddell from Escaping Gravity
Jamie Riddell has been at the forefront of Search Engine Optimisation for over 20 years and his latest venture is Escaping Gravity, a Global SEO agency for Challenger brands. SEO was one of the first things which got me excited about eCommerce, so it was great to discuss the latest developments with Jamie. Amongst other […]
How to find great products to sell on eBay, Amazon and your own website.
Search Queries By looking for popular and trending keyword searches, you can establish market trends and popular products. There are some are free products that provide keyword volumes: Google trends. Show trending searches across the world. Google keyword planner provides search term volume for Google ads customers. Amazon search volume. Sonar is a free Amazon […]
How Search Engines Work
Search engines perform a marvelous feat. Based on a text query, they produce a list of (usually) relevant results from the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Moreover, they do this at lightning speed, with search results appearing as your type. Crawling and Indexing Search engines do not achieve this by searching the […]