marksierra
October 5th, 2009, 09:37 AM
I've been creating eBay stores using BANS and phpBay Pro for almost a year now. I continue to apply what I learn when finding new niches to tap into.
One resource I recently signed up for to determine profitable niches is Terapeak, a place that shows historical data for products sold on eBay. I've been very impressed with it, but find it overwhelming at times because it's like being a kid in a candy store. :)
Right now I'm faced with deciding how broad I should make my niche based on the information I'm finding in Terapeak. For example, let's say the niche is about T-shirts. That's pretty broad, so I could narrow it down to children's t-shirts, or go even narrower and sell boys red t-shirts and then by size.
So my question is this: assuming that the proper research has been done to find high-selling products on eBay that have low competition and that quality content exists on the site, do any of you have experience that shows the narrower the niche the better conversion rates you get?
I've read elsewhere that you shouldn't try to build another eBay, and I would agree with that. I'm just trying to figure out if Google would be more interested in sites that have a very narrow purpose in mind (boys red t-shirts) vs. a site that has a more general purpose (t-shirts).
The other thing I'm trying to avoid is creating too many "narrow" niche sites when they could/should be combined.
One resource I recently signed up for to determine profitable niches is Terapeak, a place that shows historical data for products sold on eBay. I've been very impressed with it, but find it overwhelming at times because it's like being a kid in a candy store. :)
Right now I'm faced with deciding how broad I should make my niche based on the information I'm finding in Terapeak. For example, let's say the niche is about T-shirts. That's pretty broad, so I could narrow it down to children's t-shirts, or go even narrower and sell boys red t-shirts and then by size.
So my question is this: assuming that the proper research has been done to find high-selling products on eBay that have low competition and that quality content exists on the site, do any of you have experience that shows the narrower the niche the better conversion rates you get?
I've read elsewhere that you shouldn't try to build another eBay, and I would agree with that. I'm just trying to figure out if Google would be more interested in sites that have a very narrow purpose in mind (boys red t-shirts) vs. a site that has a more general purpose (t-shirts).
The other thing I'm trying to avoid is creating too many "narrow" niche sites when they could/should be combined.