I just want to apologise to all those who posted questions about WordBay during August and haven’t had their comments answered or even published. I have been on holiday and since WordBay is just a hobby of mine there was no way to keep up with things (my mobile phone won’t run the WordPress backend, ha!). I hope it hasn’t caused you any inconvenience.

I have now moderated some of the comments, including some good questions and an amazing geo-targetting hack posted by Jez! I will try to get round everything as quick as possible and reply to all the outstanding issues.

In the meantime, I hope you are making lots from WordBay, WordPress and eBay and also hope you have escaped the recent “cull” as I did. While this attitude on the part of eBay is very worrying I think it emphasised some things we knew all along: it’s not enough just to knock up a quick site with eBay listings and expect it to succeed. We already know that Google is getting very picky, but it looks like eBay is less and less willing to pay out money for low-quality traffic and it could be that these things are part of the same problem - people wanting to make a quick buck (don’t we all) without putting the effort in to create a quality user experience and attract quality traffic.

So use WordBay by all means, but remember to make the site your own, make it valuable for visitors and work on attracting the RIGHT visitors… Good luck.

Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by markowe
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