anybody write ebay guides?

[md1919]

If so, are your guides still found with google or other browser searches.  my guides disappeared from google searches a few weeks ago.  they were the first pop up on a google search.

[newnewnewmann]

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@md1919wrote:

If so, are your guides still found with google or other browser searches.  my guides disappeared from google searches a few weeks ago.  they were the first pop up on a google search.

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Your profile shows "0 Guides0 Guides"

Have you checked here-

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574933636&toolid=10001&campid=533...

or here-

http://www.ebay.com/gds

[md1919]

yes, I know they are available through ebay but no longer through internet search engines.  that is how most people would find them.

[newnewnewmann]

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@md1919wrote:

yes, I know they are available through ebay but no longer through internet search engines.  that is how most people would find them.

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Where? Ebay says you have 0 guides. If you do, then ebay is wrong. Can you link to your guide? I would very much like to read it.

[md1919]

my profile shows the three guides I have written. the link in your previous post shows all three.   I can get to them through ebay but browser searches can't find them. 

[c*me*4*lefton*info]

Seems to me that if the goal was to find them in search engines then it could be arranged.

For example if the threads are on Google search results (and I believe they are) then maybe a mention or two WITHIN THESE THREADS with the guides title (with a link to the guide) would be included in search engine results. One way to mention it without a lot of effort is thru your ebay board signature, if they are crawled by Googles spiders. May take some experimentation to see what works and what doesn't, but I suspect it could be done.

Theres more more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak

[newnewnewmann]

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@md1919wrote:

my profile shows the three guides I have written. the link in your previous post shows all three.   I can get to them through ebay but browser searches can't find them. 

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Your profile is showing one guide as of this moment , March 11.

Earlier today,  ebay showed no guides for you. Maybe it's showing 3 guides to you but just one guide to others. I was trying to troubleshoot for you. Maybe someone else here could confirm that?

 Earlier:

Now your profile is showing one guide-

When I typed your exact guide title -

Camille Naudot porcelains-misidentification into DuckDuckGo, and Google, your guide is the first listing..

So if you have 3 guides showing to you but only one showing on ebay, sounds like 2 are missing in action.

 https://www.ebay.com/usr/md1919

I read the one guide you published and enjoyed and learned from it.

Thanks. Good luck.

[md1919 · Accepted solution]

I just got the answer from ebay.  Ebay is discontinuing user guides and have been pulling them out of browser searches.  they suggest my guides be moved to a web-hosting service.

[pixzee]

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@md1919wrote:

I just got the answer from ebay.  Ebay is discontinuing user guides and have been pulling them out of browser searches.  they suggest my guides be moved to a web-hosting service.

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You should choose that as the "answer" to your question in case anyone searches these forums with the same question.

[argon38]

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@md1919 wrote:

I just got the answer from ebay.  Ebay is discontinuing user guides and have been pulling them out of browser searches.  they suggest my guides be moved to a web-hosting service.

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The only slight reserve I would have is that it isn't unknown for eBay customer service representatives to come up with plausible-sounding explanations just to satisfy callers and get them off the line...

[md1919]

the info came from an ebay message, not from the help boards

[all_fakes]

I just got the official email from ebay today, as did another person I know who has written guides.

  "Ebay is discontinuing guides as of April, and suggests you move your guides to another server if you wish to save them."

[buyselljack2016]

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@all_fakes wrote:

I just got the official email from ebay today, as did another person I know who has written guides.

  "Ebay is discontinuing guides as of April, and suggests you move your guides to another server if you wish to save them."

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Yup, got that notice yesterday in the AM.

[mountaingigi]

Well, here's another way to do guides:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Collectibles-Art/Singer-29-4-vs-29K-series-sewing-machines/m-p/2824085...

[yem_crystals]

Yep.  It is really frustrating.  I spent alot of time writing an extensive guide and have links to the guide in all of my listings. So far I have had over 3500 visitors.  As suggested by Ebay, I moved parts of the guide to a blog with links back to Ebay, but soon discovered that Ebay does not allow link to the blog in my listings.  Infuriating.