1. Free eBay Listing

For small sellers you can list up to 100 items a month for FREE when the item is listed for 99 cents or less. The only time you pay a fee is when the item is sold, the cost for this is 9% of the final price up to a value of $50. For example for a normal Auction style listing when you list a iPhone with a starting price $0.01 – $0.99 this will cost you nothing. When the item is sold for say $300 you will pay a final fee of $27.

If the item when sold exceeds $560 dollars the most that you would pay is $50 final valuation fee. This fee gets taken off when the buyer pays for the item. The main purpose for this is to encourage small sellers who don’t want to pay a lot of fees when starting out. When you start moving volumes of more than 100 items it is worthwhile looking into eBay’s store pricing structure.

2. When will Free eBay Listing Work?

This works well when you are selling low value items or are making incidental sales. When you start selling items at higher values and with more success then it is worthwhile looking into the eBay store subscriptions which can reduce your listing costs dramatically. The break even point will be when you sell approximately 10 items a month at $80.

3. Free eBay Listing Break Even Point

For higher volume sales of 100 your break even point before you should consider a store is a sale price of on average of $50. eBay have provided a illustrator to assist in making cost comparisons to better understand how it will affect you.

4. Paying for eBay Items

To pay for items eBay have moved away from the Paypal only option and now you have a number of other options available.

* PayPal

* ProPay (buyer doesn’t need an account can use credit or debit card)

* Moneybookers (can use credit card but also charge 1.90% for forex exchange rates)

* Paymate (buyer doesn’t need an account can use credit card)

* Credit card or debit card processed through the seller’s Internet merchant account (this is only for large scale sellers)

The seller will have to decide which provider they will use all of this will depend on their fees and if it fits with their needs. Some are stronger on risk management than others and you will have to evaluate which one is going to best suit your needs. Some of the payment providers do charge a annual fee and again is more suited for the higher volume seller.

There are many things you can do onsite to improve your SEO, and also several offsite techniques that can be used. Amongst the latter are article marketing and website directory submissions that can not only improve your Google PageRank, but also get traffic through direct clicks to your site from readers of your article or your directory listings. Most people are by now aware of these, though not necessarily able to apply them to their maximum effectiveness.

It is the former, the onsite search engine optimization techniques, which most fail to understand. Although the mechanics are fairly simple, the principles behind them are generally not understood, and it is that understanding that can make the difference between having to follow instructions and being able to apply them under various conditions to improve your Google listing any time you like. The same applies to getting any other top search engine listing.

Some of the on-site SEO techniques you can apply are listed below, and keep in mind that Google lists individual web pages and not entire websites as web directories do.

* Use LSI (latent semantic indexing) principles when writing your content. Many trust to endless repetition of keywords in order to let the search engines know the main focus of their web pages, but search engines, and Google in particular, will react adversely to that and down-list you. What they are looking for is contextual relevance of your content rather than having keywords thrown at them.

* Sensible internal linking can maximize the PageRank of your more important web pages. Each page starts with a Google PR of 1, and a site with, for example 50 pages, can be linked to allocate these 50 PR points in such a way that your home page, for example, can be allocated a lot more than its initial allocation and therefore have a better chance of a high listing.

* Control the search engine spiders to suit yourself. You can design your website so that the spiders read all of your page text – that is the contextually rich syntax – before finding a link to lead them astray. It is good to use keywords as anchor text, that enables visitors to click to other pages on your website that relate to the keyword, but not to lead the spiders, and visitors, away from your website. Basically what that means is to use intelligent internal linking as suggested in the previous paragraph.

* All of this is in addition to the usual website SEO that most people should be aware of, such as using your principal keyword for each page in your Title tag of the Head section of your HTML, using the same keywords in the H heading tags in your body text and using a proper Description tag in your Head section – the Description and Title appear in the search engine listing.

All of the above is very basic SEO, and in itself will help you improve your Google listing and any other top search engine listing. However, that is not all that is needed to secure a Page #1 listing, let alone a #1 position. There is a lot more needed on-site in addition to all the off-site techniques that you must use.

A top listing depends very much upon the number of back-links from other websites, including article and website directories, blogs, Squidoo lenses and social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and also your videos on YouTube, and you should have your pages tagged on social bookmarking sites such as Furl, Del.icio.us and hundreds more.

The MLS is a crucial part of marketing your home. Since about 70% of home buyers begin their search on the internet, it is very important that your home be listed in MLS. However, you generally have to sign with a realtor and pay a commission on your sale if you want to be in MLS. Essentially it ends up costing you tens of thousands of dollars to list on MLS then.

The answer is to save thousands by listing your home on a flat fee MLS listing. In many states, even a home for sale by owner can be listed on the MLS. To get your home listed, you just have to pay a one time flat fee. Since in most cases the amount is less than $1000, you really do end up saving thousands of dollars.

The only difference between your flat fee listing and the realtor listing is that you get listed with zero service. However, you still do get the opportunity to reach all the buyers, brokers, and realtors with access to MLS. Additionally, many other websites link to listings in MLS so your home will be exposed to a lot of people. Exposure is half the battle when it comes to selling your home.

MLS is a significant marketing tool because of its reach and popularity. Every realtor and broker in your area will have access to your listing. That means that their customers, the buyer of the area, are going to be exposed to your listing as well. Considering that you are saving thousands by listing your home on flat fee MLS listing, your sale will be able to net you more money. Additionally, because you are saving on commissions, you are also able to effectively come down on your price more to seal a deal. That can be the difference between a buyer taking your home or another one. Then, in the end, you still end up saving money by selling on your own.

The other way you save thousands by listing your home on flat fee MLS listing is that you can avoid paying the local newspaper, real estate channel on cable, or real-estate papers from your neighborhood to have your properly listed. Once you are on MLS, there is no need to worry about other such listings since you may end up exposed to them anyway.

It is a fact that you can save thousands by listing your home on flat fee MLS listings. You can also save money just by the mere fact that you are selling as owner. By saving on commissions and realtor fees you can afford to be much more flexible with your home sales. The flat fee listing will allow you the marketing you need to sell in an efficient manner.