Maybe you feel like one of these faceless, invisible sellers... Just one auctioneer in a million; somebody trying to advertise an item in your possession, no matter how popular, yet you never get noticed on Ebay - not even a single bid on your listing.

I know, because I've been there. And I've asked myself this question many times:

"EVERYBODY WANTS THIS ITEM, SO WHY HAVEN'T I HAD ANY HITS ON MY AUCTION? HOW CAN I GET NOTICED ON EBAY?"

My problem is that I don't have the time to troll the internet, nor read through the billions of auctions on Ebay that are competing with my listing. So I tried using words like "Rare" or "One Of A Kind" and "Limited Edition", etc, to attract attention to my title. However, nobody who's looking for my item is actually typing in these words.

So how do I get noticed on Ebay?
Simply put, my auction title sucks. I hate to be that blunt, but it's true. More than that, I realized that I did not include a unique description in my item's body article that is also scouted by the Ebay search engines.

Recently, I've looked into the process of "Article Writing"... It does involve a great deal of time, commitment and follow-up, however it can produce results. Depending on the type of submission sites that I find, they sometimes allow me to include a self-promoting anchored link back to my website, or auction listing, or even a video of my product on YouTube. It all depends on a site's submission guidelines.

On the other-hand, I've also found that I'm strapped for time, and require some assistance in speeding up this whole process. With some research on auction-software available on the internet, I discovered a little program that has a built-in "Popular Search Term Generator" ... it's called HotItemFinder. It has this cool little function which is a keyword analysis tool - so far I've been able to search Ebay's items (any category) and discover what the most popular keywords are instantly! Now I can incorporate them into my auction titles and article descriptions all too easily. Apparently, the data is received in real-time directly from the Ebay website, so it's always changing and up to date.