The "Why Do I Bother Searching for Diana Dolls" Blog

Keyword Spamming

Ahhhhh...keywords.  I'm currently having to manipulate my search string to eliminate certain things from my results.

My normal search USED to be:  Diana, princess, doll.  You'd think with three simple words, I'd get what I want.

I'm now adding to this:

  • -wonder (to get rid of Diana Prince AKA Wonder Woman items
  • -jackie (because some sellers are also selling Franklin Mint Jackie Kennedy things)
  • -tyler (because obviously anything made for Tyler should be put on Diana!)
  • -civil (because of someone who sells Barbie-sized Civil War/Gene patterns)
  • -XXX (to eliminate a seller who bored me with too many non-Diana replica "One of a Kind" outfits--if there's only 1, why do I see so many?  BTW, I put her initials in, not xxx's.)
  • -his*doll (to eliminate yet more search spamming auctions)
  • -grandma (because someone who is selling some Ashton Drake dolls by Titus Tomescu keeps mentioning in the auction that he sculpted their Princess Diana dolls...big whoopee freaking do--he made her face look like a chipmunk's, his Diana dolls are nothing about which I would brag.)
  • -native (another seller whose cute little Indian princess dolls are clogging up my search string.)
  • -paradise (sick of the crochet pattern books.)

Once in awhile, I have to include various secret words which I won't share in order to filter out certain books, videos, CDs that aren't DOLLS.  If I want books & all the rest, I'll put those words in my search.

bengaltiger66
Wow - That is a lot to find a simple doll!
Sep-16-06 13:02:32 PDT Report this comment
iiapco
there are many sellers who use key wording spamming.

and it hate it and wish they would STOP !!!!!
Sep-16-06 13:06:48 PDT Report this comment
princess-and-frogs
Keyword spamming? LOL< that is the fun of being a seller, I thought. And Ebay endorses it. Thats why until recently you could PAY to OWN a keyword for a month at a time.

But I agree, if the item is NOT a doll, WHY put "doll" into the title? Some people are desperate to sell items, I guess. Id rather get the right people than ANNOYED people! If they want to see more, thats what my store is for!

Keyword spamming! LMAO, freaking gluttonous sellers! They won't last!
Sep-16-06 13:15:17 PDT Report this comment
mystore4u
it can be difficult to search -- but I think it will always be since there are so many items to sift through !!
Sep-16-06 13:27:16 PDT Report this comment

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