Quote from bookmuse on Mar 13^th, 2010, 9:20pm:

 
Greetings, I have been on Presto for about three weeks and sold one item and had one inquiry. It shows a lot of "hits", but I'll be if I can find my items with a search on google or yahoo. Have tested multiple items in a search and my items never show up. Who knows?
 
God Bless,
Bibleman

Greetings. Thank you for that bit of information. I am not sure how all the Google, Yahoo, etc. search works, but I know when I do a search through Google or Yahoo search engines I am coming up pretty empty as far as my Presto Store. The thing that drives me crazy is my store items shows many more hits then most sites I have had, yet no sales. I have even become suspect about where the "hits" are coming from(most items are showing multiple hits like 10-25 each).
 
I certainly would like to know the answers. I had a store with Chrislands.com(builds bookstores) for two years and it was't very profitable, but maybe it was my fault? because I know of others that have done fine there. One of the problems may be that I do not have hundreds of items to list like so many because I deal only in NEW Bibles and books.
 
I have had third party software for "Newsletters" but no one ever signs up. How do you get people to sign up? I do not know? I have one now on Presto and not one out of the hundreds of visitors have signed up. I can not send out emails for specials, sales, etc., if I have no email addresses? Anyone have any solid info??  
 
Well, enough of my ranting.
God Bless all,
Bibleman

Bibleman, my guess is that you are doing a generic Google search for your items. The key is to search Google SHOPPING - that's where your items are being fed to.
 
I can tell you that it took months for my site to show up on Yahoo. You can be pro-active and submit your site to a number of search engines, and I did that immediately after my site launched. Yahoo still took forever.
 
To show up on Bookfinder or Addall, you have to be accepted by that site to have your items show up. You also have to be BIG - several hundred thousand items is a good start. However, with PrestoStore's PrestoMart feature, which displays all PrestoStore's users items in one place, if there are enough of us, that might be our "in" to get our items listed. I e-mailed my contact at PrestoStore about this maybe a month ago and he had forwarded it on to the appropriate staff; I'll check back and see if any progress has been made in this area.
 
Poverty - I am now going to go search my items in Google Shopping! I wonder if it's because I'm not offering Google checkout. I suspect those that do get better placement in search. It might also have to do with which listings were most recently updated. I just spot checked a few in Yahoo - one of my older listings came up #3 in shopping and #6 in general search. A listing I put up a couple days ago has yet to appear. And a couple older ones didn't appear at all. This is why I don't use Yahoo for a search engine anymore - and I used to use them exclusively.