Linking to eBay
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Two things really:
I’m setting up a wordpress blog with the purpose of expanding my current vintage clothes business (which at the moment only uses eBay) and I’m hoping to use the blog to sell direct instead of sending people through eBay.
At the same time I’m aware some people will be more comfortable buying through eBay and so I would like to keep that up alongside my blog (as you can imagine I’m especially reluctant to lose the traffic I’ve built up over the course of my career!).
Question is, is this allowed? People would be viewing the products on my blog, reading and browsing them in one place, then when it comes to method of payment choosing if they want to pay directly on the site or go through eBay. The website would not be trying to drive traffic to eBay, if anything I’m trying to drive my old eBay traffic (and more traffic) to this new site.
Secondly, if this is all good, is there an easy way to import my eBay listings? I’ve been trying to use javascript until I realised it’s not possible unless you’re on wordpress.org…
This is the one I was trying to use, from te site Auction Nudge, before I realised it wasn’t allowed!
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.auctionnudge.com/item_build/js/SellerID/esmereldawicked_vintage/siteid/3/theme/grid/MaxEntries/6/grid_cols/2/grid_width/100%25/show_logo/1″></script><div id=”auction-nudge-items” class=”auction-nudge”>Live eBay Listings From Auction Nudge</div>
Thanks for your help :)
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Havacript cannot be used on WordPress.com blogs. The software strips the code out for security and stability reasons. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
There is only one advertising program called WordAds at WordPress.com. It’s for blogs on their own domains.
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/wordads/
http://wordpress.com/apply-for-wordadsAside from a blog being accepted into WordAds, no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work or products created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed on free hosted wordpress.com blogs. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/#important-notes-before-upgrading E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.com. Please read the infromation at all of the following links.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Thanks for your help! I’ll guess I’ll have to look into setting up a wordpress.org site or go elsewhere then…
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