“eBay zet StumbleUpon in de verkoop”
September 21st, 2008 door Erwin Boogert
We vonden de overname van StumbleUpon door eBay al raadselachtig. Bestuursvoorzitter John Donahoe denkt er kennelijk hetzelfde over. Althans, volgens een bericht op Techcrunch.com heeft het bedrijf Deutsche Bank ingehuurd om de verkoop van StumbleUpon op te tuigen.
“(…) It’s not certain that eBay will be able to sell it for the price they paid - In July StumbleUpon had 1.3 million worldwide visitors and 25 million page views. Twelve months earlier the service attracted 4.4 million visitors and 31 million page views (Comscore). Google trends shows stagnation over the last year as well. (…)”
Alleyinsider.com becommentarieert:
“(…) We suppose that makes sense, given that John Donahoe is in reorg/slimdown mode, and we can’t think of single bit of synergy between StumbleUpon and eBay. But we can say the exact same thing about Skype. (…)”
eBay betaalde in mei 2007 75 miljoen dollar voor de link-, bookmark- en reviewsite.
Waarom is StumbleUpon minder bezocht? Door concurrentie (van wie?), is het minder goed geworden, vinden mensen het saai/niet nuttig na een tijd. Of bezoek je de site zelf niet op het moment dat je de Stumble knop in je toolbar indrukt ?
@Dennis G. (eBay SEO) Is Google hitting eBay while they are down?
(van eBay Strategies door Scot Wingo)
Ever since 9/16 when fp30 rolled along with a bunch of finding bugs, we have seen sales plummet in many categories with apparel and jewelry being hit the hardest.
While most sellers are focusing in on some of the eBay finding wackiness, one seller noticed google had all but disappeared as a ’source’ of traffic in their advanced store reports.
Based on that tip, we started doing some looking and saw some very unusual behavior.
Here’s a search for a popular Nike product’s model number:
Notice that the second, third and fifth search results are all for eBay international sites and not “.com”
I’ve run literally hundreds of searches and you have to really work now to find eBay in the organic (and even paid I’ll add) google results. Interestingly enough, when I did find the occasional eBay listing in the index, it was an FP30.
Note that eBay’s pagerank (PR) doesn’t seem to have changed - it’s at 8/10.
Theories on what is going on…
I have a couple of quick theories on what’s going on:
Given their track record in the last couple of weeks, it’s possible that eBay has done something to mess up the crawlability of the site.
It could be that eBay has asked google to not crawl anything but fp30 dramatically reducing the number of eBay listings in the google index (this doesn’t seem very smart, but hey anything’s possible I guess)
It could be that Google is using this tough spot for eBay to kick them in the ribs and has decided that eBay listings are ‘not relevant’ and yanked them from the index.
Personally I think the last theory is the most probable given the near overnight disappearance of eBay’s listings from the Google index.
Readers - any insights into what you are seeing/think is going on?
SeekingAlpha Disclosure: I am long eBay and Googlehttp://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_strategies/2008/09/is-google-hitting-ebay-while-they-are-down.html
@Dennis G. (eBay SEO) Is Google hitting eBay while they are down?
(van eBay Strategies door Scot Wingo)
Ever since 9/16 when fp30 rolled along with a bunch of finding bugs, we have seen sales plummet in many categories with apparel and jewelry being hit the hardest.
While most sellers are focusing in on some of the eBay finding wackiness, one seller noticed google had all but disappeared as a ’source’ of traffic in their advanced store reports.
Based on that tip, we started doing some looking and saw some very unusual behavior.
Here’s a search for a popular Nike product’s model number:
Notice that the second, third and fifth search results are all for eBay international sites and not “.com”
I’ve run literally hundreds of searches and you have to really work now to find eBay in the organic (and even paid I’ll add) google results. Interestingly enough, when I did find the occasional eBay listing in the index, it was an FP30.
Note that eBay’s pagerank (PR) doesn’t seem to have changed - it’s at 8/10.
Theories on what is going on…
I have a couple of quick theories on what’s going on:
Given their track record in the last couple of weeks, it’s possible that eBay has done something to mess up the crawlability of the site.
It could be that eBay has asked google to not crawl anything but fp30 dramatically reducing the number of eBay listings in the google index (this doesn’t seem very smart, but hey anything’s possible I guess)
It could be that Google is using this tough spot for eBay to kick them in the ribs and has decided that eBay listings are ‘not relevant’ and yanked them from the index.
Personally I think the last theory is the most probable given the near overnight disappearance of eBay’s listings from the Google index.
Readers - any insights into what you are seeing/think is going on?
SeekingAlpha Disclosure: I am long eBay and Google http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_strategies/2008/09/is-google-hitting-ebay-while-they-are-down.html
@AJ,
Ik heb het gezien.
Dank je wel.
Dennis
Goed nieuws bij eBay “Marc Andreessen has joined eBay’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. An entrepreneur, investor, and blogger, Andreessen’s current focus is Ning, a next-generation platform for social networking.” (auctionbytes) In het verleden Netscape, zijn eigen blog http://blog.pmarca.com