Wanted: Service Usedcars.co.uk

[michaeltoth]

Hi There,

I am looking to propagate the site with 1000's of used cars and thought in the short term https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com would cover it.

I am finding it hard to find a feed to cover this situation.

What ever solution is put in place it must still allow users to add their own cars as they can do so now.

If there is anyone out there who can help then please get in touch.

Regards Michael Toth

 

[khalid]

Feed = crappy copied content

Why not have someone build your own site?

 

[pbryd]

It's a nice domain so it's worth doing well.

I'd be interested in any replies too and I have a used cars geo.

I was thinking using wordpress and some kind of small ad template to get it started.

 

[D600]

Hi,

I have a similar site selling a specific used car with eBay adverts for relevant cars for sale. I would focus on creating the cars for sale site and then add the eBay feed in second. It shouldn't be too hard for a programmer who has experience with epn to integrate this.

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[philiporchard]

It's a nice domain so it's worth doing well.

I'd be interested in any replies too and I have a used cars geo.

I was thinking using wordpress and some kind of small ad template to get it started.

If you'rw after a Wordpress theme try this: http://www.appthemes.com/themes/classipress/

 

[bensd]

With a name like this you need more than Wordpress and a template.

IMO it deserves some serious investment - it could become the leading used car site.

Integrating eBay listings isn't a bad idea as it will show the site is populated until it grows. I would have a plan to take them off when you have enough listings of your own though

 

[philiporchard]

With a name like this you need more than Wordpress and a template.

IMO it deserves some serious investment - it could become the leading used car site.

Integrating eBay listings isn't a bad idea as it will show the site is populated until it grows. I would have a plan to take them off when you have enough listings of your own though

Agree - wasn't suggesting Michael should use a Wordpress them
His domain deserves something special!

 

[bensd]

Agree - wasn't suggesting Michael should use a Wordpress them
His domain deserves something special!

Didn't even see your post Phil! Takes so long to type on my ipad!

 

[eggbilly]

PM Sent

 

[markb]

As it is a decent name, I would advise paying a professional web company £30k to £50k and getting the website done properly if you havent got the skills to do it yourself. If you want to compete with the other user car sites in a heavily populated niche, be prepared to budget well for marketing, its amazing how much some of these used car websites spend on their marketing each month.

Autotrader, parkers, motors and the other popular sites, spend over £50k per month on adsense alone. Even if you spend a few years and a thousands getting your site ranked number 1 for the term "used cars", remember that with these companies huge budgets and other used car dealers spending a fortune on adwords, it is very hard to get decent traffic to your site as the majority of clicks go on adsense advertisers.

 

[mrh]

Oi Toth

Let's create a free auto trader. Don't f**k the domain with a rubbish feed that won't make you a penny.

 

[retired_member19]

Glad I found this
I own the domain hack which I intend to do something similar with(UsedCars)


Probably will contact the dot com but looking forward to see how this goes.

 

[DavidL]

Worth paying for glass guide data I reckon. Might be a few thousand a year but will give you access to helps of data to populate the site. There's so much data (including images & prices of every used car for the past 10 years) that you can manipulate it to deliver really comprehensive and unique content.

Build the traffic then worry about the functionality imho

 

[domainking]

carsite

Great Name Micheal and should get the respect it deserves.

Forget about trying to take on Autotrader, forget spending 50K on the site.

Think first what you want the site to do. plan what you want the site to do.
let it grow natural, it will make you a winner. dont just build for the sake of it. if your going to do that then you loose.

 

[mally]

Free is the way to get lots I content. Pistolhead used cars does well and I'm sure that's free, one you get the free listings seo will come with people adding there links to Facebook etc.. Then add featured listing fee's

 

[MASSEY]

ruddy good domain name.

Wants some work on what's there, you would be looking to copy auto trader format really if you wanted it to make a fortune.

At least get it SEO'd to page one for the term used cars. I would probs do that first before bothering to make a proper site.

 

[JMOT]

At least get it SEO'd to page one for the term used cars. I would probs do that first before bothering to make a proper site.

Then you would be an utter spanner.

One sure fire way of getting a manual search quality filter applied by that lovely army of remote workers google employs.

used cars is a big volume term.

 

[retired_member19]

Then you would be an utter spanner.

One sure fire way of getting a manual search quality filter applied by that lovely army of remote workers google employs.

used cars is a big volume term.

Actually, 1,000,000 global exact searches and over 6,000,000 in phrases.

In UK, 165,000 exact searches and over 1,000,000 in phrases.

Biggest(only) problem is high competition but the domain name itself has the edge in front of ALL others!:idea:


It needs content and seo will be easy in long-term with almost no costs.

 

[bluerock]

Just my 2 pennys worth.
Why not think out of the box and not sell used cars but have the site buy used cars like webuyanycrapcar.com etc. You would never get a decent % of autotraders market share to justify significant expenditure while the otherside of the industry (buying used cars) is still relatively young.
The Glass guide or similar can give a rough value and a sales form can go through to webuyanycrapcar.com.

 

[MASSEY]

Then you would be an utter spanner.

One sure fire way of getting a manual search quality filter applied by that lovely army of remote workers google employs.

used cars is a big volume term.

Matt c*nts said the self employed reviewers did not have the power to get an individual site slapped.