Own Website

Welcome to the 'Own / Personal Website' section of SellMyStuff.info where we try to give you a few tips and pointers for disposing of your unwanted items via your own dedicated personal website.

For those without their own domain and server space there are a host of sites on the internet where you can create a free website and personal pages. There's no need for a domain name and hosting is free at places like GooglePages.com where you can create a website with a homepage URL like http://myname.googlepages.com.

It is easy to create a simple page listing your items for sale. Keep it up to date when you sell an item or have something else that you wish to sell. Keep it simple and it will be simple to maintain. Include decent photographs of your goods and, silly as it sounds, don't forget to include your contact details and preferred methods of communication, packaging and collection / delivery. Tell your friends about your page. Ask them to tell any of their friends / family who may be interested or to print it out and put it up in their workplace if they are permitted and if it would be appopriate. Blog, twitter, facebook or otherwise socially network about your sales page. Alert your fellow forum users to it by including a link in your signature at your favourite haunts.

Ask your online friends to be sports and post a link to it in their blog, so long as it fits. If an enthusiast is selling a collection of guitars then a link from a fellow guitarist's blog would be entirely appropriate, of benefit to their readers and the vendor alike. You can also put a link to your sales page in your email signature so that you can alert chosen correspondees to it..

For higher value items PPC and Search Marketing may be relevant too in order to swiftly attract a broader base of potantial purchasers.

For those who intend to maintain a sales page for some time (1 year +) with a regularly updated list of items, spending a little time on the onsite and offsite SEO of their page(s) may well be advantageous.