One of the most common mistakes when listing an ad is just posting a photo of the item with no description. Many people believe that a photo says it all!  In many cases it does, but not in this case. 

The problem is a photo is just a photo and unless it comes with descriptive tags, a photo on its own won't show up in the search results. unless it’s been added to an indexed database, where further description is necessary.

Even if it has been listed in the right category on a database, your ad may be competing with hundreds of similar ads. 

That’s where your description plays a very important part.

Details such as the: Make/Brand, model number and colour can  refine search results in some cases from 1000 ads down to a dozen or so.  Meaning 1. Your ad will show up first and 2. People searching for your ad are much less likely to give up the search early.

Take the below ads a…

Few of us on this planet are unaffected by the recent outbreak of Covid-19. Australia is in lock down and the majority of us are at home for way longer than most of us are happy with.

It's a very rare opportunity we have to tick off a few things off the long standing list of things to do.

One of which is to take a log of property we have in case an item is lost or stolen in the future. There is nothing worse than losing a beautiful family heirloom and unique piece of jewellery, which no description can do justice.

Thankfully, with today's technology, this is a very simple task. Smart phones these days come with well equipped camera's perfectly designed for the job.

Put an hour aside one day and take photos of all your valuable assets, focus on one item at a time and take different angles if warranted ie. Your pushbike may be a stock standard bike, but most of them have something unique about them. ie. scratches/dents …