To aid in SEO I add eBay auction titles to the bottom of my posts. This is accomplished by making a few changes to your phpBay plugin and your phpBay Call.

phpBay gives you many options with the call. You can use the short call or up to as many as 18 parameters. Using the short call that you might be accustom to (phpbay){$KEYWORD}, num, "".""(/phpbay) uses the parameters that you have set up in the plugin. If you use some or all the parameters in a call it will override the parameters you have set up in the plugin.

(I used parentheses ( ) instead of [ ] around the call so no eBay items will display on this page)

So to get the titles only to show up at the bottom of your posts you either need to set the plugin to use columns or a long call to override the parameter set in the plugin. If you are already using columns in your posts you will only need to make a couple of other changes.

First you will need to change the coding of the template.ebay.results.html file by removing all the code and replacing it with a small piece of code. Click Here to get the code. then saving the file. Now when you call for eBay listings (no columns) all that will return are the titles. If you have columns set in the plugin you will need to use the long call to override it. Here is a example: (phpbay){$KEYWORD}, 40, "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", Custom ID-{$KEYWORD}", "2", "0", "1", ""(/phpbay) (I used parentheses ( ) instead of [ ] around the call so no eBay items will display on this page)

You will notice that in the call there are 16 of the 18 parameters. Parameter 1 is the keyword, parameter 2 is the number of items, parameters 3 - 11 are quote marks (this leaves the settings the same as set in the plugin), parameter 12 is for any Custom ID you might have set up (you can use quotes here if you are not using Custom ID's), parameter 13 sets the sorting and the number to is for the newest listed items (that way the titles will change as new items are added to eBay), parameter 14 sets the country where to pull the titles from (0 is for US), parameter 15 sets the column to 1, and parameter 16 has quotes.

Now download the code to your desk top if you have not already done so and watch the video on how to set up phpBay to pull just the titles into your posts.

If you have any questions just PM me.

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