This is really getting tiresome. Making changes to things that won’t help the site at all while ignoring the actual site problems. As my dad used to say, you can only put so much lipstick on a pig because it’s still a pig.
My comment on the blog post which probably won’t be [URL removed]
Horrible decision. bMarketplace is generic. Bonanza is unique. The only reason I can see to change the name is that “Bonanza” has gained a big reputation with fraudulent sellers.
The site has errors constantly with images, SSL, and DNS name servers. There are still references all over the site to “Pay nothing til you sell” and “Zero fees to list” even though that has changed. Traffic is awful because the site’s trust rating has plummeted. There are sellers with tens of thousands of items who haven’t signed in for months. This is what to address before making a name change IMO.
Makes sense about the DNS/SSL issues I wrote about 2 days ago.
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Here was my post on the blog, not sure if it will make it but you never know.
“I like the idea of being, as in “b”, everything we can be. Can you please share some info here on how you will help with increasing traffic via Google shopping. When Bill was here the traffic via Google shopping did well. However, it died down low after he left. Is this just a transition thing where you are going to be re-vamping up Google shopping or is this how it will be from now on…with a decrease in the traffic after Bill left. Google shopping has always been our biggest contributor in sales.”
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While not a great name, I think anything is better than “Bonanza” because that is just not a place I want to shop. Or really even understand what is if I was a random shopper.
However B MarketPlace is still long, not catchy, what even is B?
To me Market Place also sounds like bring me all your random scammers and illegal people. Like a flea market.
And where did my Google traffic go now that I am paying MORE than I was before?
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While I’m not crazy about the name they picked, the name Bonanza no longer cuts it as a online marketplace selling site. Unfortunately, when I see bMarketplace I wonder if it will give the impression we’re only a “B” site, definitely not an “A”. And not even a capital “B” at that—just a lower-case selling site. Obviously, the name change is to capitalize on Facebook Marketplace. No complaints about that.
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I didn’t even get an announcement. I dropped from 8500 listings to 50, so of course, no sales, but I would still like to get the announcements. The problem I had with Bonanza is that when googling Bonanza, I always got the old tv show as the first few hits.
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