How do I search products by category in the ejunkie shop?

[harley]

Can anyone tell me if there is a category section in the ejunkie shop for all the products available. After clicking on the shop tab it brings up 'all the products' in the ejunkie shop, theres no category listing or have I missed something?



Surely I do not have to click every product to see what category the product belongs to, or do I.

[E-junkie_Guru]

A bit of explanation is in order here.



Normally, once you set up your products in E-junkie Seller Admin, we provide you with ready-made HTML codes for your cart buttons. You would simply copy the codes from us and paste them into the HTML source of your own Web site pages, wherever you want our buttons to appear among your own layout, text and images. Most sellers who use E-junkie simply do this, and thus they would have little need or use for listing products in an E-junkie Shop on our site as well.



However, if you don't have your own Web site or don't wish to paste our buttons into your site, you have the option of posting product listings to your own E-junkie Shop page on our site, listing your products at a specific URL where you can send buyers (http://www.e-junkie.com/37 for example). This help page explains more about posting product listings to your optional E-junkie Shop (including where you can define categories for the product listings in your own Shop):

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.promote.htm



Once you start your paid subscription for E-junkie, product listings from your E-junkie Shop will also appear in the general E-junkie Marketplace (under the Shop tab of our site). Each seller can define their own categories for product listings in their own Shop, but the general Marketplace does not have categories. The general E-junkie Marketplace primarily just provides a way for search engines like Google to find your products, if you don't have a site of your own that they would normally find otherwise.



Bear in mind that the E-junkie Marketplace is not a major shopping destination site like eBay or Amazon, so buyers don't really come to our Marketplace and just browse around looking for things to buy. Most sales in Marketplace happen because of search sites like Google sending buyers directly to a specific product page, or because the seller's own advertising and online marketing sent buyers directly to their own E-junkie Shop or product page.

[harley]

Hi,



I understand the market isn't a major shopping destination for shoppers but what about for affiliates who are looking for products to promote, if they can not search products by category wouldn't that put them off looking in ejunkie?



Regards



Harley

[E-junkie_Guru]

Most affiliates discover and join affiliate programs via the affiliate sign-up link the merchant places on their own site. Existing affiliates in E-junkie's system can also browse or run a keyword search among product listings in the E-junkie Marketplace which have affiliate programs (note the Search box near the top):

http://www.e-junkie.com/shop?section=affiliates



Many years ago, the Marketplace used to list all the categories from sellers' Shop listings; however, that was already becoming quite messy and unmanageable even then, back when the sellers using our system numbered only about a fifth of the number we serve today, so we had to discontinue doing that and haven't come up with any tidier way of reimplementing categories for the general Marketplace.