Making a file of your listings on ebay can be essential to success for Ebay Sellers. There are many product search engines on the internet that will actually drive traffic to your web site and provide up to the minute information regarding your products information and URLs.

When you decide to make a file (the file is an XML file), Ebay will make the file of information about your listingsavailable for third party product search engines to download.

It’s simple really to create an XML file of your listings to help you get that extra exposure and boost sales:

1. On the Manage Your Store page, click on the “Export listings” link.
2. Click the option labeled “Make a file of my Store Inventory listings available,” then click the Save Settings button.

Within 12 hours, eBay will create the file and post it to a URL based on your Store’s URL:
http://esssl.ebay.com/GetListings/Seller’s Store Name ÂÂ

 For example, if your Store’s name is “Star Wars,” the file will be posted to:
http://esssl.ebay.com/GetListings/starwars

The file is an XML file that anyone or any third party can download and help you boost your sales with the added exposure.

The file will take roughly 12 hours to become available for download after you request the file creation. Ebay takes the work out of updating these listings by automatically doing so to the XML file whenever you make a change to one or more of your listings.

 The XML file will contain the following information about each listing:

This is an XML file, and is in the eBay Store listing export XML format.