Crazy. After two months of zero sales, I made changes to all my listings this morning based on your advice. Literally just had my first two orders within the last hour. Thank you,
Your insight is so useful and well-delivered, there's no way I could NOT subscribe. I'm new to Etsy and I want to get off to a great start. So glad I found you!
I don't know why but out of all the people who are teaching about Etsy, you seems to be more reliable to me. :) Subscribed. Hopefully my intuition is not wrong.
Wow, I am a 58 yrs old full time independent online biz owner (with 6 figure income), your advices blew me away - most sellers don’t share their ‘secret’ like you do which are really right on point and wonderful! Start small, start now
I’m a new sub. I am new to Etsy and a little overwhelmed. I have keywords everywhere and now know I have been adding my keywords in wrong. For example inspirational, women’s, t shirt, ... putting a coma after each keyword 😑 I did not know they should have been long tailed. I keyworded the long tail and saw zero searches. I will be watching your other videos. This is my first time after watching many videos hearing about marmalade. I also have to go back in and add keywords to my many beginning products I have added. Apologies for rambling. If you have any advice for me I would appreciate it. I opened my shop in December and have had no sales 🤦♀️ thank you 🙏
Keywords everywhere draws their info from google ads data, so it’s fine but it’s not Etsy-specific. Marmalead is better, but keywords everywhere is fine to use. I would go back and take the keywords you have already and just write sentences using them for your titles. What you described with the commas is actually okay for the search engine, because Etsy doesn’t “see” punctuation. But for ur customer reading it, go back and change it to “inspirational women’s tshirt” without the commas and it will look better.
I just started like a month ago and have 7 sales. I noticed that when I make the title of the listing long it draws more people in. Like at first I was selling a vintage dress. I had it under "vintage stripe orange dress"....it had 2 views only. 2 weeks later I added "vintage dress, go go dress, fun psychedelic dress, scooter dress" and I got about 30 likes. It sold 1 week after I had updated the listing name. Please don't take my advice since I'm a beginner. But just sharing my experience.
Thank you so much for this video! It's helping me a lot in my journey in opening my etsy shop. I just had a question about something you said- when you say you need to put the important keywords in both places and in the same order.., which places do you mean? And if it needs to be in the same order, wouldn't we need more or the same keywords in order for the important ones to be in the same order? I hope that makes sense! Thank tou again!
I'm going to launch two product lines that are completely unrelated. Should I have two separate etsy accounts? Thanks for this video - I subscribed and will be watching more of your videos
Thanks Kara, this was very helpful! I was wondering if you had any advice for high-ranking, bestselling items that have suddenly dropped out of search results (possibly because of "frequency capping")? I would appreciate any insight!
There is no frequency capping, that's a tinfoil hat theory. There are, however, changes in the algorithm that will make things drop off the radar if the thing that was keeping it at the forefront is downgraded in the search algorithm. It's just the natural ebb and flow of ecommerce. I have a silicone mold that was selling like crazy for a few months, and it's totally slowed down in recent weeks. It happens.
By frequency capping, i assume you mean the mention of that in the seller handbook, but that refers to the number of times a single listing or ship will appear for a single search results for a single customer. I think you’re intending it to mean that they stop showing the listing after a certain number of times that it appears in search results, but that’s not what it means.
That's a very helpful response, thank you! My sales for a particular item have slowed substantially and I thought it was the frequency capping -- I interpreted it incorrectly, exactly the way you described here -- but it seems like it is indeed a shift in the algorithm. Thanks for taking the time to explain. I've been binge-watching your videos since finding you yesterday!
@@kimberlyerin2122 There's also a glitch going on o Etsy's end that they're supposedly working on, and you might be a victim of. People are saying that their best sellers have moved back to the page 17 area, where new listings used to go to wait for ranking factors to be applied. Etsy said that it was a glitch affecting UK sellers and that it's been fixed, but some sellers in other parts of the world said that they saw a change when the "fix" happened, and others said that it's made no difference. If you want to get some action on it, go to Twitter and tweet at Etsy about it, because publicity is what makes companies move fastest.
Muchas gracias por su aportación, quisiera hacer el curso, pero no domino el ingles perfectamente, cree usted que poder traducir sus clases?, que formato tienen los cursos?. Muchas gracias Maribel
Some of the videos have google translate Spanish subtitles, but i would say that if you don't understand English well, it's probably not the best course to take. I speak some Spanish, and there are people in the group who also do, but it's going to be difficult to understand everything because I talk fast!
Si vas a settings, y haces click primero en subtitles cc, english ( autogenerated) y luego nuevamente haces click en subtitles cc, te va a aparecer "autotranslate" y ahi seleccionas espanol :)
Say for instance I've got a heart mold for chocolate- & I put it under valentine's day for attributes for holiday- will I ONLY come up for valentine's day searches? Would I still come up if somebody isn't looking for valentine's day but just the heart mold for any occasion? TIA
how about images and video? Does Etsy give you a lower ranking if you don't use all the spaces for images? Do they rank people higher if they are using video in their listing?
Hiya this is a fantastic video so helpful I wish I watched this before my first listing... unfortunately Etsy has suspended my account and my listing (on the first try) they have not emailed me or explained why.. I’m very new at this and I want to do well but they’ve really disheartened me.. when it’s meant to be something fun now it’s a bit of a nightmare.... my question is.. is there words you can’t use for your listing? And if you repeat the key words ... example (die cut sticker, cute sticker, waterproof sticker, gloss sticker) is this a bad thing to do?
If you're just opening your account, Etsy might close your shop by accident because they use bots to screen newer shops. As long as what you're listing isn't copyright infringement (no cartoon characters, movies or tv shows, trademarked logos etc.), and it's legal to sell on Etsy according to their Terms Of Service, you should be able to contact them and see if your shop was closed by mistake. It happens more often with new shops, from what I hear. Email at integrity@etsy.com or trust@Etsy.com (I can't remember which one it is) and see if you can get some answers.
@@KaraBuntin that’s great! Thank-you so soo much for the help!! I will email them now! And... no it’s an original design I made .....which is very frustrating... I’ve been scanning through all there policy’s and rules this week to make sure I didn’t accidentally do anything but I can’t see anything... ....but again Thankyou so much!
@@rebeccachambers8391 Happened to me when I first oppened my account, just send them a professional email, they may take a long period to respond and unsuspend your account, meanwhile keep doing your market research and designing. Good luck!
I have a few questions but I will just start with one (or two?) So in a hyper competitive market like jewelry, it is hard to find keywords, LT or not, with low competition. There are only so many ways of describing a pair of moonstone teardrop earrings. In order to avoid filling title and tags with words that do not apply to your product just b/c they have good engagement, you should opt for occasions like 30th birthday gift for women, for example? It seems so random. Maybe someone could buy them for a 32nd birthday...
You would look for lower competition keywords, and yeah, that can be difficult. But in about 4 minutes I found "Genuine moonstone earrings," which only has about 1900 competing listings. It just takes a little time to poke around to find possibilities.
Hi Kara! i'm curious, is it okay to add/change the title, tags, especially description... if that listing already does well? I wanna improve it but im scared it will "restart" the SEO or something like that
Kara, I am happy to come across your channel. I used a very niche long tailed keyword and I have it in both title and tags. The competition is pretty low under 1000. What I don't understand is I went through all the pages shown by typing in the search this search keyword. I looked at every single page and I still could not find my listing. I don't understand this.
The listing should be there, you just might not have seen it. Put the entire title in the search bar and see if you can find it. If you can, it's in search and people are seeing it.
@@KaraBuntin Kara, I am Canadian. I am pricing my t shirts in US$ to cater to a bigger US market. My supplier is also in the US. I wonder when I input that long tailed keyword that it is showing me items in Canadian currency. It is very strange. I just can't find my t shirt. I did a search of my listing with the keyword and I found it under my listings in the Shop Manager. But when I go to Etsy Marketplace I cannot find it for the life of me. It is so so frustrating. I haven't had your luck. I have traffic only from friends and family.
@@caveman6685 Don't blame bad luck. If there's a difference in currency, it has something to do with your shop settings. If you price things in US currency but your shop is set in Canadian dollars that's what will be displayed to you as a shopper. If you want to tell me the listing and the shop name I can look to see if I can see the listing. You might want to check to make sure that you don't have it set to only ship to the US, because if you have it marked that it doesn't ship to Canada, it won't show up in search if you're in Canada.
Hello Kara!! Thanks so much for the wonderful information! I have watched a few of your videos and they are so informative. I have found that when I create a new listing (most times I am copying and adjusting the pics/main info), my whole shops sales will drop for a good 2-5 days afterwords. At first, I thought it was just co-incidence. But I have tracked it each time.. and it is happening every time! Could this be a link between the copies I make and Etsy boys trying to re-analyze my shop and it’s listings? I can’t seem to figure out what is happening. Any thoughts are appreciated! 😊 Thanks so much!
I don't see the same thing, so I do think it's a coincidence. In general, Etsy already has the information about your existing listings and shop activity, and a new listing isn't going to factor into that. They'll have to look at the new listing individually, but it shouldn't affect your entire shop's activity.
@@KaraBuntin Thanks so much for the response! Yes...I thought it was very odd that this was happening. I have been analyzing all of my listings very carefully and trying my best to pinpoint why this is happening, to no avail! I have also attempted to contact Etsy directly to find out if something is happening behind the scenes in my shop, and their customer service is not really answering. Oh well! I guess I will continue to trek along and see what happens.
My sales just dropped to 0 after the 20th of this month and I was selling well, is that normal because people are not buying gifts anymore or is there something wrong ? I am concerned about it 😩
I think it's pretty normal this time of year. People realize that they're not going to get their orders before Christmas, so they switch to shopping in person.
@@RenataCarlos it happened to me to. Started happening at the end of last year and droping down since then. I am at zero now. And I was doing quite well as well. I am trying to figure out what is the reason.
In general, you don't need to repeat a word, but if they're all phrases that you want to get an exact word-order match for, in both title and tags you should use it in each phrase.
I also watched another person's video that said to use EVERY spot in tags. You stated in your video to use them in the same sequence as in description. Say for instance I need to type 'HCB hot chocolate bomb' but it doesn't all fit in 1 tag (it does im using an example) Say I write : 1) hot cocoa bomb 2) HCB chocolate Would that not work because it's not in same sequence as my description?
Right, if you want an exact match, you need to do an exact match. Mixing the words up gets rid of the exact match. Just write "HCB hot chocolate" "Bomb hot cocoa" on two tags to use up the space and to keep the exact word order match since the two tags would read in sequence.
What do you do if you’re found and you’re in the first 1000 but no sales still? Pictures and prices being on point too Mind you I’ve been opened 3 weeks..
3 weeks is pretty early to draw any conclusions. You should be sending as much traffic to your shop as you can at this point, don't rely on search by itself!
Thank you Kara. Great video. Quick question, I am new to Etsy and have heard or seen that we should not include the same keywords in both the title and tags. If I understand your video, you are saying that we should be doing this to increase visibility. Is that accurate? Again, thank you so much for this information. It is very helpful.
You should repeat at least one good keyword, Etsy still says to do that for relevancy. It's not required to get on the top of the search results page, but it helps in the first sweep for relevancy, or so they say.
When Etsy is sorting the raw data to get the best 1000 items by keyword on a search - how does that work with Etsy ads? Are they included in the 1000 items? Thx!
You can't, because Etsy is personalizing search now, and you can't see exactly where your listings are. The idea isn't to know 100% that you're in the top 1000, it's just to look for keywords and use long tail keyword strategy that will give you the best chance of being put in the top 1000. There's no formula that promises that you'll be included in the top listings, you have to do your own keyword research and make decisions about how to describe your listings accurately so that Etsy can figure out what they are and who they're for so that they're shown to the right people.
@@KaraBuntin so if i understant right... i make macrame earrings and is my top search in my shop and i use long tail keywords... is better to start my title macrame earrings royal blue and in my tags to make royal blue earrings and macrame earrings? and that is helpful?
@@ioannastekiapantou No, you would just put "royal blue macrame earrings," then in the tags make sure to put "royal blue" "macrame earrings" in two tags if you want to match that exactly. It does help because Etsy sees the exact match as being more relevant for that listing.
@@ioannastekiapantou Yes, that's the best that you can do to tell Etsy what it is. It doesn't 100% guarantee that your listing will show up on page 1, but it's the best that you can do.
@@KaraBuntin how have you come to this conclusion? I’m curious as I’ve actually tested some of my listings with changes to the description... and I’ve seen results from that? Also any idea what’s happened to the search results in the last 48 hours? Many people have seen their results drop massively in he forums, and search results aren’t very accurate at all tbh many irrelevant items showing when searching 🤷🏻♂️
@@jonjunior6995 It's not my conclusion, they've never used descriptions, if you look up the "how etsy search works" article in the help section it doesn't mention descriptions at all. The CTO did a tech conference presentation a while back and he said that descriptions were problematic because there are so many sellers with millions of different description formats, and it was too difficult to figure out how to read those. The search results have been changing in the last month or so because they're changing the algorithm to use more personalized search factors and browse instead of direct word matches. Don't rely on the forums for all of your information about traffic, though, because the people who are having slow sales will be the ones to answer those types of posts, and it creates a false image of slow sales across the board. My sales have been increasing to the point where I've been putting my shop into vacation mode when I go to bed so that I'm not swamped with overnight sales. It's not the same for everyone, but they are definitely changing the algorithm in substantial ways. I'm going to be talking about this in my Tuesday Live Etsy Chat next week.
@@KaraBuntin thanks for your reply I appreciate that, I usually don’t take much notice of the forums, but I noticed something around 48 hours ago with my own listings and just the search in general throwing up quite poor results for queries... like items totally not related to the search term. As times gone on this is being noticed in different countries, whilst I appreciate some sellers may not be affected by this, and am aware people love to complain when their sales are down, this is probably the biggest overall change I’ve seen in 2 years and also one that makes no sense from what I’m seeing.
@@jonjunior6995 It makes sense for what they're doing, because they're trying to show more things that aren't direct word matches to the search query and are semantic matches instead. As they start shifting toward that model it's going to be wonky for a while.
Crazy. After two months of zero sales, I made changes to all my listings this morning based on your advice. Literally just had my first two orders within the last hour. Thank you,
Good to hear, it might have been a coincidence but I’ll take it!
Love the screen you put up to block the light.
It's two-sided, I can flip it around and it's nice on both sides! It can't block the skylight but it's much better than it was.
@@KaraBuntin yes. Still gives the room & your videos plenty of light without being harsh!
Thank goodness for someone who approaches this complex process in an intelligent, business like way. Karen, you have a new follower, thank you!
Thanks!
@@KaraBuntin I sent apologies for getting your name wrong, but it may be lost in the rest!
Your insight is so useful and well-delivered, there's no way I could NOT subscribe. I'm new to Etsy and I want to get off to a great start. So glad I found you!
Welcome aboard!
I don't know why but out of all the people who are teaching about Etsy, you seems to be more reliable to me. :) Subscribed. Hopefully my intuition is not wrong.
well thank you, I try not to be a phony :)
Wow, I am a 58 yrs old full time independent online biz owner (with 6 figure income), your advices blew me away - most sellers don’t share their ‘secret’ like you do which are really right on point and wonderful! Start small, start now
Thanks for watching
I’m a new sub. I am new to Etsy and a little overwhelmed. I have keywords everywhere and now know I have been adding my keywords in wrong. For example inspirational, women’s, t shirt, ... putting a coma after each keyword 😑 I did not know they should have been long tailed. I keyworded the long tail and saw zero searches. I will be watching your other videos. This is my first time after watching many videos hearing about marmalade. I also have to go back in and add keywords to my many beginning products I have added. Apologies for rambling. If you have any advice for me I would appreciate it. I opened my shop in December and have had no sales 🤦♀️ thank you 🙏
Keywords everywhere draws their info from google ads data, so it’s fine but it’s not Etsy-specific. Marmalead is better, but keywords everywhere is fine to use. I would go back and take the keywords you have already and just write sentences using them for your titles. What you described with the commas is actually okay for the search engine, because Etsy doesn’t “see” punctuation. But for ur customer reading it, go back and change it to “inspirational women’s tshirt” without the commas and it will look better.
I just started like a month ago and have 7 sales. I noticed that when I make the title of the listing long it draws more people in. Like at first I was selling a vintage dress. I had it under "vintage stripe orange dress"....it had 2 views only. 2 weeks later I added "vintage dress, go go dress, fun psychedelic dress, scooter dress" and I got about 30 likes. It sold 1 week after I had updated the listing name. Please don't take my advice since I'm a beginner. But just sharing my experience.
Thank you so much for this video! It's helping me a lot in my journey in opening my etsy shop. I just had a question about something you said- when you say you need to put the important keywords in both places and in the same order.., which places do you mean? And if it needs to be in the same order, wouldn't we need more or the same keywords in order for the important ones to be in the same order?
I hope that makes sense!
Thank tou again!
At this point you can just use one good keyword and put it in the title and the tags. Those are the two places :)
Do tags on Etsy matter? They have a limited word count and I can't even add the words I'd like to put there. Do you have any advice for it?
Yes they do matter...I have a video I did about tags, here it is: ruclips.net/video/lSO1YOisrPo/видео.html
@@KaraBuntin Thank you! Love your videos! They are all very informative. 👍
@@KaraBuntin having the same problem they only let me use 20 characters
Thank you so much for this video! I tried to watch several others and it couldn't hold my attention. Quick and to the point 😊🙌🏻
Thanks for watching!
I will need to listen to this again! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I'm going to launch two product lines that are completely unrelated. Should I have two separate etsy accounts?
Thanks for this video - I subscribed and will be watching more of your videos
If they're totally unrelated then yes, two separate shops make sense because you'll be selling to two different groups of people.
Great stuff! do you have step by step info on how to find ETSY specific keyword research?
Watch the Marmalead videos I have on here, but I don't tend to go step by step for anything.
Great info! Thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful!
thank you for this great video , it helped me a lot
Thanks for watching!
Thank you Kara! This was great!
You're welcome! I'm working on a part 2...
@@KaraBuntin Can't wait!
Great advice! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Kara, this was very helpful! I was wondering if you had any advice for high-ranking, bestselling items that have suddenly dropped out of search results (possibly because of "frequency capping")? I would appreciate any insight!
There is no frequency capping, that's a tinfoil hat theory. There are, however, changes in the algorithm that will make things drop off the radar if the thing that was keeping it at the forefront is downgraded in the search algorithm. It's just the natural ebb and flow of ecommerce. I have a silicone mold that was selling like crazy for a few months, and it's totally slowed down in recent weeks. It happens.
By frequency capping, i assume you mean the mention of that in the seller handbook, but that refers to the number of times a single listing or ship will appear for a single search results for a single customer. I think you’re intending it to mean that they stop showing the listing after a certain number of times that it appears in search results, but that’s not what it means.
That's a very helpful response, thank you! My sales for a particular item have slowed substantially and I thought it was the frequency capping -- I interpreted it incorrectly, exactly the way you described here -- but it seems like it is indeed a shift in the algorithm. Thanks for taking the time to explain. I've been binge-watching your videos since finding you yesterday!
@@kimberlyerin2122 There's also a glitch going on o Etsy's end that they're supposedly working on, and you might be a victim of. People are saying that their best sellers have moved back to the page 17 area, where new listings used to go to wait for ranking factors to be applied. Etsy said that it was a glitch affecting UK sellers and that it's been fixed, but some sellers in other parts of the world said that they saw a change when the "fix" happened, and others said that it's made no difference. If you want to get some action on it, go to Twitter and tweet at Etsy about it, because publicity is what makes companies move fastest.
I just opened my shop and in the first five hours I got 15 visits and 51 shop views. Is that good? I used your strategy...
Heck yeah!
Thank you for this video!!
You’re welcome!
Muchas gracias por su aportación, quisiera hacer el curso, pero no domino el ingles perfectamente, cree usted que poder traducir sus clases?, que formato tienen los cursos?.
Muchas gracias
Maribel
Some of the videos have google translate Spanish subtitles, but i would say that if you don't understand English well, it's probably not the best course to take. I speak some Spanish, and there are people in the group who also do, but it's going to be difficult to understand everything because I talk fast!
Si vas a settings, y haces click primero en subtitles cc, english ( autogenerated) y luego nuevamente haces click en subtitles cc, te va a aparecer "autotranslate" y ahi seleccionas espanol :)
Say for instance I've got a heart mold for chocolate- & I put it under valentine's day for attributes for holiday- will I ONLY come up for valentine's day searches? Would I still come up if somebody isn't looking for valentine's day but just the heart mold for any occasion?
TIA
You would still come up in other searches.
how about images and video? Does Etsy give you a lower ranking if you don't use all the spaces for images? Do they rank people higher if they are using video in their listing?
They don't penalize you for not using all of the photo slots, and they've said that they do give you some credit for having a video.
Hiya
this is a fantastic video so helpful I wish I watched this before my first listing... unfortunately Etsy has suspended my account and my listing (on the first try) they have not emailed me or explained why.. I’m very new at this and I want to do well but they’ve really disheartened me.. when it’s meant to be something fun now it’s a bit of a nightmare.... my question is.. is there words you can’t use for your listing? And if you repeat the key words ... example (die cut sticker, cute sticker, waterproof sticker, gloss sticker) is this a bad thing to do?
If you're just opening your account, Etsy might close your shop by accident because they use bots to screen newer shops. As long as what you're listing isn't copyright infringement (no cartoon characters, movies or tv shows, trademarked logos etc.), and it's legal to sell on Etsy according to their Terms Of Service, you should be able to contact them and see if your shop was closed by mistake. It happens more often with new shops, from what I hear. Email at integrity@etsy.com or trust@Etsy.com (I can't remember which one it is) and see if you can get some answers.
@@KaraBuntin that’s great! Thank-you so soo much for the help!! I will email them now! And... no it’s an original design I made .....which is very frustrating... I’ve been scanning through all there policy’s and rules this week to make sure I didn’t accidentally do anything but I can’t see anything... ....but again Thankyou so much!
@@rebeccachambers8391 Happened to me when I first oppened my account, just send them a professional email, they may take a long period to respond and unsuspend your account, meanwhile keep doing your market research and designing. Good luck!
I have a few questions but I will just start with one (or two?) So in a hyper competitive market like jewelry, it is hard to find keywords, LT or not, with low competition. There are only so many ways of describing a pair of moonstone teardrop earrings. In order to avoid filling title and tags with words that do not apply to your product just b/c they have good engagement, you should opt for occasions like 30th birthday gift for women, for example? It seems so random. Maybe someone could buy them for a 32nd birthday...
You would look for lower competition keywords, and yeah, that can be difficult. But in about 4 minutes I found "Genuine moonstone earrings," which only has about 1900 competing listings. It just takes a little time to poke around to find possibilities.
Also, "fine moonstone earrings" only has about 1450 results :)
@@KaraBuntin Thank you. I have gotten much better at it but finding enough to fill the title is a challenge.
Hi Kara! i'm curious, is it okay to add/change the title, tags, especially description... if that listing already does well? I wanna improve it but im scared it will "restart" the SEO or something like that
If it's doing well, leave it alone! It doesn't need to be fixed, so don't change it!
@@KaraBuntin thank you! it does really well in my opinion considering i still have 0 review, but I got sale every 1-3 days:)
Kara, I am happy to come across your channel. I used a very niche long tailed keyword and I have it in both title and tags. The competition is pretty low under 1000. What I don't understand is I went through all the pages shown by typing in the search this search keyword. I looked at every single page and I still could not find my listing. I don't understand this.
The listing should be there, you just might not have seen it. Put the entire title in the search bar and see if you can find it. If you can, it's in search and people are seeing it.
@@KaraBuntin Kara, I am Canadian. I am pricing my t shirts in US$ to cater to a bigger US market. My supplier is also in the US. I wonder when I input that long tailed keyword that it is showing me items in Canadian currency. It is very strange. I just can't find my t shirt. I did a search of my listing with the keyword and I found it under my listings in the Shop Manager. But when I go to Etsy Marketplace I cannot find it for the life of me. It is so so frustrating. I haven't had your luck. I have traffic only from friends and family.
@@caveman6685 Don't blame bad luck. If there's a difference in currency, it has something to do with your shop settings. If you price things in US currency but your shop is set in Canadian dollars that's what will be displayed to you as a shopper. If you want to tell me the listing and the shop name I can look to see if I can see the listing. You might want to check to make sure that you don't have it set to only ship to the US, because if you have it marked that it doesn't ship to Canada, it won't show up in search if you're in Canada.
Hello Kara!! Thanks so much for the wonderful information! I have watched a few of your videos and they are so informative.
I have found that when I create a new listing (most times I am copying and adjusting the pics/main info), my whole shops sales will drop for a good 2-5 days afterwords. At first, I thought it was just co-incidence. But I have tracked it each time.. and it is happening every time! Could this be a link between the copies I make and Etsy boys trying to re-analyze my shop and it’s listings? I can’t seem to figure out what is happening. Any thoughts are appreciated! 😊
Thanks so much!
I don't see the same thing, so I do think it's a coincidence. In general, Etsy already has the information about your existing listings and shop activity, and a new listing isn't going to factor into that. They'll have to look at the new listing individually, but it shouldn't affect your entire shop's activity.
@@KaraBuntin Thanks so much for the response! Yes...I thought it was very odd that this was happening. I have been analyzing all of my listings very carefully and trying my best to pinpoint why this is happening, to no avail! I have also attempted to contact Etsy directly to find out if something is happening behind the scenes in my shop, and their customer service is not really answering. Oh well! I guess I will continue to trek along and see what happens.
My sales just dropped to 0 after the 20th of this month and I was selling well, is that normal because people are not buying gifts anymore or is there something wrong ? I am concerned about it 😩
I think it's pretty normal this time of year. People realize that they're not going to get their orders before Christmas, so they switch to shopping in person.
@@KaraBuntin Thanks Kara, I really appreciate your feedback. I even turned off my ads because I know I won't get any sales. =(
@@RenataCarlos Things will pick up again in the new year. There's always a slow time the week before Christmas.
@@KaraBuntin Hopefully yeah !! I can't wait for that lol We get addicted to those cha chins hahahaha
@@RenataCarlos it happened to me to. Started happening at the end of last year and droping down since then. I am at zero now. And I was doing quite well as well.
I am trying to figure out what is the reason.
If I'm selling bee photography should I use the word bee repetitively in the title? i.e. bee prints, bee decor, etc. or just a few? Thank you
In general, you don't need to repeat a word, but if they're all phrases that you want to get an exact word-order match for, in both title and tags you should use it in each phrase.
Hello, very good video, but I don't know so much good English and didn't understand what does marmalead means?
It’s a keyword research tool, go to marmalead.com
Thank you! New sub:))
Thanks!
I also watched another person's video that said to use EVERY spot in tags. You stated in your video to use them in the same sequence as in description.
Say for instance I need to type 'HCB hot chocolate bomb' but it doesn't all fit in 1 tag (it does im using an example)
Say I write :
1) hot cocoa bomb
2) HCB chocolate
Would that not work because it's not in same sequence as my description?
Right, if you want an exact match, you need to do an exact match. Mixing the words up gets rid of the exact match. Just write "HCB hot chocolate" "Bomb hot cocoa" on two tags to use up the space and to keep the exact word order match since the two tags would read in sequence.
@@KaraBuntin thank you so much!
What do you do if you’re found and you’re in the first 1000 but no sales still? Pictures and prices being on point too
Mind you I’ve been opened 3 weeks..
3 weeks is pretty early to draw any conclusions. You should be sending as much traffic to your shop as you can at this point, don't rely on search by itself!
Thank you!
Thanks for watching
Thank you Kara. Great video. Quick question, I am new to Etsy and have heard or seen that we should not include the same keywords in both the title and tags. If I understand your video, you are saying that we should be doing this to increase visibility. Is that accurate? Again, thank you so much for this information. It is very helpful.
You should repeat at least one good keyword, Etsy still says to do that for relevancy. It's not required to get on the top of the search results page, but it helps in the first sweep for relevancy, or so they say.
I know this is a good for matching thanks you👍👍👍
Thanks for watching!
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When Etsy is sorting the raw data to get the best 1000 items by keyword on a search - how does that work with Etsy ads? Are they included in the 1000 items? Thx!
The ads algorithm is separate, so they don't count for the 1000 organic results.
@@KaraBuntin Oops..check your spelling 😲
@@trappedinthesixties Hahahahaha! Thanks for the heads up.
@@KaraBuntin 😉
ok i listen about 1000 items
how we know that our item is in this number?
how and where can i check it?
You can't, because Etsy is personalizing search now, and you can't see exactly where your listings are. The idea isn't to know 100% that you're in the top 1000, it's just to look for keywords and use long tail keyword strategy that will give you the best chance of being put in the top 1000. There's no formula that promises that you'll be included in the top listings, you have to do your own keyword research and make decisions about how to describe your listings accurately so that Etsy can figure out what they are and who they're for so that they're shown to the right people.
@@KaraBuntin so if i understant right... i make macrame earrings and is my top search in my shop and i use long tail keywords... is better to start my title macrame earrings royal blue and in my tags to make royal blue earrings and macrame earrings? and that is helpful?
@@ioannastekiapantou No, you would just put "royal blue macrame earrings," then in the tags make sure to put "royal blue" "macrame earrings" in two tags if you want to match that exactly. It does help because Etsy sees the exact match as being more relevant for that listing.
@@KaraBuntin ok so if a client make a royal blue macrame earrings search and i have this in my title and tags my listing is the best reasult?
@@ioannastekiapantou Yes, that's the best that you can do to tell Etsy what it is. It doesn't 100% guarantee that your listing will show up on page 1, but it's the best that you can do.
Guys does free shipping helps out for new esty shop to grow or is it all bs
It doesn't help as much as Etsy says, but customers like it and it does help in search placement a little. It won't help you tremendously.
What are the odds of getting into the first 1000? Hold your breath. Impossible.
Not at all, there are millions of results in the first thousand that sell every day.
Really?? Etsy don’t use item descriptions to rank an item? I find that very hard to believe
They don’t use descriptions at all.
@@KaraBuntin how have you come to this conclusion? I’m curious as I’ve actually tested some of my listings with changes to the description... and I’ve seen results from that?
Also any idea what’s happened to the search results in the last 48 hours? Many people have seen their results drop massively in he forums, and search results aren’t very accurate at all tbh many irrelevant items showing when searching 🤷🏻♂️
@@jonjunior6995 It's not my conclusion, they've never used descriptions, if you look up the "how etsy search works" article in the help section it doesn't mention descriptions at all. The CTO did a tech conference presentation a while back and he said that descriptions were problematic because there are so many sellers with millions of different description formats, and it was too difficult to figure out how to read those.
The search results have been changing in the last month or so because they're changing the algorithm to use more personalized search factors and browse instead of direct word matches. Don't rely on the forums for all of your information about traffic, though, because the people who are having slow sales will be the ones to answer those types of posts, and it creates a false image of slow sales across the board. My sales have been increasing to the point where I've been putting my shop into vacation mode when I go to bed so that I'm not swamped with overnight sales. It's not the same for everyone, but they are definitely changing the algorithm in substantial ways. I'm going to be talking about this in my Tuesday Live Etsy Chat next week.
@@KaraBuntin thanks for your reply I appreciate that, I usually don’t take much notice of the forums, but I noticed something around 48 hours ago with my own listings and just the search in general throwing up quite poor results for queries... like items totally not related to the search term. As times gone on this is being noticed in different countries, whilst I appreciate some sellers may not be affected by this, and am aware people love to complain when their sales are down, this is probably the biggest overall change I’ve seen in 2 years and also one that makes no sense from what I’m seeing.
@@jonjunior6995 It makes sense for what they're doing, because they're trying to show more things that aren't direct word matches to the search query and are semantic matches instead. As they start shifting toward that model it's going to be wonky for a while.