how important is relisting

[Former_Member]

With all of the recent changes, I was curious how important relisting is now adays.
Do you need to? and if not so much, what would be the benefit of doing so?
Thanks to anyone willing to leave a little input here :)

[Former_Member]

Relisting for me is great. I have multiples of most items in the shop, so every time I sell one, I will relist it to get it back into my shop.

As for renewing (spending an additional $.20 to extend the life of a listing by another 4 months) if I've got something that's about to expire then yes, I will renew it. However, I don't spend money on renewing items that are not about to expire. I would much rather add new items to the shop.

With the recent change to the search to relevancy rather than most recent, its more to your advantage to have good titles and tags than to throw money at renewing.

When I was married all my flowers were silk so if I'm looking for 'silk boutonnieres' I'll just put that in the search and see what comes up.

http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?search_submit=&q=silk+boutonniere&order=most_relevant&ship_to=ZZ...

If you notice, some of the items that show up on the first page of that search have listing dates from back in July sometime but because they are what I was looking for, they show up at the top of the search. I can now narrow down my search by flower type if I want to.

Yes, part of the search algorithm uses listing date, but if your title doesn't match what is being searched for, it doesn't matter what the listing date is.

[Former_Member]

renewing: thats what i ment! lol
and i do see that one of my items is on the front page of that list!
i wasnt sure if it is important to renew now like it was before. i have not renewed anything since the changes. Ive added several items, and changed all of my tags and titles as well!
thank you so much for the info! and have a wonderful day :)

[poisonpear]

I still find it helpful to renew a little bit, if I don't have any new items to list for a while. Categories are still seen by recency.

[JewelleryByJora]

I just started renewing (I started up after the relevancy change) and it's increasing views I'm pleased to find :o)

[virginiawyoming]

As many are coming to my shop (and more) through categories than from searches so doesn't it make sense for me to keep renewing to be more visible?

[wolflady]

I renew my items. My thought is that if you don't have it in your shop you can't sell it.

[Former_Member]

I renew my items when they expire and try to list new items as many times as I can. I don't really understand why relisting would increase views more than a little. People still have to search for your particular item and the times that you relist may not be the times they are looking. I think keeping the store active by renewing and listing would be better approach.

[MissEsAccessories]

I think the jewelry category it helps because the category is so large! I have found myself getting additional views from renewing