Search Stats Poll

[Former_Member]

Hey everyone!
I have a quick poll/ question for you!

Go to your shop stats, change to your all time stat history. And divide the amount of searches people have made via etsy by the total search hits you've had.
What is that percentage?

Mine is 33.8%, and I'm just curious to see how I compare to others!
Enjoy your day,
Kelly

[SnarkFactory]

This month I've had 9,738 views and only 644 were from search. So that means search accounts for 6.6% of my views. I've been monitoring that and I'm not sure how to bring it up....

[Former_Member]

Mallory, what is your all time percentage? That gives you a nice average :)

[SnarkFactory]

7.11% lol

[Former_Member]

ever since i´ve been on etsy almost 11% of the views are from search though my search hits have increased over the last months
in the last 30 days it´s almost 22%

[Former_Member]

Mallory, I would highly suggest working on your SEO! You have so many listings, you definitely have a LOT of potential!
I HIGHLY suggest reading this article and taking notes! https://www.etsy.com/help/article/247

I think it'll really help you! :)
Kelly

[Former_Member]

kelly, what would be a good percentage in your view??

[Former_Member]

Barbara,
This is what I'm trying to figure out! If I look at my average for this month, it's at a 43%- but I've only made 7 sales haha.
This is why I have the other current thread about pricing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong, even though I feel like I'm doing everything right!! haha.

[Former_Member]

Using your formula, my percentage is 34%.

But actually, I think to get the accurate numbers I think you'll have to use JUST the hits you've gotten within Etsy. So take your "etsy.com" hits under "traffic sources" and divide that by your search numbers. Basically using JUST your etsy.com numbers, not your direct traffic, other sources, etc.

So for me, 74% of my hits have been from within Etsy (the other 26% is direct traffic, Google, Facebook, etc). And 45% of my hits from within Etsy are from search.

[Former_Member]

My all time is about 20%. I'm pretty happy with that, but would definitely like to make it higher!

[BeadworkAndCoe]

Ok, I am the dumb one out - lol
I can see how many Etsy searches, but how do you get the total?
It is so split up with all the googles, yahoo etc ...

[Former_Member]

@Amy, I definitely understand what you mean. I mean you can do it either way haha. If this is the case mine is 45% for all time, but like I said I really don't have the sales I would expect with this SEO overhaul haha.

I am hoping once fall/winter comes around I will have my sweatshirts flying out of my store haha

[Former_Member]

7 sales would be heaven for me, i had 1 trade so far this month. the thing that is still unfathomable for is that sometimes i sell 5 - 10 items in like 3 days and then there is nothing for 1 month. if i divide all sales by the time i´m here i´ve had more than 1 sale every week (my first etsyversary will be in 3 weeks).i´m not unhappy with that but of course it could always be better, that´s why i try to improve things every day.

[Former_Member]

well I don't know if I did it right. But about 89% of my views come from within etsy, and 50% of those are from etsy search. Is that what we're talking about?

I'm interested in knowing how many views per sale people are getting. I feel like it takes me A TON of views to get a sale. Still trying to figure out how to fine tune seo.

[Former_Member]

@Alexis, I was noticing for a while that it took an item to get 75 hits to get a sale haha. It was weird I had like 8-9 sales in a row that were in that 70-75 view range

[SnarkFactory]

Hmm, i'm not real sure this is the BEST way to determine if search is working for you but it's definitely interesting. I've had 19 orders this month, but if I improve SEO it would be amazing to get more.

Do you use broad keywords or specific keywords?

[Former_Member]

@Mallory, you want to have as many keywords covered in each listing- even if it is similar items you have in your shop.
By doing so, you will not be competing against yourself, and you will be found more :)

[drudruchu]

33% here

but I agree it doesn't have to mean your SEO is good/bad, it can also mean the people with a lower % get more hits from facebook, twitter, blog, etc. And I'm really bad at that, so naturally the etsy search hits are higher... because the rest is so low...

[SnarkFactory]

Yeah, only 42% of my views comes directly from etsy. I'm trying to increase relevance by having my etsy items listed on many places on the internet. If I only take into account my etsy views, then my search percentage goes up to 18%.

That's crazy that less than half of my views on etsy come from actual etsy haha never noticed that before

[ShopMissElla]

72 % am I doing this wrong?!

all time - 65,416 divided by 47,234

Gosh 249 sales in 65,416 views, hmmmm! Better do some more promo off Etsy methinks!

[Former_Member]

@Ella, you've had 47,234 SEARCH hits from Etsy?! That's Awesome!
If you found the right stats that's definitely great :)

[Former_Member]

This is a great exercise! I've only had my store open for 3 weeks here are the results: search/views 22% and from my shop/views 27% -- I want to increase my views from google and outside Etsy, I'm working on that right now ;)

[ScarlettsCozyCottage]

Mine is 29%. Still trying to figure all of this out!

[Former_Member]

In a perfect world, I would love to have high 50s, for a number. I feel I can reach that with some tweaking and adding more items, but I feel I'm in a very good place right now! :)

[ShopMissElla]

Hi Kelly, yes that's right, it hasn't equaled sales though but I have managed to get quite high in the searches somehow. For example number one under 'cat art'. (no idea how, seo, favourites, sales ????)

What I need to do now is target all the crazy cat ladies who don't search Etsy!