Shop has come to a SCREECHING halt...

[TheWishingElephant]

I averaged 3 orders a day up until last week. All of a sudden - my good luck vanished. I suspect it has something to do with the new search going by relevancy. I used to relist 10x a day and my shop was cruising along. Now I'm panicked! Please help!! Do you have any tips, secrets or ability to calm? I've been reading everything I can and have tried tweaking my tags and titles. Not much has come as a result. Please help!!

In addition, should I continue to relist given the new search criteria?

[Former_Member]

I'm no pro, but maybe put onesie at the beginning of the title? Renewing seems to get more hits. Maybe it's just the time of year? Many parents are back to school shopping right now. Wish I could be more help...
By the way, I laughed out loud when I saw this.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/65707741/baby-gift-woodland-gnome-onesie

[Former_Member]

Let me preface this by saying, I'm no expert.

So, I looked at shop and at quick glance it looks like many of your titles do not start with "Onesie" or "Baby clothes" or another keyword. Use your shop stats and GA to find what your most important keywords are. Put those in the first 3 words of your title. Then, the first sentence of your description should be basically a re-wording of your title. And in your tags for this one:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/62578895/onesie-vw-love-bus-baby-shower-present
You use "pink orange green" and "blue yellow light" - I wouldn't search that, would you? For relevancy to work, you need to think like a buyer and put words that a buyer would search for in your tags.

As far as relisting goes, it's not as important anymore BUT after relevancy, comes recency. So maybe not 10x a day, but still list new items or relist items. You'll have to find a formula that works for you. I'm in a fairly small category so for me, once a day or every day is enough to keep my shop fairly visible. But it's different for every shop.

Hope this helps!

[TheWishingElephant]

Thank you! Both suggestions are very helpful. I'll keep tweaking, thanks for the input!

[MountainGoth]

I agree, the new titling is definately having impact on my shop. I don't see much pont in continually relisting, so the up side is saving all the relisting fees. I'm actually surprised Etsy's doing this, seem they are shooting themselves in the foot.

Not it is experimentation on how to get the hits you want with the new search to draw folks in.

[TheWishingElephant]

Update.. sales have started to pick up! I tweaked titles and tags - looks like it's helping a bit. Total bonus - I've have 3 wholesale inquiries in the last week!

[Frecklesoriginals]

Oh heck I just re did most of my titles because of this change and it made no difference. I re listed lots today too. I'll try anything. But I think it's a bad time of year too fingers crossed it will get better.

[Former_Member]

I am pretty new to Etsy, but I was getting a decent amount of traffic, if not sales, until recently too. Then it just stopped. I hope what I'm hearing about time of year has something to do with it. I have tried changing my titles somewhat, but it didn't seem to help. I hope you do better with your changes. Congratulations on the wholesale inquiries!!

[Former_Member]

Great tips here.

Wishing Elephant - Yay for wholesale inquiries! and what a cute cute shop!

[Former_Member]

What I have sen from my shop stats, though, is that I'm getting more and more traffic from outside Etsy towards my shop. The same must be happening to us all? If so, it is good news, it may turn out that we are attracting new potential buyers !

[Zehland]

Wishing Elephant - yay for you! I'm glad the tweaks are helping, they have helped my items show up better too.

handustry, I am seeing the same thing. More from Google and other search outside of Etsy than before.

I still have lots of work to do on my tags though, *sigh.

[artbylisi]

I averaged at least 1-2 sales a day but it's been only 1 in the last 10 days. I'm hoping it's just the slow season. :)