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Some items getting very few views..

Some of my items do okay and others, well, they don't really get seen. One of the paintings that barely ever gets looked at is this one:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/99501821/chicken-painting-on-real-wood-cottage

Does anyone mind taking a peak and letting me know if you have any ideas for the SEO, description, and so on? Thanks!!
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Re: Some items getting very few views..

Okay, here's my 42 cents, and hopefully others will throw theirs in as well.

That's a cool chicken, mainly because it's weird and blue. The fact that it's a blue chicken should be played up in the description. WHY is it blue? What made you decide to paint a nontraditional color chicken instead of the usual white?

The fact that it's blue also makes the photo harder to decipher. It just looks like a blue and red blur if I pass my eyes over it quickly, which is what people are doing in searches. Perhaps a more direct natural light, and putting this one at an angle (like it's "looking into the future") would help? Experiment with it so that anyone looking can tell right away "oh, that's a chicken -- but it's blue!"

Consider putting it in a different category than Art Painting...it helps to have different types of items in your shop to get people in there anyway, but have you considered Geekery? That's a sort of catch-all category that can include any type of item. Housewares also works, if you don't feel this is geeky enough to merit Geekery.

For your tags, I would never search for "colorful art" or "chicken art," and I'm not sure what "dezdino" means -- your shop name? your personal name? -- but maybe you have a particular audience in mind there. Also, if I were searching for "oak tree" I would expect to find photos or paintings OF an oak tree, not ON an oak tree, so you might want to think a bit about how someone who's looking for art ON wood would describe it. Same with "wood painting"..."painting on wood", maybe? "1970s style home decor"? (Because so much home decor in the 70s was "alternative" types of presentation.)

You also use "funky chicken" in your tags but not your description or title. I think you should use that in your branding of this particular product, and describe it that way rather than as "lovely." To me, this chicken isn't for people who want "lovely" things in their homes, it's for people who want awesome blue chickens in their homes.

Consider the hipsters when tagging this. I think they would like this guy.

Finally, your description states that it could be a rooster or a hen? But to me, it has every marking of a rooster. I'd stick with that. Even if there are hens that look like roosters, you don't want to have to explain that, and there's no need to not be specific because nobody's looking for chicken art and then rejecting it because it was "only a rooster, not a hen." At least I can't imagine that happening! Plus, the more specific you are, the more you show you had a vision when creating this, the more it will seem OOAK and desirable.
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Re: Some items getting very few views..

You are so awesome, lady. That's probably the best critique I have ever heard! It made me laugh, chuckle, and think a lot... You are totally right that it's a funky chicken and definitely not a lovely chicken! I guess, to me, all chickens are quite lovely... but this chicken would not be described as "lovely" to most. Eye opener!! And blue is definitely an integral part of that chicken. I'm going through a bit of a blue phase in my music and art lately, not a sad blue phase, more like a sky blue whimsical phase. You're right that not many people will give a dang if the chick is a rooster or a hen, I'll stick with rooster and get more detailed in that description. YOU are good. Thanks a bunch!!
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Awesome! Put all that "blue period" funk into your description and, I'd say, take a new photo that sets it apart a bit (so you can see clearly that it's a chicken), and you're in business!

The more I looked at the blue chicken, the more I liked it, so the key with that guy is probably getting people to stare at him for a long time...with their cursors moving ever closer to the "add to cart" button!
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Re: Some items getting very few views..

Right on Alicia, thanks a lot. And I totally love your shop!! I will definitely be in the market for a hilarious cross stitch one day soon. If you ever feel like browsing around more of my stuff and giving me some personal wisdom, you are more than welcome to! Oh and I'll work on getting a better picture tomorrow. It's a little too dark outside now and I'm no good with indoor photography.
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That is an awesome rooster. For some reason it's really hard to tell what it is in the thumbnail. I think it's a great picture but you may want to do a close up of just the head or something. I don't think you have to show the whole piece in the first picture you just need to draw the buyer in.
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Ooh, yes, I like Lori's idea. That's much easier and probably more effective than taking another photo. (I'm also no good at indoor photography -- it's pretty easy to tell from my shop which things I had natural lighting for and which things I didn't. Yeesh.)

Thanks for the shop compliment! :D I'm sure I'll find myself drawn back into yours again, too...there IS something about that rooster.
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Re: Some items getting very few views..

Lori, I will try that. I have been thinking of how I can make the picture clearer and I hadn't thought up any miraculous ideas yet. I know a lot of people use light boxes, maybe I'll try that one day but it seems to be a bit of work and I really prefer taking my pictures outdoors. I'll play with the photo and see if I can create a good closeup of him. I do agree that it kind of just looks like a colored blob at a passing glance. Thanks for the idea!
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Re: Some items getting very few views..

Done, I did the closeup and I think it looks pretty good. I can certainly tell it's a chicken now.
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