Tags

[Former_Member]

Hi everyone,
just opened my shop 5 days ago and was advised to work on my titles and also tag, as they're really important. Just do not really know what my tag should be like. Can anyone advice me. Many thanks.

[Former_Member]

Petra,

The first three words of your title are what Google pays the most attention to:
*weekend ladies tunic <- This one looks great!
*Empire line sky
*upcycled boyfriend shirt <- This one looks great!
*ladies denim cropped
*One-of-a-kind recycled ladies (a space, not a dash, separates words)
*recycled ladies denim
*tailored ladies denim

You need to ask yourself, if you wanted to buy that particular shirt, what would you search for? The best answer would become your title - and should be repeated in your description and your tags.

This same question is what you need to ask yourself when setting tags. Would YOU search for "tailored" to find a $130 jacket? or would you search for "tailored denim jacket"? If you wanted a casual weekend tunic, would you do a search for "weekend"?

After wracking your brain for hours, and then finally giving up on the whole SEO BS, if you have unused tags left, fill them with the one-word stuff and the "almost descriptive" tags like "eco friendly". Need one more tag? Put in your location - some people search for local sellers.

You have my congratulations on opening your shop, and my sympathy for the enormity of this project you've started. Don't give up - it can all be worth it in the end.

[Former_Member]

Thank you Rodney. I must say that I'm not sure any more that opening my etsy shop was such a good idea as I thought at the beginning, but I won't give up now. Thanks again for your help.

[HausofAriella]

Rodney's advice is good. Another good way to see what people might be searching for if you can't think of any more tags is to start typing the item into the search bar and see what search suggestions Etsy comes up with. Also, after you've had the new tags for a while, go look at your Etsy stats since changing them and see which ones are getting hits and which aren't. For instance, if you've been getting a number of hits for summer dress, but none for feminine dress, replace feminine dress with something else. Perhaps, summery dress. It's always good to play around with your tags to see which ones work and which don't.

One unrelated note, you might want to change the first picture for the green dress. The dress doesn't look like the focus in that picture and part of it is cut off. The second picture shows off the dress much more.

[UniqueSewingBoutique]

Pedra

Good luck with your new shop.

This is such a helpful team offering good advise.