Thefind.com

[BaloolahB]

This was one of my traffic sources today, anyone know anything about it, I certainly never submitted my shop, how have they found me? Has anyone had sales from it?

[CandiWareArt]

no idea but super cool :)

[DingandKennie]

I get that source too. I have no idea what it is or how I am linked to it. I don't think I've gotten any sales from it.

[rebeccalhall]

Yeah, I had a little random traffic from it last week. No sales, but any publicity is welcome!!

[Former_Member]

I just noticed I had a view from there today, too! I'm going to investigate to see if it's another place we could promote............

[Former_Member]

From what I've read and can tell, thefind is a shopping search engine and your page was found by one of its crawlers and then listed in its databank so that when someone does a shopping search for whatever keyword they're using, your shop popped up. I think that's pretty awesome!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheFind.com

[Former_Member]

That's pretty neat, Disco. Hopefully I might have some visitors from there one day haha.

[Former_Member]

I believe it's a pretty well known shopping search engine, and usually, stand alone websites sign up for that by putting their code on the site. Excellent job to what ever you're doing to be found by them here. I'm found by them on my own site, but never here. Congratulations!

[Former_Member]

Found the Merchant Center to add your shop here:
https://merchant.thefind.com/mc/login.fhtml
Says it is free to join so setting up an account!

[Former_Member]

Wah wah wahh....
went to create a Merchant Account for my shop, and got this:

"Complete the site owner verification process by uploading a blank .html file to the root directory of your website."

So if you have your own website it would work, but not for your etsy shop.

[Former_Member]

I started getting traffic from this source when I listed my coca cola fabric. "Coca cola" must be a very popular search term because now I typically get this as a traffic source daily for my fabric.

BTW - I just sold a piece of the Coca Cola fabric yesterday! - so I am happy my shop got "found" by thefind.com!

[GirlpowerKnits]

I get views from TheFind, but I can't say it has brought a sale...

[Former_Member]

pretty awesome! best of luck-- hopefully you'll get some sales out of it soon! :)

[Former_Member]

I just tried to join and yeah you need a website... bummer :/

[ForsythiaHill]

etsy is the website --- u just need to put the .html file in the root directory - which i assume u can't do because etsy manages your website... anyone have a work around ?

[EleanorsVintage]

One of my first etsy sales was actually through thefind.com, so it can happen for anyone!
Enjoy getting found, you never know!