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Things are tough when your category has 2,000,000 items, and you have 40.
You must do everything possible to give yourself a chance to be found. I dont see that in threads compalining about low views.
And, it isnt that hard, nor does it take much time to have good tags and titles. Ignore all that constant "tweaking" noise you read about. Do it right the first time, and you can spend the tweaking time making things.

I have learned the following from the Queen of SEO:

1.Your title is not the name of your item. It is a 70 character string whose goal is to get your item found by etsy search.

2. If you cant tell exactly what the item is by reading your tags, your tags stink. Those words are what people search on. If I had a dime for every purple necklace that had neither purple nor necklace in the tags, I would have a lot of dimes.

3. Words in your title must show up in your tags. If Blue scarf is in your title, blue scarf needs to be in your tags.

4. Use as many of the 20 characters in your tags as possible. Blue scarf as one tag is better than blue, then scarf as two tags.

5.Read about SEO at cindys seo group. she is very wise. http://www.etsy.com/teams/10713/cindylouwho-team/discuss/10196168/

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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Thanks for the advice!! :)
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Hi Alex,
it has been almost a month since I oppened a shop here on Etsy, and I have people looking, but no one is buying :(
any advice?
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I'm working hard to get titles and tagging changed before the holiday. I have over 100 pieces posted, and it is taking time. If someone could check what I am doing to make sure it is correct that would be great. I'm hoping that there isn't any other blatant error I am not seeing.
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I hope Alex comes back to this thread. He is pretty awesome!
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Holy crud this is a helpful post.

I tried the tagging and title tips, and gave it test run on two items. One of my items showed up on the first page of a search. The other showed up as the first item on the first page of a search.

Thank you, thank you, thank you :)
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

This thread is AMAZING! I've worked on tags and titles, and today I took some new photos. If anyone has a moment to critique this one, I'd be so appreciative :D

https://www.etsy.com/listing/172697830/weekly-meal-planner-printable
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Can you check my SEO? I try to follow the rules above but still not getting found.
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I think it's very helpful, thank you...
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I think I have got it right? But still only views that i promote when i tweet, i think? Lucky to get 5 if i do nothing, I've heard people on here getting hundreds as normal! Lucky them!
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

any time i get a lotta team views, this thread has been bif'ed.

adrian sweetie...

things look a tad better, but I can see you are still not getting it.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/166483723/turquoise-and-black-beaded-christian?ref=shop_home_active


i dont see how you can be found in search for this. There is only one term that i would search on that is in your title. Cross Jewelry......yet it isnt in a tag.

do you know why you need them to be exactly in both places???

lets say this is a listing title " Dave Christian Cross Checking Poster" (a hockey poster).
Etsy search does not want that to come up if someone types in "christian cross", because it isnt one. So, to make sure that listing comes up on page 247, and not page 1, they require that you make it clear that you mean to be found on christian cross,*******by having those words consecutively in the title, and in ONE TAG*********************
that shows you want to show up early in that search because that is what you are selling.

for this item, you arent doing it at all. Zero times. Invisible. And this has a much better chance of selling than magenta, neon purple, fuschia crosses.

go look at my first listing for the green mosaic heart

see what i am telling the search engine???

phrases in title, then in ONE TAG??

do that.

and of the 1000s of crosses I have sold, there have been no neon colors.

old saying among baseball managers, "I dont make the lineup, the players do".

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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Hi Alex, I have just found this thread and would love it if you could have a look at my titles and tags - I have tweaked them and it got me higher page views for a while but now I am down to 10 -20 per day

Thanks
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Ok Alex so I just added Cross Jewelry as well. I worked on my SEO again last night. Still more to finish..look at the first page.....thoughts?

Seem to be appearing higher up for Christian Cross........
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

you arent relevant for enough terms on any listing.

As far as christian cross, it is sort of redundant, since a cross is christian.

did yuo look how I did the green mosaic heart? I am relevant for 7 three word phrases, which equates to 14 two word phrases.

Your average is less than two two word phrase.per item.

You have to do better to be seen. Etsy is a numbers game.

your pics have come a long way.

What words do you want to be found on with the turqouise necklace?

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Thank you for noticing the improvement on my pictures...still some to fix.

So are you saying that I need 3 word phrases that use 2 word phrases within them also??

I try this, but it seems that everything I can think of is more than the 20 characters........

I was to to try to use the most descriptive words of what it is that I am selling rather than Christian gift, gift for mom etc......thoughts?

I am at a loss of what other phrases to use :(
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

aim for 3, settle for 2.

here is what i do....(for the turquoise BRACELET-yuo dont have bracelet in the title!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!grrrr )

what is it? These are your nouns

pendant
necklace
cross
jewelry

adjectives :

beaded
turquoise (is it aqua??)
wood
religious
christian
faith
cross
painted
wooden
blue
let us combine those columns

aqua cross necklace, beaded cross jewelry, wooden cross pendant, turquoise bracelet, christian jewelry, blue cross necklace

thats yuor title
those are 6 tags
for the other 7 tags, use words that are in the tile, but not consecutive
like
christian necklace
you wont rank as high for those as the first 6

so.....

make lists of nouns, and adjectives, then combine them to make titles and tags.

those 6 tags are worth 36 one word tags.

use descriptive words.

make sense?

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Ok I think it is making more sense...I will see what I can do this wknd.
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Which bracelet were you referring to above?
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

duh

sorry

I meant necklace.

the turquoise one i referenced in my first post.
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

So I'm going to try try my luck and ask you to review my shop since that seems to be the cool thing to do on this thread. Plus, you have good advice...

(P.S. I know I need to add more items in my shop, I'm working on that.)
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Hey Alex, i've been doing a lot of research and tweaking last couple of days, would you please have a look at my shop, when you have a minute? :) thank you in advance! <3
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Hi Alex, if you could take a look at my shop I would appreciate it. Thanks
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

So Alex, a long title is okay then. And is it preferable to break it up with commas or dashes, or full stops, or does it not matter?
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

This thread is still running!?!?!? Wow!
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

longer keyword rich titles beat shorter stubby titles any day.

I like to use commas. Hemingway never used a /// ///

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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

To who is your post, Alex? :)
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