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Why you are not getting found newbies

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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TheWhiteInvite
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Thanks for the information Alex, this is very helpful!

What do you think about my store? Does it have good tags and titles? I am working my best to have high views and get myself out there. It is; however, a little disappointing that I average approximately 70 views a day. What would you recommend for me to improve?

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks!
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oh boy

I dont know how much this will help, since you made a very common error

but its stationery

with an e

that will keep you busy for a long time
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I dont think you will be found in a search for stationery-95,000 items

you are in stationary, with 17,000
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Very helpful, thank you. How is my shop doing?
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youre doing great with only 19 items

15 of your pix are really good

your tags look good

your titles are meh.

Use more words, then repeat those in the tags. You have bell bottoms in the tags, put that in the title. Along with red. I always put a color in the title.
And the type of color. Turquoise beats blue. Mauve beats pink, etc. Be descriptive.

oh boyski.....

some of those shirts DO NOT have "shirt" in the title. I would like that corrected poste haste.

and I would like to see your titles doubled in length.

yuo get a c+
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Been working on better pics, and getting my tags right.... How did I do?
(Crosses her fingers hoping for an A...)
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tags and tiltles are top notch
a1
the big cheese
top dog

Your pics are still dull. Need more light, I know it rains up there a tad. Ive never seen a sunny mariners game. From when they used to be on espn. When they were good way back. Anywho, more light, If your lights cast a shadow, put wax paper on them to diffuse the light.

More items. At least 50. Make a ring tree or something. Or a cheaper necklace hanger. Get a piece of wood, stick those little wooden pegs in, then paint flowers on it.. I sold lots of those. But, I have moved on. Purple and pink were big colors, in the day. Chicks who liked purple were bad news, High maintenance..

Have you tried strap hangers? I have made jewelry thingies, and sawtooths are kinda shaky. Chicks are going to be using that every day, and if it falls, you will get rained on.

can they open from left to right? Chicks have spaces for things, and sometimes they have to be just "so".

Lowes and home depot will cut a big mirror into small mirrors for free. I pay 70 cents a mirror.

so

a-

more stuff
better pics

time for bed
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Thanks Alex! I just started posting items about a month ago, and I have more designs slowly getting made, hopefully I can post them next week. Yes, I took these pictures on a sunny day, near a south window... Ahhh Seattle! Although I do have to say, I am a MAJOR baseball fanatic, and I have been to many games in the sun at Safeco..lol. It's just our sun isn't as bright as everyone else's... LOL
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In fact, I have been to 22 baseball parks... Pittsburg's park was one of them, and it is one of my FAVS!
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Alex,

Can you look at our shop and check out our tags and titles? We are new to Etsy and get between 10 - 20 views per day. Thanks so mcuh.

Pam
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I have been working on tags titles and pics since opening in June. I try to read up on SEO. Sales have been growing each month but this month has taking nose dive. Any suggestions?
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Great advice Alex! I love your straight talking honest opinions, so although I'm not a newbie I would love to hear what you think of my shop please?!
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Thank you for wonderful tips! Really helpful!
I would love to hear your opinion on my shop too! Please, if you have a minute - take a look at my shop.
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Thank you for posting the tips here too! :)
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Haha! Loved your critical analysis Alex!

Love purple and not high maintenance!
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Thanks for information, Alex. But frankly speaking I don't know what else I could do with my tags. I have original paintings & jewelry in my store and the results for finding paintings are good, I'm satisfied with that, although I haven't any sale so far, but still, I see that I can be found & one day the sales come, I'm sure. But my jewelry.. that's a disaster. Nobody searches it, although I understood the system of giving tags for being found. Moreover, I can't find my items typing my keywords myself. Please, if you have a few minutes, have a look at my jewelry tags. I confess, that somehow I can't fix it myself. I understand that the competition is very strong but still if I'm here I must be found! Today, I've started experimenting with the tags, repeating the main 4 words through the whole 13 keywords & I'm really wondering whether I appear in the search of one of these 4 keywords on the first 10pages... Please help me to understand what's wrong about my tags.
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Re: Why you are not getting found newbies

Great information, I didn't realise about putting title info in tags as well - I thought it would just be included automatically.

If you have a chance to cast an eye over my shop, I'd be grateful for your thoughts. Many thanks.
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Great info! Thanks!! : )
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Alex, I'm not a newbie either, just pasted my 1 yr mark in June, but still feel new. Would you take a look at my shop? I'm constantly working on my tags and titles and have retaken most of my pics to get better shots. I'm still working on getting my pics lighter and take them all outside.
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We have used one of the Etsy Apps to assist with SEO. It has helped us to gain better understanding of this process. http://etsyshoptimizer.com/
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Thanks very informative I appreciate it
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pam and paula

your tags and tiltles look pretty good.

I dont see any pix on what the inside of the card looks like.
Can they be personalized?
Can I get one that says Happy 39th Birthday for my cousin, with "again" on the inside?

You will get more views when you get more items listed. Maybe a wider variety of cards will help with that also. Stuff people cant get everywhere.
i.e, I am Orhodox. My xmas is Jan 7. We want our own cards.
People come to etsy to get personalised service. You cant get that from Hallmark.

so far, so good.
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Alex, would you mind checking mine out? I know some of my pics are blurry, I just bought a new camera and I am working on reshooting...Thank you!
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candace, you are doing great in a tough field.

your tiltles need some work. Put the important words up front. to wit;

Beaded Poem Bracelet for Daughter, etc .. ( i never heard of a poem bracelet, but I reckon girls know). For some of them use Poem Beaded Bracelet, then put both beaded bracelet and poem bracelet in the tags. Your shop stats will tell you what people search on to find you. Then use those phrases a lot. Also, use your shop name in some of your tags. I get hits on my name every day.
hmm.. there are only 203 results for poem bracelet.
363,000 for beaded bracelet. thats a ton.
i think you can be better found in the smaller searches for daughter bracelet, bff bracelet, sister bracelet, etc.
do you have a bff bracelet?
can someone get their own poem?

dont use tags with gift in them. I hear search ignores that.
use multi word tags:
poem bracelet
beaded bracelet
bff bracelet
story bracelet
etc
use bracelet a lot
that is what you sell
braceletsbraceletsbracelets

you are doing great so far
aim for the niches in the market
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