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How do I get people to view my items?

Hi all, I am a new member to the Etsy communicty. I opened the shop a couple of years ago when my husband was laid off after 20 years at the same co. I thought it would be a great way to take my love of all things Vintage and earn some much needed income. Things sort of fizzled out and since I started the shop we have relocated to wonderful South Bend IN, a wonderful place with lots and lots of opportunities to treasure hunt for those Vintage items I love so much!

I really want my shop to succeed, and as I am exploring the site and the forums and individual shop owners I see that it is such a wonderful community. Any tips that you can give me as to what I am doing wrong, or what I need to do differently, would be greatly appreciated. Etsy is such a great place to showcase these items that are so unique and too frequently discarded.

I only have four items listed right now as I wanted to see what I am doing right or wrong before I listed a bunch of things and found out I wasn't doing it right. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me, I greatly appreciate it. Jan
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I haven't made any sales yet (my shop's less than a month old), so I'm sure there's people more experienced than I am with better advice, but I've noticed that the items in my shop that get the most views and favorites are the ones that have the most specific keywords in the tags. For instance, I have a digital print in the shop with a quote from a TV show. I tagged it with the name of the show, that it was a poster, a digital print, and other specific things (like color and the character who said the quote). I quickly found out it was being discovered by searches for something like "TV show name poster" or "poster for this tv show"- very specific searches. That print is right now my most viewed item.

Looking through your shop, your items are lovely and the product names look fine to me (although a more experienced shop owner could help more with that), but your tags are very broad. Your vintage mason jars were tagged "vintage", "vintage 1930's" and I think a few more broad categories as well. Those broad tags are very helpful, but it might help if you also add more specific tags so that your items are more likely to appear in a shopper's search results. Maybe you could try adding more tags that describe what the item looks like. What color is it? Was it made using a specific technique people might search for? Who made it? Was it a certain designer/company? The more specific, the better! If you have multiple tags with keywords that work together, that might help as well.
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Thank you Annie, that is great advice. I really appreciate it. Good luck with your shop as well.
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