Looking for ways to get genuine views

Hi,

I'm not that long a new shopowner on Etsy. I've opened my shop about a month ago and slowly got a little bit more views every week. But for some reason i'm getting 0 (zero :( ) views this last week.

What I've done to improve my shop:
-All A ranks in Etsy rank
-Use Instagram almost daily
- Used Pinterest
- Improved my listings, made sure I have 5 pictures, at least 2 word search tags, all 13 used, my policy and everything typed out.

I'm looking for any advice for my shop since I'm so new and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any help is appreciated.

My shop is under this link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PrintedByYourself?ref=hdr_shop_menu
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HI Suzanne,

Dobi here. I am also trying to improve my rankings and views, so I am no a pro and still learning how the Etsy search algorithm works and yet to figure this out. But what I normally do when I do not get views is I try to change one thing at a time. I usually monitor my last 5 to 10 listings that I have listed every day and I check my stats - keywords, where my traffic comes from, on which page I rank for each of my keywords in my tags, etc. My husband also helps me as he gives me tips on cover photos that I need to change or tags that I may think about replacing with new ones. So my advice would be to change one thing at a time for only one of your listings and see if this helps. I checked a few of your listings and they look fine to me, they have relevant tags, good description and titles full of keywords. One thing you can try to start with for example is to get the picture to speak of the product - like on this listing - https://www.etsy.com/listing/502368187/custom-weekly-family-planner-week?ref=shop_home_active_2 on the cover page, you can add text right on top of the photo stating what it is - weekly family planner. SO when someone searches and many many planners come out, the person will not be bothered to read the title and your pic will speak of it.
Again, I am not sure if this is good advice, it's only a suggestion, so you may try it out and see how it works for you :)
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Hey there,

I've also been working on improving traffic for my Etsy shop as a newbie. I just downloaded the book The Handmade Entrepreneur for free on Kindle and so far it's got a lot of good info that I am going to give a try in an attempt to boost sales.
Maybe you've already explored Etsy help books - maybe not! Hope this helps and good luck. Gave your store a few views and hearts. <3

-Alysha
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the best way I've found to get views and favorites are to join Promotion teams. Go to your teams and search for promotion. Join about 10 teams that play games where you post an item and view and favorite the items or shops above yours. I had a shop for about 14mo before I figured this out.

I started doing this in Oct of 2016 I sold more items that month than I did the rest of the year.

My numbers from Jan. this year
576 Views
1,727 Favorites
3 sales

compared to Jan. of last year my numbers
67 Views
2 Favorites
0 sales

I go every day and promote my listing in these teams. This has been a bigger help for me than any other method I've tried. I tried social media and I did not generate traffic from it and I spent a lot of time on it.

This has made a big difference in my shop activity. I hope this help and Good luck everyone.

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Ads normally work very well for us, but the trick to really getting ads to work for you is to wait until peak seasons in sales for your particular product.

Example: for Christmas we sell alot of Beard Kits so we focus most of our ads on them.

Some people sell products that tend to get higher stats during the summer, so get the ads rolling those specific times/months. etc.
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I agree with Chris Wright above, since I've played the "games" I've gotten more interest and more sales. I've finally made it to page one of the Artists' Book page!

Also, List and renew on Fri, Sat or Sun when there is the most Etsy and Pinterest traffic. Don't forget to link your Pinterest items to your etsy page too.
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Suzanne, although this was posted almost a year again, I figured exposure is an EVERYDAY gift! I went and favorited 24 of your items :) Hopefully more people will see this and check out one anothers shops!
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