Invisible listing. Published yesterday but not visible in even narrowest searches. What's wrong?

[VooVooDesign]

I made a new listing early yesterday and published it. Checked a couple of hours later and couldn't find it even using the search filters with my shop location, Massachusetts. I've got several listings for various sizes and quantities of mussel shells and they're all where I expect to find them.

But this listing is nowhere.

The title of it is Large Atlantic Mussel Shells, 100 pc Bulk Natural Blue Mussel Seashells, Escort or Place Cards, Wreaths, Beach Wedding Party, Nautical Decor and the tags are various keywords from the title plus other ones with words like ocean, muscle, black clam, etc.

I checked using incognito mode and couldn't find it then either. And I couldn't find it using an alternative browser.

Any ideas what is wrong?

I'm thinking of copying the listing, deactivated the published one, and publishing the copy.

[SeasideRoseCreations]

Are you using a mobile device to look?

There are issues with missing pages in search (you can look at several recent threads on the forums).

[VooVooDesign]

Using my computer.

[CappuccinoLace]

Looks like it's the word "Escort" in your title.

Your others don't have it, and this one does, so unless I'm searching for Escort, it won't show.

Escort being a ...erm... hired woman an all, it's being caught in etsy's "we won't show things like sexy unless you search for it" filter.

[VooVooDesign]

Hmmm. Pretty sure some of my other shell listing have it in the tags but I'll try removing it,

A lot of people do call place cards escort cards though!

[VooVooDesign]

I did a quick search on escort cards and there are loads of them so that seems okay.

[LastCentury]

Escort - Another word for the invisible listing tag list.

I had the same issue using Naughty as a cheeky tag, invisible listing in etsy & my own shop search. Etsy help no help at all. I figured out by trial and error, removed Naughty, and the listings back to normal.

good luck!

[DesertChains]

@CappuccinoLace 

Or man.

[ThePurplePuppy · Accepted solution]

@VooVooDesign 

I had one of my female dog diapers mysteriously not show just like your listing. It was basically no different than several other listings I had. With help here in the forum of trying most everything I finally  changed the main picture that showed a stuffed toy dog wearing said diaper to just the diaper alone and suddenly my listing appeared--so the AI apparently is also scanning pictures and who KNOWS why it would hide a toy dog wearing a diaper!  Try removing the word "escort" and see if it appears in search--If that doesn't work try changing your primary photo and see what happens.

Best of luck. I know how frustrating this can be!

[VooVooDesign]

@ThePurplePuppy  I removed the word, "escort" and I can see my listing in one narrowly filtered search I did. Maybe that was it.

It's a craft supply for making escort cards, unfortunately. And I pity those who make printed ones. Maybe they have their listings held up indefinitely?

[ThePurplePuppy · Accepted solution]

@VooVooDesign 

That is crazy but I would leave that word out of that card. I have no idea why the bots will censor some words and not others. Also, some of the listings you still see with that word will probably disappear when they try to reslst them.

I still have no idea why that picture along with a certain word (in my case "panties")  triggered the bot but apparently it did. I have other photos of toy dogs wearing the diaper along with the same word and they show in search and always have.  Apparently the "bot" saw something "naughty" in the 2 combined that "triggered" it.

[BagmakerSupply]

@VooVooDesign: To check if a listing is indexed, search within your own shop from your shop home page.

Keep in mind that if everyone on this forum did a site-wide search for the exact same phrase they would all get different results. Because of "personalized searches" you can NOT rely on anyone's search results to define how your listing is ranked. There are many many factors that affect listing placement and the relative weight of each factor probably changes constantly. Even exact word matches to your title no longer ensure that you will appear on page 1. Your listing may be appearing on page 251 and Etsy is only showing the first 250 pages to the world.

And now there are also reports of entire pages of listings "disappearing" ...

[ThePurplePuppy]

@BagmakerSupplyI don't think @VooVooDesign  was talking about ranking. I think she was talking about the item not showing AT ALL. It was the same with my doggie diaper--it would not show AT ALL in search, even using the exact title, until I removed both the word "panties" and changed the first imagine (A toy dog wearing said "panties".) Almost all of my other items  used the same word and a photo of a toy or real dog  and they showed just fine.

[VooVooDesign]

I removed the word "escort" and did another search using the filters including my location, Massachusetts, and now I did find it in that search.

But I published it early yesterday, about 28 hours ago.

Don't know whether removing that word did it or if it's a coincidence.

Unfortunately for me though is that people use these to make ... escort cards!