I don't know if this is affecting other specific words, things have been really off recently. Today i discover that NONE of my items with cherries on them are indexed... completely...? The word "cherry" returns no results in my shop though i have a diaper bag, a handbag and a swimsuit that have the keyword. They also use the word "pinup" which does turn all the products up. Also different combinations that do include "cherry" do and don't work.
This is ridiculous that we need to review every single specific keyword and keyword combination for indexing issues as the listings are indexed but specific words are not or specific combinations are or are not, and this specific word is the main keyword for the listing.
"Cherry" doesn't find results
"Cherry diaper bag" doesn't find results
"Black cherry" doesn't find results
"Cherry pinup" DOES find results...
"pinup" finds results...
ALL THESE SEARCHES SHOULD FIND A RESULT., My cherry diaper bag or other cherry items. smh...
I also now realize the cherry diaper bag listing is not showing when i just search "diaper" or "diaper bag" but all my other diaper bags do...
ugh... and now i see the cherry bikini does not show for "bikini" "swimsuit" "swimwear" but does show up for "pinup", "pinup bikini" "pinup swimsuit", "pinup swimwear".
Findings are the same in shop search and marketplace.
If you're one of the many who've been experiencing issues these last few weeks you may have listings that are also only partially indexed or partially unindexed and can only discover by wasting tons of time. I don't even know how i stumbled across this realization when i didn't even mean to think about these listings in the first place. If this is what i found by accident I'm sure its worse than this if i went through all my listings to check every keyword and keyword combo.
@cindylouwho2 dunno if this is useful info for anything you are keeping track of. Results were in incognito as well so i assume you can reproduce the issue.
I think Etsy's definition of "escalated" is "stop bugging us."
I need to compile an Etsy dictionary.
UPDATE: I edited my listings that had the word "pinup" to remove it, i left any instances of "pin up" or "pin-up" and it seems to have resolved the issue. Removing "sexy" from my listings that use that word saw them being less restricted as well. Pin up with a space and pin-up with a hyphen seem to be ok, specifically "pinup" without a space was causing restrictions on my listings and "sexy" i discovered was restricting some of my other listings. Removing those words fixed them and they show for normal searches. Not an ideal solution since I am trading high value keywords just for the sake of the other keywords getting seen at all, but at least "some" traffic can actually make it to listings that etsys been ignoring.