Ummm... Search Terms?

[PoppysLoftUK]

Hi All,

I believe Etsy has removed the page where you could view the terms that led people to your listings / shop.

Instead, they have created a section on the stats section of each listing which is supposed to show this information.

Mine is empty for most listings and has been like this for over a month (despite the fact that I am getting views & favourites on the listings)

I am finding it difficult to optimise my tags and keywords, and feel like I'm going in completely blindly now.

Is anyone else having this issue?

[HaberdasheryProject]

Yep, we do fly blindly here on the platform due to that lack of informed stats.

Im currently on the desk top and I see that search terms are not coming up as well. Only one listing shows for "keywords". Might be a glitch.

[PracticalPrintsByLee]

Mine only shows empty for the day, if i change it too a week or a month those then become visible

[PillowDetails]

Sure they do.  Go to Stats - adjust the time frame to last 30 days / this year.  Then click on one of the listings, and you will see all the search terms.

I don't know if we ever had search terms for our entire shop, if that's what you are looking for.

* Edited - the OP has 11 sales, and opened this year, so maybe you just aren't getting a lot of traffic.  Sorry.

[LastCentury]

You might get more if you completed your shop by adding:

- your shop location beneath your shop name
- an About section that talks about you and your shop incorporating keywords into the text that is crawled by search engines
- UK / EU compliant shop policies with a GDPR

etsy downgrades incomplete shops in search.

[PracticalPrintsByLee]

I would take what etsy says they do vs what they actually do with a pinch of salt, top seller in a certain area, has zero GDPR policy, very expensive, slow postage, and the only one not a star seller, so doesn't dispatch ontime or use etsy labels one of the two, and has no badge for responding to messages in 24 hours either

[LastCentury]

@PracticalPrintsByLee  good for that shop. If you know exactly what they do to direct sales their way, feel free to share.

The OP's shop is new and could use all the help it can get whether it is by following the etsy guide or by getting tried & true methods from successful shops like the mystery example you mention.

Will you be letting your star seller lax to test that method?

[BagmakerSupply]

@PracticalPrintsByLee: You are correct that Etsy advice can appear to be misleading - but keep in mind that a (probably very large) factor in the search algorithm is prior sales. More likely, if the shop you referenced did the things that Etsy suggests they would probably be doing even better.

[DougsVintageStore]

I just checked one of mine, some inexpensive 70s Garfield McDonalds cups. I always set my range for the running month.

Ive gotten 8 hits for the search term McDonalds Cups, yet no hits for McDonald Cup. Weird.

But My Stats are working, just no sales, again yesterday.......sigh.