Well I’m trying to find something positive about the new search on etsy. I’ve come up with it motivates me to add to my web site and I had some down time to be lazy.
The web site is ticking along nicely with daily plus sales since I’m listing there every day now. I used to always go list on etsy then tend to fall in there and never get around to my web site except for about twice a week max.
Now I go to etsy and look at my slower then slow views, read the community forums about how a lot of shops are way down on views and sales, then I go to my web site and work. Its hard to be motivated to list on etsy now as seems no matter how many key words I put in a title I can’t seem to get it to budge to the front page of search.
I guess all in all I don’t want to have to dwell on all this nonsense either though. My favorite part of etsy was the simplicity of it plus the nice people. Nice people are all still there but its no longer simple. Now I have to look up keywords, whats the most searched, stuff all that into the title, Shelf creativity and become another mindless drone who blends in to get to the first page. Yuck.
Loved the old search where you’d type in something and get cool items with such creative fun titles . The imaginations and passions of the sellers were all over the item titles. Now its 10 pages of the same old , same old formal stuff.
Second good thing about the change in the etsy search is that since there’s no sales for me now on etsy I stopped listing there for the moment and have more free time. I’ m reading again more, Watching some late night movies, Basic me time I haven’t had for awhile. Since I had the blood clots in my lungs last month I’ve been trying to work but also relax to heal, nows a good a time as any to focus on getting better .
Besides the search change killing my etsy sales the major Yuck thing is that I did finally bite the proverbial bullet and wander back over to ebay again. Signed up for auctiva Again and Will have to start back to listing there so I have a good flow of income.
Its not creative at ebay, Best match is a pain, Lots of rules and silliness but all in all with all the changes their making on etsy I’m not really seeing much difference between the two sites now. Ebays got a lot of traffic and Pretty much always good sales.
So its been an interesting month in my online selling life. More adjustment and changes. Some free time which I could use for this week then my move back to ebay with my web site and ebay as the primary again.
I’ll keep peeking into the etsy forums to see if sales are up-ticking for the long timers. I guess when they do I’ll test the water again and see if it works out better the second time around.
