Joy, Joy: Testing Relevancy When You Have 200+ Listings-Relevancy is working

So, Etsy recently decided to make it so that relevancy search is default, and as Karen said before, the forums are all up in arms over it.

As someone who can't throw 20¢ at renewing often, I decided to try to get into Google search from the get go, so I don't really have all that much to do in my shop for relevancy.

But I do currently have 161 listings in Stephanie Makes All, 52 listings in One Stitch, and 20 listings in the soon to be closed (at least for now) Stephanie Re-Makes All to test and tweak a little.

Joy, Joy, I feel for the sellers with even more listings who just threw money at renewing, I really do.

The good news is that in One Stitch, I must have done something right, because I only have 3 fingerless glove patterns there right now, and those 3 patterns are spread out between the first 3 pages of the fingerless glove pattern search. And I have started selling several of the one that is on the first page!

I still haven't sold anything in Stephanie Makes All since the change, but I'm coming up pretty high in some searches, so I believe it's only a matter of time :)

Happy Selling!

Steph

I think that my shop has a split personality...

but I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. It's probably bad because the items appeal to two entirely different audiences and where I want to go isn't where I started out. The hats and bags appeal to latter day hippies who generally don't want to buy a $250 sweater and the people who buy the sweaters wouldn't go near a hippie store. So, option one is to take all of that stuff out of my shop and just aim for a high-end audience but if I do that my shop will be practically empty and that doesn't look good. Option 2 is to leave them there permanently so that I have some low-priced items and hope that the big spenders aren't turned off by them. Option 3 is to replace them with sweaters as I make them so that the shop at least stays the same size for a while and work on thinking up some lower priced designs that are at least somewhat unique. So far I don't have a single idea for hats, scarves, necklaces or hand warmers that someone isn't already making. Option 4 is to open a second shop for the hippie stuff but that seems like a waste of time since I'm not planning on making any more of them. I don't know - what do you think?


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