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We have made all listings mobile friendly automatically, regardless of how they were listed (mobile or computer).
What we changed:
The viewport meta tag will be added by eBay at time of rendering the View Item page on mobile devices.
What this means for sellers:
Sellers no longer need to use the Mobile Friendly Checker to add the viewport meta tag in order to make their listings mobile friendly.
Which listings are fixed?
Existing and new listings created via mobile devices, computer or APIs. Sellers do not need to update previous active listings which are missing the viewport meta tag, because the tag is added real-time when the buyer loads the View Item page. If the viewport meta tag was added to previous listings, sellers do not need to remove the tag, it is ok to leave them as is.
Why does the Mobile Friendly Checker still exist?
If the description has embedded images, the tool will warn sellers if the embedded images have defined fixed widths that are not mobile friendly. If your description does not have embedded images, you won’t need to use the Mobile Friendly Checker.
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Jay, Also announced today, but not in the Announcements section: All business and professional sellers will be transferred to Seller Hub by end of July, no more Selling Manager or Selling Manager Pro. I’m not sure how they define business, but I’d guess most of us qualify. I’ve been using Seller Hub for a long time anyway, so I’m not really effected, but some here might be.
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Here’s the quote: “…. the information I have is that by the end of July all business and professional sellers will be moved to Seller Hub without the option to revert back.”
from today’s Weekly Chat -
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I just wanted to say that I appreciate this postive eBay change which saves us listing time as sellers. I was one of the people who thought it was stupid that I had to have every listing description checked for compliance. Since I’ve complained about eBay problems before I wanted to applaud this postive change also 🙂
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I’ve never heard of the “viewport meta tag” before, but all my listings have always appeared nice on the mobile app even though I list with desktop. I use a very minimalistic html template I created myself which has a bold blue header and a border around my listing description. I also embed an image showing how I take measurements of clothing. Everything has always rendered just fine in mobile. Was I doing something wrong to not use “viewport meta tags”?
The one thing that does bug me about the mobile listing is that the description preview is very random. What I type in “condition description” is verbatim, but the text I type in my full description field is pulled randomly. I figured it would be the first X number of characters that get displayed, but eBay always pulls a random bullet point or two, a random measurement, etc. There is seemingly no rhyme or reason. Is fixing this what the viewport meta tag was for?
Cheers,
Christian
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