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12/14/2016 at 10:55 am #8098
I’ve been noticing that my view count for newly listed items is creeping up much more slowly than it used to. I’ll go several days with only 1-4 views on an item, and I’m assuming those are search engine views, not actual interested buyers. I had several items, one of them being a pair of Frye boots, that I listed yesterday with very few views. The Frye boots, in particular, had 4 views within a minute or two of listing, then nothing else for the rest of the day. In an experiment, I texted a link to the listing to my 2 college age sons and asked them to click on it. In moments, the view count jumped from four to nine. So I logged into eBay from my husband’s phone. I had my phone in one hand, and his in another. Each time I viewed an item in my own store from his phone, the view count went up by 2. Every time. Anyhow, the other odd thing is that shortly after I “viewed” items on my husband’s phone, the view count for those started to slowly trickle higher. It was almost like I knocked a cog in the system loose and they became visible or something. Maybe they just bumped higher in search results because of the clicks they got from my sons’ and husband’s phone. Anyhow, just wondering aloud about how the whole view count thing works. I watched the link Ryanne posted by the Australian??? guy about eBay’s search engine, etc…I’m doing all I can to maximize my standing in search results (though I have stopped offering free shipping. Might reconsider that on first class or PFRE items, but not larger ones.) The thing that’s perplexing me most is why a single view is registering as 2 views in the system.
- This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by mayberrymom24boys.
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12/14/2016 at 11:32 am #8105
I have no idea. I see some sellers spend a lot of time overthinking how the system works. Maybe they’re are ways to game the system, but I’ve never seen someone actually share a system that works consistently. It always looks like their logic is more “magical thinking”: if I do this, then sometimes this happens. Someone else does it and it doesn’t work.
At the end of the day, we try to list a quality item that we think someone may want. We provide multiple clear photos. We write a descriptive title. We research the price so its competitive. Then we list another item. And another.
Any time we spend trying to outsmart the system are less items we have can list.
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12/14/2016 at 11:41 am #8106
Jay, I couldn’t agree more with all these points. Not trying to outsmart the system, this is the first time I’ve looked to see what happens to view count when viewed from a different device. I’m not sure whether I really price competitively, though. I tend to price on the high end of solds (with comparable style / size / condition depending on category). I do run 20% off sales, and have BO on pretty much everything. I’m wonder sometimes if my items are lower in search results because they’re priced higher than average. However, I still press on creating new listings, filling the pipeline, lots of clear photos, etc…
- This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by mayberrymom24boys.
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12/14/2016 at 12:20 pm #8113
Sorry. I didn’t mean that you were trying to outsmart the system. Nothing wrong with wanting to make your items as competitive as possible. There are sellers who claim they know ways of putting their items higher in ranking with little tricks, but it all seems like smoke and mirrors when you ask them for reproducible details. This is why we just focus on the fundamentals.
Ending and re-listing the item as new items is a big suggestion sellers make. We did this to our entire store of 5000 items several months ago. Nothing happened other than our regular sales.
Lowering your price, adding free shipping, etc aren’t tricks. Those are real changes that make your item more competitive. Basically you’re willing to accept less money for the same item. That’s the market.
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