THIS KILLED MY ETSY SHOP.
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2023
- This KILLED my etsy shop. I hope this video helps you to avoid the same mistake!!
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Hey SUPERSTAR! It's been awhile, and I've missed making videos, but life happens. Have you ever done anything that tanked your Etsy shop or wondered what would happen if you.... comment below!
I'm wondering if the photos is why my shop sales fell off a cliff. But I've been selling our handmade items on ebay and amazon, but list everything on Etsy first, and only have a few listed on the other platforms. It's crazy how this hurt our family so much, because before Etsy grew (our sales doubled every year for 3 yrs in a row) we were barely scraping by, so when our Etsy grew, we were like Yay! We can afford shoes & gas & real meat & fresh veggies, etc...then bam! Our sales tanked. I thought we were even okay in 2020, but then after about half way through 2020, I realized our sales were slowing down....then it came to a screeching halt. How VAIN & IGNORANT for any platform to think I'm ONLY going to sell my items on JUST their platform. Or they're just plain out of touch with how folks are scrambling to get sales, you know....to survive! So the more platforms we sell on, then the more sales we get.
I think other Sellers are experiencing the same decline in traffic and sales on Etsy currently. Economic conditions, the influx of mass produced items from Asia to the Etsy platform, and post-pandemic buyers returning to in-person shopping. The pandemic's inflated sales volume in the on-line marketplace was an anomaly and many Sellers that started shops during this time period are now facing the reality that this isn't sustainable and a fair representation of what to expect on the Etsy marketplace.
Absolutely! However, I should I have also mentioned that the profit I had in December of 2022 after the SEO debacle hit was less than even 2019 when I was definitely a newbie (my first Q4).
Well I am selling digital products and I am making 15k USD with 500 listings. And sales are increasing every day. And I don't work Christmas niche. So I think all sellers must check new products and markets
@@xochipaco6398 Yes, there are people selling tonnes on Etsy for sure! Congrats!!
What a breathe of fresh air your channel is! No hype and glamour..just educational facts and encouragement..love it..I am a happy subscriber! Thank you!
Wow, that's super nice of you!! I hope I can keep it going!!
The psychological stuff behind this is so crazy. Here's obviously a very nice Woman trying to do the best job she can, and 1 bad review messes it all up... and it keeps being done like that for months, then she gets a 3 star. You probably almost had a heart attack when you saw that second one come through. It's unnatural, part of the weird world we live in these days. Almost like cyber torture.
I think there is a very real policy of 'earthquaking' shop owners in the digital realm... it's like shuffling a jar of sweets, it throws out you current ranking and the order re-arranges opening-up the market to new customers... just a thought?
I was so happy to see you’re back but I’m so sorry that happened to you! Thank you for sharing your story 💖
Wow, that’s crazy… so sorry this is happening to your shop. Glad to see you back, missed your videos! ❤
Thank you so much for sharing this!! I’m trying to start and definitely will keep these in mind!! Stay safe and blessed ❤
Thank you so much for sharing this. Something I will be careful with as I continue building my website.
Valuable info! Thank you.
thx a lot for sharing this info :) wish you all the best !
Awesome advice!!!
Happy to see your video! Im so sorry this happened to you. How frustrating and unfair. You own your designs and should be able to sell and showcase them wherever and however you want.😢 I was thinking about starting a woocommerce shop since I have some experience with building WordPress websites. I was thinking about using a plugin to import my etsy listings to the new site. Is this what you did with shopify? Do you think etsy is also paying attention to SEO, duplicate titles and tags etc in addition to the images? I had every intention of using my same mock ups lol. Thank you for the heads up ❤
That's a great question in regard to Etsy SEO and if Etsy is paying attention to the duplication at all. Could be! It would make sense. I did have everything down months before the infamous Etsy bot looking for duplicates from other scammy websites. But I'm sure between google and seeing what are otherwise duplicates, I perturbed the gods of the interwebs...
Very interesting observation. There’s still the causation/correlation question, however anyone who’s been running websites for a while knows Google hates duplicate content. And, they have very sophisticated ways of finding it. Thank you for sharing your experience!
Yes, of course as with anything it's impossible to know for sure. However, it does seem odd that December would have been one of my lowest months of the year when the previous 3 years (2019, 2020, and 2021) it was far and away the highest. And yes, google knows all!! haha
This exact thing happened to me. I closed my shop as a result. It was the only 1 star review I had in 3 years of selling. And the customer was completely unreasonable and horrible, and they're the reason my store was destroyed. It was completely unfair and I'll never shop, or sell, on Etsy again.
Aww, I'm so sorry!
Gosh thank you for making this video! It was right on time. I had just filled my store with my items from etsy and i would've been left wondering the same thing! So we're ok with the same design just on a new mockup or can we just display a different color of the same mockups from etsy? Hope that makes sense.
I think an entirely different photo with the same design should be fine for google. It does seem that Etsy is employing a bot to determine if we have identical items to other sites that compete with Etsy, and is deactivating those listings in the hopes that the Etsy listing is selling something illegitimate (ie. buying it from a knock-off drop-shipper), and so it seems Etsy wants everything to be original too. Fair enough. HOWEVER, if your item gets copied somewhere else... it's not always possible to get it taken down...
This was an interesting video. Thanks for sharing. Makes me think twice about following advice of all those UA-cam "experts" that advise creating your own website. Makes a ton of sense that Etsy wants to mitigate competition, but I also wonder when the lawsuits will start to be honest. Seems to be a conflict of interest with Etsy's prime customers - the sellers.
Excellent excellent points... especially in regards to running both an Etsy store and shopify store with identical products (or additional platforms). Sounds like a very worthwhile effort to take different product images for the same items found in each store - or don't sell the items found on Etsy in the shopify store.
Very good to know. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you SO MUCH! I have been wondering why my last year’s bestsellers are not making good sales anymore. I opened UA-cam and found this video. I was checking my Etsy shop and turns out my sales went down since I uploaded my listings to a different marketplace! 😢💔😢💔
🤔Awww... it's so hard to know, and I hope yours is just a coincidence and will get better!! I did feel mine was such a sudden decline in what should be the highest month of the year... December!
Awesome content 🎉 what app is best to sync Etsy and Shopify?
Thanks for your all videos, is there any chance you could provide private mentoring for experienced sellers?
Not sure Etsy wants unique products. The amount of repetitive products from Asian countries seems to contradict that.
Makes sense, but I think it wants to believe it does ;)
This video is informative,thank you 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Etsy sucks big time. I’ve had a shop for close to ten years and gotten sales off and on throughout this time. I haven’t put much effort into it, but I’ve managed to get 100 orders with one terrible review from someone who was trying to get free product. This person literally had nothing other than one like for another shop then the one star review on my shop. Every time I go into my shop, all I see is one star. I have since gotten several orders after that review, but my heart isn’t in it anymore. I’ve informed Etsy of the situation, but they couldn’t care less. I’m washing my hands of Etsy. They have started offering a lot of $5 off sales which is a downward slope. I think Etsy is losing ground in the marketplace overall. Time will tell.
Totally get it! If something isn't working; don't spend any more time and energy on it. Try something different or try something new.
What you described is exactly what happened to me. I was on the platform for 5 years and was doing well until a competitor bought a few of my items and immediately gave a 1 star review.
I reached out, no explanation for the poor reviews. I had been a 5 star shop up until that time.
That is terrible business practices and I never imagined another store would do something so under handed! 🤨 This is why I'm so hesitant to try Etsy! They should give back to their sellers by keeping an eye on this stuff & also allow an occasional bad review to drop off as new reviews come in. They know how bad that damages a shop! Just awful & I'm sorry it's happening!
Thanks for this video, very informative. Im fairly new on Etsy, opened about 4 months ago, made my first 6 sales in 45 days and nothing since. Lots of faves but not selling and I wondered if it was because i added POD items but maybe its my photos, i share on social too and use same photos. This never occurred to me.
In my case, it's because I was already getting visitors from google because my Etsy photos were ranked in google. I would recommend adding some new items if you haven't just yet! Sometimes things sell once and not again until the next season.... I hope items sell for you again ASAP though :)
I don't have shopify store. but because of you I have amazing sales in my etsy store
Wow!!! Awesome!!!! Thanks for seriously making my day :)
Thank you ma'am
Thank you thank you. I just literally copied my listings to my new shoppify. My shoppify is for a portion of my shop not the whole etsy shop. Would you suggest I use new mock ups for my shoppify? I was looking at getting a whole shop pack and using for my new store. I am wondering how similar images can be flagged too? So frustrating -
My images weren't flagged, but my Etsy images were ranked highly in google. When I duplicated everything to my own website, that was the issue because google sees it as duplicate content and will not show both. The issue I experienced might not have any impact for you at all. HOWEVER, I am also leery after some of the postings in the Printify POD rockstar group that they indicated to exercise more caution with images. ie. if 50 other sellers and other (scammy) websites have the exact same item because the graphic is a purchased graphic, that COULD be an issue. Best of luck!!
I just looked and one of my biggest sellers their doing this to, I have all 5 star reviews but one is a 3 star, and they have it on top, and it's not the latest, thankfully i have 4 pages maybe 5 of 5 star reviews to make up for her one.
Thank you for this advice, we wouldn't know unless it happens to us, very interesting ; How about the bad review then? Wouldn't Etsy algorithm need to change to choose the reviews for each item based on the medium of stars it got?
Hello! I found it a very interesting video. I have the Etsy store in English, with the names of the photos also in English and I have opened my own store in WordPress but with the texts and names of the photos in Spanish. Do you think the same thing could happen to me or because I have a different language, Google doesn't detect it as duplicate content? Thank you very much!
If the photo is the same, the photo is the same. My issue is that my Etsy photos were showing up in google, and I lost all of that traffic (visitors) that I must previously have been receiving.
I stayed because I wanted to hear what you had to say in regards to the title, but it was six minutes of going round and round before you made your first point. It's disappointing to hear Etsy did that with the reviews.
thanks for sharing your experience! how about sharing the product photos elsewhere except Etsy which is not a selling platform (on Facebook, Instagram etc.). is it bad for Google search, too?
Google does seem to know "social shares", but the original is still seen as whatever website the item/link is from that isn't social media. Google knows the difference.
@@theteacherandbeyond thank you!
What i dont understand is how Etsy thinks everyone is getting 5 stars every time someone makes a purchase. My husband owns a plumbing company and sometimes no matter how hard he tries to please some people just cant be pleased.
I'm done. I started my Shopify store with the exact same products after Etsy raised its rates, and after seeing so many people cheat the system by stealing Disney, etc products. I intended to leave Etsy when Shopify started showing profit. That never happened, and both shops are down. I have over 300 products, all of which are original. My reviews were excellent except for a one star review from a competitor who also sold stickers. She claimed to have not understood that 2X2 meant 2X2 and was disappointed with the size. I believe I exposed her motive in my response. I was seriously tempted to return the favor, but I let it go. I don't know what to do now. Any suggestions on how to save both shops?
Add a new product line? Or expand on something that might have already been working for you? Have you tried using an abandoned cart discount on Etsy to help customers finish the check-out process? Best of luck!
I think the whole disturbing thing here is, Etsy, to me, it's like "the maker site"... There is a focus on the artistic seller that's selling their wares. As much help as Etsy might have given to its seller's, they have equally hurt them.
Its really weird that Id go 60 days with consistent sales every single day and then suddenly 2 or 3 days of zero sales and a plummet in views. I get a dip but 5 to 8 daily sales to zero is head scratching.
It happens. I found it shocking that I went 2 years with no days at less than 10 orders a day only to have even a handful of days this year with 4 orders. If you look at a graph of top sellers on Etsy there's enormous variation. Some go from 800 sales one day to 500 the next. Could be the end of a discount, or that everyone is traveling for Thanksgiving or a million other reasons. It could be that Etsy cleared out the items that people had added to their cart and so customers don't see the social proof anymore. I think that happens more often that we'd like to think.
Etsy is like a mad dog, biting the hands that feed it!
I wonder if putting a different watermark on the duplicate photos would help? So, same photo but different watermark on each of them?
In my case, it's because I was already getting visitors from google because my Etsy photos were ranked in google. If you were doing both at the same time, then I think such a big change like I accidentally did wouldn't have the same impact. I hope that makes sense!
Did you ask etsy via formal ticket why they kept reposting bad reviews ?
You bet I did! It was pushed up from the chat as they could see the same issue. I'll paraphrase the response, but essentially that their algorithm shows what they think is most relevant to the customer.
What about sellers who use List Perfectly and cross post their inventory to 6,8 or more market places?
The title/tags/description might be optimized for every site, but unless the photo is different then the same might happen. The impact also wouldn't be noticeable if the items were added to all sites at the beginning and all the same time right? My Etsy items were shown in google images. Perhaps if they weren't there to begin with and Shopify was if I'd added them simultaneously, then it wouldn't have been an issue. I would have liked to KEEP my Etsy sales and build on that with Shopify, not cancel them out.
Is just changing the background color for each market platform enough. As in all blue for one, white for another; light Grey etc., etc. Or can I just rearrange the order of them? Or do you suggest having props and lifestyle images all different for each platform?
It’s been hard. I’m a new seller of 5 months and have only 3 sales
It can be.... ABSOLUTELY HARD!! The best advice I can give you is to keep going and use your imagination. I hope things start to sell quickly for you :)
So you are saying its LESS LIKELY for etsy bots to decrease our listing views if we use a popular mockup? (But not necessarily happening?)
(I am using some popular mockups.)
I want to make sure I'm answering you to the best of my ability, but I don't think anyone has the answer to that. I think if we all use the exact same mockup, then the algorithm might be smart enough (at least eventually) to show the same mock-up over separate pages of Etsy. I think Etsy "tends" to show what has already sold. Not always of course! Just my experience, as with everything I'm sure there's others that would say otherwise.
Another thing I've been seeing is that etsy wants only real photos of the shirts (or whatever) so that means you have to either buy and photograph your own or use the printer mockups. I can see that would be really difficult with the duplicate content problem on top of that. You may have a point that the name of the file might be enough to not flag it that way but then again with AI I bet the image itself also comes into play.
What about Pinterest and duplicate images if we are pinning directly from Etsy 😮😮
Pinterest just helps your shop, because google doesn't see pinterest as the main source of the photo, Etsy is. When I added my listings to my shopify store, it impacted my Etsy shop because my Etsy photos were doing well in google. So I no longer received customers from google to my Etsy shop.
Question: Would you mind sharing what % of your gross revenue you are currently spending on Ads? TIA
Looks to be anywhere from 5-10% in previous years. It's DEFINITELY much higher now.
Etsy is awful. I refuse to use it for selling or shopping anymore.
So we shouldn't use the same pic on Pinterest as we do on Etsy? I guess its still ok to put same pic on IG and FB?
Following, great question
I don't MAKE separate pins for pinterest; I just use the chrome extension, so clearly it's the same photo! But if I was to pin the EXACT same photo from my own website to pinterest and that photo is the EXACT same on Etsy, I would think that it would be less likely for both of them to show up in pinterest as with google etc etc. The pinterest algorithm would (likely) need to decide which one to give priority to? Does that make sense?
Why would Etsy purposely sabotage things making them money? Am really confused on that. So nothing can be done to fixed it either which is just crappy! What would just prevent other competitors from leaving false bad reviews on you to cause this?
hiya! Etsy isn't purposely sabotaging my shop, but customers can't find my shop from images in google and they previously were finding my shop from google. Fewer clicks + backlinks = fewer customers. Competitors aren't leaving false reviews; you have to be a legitimate customer to leave a review, but Etsy's algorithm often pushes out poor reviews despite many new reviews coming in for the same listing after the fact. Cheers!
@@theteacherandbeyond Nice explanation. I guess I’m more focused on Etsy pushing negative reviews to top even when they’re old and you have so many good ones. That seems like sabotage!
@@NewYears1978 It's.... exasperating for sure! If you click around on Etsy enough, you will see it for various listings and shops. I'm sure they'll say it's "part of the algorithm to show customers various reviews at various times...." but it doesn't make much sense if it is never pushed down when there are newer and likely more relevant reviews.
i think i have to start to my own youtube Channel to show people how to make money because any youtube videos not give real success story. And most youtubers get good sell with no idea only chance factor. Sorry if there is grammar issues but it is what it is . thank you for video though
That's why I started! I still see most youtubers who talk about their numbers getting maybe 10-20 sales during the holidays. It's great that there's many who have started talking about it, but more information helps everyone.
@@theteacherandbeyond Teacher, class is in session and we are ready to learn. Question: When the Etsy platform itself is struggling with declining sales/traffic, whether from Sellers exiting the marketplace to sell elsewhere, or from Etsy CEO mismanagement, I don't understand why you would attribute your experience of the same thing (lower sales) and the same effect (less income) to something personal that you did. Maybe all us Sellers should starting giving Buyers $5.00 refund for every sale over $30.00 after taxes and credits...meaning if a Tsunami hits and you can't swim and you drown but many other people drown also whether they can swim or not, Did YOU DROWN because you couldn't swim? OR did you just drown because of a Tsunami...just my thoughts.
I really wanted to hear what you had to say, but the background music is so distracting.
It ends after 10 seconds :)
I think people who sell similar items, put out the bad reviews on their competition.
It's not impossible, but they'd have to purchase the item.
I hope whoever would stoop that low would get some karma coming to them! Unfortunately, I've heard that some of these shops that pop on there are copycats & are willing to do crazy things to make as much money as quickly as possible, so if Etsy shuts them down they got what they came for. It's a nightmare scenario to say the least.
You have an interesting problem. I'm so sorry you've had such a hard time with Google. Moreso, I'm sorry about your 1 star review, When you got that review, did you offer to rectify or hear the customer's complaint and did Etsy show that follow-up interaction? I only know from videos I've watched since I am a very new Etsy seller (possibly getting older with only 2 sales) My next question is about something you said near the beginning where you had 78IK in sales in 1 MONTH and how it was wreaking havoc on your finances. Well, I wondered about the "success" of a store while still living the "paycheck to paycheck" life. idk what I'd do. As it is my second sale ended up costing me money because I put it on sale and thought it was mandatory and, of course, was told if I raise prices before the sale to compensate would be illegal. So, the last day of the sale, someone made a huge purchase and I had to "eat" the proceeds from the purchase.
Receiving funds from Etsy didn't wreak havoc on my finances, but it certainly was mind blowing! I was so busy with the shop and ensuring that each customer was receiving the correct item (so many orders that customers want to customize...) that I didn't have time to really process it at that time to be honest. I ALWAYS reach out with a 1-star review. Sometimes it's that the item didn't arrive so I send another one. They rarely change the review these days. I also used to receive many more messages from customers prior to leaving a poor review. Now they just leave poor reviews and aren't interested in a refund or getting the correct item (if there was a mistake). The psychological shift is fascinating! If I wasn't happy with an order I'd received I'd want another one or a refund. In regards to running a discount - always make sure you're making money. Even if it's a little bit because you are trying something new. Mistakes happen. Just remember you're running a business and some things are just the cost of doing business.
@@theteacherandbeyond thank you!😊
Oh no. I copied my shop's Etsy listings to both a Shopify website AND Ebay. Sigh.
It could still be fine if your individual shops are newer than mine were. Fingers crossed, and please don't panic!
Isn't that why they link PATTERN so that all your listings can go to your Shopify??
Printify is set up the same way. So now I've got to figure out how to change 369 listings on Shopify! My head hurts...
@guestguest4093 don't stress that. My google seo has been rising. We can't believe everything we hear on UA-cam or anywhere else but the real rules in etsy
@4:10 out of $53K Gross you only got to keep $9.4K? That is all Etsy pays?
From what Etsy pays her, she has expenses to produce the products and to advertise them. After deducting her expenses, she gets the profit number.
Ich habe keine andere Website und keinen anderen Shop und trotzdem kann ich kein Wachstum erreichen.
Etsy is oversaturated. It's that simple. Millions of shops competing for few buyers. All the videos telling you what to do so you get "crazy sales" are just clickbait. Most people I know sell maybe one item on Etsy per month. The only exception are the shops Etsy pushes on the customers, there is usually one shop in every section that hogs all the traffic, and they spend thousands on ads.
This could have been 4 minute video
😱🤯The janky music bed under this video is unbearable! (2.16…. I’m out)
It ends shortly :)
That background music is horrible! What a distraction to what you are saying.