[quote author=amy link=topic=5180.msg23619#msg23619 date=1158550562]
[quote author=stardust link=topic=5180.msg23617#msg23617 date=1158549313]
I can relate. On my 5 keyword-rich listings, that I know from experience have drawn a good number of views in the past, yesterday's visits were 12, and today (SUNDAY!) only 7! I've never seen anything like it. It's rather mind-numbing. :o
You mean traffic has gotten worse on eBay since we left? :blinkie: When we closed our eBay store in May the traffic figures to it for April and May were down over 70% from April/May 2005.
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Yes, indeedy. April was horrid for me with a store that I had newly opened in March. (I was not stupid enough to carry it thru May.) When they jerked the stores out of the core search, they said they reverted back to the original search, but all the store owners knew better, as the stores were suddenly hidden. For certain keywords, used by fellow SW residents, my store items used to always show up, because of few core listings and bad titles by competitors. However, no can findee...
I just sat tight and watched and listened all through the summer, except for during their listing sales in July. Knew I would not reopen a store because of the carpy situation. So, I've been listing a few items at a time on the corrupt *core*. Made a few sales. However, hits this whole week have been dismal. Isn't this the week that they started the Express marketing? I don't know. Peeps not pulling up my keywords has me flamboozled.
Yeah. It's amazingly hideous right now. And September/October has always been a good time to sell.
Edited to add: I blamed LAST week's poor weekend showing on all the 9-11 shows airing on TV. Considering the poor traffic this week, that may or may not have been a cause. >
Second edit: I'm getting many more hits on my e-crater store advertised below. (no sales -- prolly because the prices are fairly steep -- just hits) I'm even getting lots of hits now, in my second month, on a second e-crater store I have advertised or linked nowhere. I only had the store url submitted to msn, google and yahoo. So, the search engines have spidered the store, and the individual items are getting looked at on both stores. Extremely frustrating not knowing where the hits are coming from. From my sellathon stats on ebay, I know it all.
