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Views and Bots and Traffic and Bots
Summary: qualityrelics expressed frustration with eBay over recent algorithm changes that appear to have reduced their sales significantly despite active listing efforts. They reminisced about a time when immediate views, possibly from bots, increased sales, and implored eBay to reverse the changes. zamo-zuan responded by explaining that while bots are still operating, their views are no longer counted. They attributed reduced sales to economic factors and questioned the reliability of eBay’s view counts. annaslay shared similar concerns about lagging sales.
Dear eBay, first off I want to say ‘I love you, but I’m not IN love with you’
I SO SO miss the days when I would list an item and I’d get an IMMEDIATE view.
Was it an eBay associate quality check? Was it an eBay algorithm bot check?
Or was it a 3rd Party bot from the great beyond??!?
Franky, I DO NOT CARE.
All I know was this…..prior to these view and bot changes I was getting traffic and sales.
Is it a rough time if the year to sell? Sure, but going from multiple daily sales to barely scraping by is NOT working.
And I am listing my BUTT off with no noticeable returns on my efforts and this is unlike 5 years of full time selling history.
eBay, listen, you have done something on the technical side that has hurt sales. Period. It’s painfully obvious to me and thousands of other sellers.
Please reverse these recent changes to your algorithms so my partnership with eBay can continue.
I don’t know Bots. I don’t dislike or like bots. All I know is bots brought views and views increased my visibly and that brought sales.
None of that is happening now.
If you allow sellers to use 3rd party listing services then why in the HECK does a 3rd party bot view matter!!!! It doesn’t matter.
I DO NOT CARE if my views are “organic” or a bot.
I want to sell things to make make money for me and for you. Please fix this.
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annaslay
·1 month agoI want to boost my item ,nothing is getting any sale 😭
meme6253
·3 years agoNothing Has Changed since your original post!, Nothing has been fixed!, & I Agree with you totally!
cre8tiv--1
·3 years agoI have been unable to get any "real" explanation from Ebay on what's going on with this. Been selling on Ebay for 21 years. When ebay started this new algorithm several years ago, item exposure dropped dramaticlly. My sales dropped 75%. Decades with steady sales amounts on eBay just fell off the cliff and have stayed there. With several years now doing a fraction of what we used to sell, I would love to know the method to the madness!! All attempts, refreshing, relisting, deleting, listing again, paying % ad $$ to ebay have failed to accomplish anything.
simply-the-best-for-you
·4 years agoAs others have said, the bots are still there, doing what they've always done. The only difference is that those views are not counted anymore, since they were not ever potential real customers.
What else has changed? Well, it's now the middle of the Summer doldrums & prices have gone up astronomically for gas, rent, food, etc.
I get that the bot views made you feel warm & fuzzy, but it was a false sense of security.
zamo-zuan
·4 years agoEBay can't even get their organic counts right with 3 different counts on the SAME traffic page.
Do you really trust them to properly count which views are bots or not?
selsa84
·3 years agoAbsolutely not. I downlaod traffic view counts often and when I cross check them with items that supposedly had say 10 views in a day the item view on the listing page will say different. My views have ALWAYS been inflated.
hartungcards
·4 years agoHow on Earth did it help you run your business when you had 87 views of your item, but didn't know that only 3 of them were from actual potential customers?
qualityrelics
OP4 years agoMy response would be that I have a plus 90% + conversion rate on items I list within 3 months. I also know views improve an item's visibility in ebay's search algorithm, regardless of the origin of the view. Like I said there are dozens upon dozens of 3rd party listing services and selling Marketplaces systemically linked to ebay that neither you or I can confidently say bots are meaningless.
I know my sales numbers though....and since the new changes my numbers are very different.
hartungcards
·4 years agoYes, I'm sure the reason your "sales numbers are very different" is because a bunch of bots aren't artificially inflating your total item views.
meme6253
·3 years agoOr is ebay just trying to Encourage the use of PL's??
meme6253
·3 years agoYou still don't really know that now!