Decrease in Traffic and Sales...

[lakemichigancomputers]

We've been selling about 18+ items/day since summer of last year. Our number of listings has continued to grow. We've been adding 5-15 listings/day- sometimes with quantities in the listings. At our peak over the past few months we were shipping around 28 sales/day.  Now, we're selling around 5-10/day. This is well below our norm and depressingly below our peak.

All of the sudden our sales dropped off. Our impressions are down 10% and page views down 12%.  

Our growth has come from increased listings and better pricing strategies. We've been using the same strategy, and we have great feedback and are top-rated and all of our levels are above par. I don't know what has happened other than our traffic has decreased. Anyone know what has influenced this?

[apexcollectingcom]

I just finished posting a thread (see here) about my situation and how I have had ZERO impressions the last 3 days. I have a store subscription and eBay is hiding my listings! What the hell!

[gooddriftwood]

Thanks for the tool link! I am also seeing significantly reduced traffic and sales since February. Thought I had removed active content but the tool found many issues. Will correct and report back if anything improves.

I'm also wondering if eBay is suffering from the systemic issues other retailers are having right now, namely Amazon is growing while others are shrinking. I don't have an Amazon presence but I think its time to get one.

[freespirit2019]

I did okay in most of March and April 2017 and then nothing! According to my stats, my items are not being viewed which is very strange. I'm doing the same things I always do.

I don't think the items are being shown on ebay. That's the only reason I can come up with. If they're not being viewed, I can't sell them.

What to do? This is horrible. 2 sales in May is awful!

[femmefan1946]

This is the May 2017 iteration of the monthly post by one seller or another making the same complaint in January 1999, February 1999, March 1999......April 2000, May 2000, June 2000... July 2010, August2010, September 2010... December 2016, January 2017, February 2017.... ad infinitum.

It also helps not to have all your eggs in one basket,and not all your eggs be chicken eggs.

If the same thing doesn't work, do something else.

Post on multiple sites. Traffic varies from site to site, from month to month, from category to category.

[tonycea]

Yeah, Google sending all the traffic to Amazon and cutting eBay from the gravy train has nothing to do with it.....

[tunicaslot]

Tony I just googled your "Monster N-ERGY High Performance In-Ear" - ebay is the 4th link down and you're the 5th listing on the page.

Use the correct keywords and you'll still come up in google search.

[tonycea]

That is called a 'long tail search term', try a generic term like Monster N-ERGY  headphones and see what happens....

You tried that with the Snap Gages, remember, came up ZERO on more generic, exact cut and paste no one uses when they type in a term.

[yuzuha]

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@femmefan1946 wrote:

It also helps not to have all your eggs in one basket,and not all your eggs be chicken eggs.

If the same thing doesn't work, do something else.

Post on multiple sites. Traffic varies from site to site, from month to month, from category to category.

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I can state for a fact that my own sales went way up after I started diversifying what I was selling.  That way, even if sales in one category are down, I have enough other types of things listed to be able to make up for that slump.

[slaughter1074]

Lies! All lies!

[dhbookds]

Original thread from 2017

[kh-stanley1]

Hi everyone,

Due to the length of time that has passed since this thread began, we have locked it from future replies. If this is still an issue that warrants discussion, don't hesitate to begin a new thread here.

Thanks.