How do you increase impressions and page views? What factors control your limits?

[catchatigerbythetail]

Its 12pm, and I have less than 600 impressions and one page view. Any suggestions on how to increase those numbers?

[ckimodog]

@catchatigerbythetail 

Try using you social media buttons to network your items and shop.

Honestly, in my opinion.  Impressions are just that, impressions.  To me it's sales that what count and that's my main focus.  

Happy Selling

[tobaccocardyahoo]

What are your Top 20 search slot impressions.

You have a lot of items in over-saturated categories with weak product names. Your listings may have organic placement which is so low that the impressions will never be seen by any buyers because they can find something to buy long before they can find your listings.

You may need to promote or find another way to drive traffic from outside Ebay to your listings.

I am not optimistic about most of your current inventory, but I would never have chosen to compete in those categories because I probably could not find more competitive products than yours.

[geo2061]

 Work on your descriptions and titles .. you have a One Word Title for an item ~ 'Puzzle' ~ (there are over 1/2 Million Listings for puzzles on eBay - Your item will be buried in placement) and your description for 'Puzzle' does little to elaborate on the item. 

[jameshen1]

What doe 12pm have to do with anything?

[catchatigerbythetail]

I stated the time because impressions and page views change over time, hopefully.

[catchatigerbythetail]

Maybe I'm nuts, but when I was in school and looked something up puzzle would show up before puzzles or puzzle a, or any extra word following. I must be wrong in thinking eBay follows this school lesson. You are correct. I do need to work on my titles and descriptions. In Seller Central I read eBay wants concise and bullet points because its mobile friendly. Thinking out loud, why then does eBay's AI description do long paragraphs?

[catchatigerbythetail]

My top 20 search slot impressions for the past 30 days is 3.7%.

I pay for a premium store. I currently promote at 3%, but I do flip flop on that a lot sometimes doing 5% or the suggested rate.  I listed near 100 books for $1.00 ten day auction. One book sold. I trashed them. I have a Lindey Glenn mentality, seven days you are out of here! No patience. Lord, help me, I've been sitting on this stuff for years, and refuse to go buy more until this sells. I even joined List Perfectly.  I enjoyed the help with listing, but cancelled because it didn't increase my sales. Sporadically I run % off sales. I sent all my past customers a discount coupon once. I don't like spamming/pressuring people to buy. That's why I don't do a newsletter. I closed my facebook and instagram due to spammers. I don't like the stress of social media, but I will think about re-opening them.  I've started trying variation listings because they are closer to the top, but would I get more impressions and page views with single listings..

[catchatigerbythetail]

I closed my Facebook and Instagram to decrease the stress in my life, and cut down on wasted time. I may be wrong, but impressions are needed to make sales. Impressions are views. Without views, no sales. Yes, I agree, sales are the main focus.

[chapeau-noir]

I think the main difficulty is your inventory - I sell in a highly over-saturated category so I understand the struggle. There is nothing wrong with your offerings in themselves, the items are perfectly good, but for clothing you have inexpensive, over-represented brands for high prices, and although the jewellery is nice, it's so saturated on this site that people are overwhelmed with choice. And you don't have very many listings, all things considered (I'm a really small seller, too, I understand). You can flog this stuff all you want on social media, but I don't think it will help.

My advice is to try to list items a little less saturated and cut the clothing prices, along with your other efforts at optimization.

[tobaccocardyahoo]

I am not a big seller but my top 20 search slot impressions is about 18%. Since many buyers never look past the top 20 this matters.

In spite of this my views are about 1% of my impressions.

IMO your 3% promotion is wholly inadequate for the categories you sell in.  And the use of auctions is probably inappropriate for your inventory, and most items currently for sale on Ebay.

Auctions are a small and decreasing portion of the sales on this site.

If you have a desire to sell in 7 days, you had better give your merchandise away and provide free shipping. That never was a realistic goal. The Ebay stores with their quota of free listings caught on because most sellers suffered from poor sell through in one listing period. They were leaving Ebay because the cost of relisting was eating up the profits from their sales.

Your variation listings are compounding your problem with poor product name fields.

You are doing your best to hide your listings from buyers. You need to think about what is a buyer who is looking for your items likely to be typing into the search, and what can your product name do to help him find your listing.

[selsa84]

Impressions are not views

[kensgiftshop]

Some of your titles could use a little work.

I don't if anyone would search for

"Movies/TV ~ You Choose ~ Numerical"

That's one problem with listing a bunch of different items in one listing.

[catchatigerbythetail]

It doesn't matter the amount of listings or the price. I've deleted many listings, and re-priced from $1 up. It doesn't make a difference. Well, except shoes. If I lower like-new shoes to $20, they'll sell. I'm not going to. I'm tired of giving my stuff away. The only reason you are seeing the high prices I have now is because I sway with the reseller youtubers. Caylee Elaine showed a haul, and every top she said, $25. She is killing it on eBay, so I'm trying $25. Flipping Hippos, Starr, is pricing her jewelry around $15-20, so I'm trying $10. The Great Reseller Life, James, is doing Buy 2 get 2 free, which I can't bring myself to do. That's too much product leaving for not enough money. I don't want to wholesale, to bundle, and reseller selling to reseller. I want top dollar for each item. I want to be a small retail with new stuff each week, I want to be a Dollar General, not a Walmart. I have limited space, and work alone. I am considering trying You Choose one variation listing for each category to see how that goes. Maybe I've let eBay down by not listing every day. Therefore, they don't value my store. I've noticed leaving comments increases views. Sorry for rambling. My mind is all over the place, and I am tired. I appreciate each and every one for the help. Thank you all. 

[catchatigerbythetail]

You are right. My titles need work. Numerical is for me. It helps me identify location. As a buyer I would search the word movies just like I would search the word puzzle. Do you know what shows up at the top of a movies search? Variation listings. That's the only reason I am considering them. I prefer single listings. If I listen to my gut I would scratch the variation thing, but then, my mind screams look at all the big box. They do variations. Thank you kind sir for your insights. Much appreciated.