@willowinthewoods wrote:
Strictly my opinions.
Regarding current conversations and concerns on the Technical Board.
Instant views on newly listed items. If I list 50 items and they all get instant 9 to 20 (5 seconds or less) views, then they set for weeks with no additional views or watchers, is ebay actually lowering our visibility? Brand new listings, re-lists, sell similars...all get the same instant views. Smaller sellers like myself only?
I just read that the Bots algorithm can lower our visibility if we have many views but no sales.
What is the purpose of Ebay padding the item views?
Opinions, thoughts, facts???
Willow
I've always doubted that eBay's bots are being counted in the views. From a technical standpoint, no reason to do this.
If the algo penalizes based on views (I don't know for sure that it does, since I've had items with 380 views that finally sold) then I wouldn't be surprised if unscrupulous (overseas) sellers were hitting the listings on purpose to reduce visibility.
I've noticed a marked increase in these immediate views lately. Others have said that they have seen these for years now, but I never did. In fact, I've had items that sat for days at zero views... but that doesn't happen anymore.
I sell on my own site outside of here and I can say that within the past year my site has been repeatedly and directly targeted - won't get into details but there are signs that the attacks are not purely random. Only started up in the last year or so.
There were always random worms and people trying password dictionaries but since about last Oct there have been one or more entities making a concerted effort to attack my site, and listings anywhere I post them. Attempting to use literally every available avenue to compromise my site and listings. Some of the things being done are just way too specific to be random bot traffic.
I've been actively blocking and filing DMCAs and whatnot but this is very time consuming. Although to some extent, I believe that is the goal.
It seems like we're entering a new age of internet "competition" where anything goes.
