Items specific recommendations

[shga9564]

Please hear us eBay
as sellers we need to spend time listing not adding specifics that the buyer really does not care about. I find myself spending hours trying to please the algorithm when I have hundreds of great items I could be listing. As a top seller this is becoming extremely discouraging for this platform. And as I’m sure all other sellers would agree we would appreciate changes in this automated algorithm that is not even a person. We are people busting our you know what to make money for you. So please show your appreciation to those who make your platform possible. Any feedback from other sellers would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time

[gloryglorygifts]

It shows up almost daily in the "tasks" in the hub. 

[jonathanbrightlight]

I've got you beat (on my company's selling account) 😁: 

[dhbookds]

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@jonathanbrightlight wrote:

I've got you beat (on my company's selling account) 😁: 

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lol, can't beat that one........  But I make sure to fill in the requireds and then whatever else I decide is applicable when I make the listing.........and then just ignore that little "informational" prompt......

[mam98031]

Requirements and recommendations for Item specifics are two completely different things. 

[jonathanbrightlight]

Same, hence the message.  I decided we would ignore it around 2-3 years ago, so almost every listing we make has that warning, unless it's in a category with very few item specifics (there are a few out there).  Actually, I say that, but we do have 6,104 listings up, so almost half of them don't have that message showing.  I guess we've filled in all the recommended ones for many of our listings after all.  I just don't stress about it, we still sell plenty of our items.

[mam98031]

I use them in a way that best suits my needs.  Stuff people might search by but info I don't have in my title.  Since the Search engine searches both the title and the ISBs [item specific boxes].

[redlinear]

With all of eBay's intentional unknowns.  Search result manipulation.  Available promotions that we really don't know if they work (or help).  And constant eBay "suggestions".
To IGNORE any suggestion such as Item Specifics when listing items, might be a really bad decision.

Lots of us "assume" that eBay's suggestions about Item Specifics help to make an algorithm "happier" which in turn might help our items to be seen in a search result (over a seller that chooses to ignore them).

We are trying anything we can just to be seen.
It's just too time consuming to list items like eBay wants us to.   

[adamcartwright]

@gloryglorygifts 

Oh okay, I don't often look at the Hub Overview page.

[mam98031]

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@adamcartwright wrote:

@gloryglorygifts 

Oh okay, I don't often look at the Hub Overview page.

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You wouldn't necessarily see the Tasks unless you had that tile on your Seller Hub.  You can customize which tiles you want to see and them drag them into the positions you want.  I don't have the Tile for TASKs currently on my Seller Hub overview.

I am in my Seller Hub several times a day.  And I review my Seller Dashboard at least weekly to make sure there aren't any Defects sneaking up on me.  I find the Seller Hub very useful for a variety of reasons.

[reallynicestamps]

It has been my understanding that Item Specifics do not have anything to do with the buyer but are used by Search Engines (SEO).

Since my collectibles are mostly long tail, being found by Google is important to me.

[mam98031]

But buyers are the ones using the Search to find what they need.  So using ISBs can give you addition points / words that a buyer may choose to search for the item by.  The Ebay search likes ISB use.  I mostly create my own ISBs.

I would think it would be the opposite for you regarding Google.