Listing is not showing up in the search results 1 week after being posted.

[gsglobalinc]

I'm a long time ebay seller (20+ years) and familiar with the platform.  I have a small listing that is not showing up in the search results.  I posted it over a week ago. 

As you can see by these pics, when you enter the search term it doesn't come up. My other listings do but not this one. When you sort by price mine should be the lowest cost but it doesn't show up.

Any suggestions?

[itscalledapostingid · Accepted solution]

Your screen shot shows the category has defaulted to 'single use batteries.'

Your item is in a different category.

Searching maxell cr2032 will result in ebay automatically switching to 'single use batteries' category.

Your item does show up as lowest price when I search "new genuine maxell cr2032" in all categories.

[gsglobalinc]

Also... this was listed on Nov. 30 and I sold a few of them in December but nothing has been showing up for the last few weeks.

[gsglobalinc]

crazystuff4sale, interesting, i'll look into the category now but that should affect the keyword search.

[gsglobalinc]

I just changed the category... i'll report back in 24hrs.

[slippinjimmy]

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@gsglobalinc wrote:

I just changed the category... i'll report back in 24hrs.

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Take note that when you revise a listing it has to be re-indexed and until that happens it may not be available in Search.

You made some other revisions about an hour before the Category change, was that before or after you tried to find it in Search?

[gsglobalinc]

Following up, looks like it WAS the category that ebay was defaulting to.  

Thank you so much!

[gsglobalinc]

Hi, i made the change just after the category change.  

It was the category that was the issue, once I changed the category it showed up a few hours later after being indexed.  LOL, since then I've already made 2 sales.

thanks.