mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
albertabrightalberta | Volunteer Community Mentor
It will depend on which seller you talk to and how much that seller understands about the big picture regarding listings.
When you end and relist a listing, it messes up the Google search because it breaks the link to the listing you ended. And Google is important as we get a whole lot of our traffic coming in from Google.
If it was a listing that you had multiple items on and some sold in the past, then ending it and relisting it causes you to lose the sales history on that listings which does give you a little boost in the search returns.
I'm not a supporter of ending listings and then relisting them. You can lose watchers that way too.
Something to consider, this is what I do. Every month or so I use the bulk editor and I change my handling time. I bounce it back and forth between 1 or 2 days. All my listings will have to reindex because of the change I've made and that will happen within the next 24 hours.
Some will disagree with me. And that is fine. But this is what I do.
Curiosity question. I see you have a store. Is it a Starter Store or a Basic Store? I ask because unless you consistently have 300+ active listings all the time, the Basic store isn't a good value.
@mam98031 wrote:It will depend on which seller you talk to and how much that seller understands about the big picture regarding listings.
When you end and relist a listing, it messes up the Google search because it breaks the link to the listing you ended. And Google is important as we get a whole lot of our traffic coming in from Google.
If it was a listing that you had multiple items on and some sold in the past, then ending it and relisting it causes you to lose the sales history on that listings which does give you a little boost in the search returns.
I'm not a supporter of ending listings and then relisting them. You can lose watchers that way too.
Something to consider, this is what I do. Every month or so I use the bulk editor and I change my handling time. I bounce it back and forth between 1 or 2 days. All my listings will have to reindex because of the change I've made and that will happen within the next 24 hours.
Some will disagree with me. And that is fine. But this is what I do.
Curiosity question. I see you have a store. Is it a Starter Store or a Basic Store? I ask because unless you consistently have 300+ active listings all the time, the Basic store isn't a good value.
Do you have any evidence at all or are you just repeating what eBay said, without evidence? Are you sure you understand the big picture?
eBay Officially Calls This Seller Strategy a 'Myth'
The fact that eBay shows us external views, but not external sales says a lot.
OP has 2 slow months... Google isn't helping them out... they can look at their performance and see external traffic. Doesn't make much sense to be concerned about what isn't helping.
Most sellers know watchers are usually not buyers.
For me, ever since ebay started wanting us to pay for external traffic, free external traffic has dropped, and become negligible.
Interesting thing is.... ending listings and relisting actually increases external traffic, for a few days.
Red is when I end and relist a batch of 200 listings. My views will stay under 50 a day doing nothing. Sales go up with the peaks in views.
@bellacleojewelry You can watch and see if this helps. Go to hub, performance, traffic. Look at views. External traffic pretty much nonexistent?
End a bunch of listings. Then 'sell similar'.
Check your views again over the next few days. Views will go up, sales most likely will too.
@eleeper-half wrote:
I do not have an eBay store, so "Time Away" is not an option for me.
Anyone can do time away.
