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jjsactivewear · ‎09-21-2017

I noticed that in mid-September, the impressions on my promoted listings dropped almost 75%. They had been consistent for several months. Any ideas as to why this may be or has anybody else experienced this.

lemarcheaupuces · ‎09-21-2017

@jjsactivewear wrote:
I noticed that in mid-September, the impressions on my promoted listings dropped almost 75%. They had been consistent for several months. Any ideas as to why this may be or has anybody else experienced this.

i really don't understand much about this stuff.

a month ago it was telling me my impressions were down by a lot...

since September it says my impressions are up by 25%.

the thing my sales are way down.

i was doing better when my impressions were way lower.

go figure.

letoulousain

alexmgabriel · ‎10-10-2017

I've also seen a significant drop in my impressions since Mid-September. My impression stats have dropped almost half since September 16th, they have come up a little bit but nothing like they used to be in the beggining of the month. I also have been noticing a decrease in sales across the board as well. I don't know if this has to do with ebay algorithms or if more people buy in the beggining of the month instead of the end of the month due to bills coming due for most people. Yet, its not October in the beggeining of the month and I still notice a drop of impressions from the beggining of September. Like I said before the impressions have picked up a little towards the end of Sept. yet its not the same as it used to be even into the beggining of Oct. I'm having 50% decreases as to the beggining of Sept. I also have been ranking up in my seller ratings which I thought would help my impressions and sales, yet I haven't noticed that at all.

I know ebay recently did a makeover of their algorithms and I'm curious if we the "Typical Seller" are going to start paying a higher premium to get our items in front of more customers. I notice they have all the nice spots where it asks for $4 to promote your listings or make bolder text. I'm curious if we will start having to pay for these features in order to get more impressions and sales.

P.S. I'm happy to know that there is someone else out there who is expreiencing the same sort of issues I am having as well. Even though this isn't good for either of us. Hope everything gets better soon.

hioctane62 · ‎10-10-2017

Mine are way down, too... with almost twice as many promoted items.

It may be the new search algorithms, or it may be they are trying to make us raise the percentages we are paying to get the same results we used to.

dtexley3 · ‎10-10-2017

On the page where the promoted listings graph appears do you have a message at the top? Starting in mid-September it stated that there was an issue reporting the number of impressions on promoted listings but don't worry your ads are being seen. Over the weekend that message changed to, the issue has been resolved, blah, blah, blah. The impression counts continue to be low, BUT, my sales took an abrubt nose-dive at the same time the impressions did, and wouldn't-ya-know-it they bounced back over the weekend, just as the "issue resolved" message appeared. Of course they still claim that my "item visibility was not affected" during this time..... Horse hooey.

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