Since GTC are you getting any views in Google Shop & Other Off site engines?

[abfabvintage]

My favorite subject: getting views on off site search engines. What has changed for me since GTC? Considering eBay has professed the main reason for mandatory GTC was to get better visibility in Google and other engines. I only use GTC and not auctions so haven't tested what happens if you have auctions listed.

whohou.com:  shows all of my meager 12 active listings as of today. Matches what I have listed now on eBay.

Google Shop (GS): newly listed GTC items from 2 weeks ago only showed 3 of I think 9 active and only sat there for 2 days. Then gone to 0. Then I listed another newly listed batch a few days ago and they are in GS today but will disappear soon.

Before all of these changes GS showed all of my active listings. And those that rolled over into another GTC 30 days don't show at all. However, for those that are active on ebay now (12), some not all are intermingled here and there amid hundreds of Google Images, rather than just specific to the GS.

Topratedseller.com: no active listings show like they did before this change over, yet do show listings that ended with or without a sale with pix blocked out. Only good thing now about this site it has a clickable button to see your full account which takes me to all my active ebay listings.

Long story short...what experience are others having related to this topic? Did your visibility increase on other search engines? And been down this road here: yes, all of my listings meet the outside search engines' criteria. 

[this*old*attic]

Well, check more frequently than I did - possibly because so much vintage is made of natural fibers....  I had to throw out a heartbreaking amount of some of the oldest/best pieces.

Critters got in, and they apparently have very discerning taste.

[clu3]

Picclick used to only search ebay, now you search amazon as well.  I like their search results, the  "best match" really does seem to be the best without the eBay's often faulty idea of what that may be.  It's fast and not clogged with advertising or promoted listings. 

[clu3]

I found your silver on Google images (first item) and when I clicked, it went directly to your item.

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@tealt wrote:

It's hard for me to say whether letting about half my FP listing run as GTC (I previously used 30-day) has improved my visibility in GS or not.  A few GTC items have sold in the last month or so, but then a few of the 30-day things would also sell once in awhile.

HOWEVER...I just had an most unsettling experience with eBay.

I found one of my silverplated flatware GTC listings on a GS first page (item 392271432202) and clicked on the listing title.  Instead of going to my listing on eBay, as I would have expected, an eBay page with 98 results for that pattern popped up.  What?!  Even worse, my listing was the 20th down the page.

A buyer manages to find my listing via GS, is interested enough to click on it, and...is taken to a page with 97 competing listings, and mine isn't even the first one on the page?

Thanks a lot, eBay!  Are those 19 listings before mine all promoted?  Are they all mega sellers that eBay caters to?  It is very, very discouraging, as a small seller, to be, for want of a better word, squashed, by eBay when a buyer actually finds one of my listings via GS.

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[frenchblueshutters]

Checked Google Shop Most were From Etsy or Chairish. Ebay didn't even show up. None Of My Items showed Up and I Put a Search in for a Catagory I Have about 150 Items in.. DISCOURAGING

[abfabvintage]

@frenchblueshutters 

Hi, I posed a question on long ago threads about outside search engine visibility: what does Betsy actually do to get their sellers' items out there on the other search engines. I cannot believe sellers are paying out of pocket to be seen? Never got an answer and I currently do not sell there. 

[goodluckselling]

@abfabvintage 

Hi, I have seen my items also on that PicClick site. Have no clue how they got there, but mostly they are ended items. 

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The new GTC should he these affiliate marketing sites maintain active stable URL addresses, instead of links to ended items.  The example you shared are IMO very poor examples of eBay approved network partners.  They are not keeping up with updated active feeds.

Since eBay has ended eBay Commerce (third party internet advertising) and focusing more on network partners and first party advertising (on site promotions and marketing). The change to GTC seems to work well in this area.

Good Luck Selling!

[goodluckselling]

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@abfabvintage wrote@

Hi, I posed a question on long ago threads about outside search engine visibility: what does Betsy actually do to get their sellers' items out there on the other search engines. I cannot believe sellers are paying out of pocket to be seen? Never got an answer and I currently do not sell there. 

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I do not sell on that site either but I am pretty sure the sellers do buy the google shopping ads.  I think they even bid on the amount for placement in google shopping?

Good Luck Selling!

[auctionpet]

I looked up something on Google today, an ebay ad for the item immediately came up on the right side of screen. It led me to a currently offered item. Looks like there ARE eBay items showing up in Google search!

[ads*and*ends]

This is probably a dumb question...would creating something as simple as a free google blogspot/blogger account and posting eBay links on it not help with google search results at all? I wouldn't even think anyone had to "follow" the blog itself, but the links to items would technically be in google. Never tried this, I don't even know if blogger still exists. I halfway expect the next 10 responses to be nothing but laughing emoji's. In my defense, I still watch a lot of Murder, She Wrote.

[this*old*attic]

I love Angela Landsbury!!!!!!

[tealt]

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@clu3 wrote:

I found your silver on Google images (first item) and when I clicked, it went directly to your item.

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@tealt wrote:

It's hard for me to say whether letting about half my FP listing run as GTC (I previously used 30-day) has improved my visibility in GS or not.  A few GTC items have sold in the last month or so, but then a few of the 30-day things would also sell once in awhile.

HOWEVER...I just had an most unsettling experience with eBay.

I found one of my silverplated flatware GTC listings on a GS first page (item 392271432202) and clicked on the listing title.  Instead of going to my listing on eBay, as I would have expected, an eBay page with 98 results for that pattern popped up.  What?!  Even worse, my listing was the 20th down the page.

A buyer manages to find my listing via GS, is interested enough to click on it, and...is taken to a page with 97 competing listings, and mine isn't even the first one on the page?

Thanks a lot, eBay!  Are those 19 listings before mine all promoted?  Are they all mega sellers that eBay caters to?  It is very, very discouraging, as a small seller, to be, for want of a better word, squashed, by eBay when a buyer actually finds one of my listings via GS.

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I'm delighted to hear that!  Thank you for taking the time to research.

[joesoucie22012]

To view your off site sales just click on your sell through rate. It's there, you will see it. Mine is not good. In fact it's horrible. Almost all of my sales are coming in through eBay, no Google, no nothing.....

[abfabvintage]

@goodluckselling 

Morning, Good. Well, why then does whohou.com always have my active items listed? And perhaps the topratedseller.com isn't in eBay's radar anymore? I also know there is another site Searsmarketplace.com that promotes they are an ebay affiliate. Yet although called "Sears" you don't necessarily need to be selling Sears related items?

Since I am not one for techie language, can you explain to me what third party internet advertisers are? And assume network partners would be Google and others considered affiliates? And assume the first party ads are what I see related to other sellers being promoted on my listings. And we all know if you don't use AdBlock, you will get advertising like Geico, etc. Sorry, don't exactly understand, but trying to learn. Thanks as always for your help.

[jeweltyme]

2 sales in almost 3 weeks.  What the h___?!

[o-kushon]

Views on other sites: No.

Views on Ebay: NO.

Sales: NO!

Sales down 80+% since March.

My items are all summer related.  Sales normally pick up in mid-January and remain strong through September.  2018 was a serious improvement over 2017.  2019 started out another serious improvement over 2018.  I was ready for a success story.  Then the forced change to GTC in April, and sales fell off a cliff.

Thanks for screwing up a good thing, Ebay.