I wanted to share my traffic report to see if others are experiencing the same thing.
As you can see from the chart (attached), my listings were getting steady impressions—both organic and promoted—then traffic suddenly fell off a cliff after Sept 1.
Organic: 5,070 (down 40.2%)
Promoted Listings: 7,531 (down 59.8%)
Total Traffic: down 43% compared to the prior week
This wasn’t a gradual decline due to buyer interest—it was an overnight drop. My inventory, pricing, and promotions haven’t changed, so this seems tied to eBay’s visibility algorithm or a reporting glitch.
I’m concerned that independent sellers are being throttled while promoted traffic is heavily favored. Even with promoted listings, traffic still collapsed.
Is anyone else seeing this sudden drop in impressions? If so, this points to a systemic issue rather than individual seller performance.
So weird how there is only one question mark in the OP's post, but only 2 repliers appear to have answered it.
@timeles_38 I also see an overnight drop-off for impressions on Sept. 1st. Not nearly as drastic as yours though. I'm so sorry you're getting answers that don't make sense and probably feel especially harsh when you're the one experiencing this. You could probably show a graph with impressions going from 100k to 0 overnight, and there would still be at least one person saying "the economy" or "summer" or whatever. 🙄
My stats on another platform look the same as yours. Sales just died, as you said, almost overnight. I would say over-all I have dropped by around 75 to a 100 orders on that platform alone in the last 10 days. Was wondering what was up with that. Even spent the per click advertising but still no boost in sales. Same with website, no sales. Another platform I sell on also totally died, not a single sale almost a week now. Not sure why it died all of a sudden like it has. Didn't think about the back to school but that could well be the reason. Never had a week this bad before in over 7 years.
As you can see 6 out of the last 10 days not a single sale. Have not had that happen before.
@gurlcat yes it is too bad @timeles_38 was so quickly dismissed earlier in this thread - just looking at that graph it's obvious this isn't just normal seasonal or economic fluctuations.
My bet would be on it being a "display error" where the reporting is just bugged and not showing the full data.
However, there is also always a possibility it could be the result of an intentional test or algorithm or design change.
For example, back in 2023 sellers noticed a massive drop in Promoted impressions that was initially thought to be a glitch but it ended up being that eBay was testing removing most of the PL ads from the item page, which is where the vast majority of ad impressions come from.
In a now archived post, one of the UK blues finally admitted it was an intentional test, not a glitch.
Who knows if something like that is happening again now but I would not be surprised.
