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On Tuesday June 18th at 9:00am est I set my store to away mode for vacation and had it set to return on Friday June 21st 11:30pm est.
I'm confused why I would get this big spike in organic impressions randomly on Sunday June 23rd when I haven't listed a item item 6 days and its not a holiday weekend. Can anyone help me understand why this might happen?
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@kicks239 wrote:
On Tuesday June 18th at 9:00am est I set my store to away mode for vacation and had it set to return on Friday June 21st 11:30pm est.
I'm confused why I would get this big spike in organic impressions randomly on Sunday June 23rd when I haven't listed a item item 6 days and its not a holiday weekend. Can anyone help me understand why this might happen?
Have you checked the detailed list to see if the impressions are coming from one (or two) specific listings?
I have a long running listing that occasionally spikes in impressions but not views and it doesn't sell well regardless. I suspect that it's some of the keywords I'm using are confusing eBay's AI that is selecting listings that they will use for non-search impressions.
I have one right now where the non-search impressions are up 1984% but search impressions are only up 4%
Similar to what @slippinjimmy said, keep in mind that percentages are not just that, not counts. Not so much with impressions, but with other metrics, such as views, you can have 100% increase b/c a view increased from 1 to 2.
Percentages are just a part of the picture.
Sometimes it can be that a blog or social media site mentioned or linked to one of your items. I've had that happen.
I also had a crazy day when one of my very few MQ listings, for an item I'd had listed for 2 years, suddenly sold 5 out of 6 in a couple of hours, all to different buyers in different locations! Remember, this had been for sale for years. To say I was suspicious would be the understatement of my entire eBay career, but that item had hit #1 for the Google search & the Google search was increased b/c of a perfect storm of events, anyway, it was ALL LEGIT. So crazy things happen. Been on eBay since 96, never had anything like that happen before or since.
@yuzuha wrote:
@simply-the-best-for-you wrote:Sometimes it can be that a blog or social media site mentioned or linked to one of your items. I've had that happen.
I also had a crazy day when one of my very few MQ listings, for an item I'd had listed for 2 years, suddenly sold 5 out of 6 in a couple of hours, all to different buyers in different locations! Remember, this had been for sale for years. To say I was suspicious would be the understatement of my entire eBay career, but that item had hit #1 for the Google search & the Google search was increased b/c of a perfect storm of events, anyway, it was ALL LEGIT. So crazy things happen. Been on eBay since 96, never had anything like that happen before or since.
Yep, I've had the same thing happen. In fact, recently I had all three of a particular item I'd had listed for a few years sell within about two days. I was trying to figure out what was going on (it was a Final Fantasy XIV-related crane game prize) when I realized that the current campaign from Mountain Dew (buy bottles of Mountain Dew, redeem the codes under the caps for points that you can use on FFXIV-related items) had that particular item as one of the offerings, which likely made a lot of people aware of its existence. What I'm sure happened is that a bunch of people decided they wanted to skip the "drinking lots of Mountain Dew and saving the caps" step and just buy the prize straight out.
Yup, mine was a race jersey & the race was coming up, but ALSO, this is a famous annual race & it was that month & for the first time ever, the organization was not providing jerseys to participants. Everyone wanted a jersey. It still seemed odd b/c it literally happened within a couple of hours. We searched high & low for a scam & I even reached out to one of the buyers. That's how I learned the details. It was totally legit & that's the day I learned the power of coming up #1 in a Google search!
