@mistwomandancing wrote:
None of us actually have the inside track in HOW Cassini ranks listings on the page. It looks to me like those other sellers are all pretty good, and certainly a few of them are HUGE sellers for eBay with thousands and thousands and thousands of positive feedbacks. Who would you suggest eBay kick down below you in the search?
But the real thing is that using different search words, in different orders, produces different search results and placements. So different placement depending on what the searching buyer types in:
(1) Dansco 7161
(2) Dansco 7161 Album
(3) Dansco Coin Album 7161 ... etc.
So when we search for our own listings we strongly tend to use search words that have also strongly influenced our choice of listing title words. That usually shows our listings high-ish on a page.
But for all the buyers out there that search using words we may not have included in our titles, our listings may be wayyyyyyyyy down on the page! When I search for Dansco Coin Album 7161, your listing doesn't get seen until I've scrolled down to the THIRTY-FIFTH listing shown on the page!
Title words DO matter, but the hard part is trying to foresee which words the majority of buyers might use when they're shopping here. Depending on the search words they use played against the title words we've used in our listing, we may show up top or be relegated to the end of the page.
That's what eBay tells us anyway. A couple weeks ago when I spent a considerable amount of time on the phone with CS, I used the exact 4 first words in one of my listings to find it. It was so far down the list that it was ridiculous. Never mind that about 75% of the items that were above it didn't have all of the words.
At first the CS rep told me that it was showing up in the first spot. I told her what my results were. She said, "Did you search using all of the words in your title?" I, of course, told her NO since eBay says the first 4 words are the most important.
When it was all said and done, she admitted that there was something wrong, and that my listings were not showing up properly and she was sending up to "management" to handle.
eBay promotes what eBay wants to promote. PERIOD. If they want your items hidden/buried in search, no problem. Trying to figure out Cassini is like trying to figure out when the next coming of Christ or the end of the world is going to be. Good luck with that.
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent” ― Madeleine K. Albright
Great! 45.8% down over the same time last year with 2x+ items listed. Are you impressed? I'm certainly not!
