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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 14451, member: 201&quot;]I&#039;m not sure if anything&#039;s changed very recently, or exactly how the search engine works, but in my experience and from what other sellers have said, you have to pretty much list new things, or relist old things, almost every day.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that implies to me that the search engine is heavily favoring anything it sees as new. Also, the category structure has never been too good, and the search filters could be better. I think they&#039;ve been gradually improving things, so maybe it&#039;s working better now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Etsy has &quot;teams&quot; that you can join, which are kind of like eBay groups. Some teams actually have discussions where you can ask questions or share ideas. But a lot of the teams are there just for people to get their items seen by either showing a live listing of your own, or joining in various games, like showing and favoriting an item listed by the person who posted before you. It may help, but is very time-consuming and I found it boring.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also Etsy &quot;treasuries&quot; which are the sets of listings shown on the homepage. Etsy users create the treasuries, probably thousands a day, and Etsy picks out some of them to display on the homepage.</p><p><br /></p><p>People follow each other, and then &quot;like&quot; each other&#039;s items and treasuries, plus teams have ways to get your treasuries seen and liked.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the past, there were times that I&#039;d play these games, and I did get more sales that way. When I did treasuries, a few times someone posted one of my treasuries or an item of mine on their blog, which brought traffic to my shops. But it&#039;s so time-consuming that I&#039;d only do it for a short period of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s possible that some items are so unique and/or so popular that they&#039;re found no matter what, especially since these days Etsy listings seem to be showing up on Google more than eBay listings. But I haven&#039;t put in enough effort consistently enough to really be sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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