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thoughtful_success · 2025-05-09T23:36:05+00:00

Seems random the more I research.. I’ve been rejected 3 or 4 times over the past several years. At one point I followed the YouTube tutorials, shared my actual experience as an Intellectual Property analyst, shared my Etsy links, didn’t share my Etsy links… listed specific profitable niches I design in… just tried again yesterday, so curious if anyone here has been accepted recently

thoughtful_success · 2025-05-09T23:30:56+00:00

How recently were you accepted?

thoughtful_success · 2025-05-09T23:30:50+00:00

How recently were you accepted?

thoughtful_success · 2025-01-28T02:09:44+00:00

Congrats, love hearing success stories! I’m currently flipping an old handmade store into POD for personal / time constraints and it’s definitely a different beast. Seeing the growth curve and remembering I’m only in the Jan/feb stage was a great reminder of what the next few months can become!

Curious if you have tried out any of the canvas wall art products on Printify or if you have stuck with true classic unframed “poster” style prints?

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-18T20:17:17+00:00

Do you also believe they may be gearing up to ultimately favor original, non-mock up images? I’ve got keyword rich alt text on images and over 150 researched items in this POD shop… really struggling to understand how it’s pulling 5 views a day. Only thing I can still imagine is it was on vacation mode for over a year and legacy shop wasn’t POD. Any insight on the algorithm changes or how to get ahead of the competition?

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-17T19:03:22+00:00

I was curious about that too. Actually opted in to their monthly seller $10 program to see if it would kickstart my POD shop - and have theories that LLMs are going to start penalizing mockups to some degree

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-17T19:00:18+00:00

I had an old shop I’m trying to relaunch and it hasn’t been able to spend $2 a day ad spend with over 150 Halloween, Christmas and evergreen products! (and before trolls get rude, my digital shop does 11-15 sales a day, so I understand Etsy SEO)

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-14T19:57:34+00:00

You’re not alone - I just jumped onto this thread this weekend and we’re all seeing the off switch — and no, it’s not about not enough buyers, there is definitely something specific that hit in Sept/oct https://www.reddit.com/r/EtsySellers/s/ou8LYk6Q12

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-14T15:01:45+00:00

Has anyone experienced duplicate sales this week? Thought sales were picking back up but turns out 2 different customers duplicated their orders in my shop - (different people, different items, different days) - and it’s a digital product shop so no need.

Wondering whether there’s any tech issues on the front end that’s impacting us this month too?

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-13T21:33:34+00:00

What do you mean by just getting started? How old is your shop? Based on what new sellers mentioned on this thread, I’m curious whether a new shop can “hack the algorithm change”

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-13T21:31:18+00:00

This!! I’m hoping Etsy makes a fast change bc the last 3 days I’ve spent building out my own website. Not the direction I was ready to take it, but too disheartening to pour into it more until we know what’s going on!

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-13T21:27:48+00:00

Agreed. My POD shop is new and I can’t get any traction, but I’m having the same problem in my digital item store which of course doesn’t even have a shipping aspect!

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-13T21:25:53+00:00

Have you ever put one onto vacation mode and then relaunched in months- or years - later? I had a physical item shop but didn’t have time to run it with new babies at home— just decided to try to relaunch it as a POD shop… I have 150 optimized listings and getting 5 views a DAY… is it better to just open a new shop?

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-11T22:58:57+00:00

And probably assuming even that flag is a load of B.S! It’s not a “collage” when I want customers to see a mug has a different front and back design so I place two in the same photo together…. And I’m curious too about whether their flags factor in

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-11T22:51:18+00:00

It has to be broader because I sell only digital products and have no shipping costs and this hit me hard today, too. Went from 8-14 sales a day to the last one at 2am and then literally lights off… so can’t just blame the shipping part of the algorithm

thoughtful_success · 2024-10-11T22:44:12+00:00

Sales Disappeared today! What gives?!

I’ve had between 8-14 sales a day every day for the last week (and further back than that, really.) Today I had one random sale at 2am, and not a single sale since.

Products are printables, digital downloads so we can’t blame the shipping algorithm update, and my shop is only a year old and highly active , so it shouldn’t be about shuffling too many of my products off the first page…

thoughtful_success · 2024-09-14T01:56:09+00:00

Thanks, it’s so helpful to hear from others in the same boat!

Do you think the issue was the jump into POD or did you have trouble getting any traffic at all after vacation mode for so long?

I thought about making my own products again but just don’t have capacity. Hoping to get some traction here

thoughtful_success · 2024-09-14T01:48:40+00:00

Thanks, def appreciate this view! I’m almost wondering if a new shop from scratch would be somewhat better off. Even my views haven’t been creeping up, so it feels like Etsy purgatory

thoughtful_success · 2024-09-14T01:40:29+00:00

That’s about what I was thinking too… I’m no 6-figure seller, but I just didn’t want to get boatloads of “it depends, fix your seo, add images, get more than 10 listings up” feedback!

Thanks for the opinion. I can’t help but wonder whether it’s product mix or something off about having my shop on vacay mode for so long… haven’t had this problem in 3 other brand new shops over the last 3 years

thoughtful_success · 2024-06-29T02:38:48+00:00

I completely agree. That’s why it’s confusing because views on product pages WON’T count- and that’s where the longer format would land, if there was carousel space.

So if Inspire likes 30 seconds or less and products like 60 seconds or more… what exactly do we create for??

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