Hi Camilla @folksycontent 
Will you be doing any more of these product listing review blog posts?
https://blog.folksy.com/2019/05/23/product-listing-review-2-knitted-cushion
I found the three you did very helpful and would love to see more please 
Katrina
I find these really useful too, and would love to see more.
Iâll third that, they really were very useful!
Iâll see what we can do! Is there anything in particular youâd like us to look at or cover?
@folksycontent From my point of view, yes there is! A lot of my stuff is very difficult to categorise, and the drawback to that is that a search would not throw it up. Iâm talking about my Kindred collection, which is non functional, isnât really sculpture, doesnât really fit into art either, âornamentâ seems rather downmarket, itâs not really figurative ceramics because itâs abstract, so what would be a really effective title and how should I tag it? The drawback to online selling is that people need to know beforehand what they would like to see and thus know what to put in their search, if your stuff doesnât fit into an accepted description of what it is, then you lose out. I tend to end up putting tags that might appeal to someone who is in fact looking for something else, but might like my work - such as art, sculpture, abstract etc but I donât know whether this works or not⊠Could we have some guidance for people who make things that donât fit neatly into a category?
@JudyAdams I donât think âartâ is a tag that is aimed at someone looking for something else, Iâve just had a look at your kindred items and if I were looking for something like that then âartâ and âabstract sculptureâ are exactly what Iâd be searching!
@konyskiw Thanks Kim. Itâs really helpful to get advice. I am trying different Folksy categories for different Kindred pieces at the moment and monitoring what category works best via looking at my stats and using Google analytics. I have also changed all titles to incorporate words like âartâ etc to see if that makes a difference. Kindred sell well through physical galleries, though not particularly well through Folksy, where my vases do better, perhaps because they are more readily searchable as defined utilitarian ceramics. Thank you for your feedback.
@JudyAdams I think items with a use are always going to be easier to sell, and itâs something I remember my old art teacher getting frustrated with at school too. He just wanted to make some nice ceramic wall pieces, but all people ever wanted to buy was mugs, mugs and more mugs.
I expect in galleries you get people who are purely looking for art/sculpture without the need for any use from the item, but as you say, here people are probably not so sure what theyâre looking for, and if theyâre looking for a gift then then they probably feel more confident selecting something with a use as they know the recipient also likes flowers or drinking tea or whatever.
They might be a harder sale to get but they are beautiful items! The patterns on them remind me a bit of suprematism and constructivism, but again I donât think theyâre things buyers are really going to be searching. I would definitely use tags that target art/sculpture buyers, but I think youâre right, I feel like there must be an angle thatâs missing too! Iâm just not sure what (and donât forget multi word tags are also good to use, so you can have things like âcontemporary sculptureâ, âmodern artâ if you need more).
@konyskiw I agree with your thinking, and constructivism is definitely an influence on the designs. I spend a lot of time looking at 1930s, 40s, 50s art, architecture and textiles. Thanks for your comment about multi word tags - I have tried some phrases on some pieces, but am never sure whether a searcher would have to put in the whole phrase to get a result, and thus whether by putting âmodern artâ I would be excluding someone who just put in âmodernâ. I wonder whether a search facility like âsurprise meâ (which some websites do) offering a random selection of items, or âif you liked this, maybe you would like theseâ or âpeople who searched for this also searched for theseâ facility, but Iâm not sure how possible that would be on Folksy. Thank you for your advice which is much appreciated!
Hi Camiila,
Iâve found a great deal of value from all three so donât have any preference as to what items are looked at 
Cheers,
Katrina
@JudyAdams It should be that if your tag matches exactly what theyâre searching, youâre likely to show higher, so if they search âmodern artâ and you have that as a tag, youâre nearer the front of the results. If you have all the words but itâs not as exact, like they search âmodern artâ and you have âmodernâ and âartâ separately, or they search âmodernâ and you have âmodern artâ, you should still be included in the results, but might be a little further back.
Itâs the tricky thing of trying to decide which is the term theyâre likely to search by. I have a few terms I can put on almost all of my items, so I try to mix it up so some will have âoriginal artâ and âacrylic paintingâ, and others will have âacrylic artâ and âoriginal paintingâ, and then others might be all separate, then whichever people are searching by, I hopefully have some that are an exact match.