Hi. Any tips on getting found please. I had only 3 views yesterday.
Impressions were under 10 on my top listings.
How do you all manage to choose the correct words and tags for a good number of Impressions.
I feel I’m really missing out on something here.
Do you have an tips for me.
Or do you bring in your own viewers?
Thanks.
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I have had low views too over the past 2 weeks. I wonder if there is a lull in the market for the sort of thing I sell at this time of year, because I have observed similar dips in the stats in previous years. I do wish for the return of the graph, because the raw stats we have these days make it difficult to compare between years, despite the fact that they are more detailed and do have many advantages.
As far as keywords are concerned, I spent a good hour on Ubersuggest (as suggested in the Folksy Blog) checking out my keywords and tags. Sadly, there were no big revelations. The most effective tags for sterling silver jewellery are the very obvious ones (particularly amethyst) but there are no very competitve tags there that will get you seen above the main crowd. It seems that simply no members of the public actually search for “artisan silver jewellery” or “bespoke silver jewellery” or even for “one of a kind.” What they search for are “bridesmaid’s presents bracelet,” etc. For people that are a bit more well known than me (like Alexis Dove) her own name is her best and most effective keyword. Sadly I can’t imagine anybody searching for me by my name or the name of my shop.
Sam x
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Hi Amberlilly @Amberlilly I have had a drop in my stats this week although I have found this latest folksy blog post really useful and it helped to bring it views on the products I updated after reading! Heres the link http://blog.folksy.com/2018/07/03/seo-basics-designers-makers
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Thanks very much. At least I’m not alone. But struggling tho!
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no your definately not alone Amberlilly. I have a little bead and jewellery shop locally and its been such a quiet week for business there too. I blame it on the sun - as lovely as it is!!
The old stats page seems to be still here ‘behind the scenes’ if you are a fan … https://folksy.com/stats
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How did you find it Helen? 
Helen how did this work? I’m a bit confused???
I had bookmarked it in my browser, and when I tried it, it still worked. It’s not available from the dashboard any more now we have the new stats as it’s a bit limited.
It shows the views for each month. For the current month, it can of course only count views to date, so it so it starts very low and doesn’t make sense as a comparison with the previous month/year till the very last day.
Just like the new stats it counts your own views, which includes one for each new listing, remember. So if you have a busy month listing, or go in and edit all your tags/keywords etc, that will make it look like a lot of views for that month.
I probably can’t see the whole link Helen. As when I click it goes straight to my own stats. Could not figure that that out?
Fingers crossed things will improve, but again I am at a loss why I don’t get many impressions. And exhausted search words. I know Folksy doesn’t have a very sophisticated listing process like the other place, as now I could relist my entire shop of 99 items and clog up newly listed and search items. I know people do do this.
Yes, it should show your own figures…
new stats format:https://dashboard.folksy.com/stats
old stats graph: https://folksy.com/stats
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Thank you Helen! I’ve just discovered that I’ve had a better June this year than last, so I’m actually feeling better about the low views. 
Sam x
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I think people have a lot of things to do at this time of year other than shopping. One picture framing business I used told me once that Wimbledon fortnight was always their quietest time of the year.
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Oddly tho, on the other side this was the best time, but since all their changes its bottomed out.
Thats a really handy tool Helen @HelenCliffordArt thanks so much for sharing.
I did checked orders for last June and it’s better this year.
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Thank you for the link very useful to see the stats in another view
Getting seen by regular users is half the challenge. Bounce rate for the whole marketplace is over 50% and visitor retention is roughly 3minutes. So, I guess we all need to improve our individual shops with better imagery, good tags, descriptions, link-ins as well as improving social media presence. Because the other challenge is getting new people to visit the marketplace AND shop and at the moment the numbers aren’t enough.
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There is a quoted and I believe evidence based statistic which says that 100 views = 1 sale. This figure checks out really pretty well with my own stats.
Don’t know where your 50% / 3 minutes figure comes from ?
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Trouble is tho, our views are also counted, so it’s hard to figure what are genuine views.