My stats show that I only get 1 or 2 views from Google. If I searched hand knitted baby cardigan in Google images it used to be full off folksy but now just a couple are showing. Some of these new selling platforms are showing above folksy.
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I am sure my items (and others) used to show regularly especially when looking at google shopping or google images. Just tagging @dougfolksy @folksycontent in case they are unaware of this. I might have imagined it but I thought folksy had done a lot of work fairly recently to ensure we were found on google - if they did its no longer working!
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I did, I used my husbands IPad and went incognito 
still didn’t find Folksy items.
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This explains a lot. I used to sell OK on Folksy, but this has slowly decreased over the last few years, but on other platforms sales have remained constant or increased.
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It shows linoprint because that is a Folksy sub-category. I only expect to see one per site so that level is fine. It’s the things which are not categorised but which we use as tags expecting them to be found which are the ptoblem as they are not.
Eg… Gift for mum. Zilch
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I used to get a lot more views etc before Folksy changed the search options. Not sure what thread but I posted about my baby bibs and if I searched for “bib” I had necklaces and bible related items before my bibs. My daughter tried it on her phone only yesterday and said the way to get items up were to search for the tags but the only way to do that was to type folksy.com/tags/bib and how many people know to put that in their browser search bar?
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Exactly, all these things with specific words on the search, are targeting Folksy sellers that want to support fellow folksy sellers. As many of our social media promotions. E.g. I am in Folksy Local south-east group. The group admins do an amazing job of trying to put things together and share our items, which I imagine all the groups do. But do these groups have members that are not actually fellow Folksy Sellers, and are buyers? And my point is, that our target group is not Folksy Sellers that know where to go and find something, but people who are interested in buying something, and they search on the internet for that something, and they never come across a Folksy listing… 
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I see
I dont know what it was like before as only joined Folksy in October and not having much joy, even though Folksy have featured me a couple of times. I keep playing about with tags and titles but nothing seems to improve my visability my stats are in the single figures if at all
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I was just at the post office and asked Jo, the post office lady, what she would type into Google to find a gift for her Mum. “mothers day gift” she said. So I did. Didn’t find any of mine or any other Folksy seller’s and I searched 20 pages of results. Something appears to be sadly amiss ?
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I’ve just had another trawl around google putting in some search terms - I have items in my etsy shop which do show up but very similar items from the Folksy shop don’t (slightly different titles and descriptions so google should pick them both up). It’s only when I specifically mention Folksy that my Folksy items seem to show. Obviously it is a very crowded marketplace out there and my tags might not be ‘optimised’ for search engines but if we are all having similar issues I wonder if there’s another factor at play. I’ve noticed I do get more sales on Etsy even though I concentrate most of my efforts on Folksy.
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That’s what I get. I can promote folksy on Facebook, twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and take part in the daily listing thread but still get more views and sales on etsy with that just being promoted on twitter.
This is why sadly I often revert back to just promoting etsy as all that time and effort is wasted on folksy.
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Surprised that this being a lively topic that we have had nothing from the ‘management’!
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It’s a real conundrum as I also find the work I do on Folksy seems to really boost Etsy sales - when we had the tresstle online event back in November my Etsy sales jumped as a direct result but Folksy stayed the same which seems really unfair.
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I’m not sure how the titles and tags are seen by Google etc either. On the new statistics my most clickable term is ‘Arran’, not any of the item titles or descriptions. As I don’t promote on social media or locally, my listings are only shown by what Folksy puts out there. No sales since early December.
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Same as that Amanda, no sales since December. I always use to have a couple a month up until a year or so ago and then slowly they are reducing to one every couple of months. I also don’t promote on social media and never have, so it has to be a problem with Folksy not being so prominent in the major search engines.
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@OrchardFelts tagged a couple of Folksy Staff members yesterday, so hopefully we will hear something soon. It appears to be a massive issue that needs to be sorted out.
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I think there was a blog on here somewhere giving advice about tagging. It suggested looking at google tool where you can compare what people are searching for. So you can type in a tag and see how popular it is. Then maybe make sure that word comes first? Or is included in the title for a better chance? I am just guessing as I have not tested it out but might be worth looking at to see if it draws more attention to the folksy items.
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This is not an issue with tagging.
We are not talking about individual tagged specific sort of searches but at a higher level than that …Golden Wedding / Mother’s Day gifts for example and it doesn’t matter how well you tag those Google will Not find them.
Which means that people just searching generally for gifts like that are not going to find them on Folksy.
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I wonder what E does to get noticed by Google? Do they pay for priority or is it purely about the amount of items available?
I am far from any expert. I do know that I had an online shop with aviato before Xmas…absolutely rubbish and doesn’t promote. Closed shop and deleted everything with them. I googled glass bunting to see if it would show and a long scroll down it appeared…not folksy link but the Aviarto one! That is very frustrating so will be interested in any comments from Folksy too.
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E** Pays mega amounts of money to Google because E*** is a big weatthy company. Google advertising is expensive. Very. There are other factors at play too. Speed of site load for example will have an impact, modern site technology but the main thing to get to the top is Money.
(PS I just Googled glass bunting as I have some of my own. After page 12 gave up as Folksy didnt appear but my bunting Is also in a n other shop and that appeared page 4 (and they don’t pay Google so have to conclude it is the site set up which got it so high up). Also another seller’s appeared on the other shop I sell on on page 7 ).
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