Thank you!
@AlphaUnique going back to your original post if you search for a single, relatively common word like âbookâ then you will get about 4000 listings of books/ items made from books/ items that look like books, the ones tagged book will be first with the most recently listed at the top of the pile. If you search âwooden bookâ one of your items is second, above all of the non wooden books and other wooden articles, behind another wooden book that presumably has a more recent listing date. Hopefully youâll now be able to find/ compare your items and thank you for spotting that the search function wasnât behaving as it should after its revision last week.
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Perhaps the tags need changing to only those that appear in the title? It would make it easier to find what you are looking for and most people have an item in mind when when searching online. I think long and hard about my titles and descriptions so as not to mislead customer and use tags that directly link to my product. Itâs all very disappointing!
Thank you!! Being fairly new to Folksy and not technical at all I wasnât totally sure I had the right idea about tags. It seems I found a bug without knowing it!!
The Folksy search works in a similar to search engines like Google - or at least it does now weâve fixed it 
It uses a sort of points-based system, so if a product listing has a word or phrase that meets a particular search term in the title, description and tag, it will rank higher than a listing that only mentions that term in one or two places. It also takes into account which sub-category the listing is in and the materials and colours. So for example, is someone searches for âred hatâ on Folksy, results that are listed in the âhatsâ sub-category, have âred hatâ in the title, tags and description, and have âredâ as a colour facet, will rank above searches that are only tagged âred hatâ.
The keywords used in titles and descriptions are hugely important, and are used by Google and other search engines for their results. So itâs brilliant to hear you carefully consider your titles and descriptions. We always advise writing them as though youâre describing your product to someone who canât see it - so your personalised pegs could be titled âPersonalised Pegs - set of 5 personalised wooden clothes pegs decorated with pyrographyâ and you could then tag them âpersonalised giftâ, âpyrographyâ, âwedding favourâ, âclothes pegsâ etc
Hereâs a blog post that might help
I have seen suggested elsewhere that you should use some tags for mis-spellings or American spellings that people may type in but you wouldnât want in your title e.g. jewellery, jewelry, cosy, cozy