What’s a good number. I’m a bit disappointed at 423 for a dog snood, which is still for sale. I feel I’m getting the tags wrong for search. Though I think my sales don’t come from search. Shame we can’t find this out tho.
I’m not sure there is such a thing as a good number. My top impression items have almost 1000 impressions in (under) 30 days - these are newly listed and valentines related so probably appearing in a lot of searches at the moment and would have spent Monday appearing on and off in the daily theme which would have inflated that figure. But they haven’t sold so they are obviously not appearing in the right searches. However I’ve had a couple of sales in the last few days so I thought I would go and have a look at their stats for comparison purposes. One of them had 290 impressions (and 14 views) in the last 30 days and 61 impressions/ 5 views in the last 7 days before selling, the other had 55 impressions and 6 views in 7 days before selling (can’t see it in the 30 day view). So they had much lower numbers but got seen by the right person and sold.
Not having any pets I can’t help with what sort of things people would use as search terms for pet items, hopefully someone else will come along with suggestions and you can overhaul your tags to see if that helps.
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Thanks Sasha, yes I think my tags are probably off. I’m not very good at them. 
I’ve noticed lately I’m getting a fair few from FB, and not directly from Folksy. Would be nice to know if people do search on Folksy or just find us via other means.
Try using a few tags like ‘pet accessory’ ‘pet’ or ‘snood’ mixed in with your dog ones. Someone may be looking for a snood for themselves and see yours and decide to get one for their dog too. I searched dog snood and yours came up. I have dog bandanas for sale but haven’t sold any yet and they have been listed for over 6 months now but usually at craft events they are popular.
Must admit do not check my stats that regularly now. My new items listed on the 1st and 2nd got 794 and 674 respectively over 2 days. Do do a lot of promotion though and join in the daily challenge.
I seem to appear in search when I check. But thinking I don’t get as many impressions, just makes me wonder if either my tags I’m using aren’t right or people aren’t searching and visiting via outside clicks?
Impressions I guess only appear if the search words are entered. So they must be searching for yours to have that many. Outside promotion, I guess you drop a link and they come to your shop direct.
Yes always have my links added everywhere and does help.
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I, too, have a tremendous amount of impressions and views - 14416 impressions and 456 views over 7 days. I do have about 80 items listed & feel I should be getting lots more sales - but nothing. I make pet accessories and keep exactly to that. My pricing is reasonable. I changed my name to something more directed at would-be customers. My tags are in keeping with pets. My impressions and views come from a wide source - from Folksy, Facebook, Twitter, Mics, my website, Google & Bing. I would have thought sales would be coming my way but they aren’t! Still can’t make out where I’m going wrong!
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You have a lovely selection of pet items and very reasonable too. Have you been open long?
I try to keep my photos consistent too, always the same background. But to have all those impressions, that’s loads. Wish I had that many. I know photos are key, this is what everyone agrees on.
Hi Amberlilly,
Thanks so much for your lovely compliment. I really don’t know how I’ve amounted that many impressions apart from trying to direct traffic to my Folksy shop throughly web site, FB, Twitter, Instagram, Google and more.
I’ve first started with Etsy years ago but they messed around with the way listings were done and even closed some shops without warning & so I got out. My niece does well there though.
I’ve been with Folksy for about 3 years but have only just started piling ‘makes’ into my shop. Lockdown has lots to do with that as I normally sell at local craft fairs which I love doing. There again - some you win & some you lose. A case of knowing which to pick!
As for phots, all my items have various sizes and I don’t want to keep to a plain background where it’s hard to avoid shadow even with editing. That’s why I started using country scenes, dogs, flowers etc as reasonable & attractive backgrounds trying not to let that distract from the product.
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Thanks. Shouldn’t take too much to change. I’ll give it a go to see what happens. Main thought was to make items stand out … which they did … but for the wrong reason. Thanks again for advice & compliments. Very much longing for local crafts fairs to start again and much to be learnt there too. However, I did get 2 sales a Christmas. One was from another Folksy seller and the second was totally ‘out of the blue’ … one of my cartoon themed collars wanted by a child for her pet.