I came across this because I was looking into a slightly different Etsy issue. If you have your own website and an Etsy store, you’re forced to pay for offsite ads on Etsy (if you make over a certain amount on there.) These targeted ads showing my products pop up on most social media channels and at the top of google searches for my brand name and I’m fairly certain they’re poaching customers who would otherwise end up on my website - which I also do a lot of work to promote. I’m tempted to close my Etsy shop to eliminate the problem, but also I don’t want to lose those sales. (posting from an unrelated personal account so as not to drag my actual company into this. 😂) idk - anyways, cool and thought provoking video. Thanks for posting it!
Yep these shops pay the high ad rate esty fees and shoot themselves to the top of search. I can believe the really bad products and garbage listings I see at top of the page now
You know what, I completely forgot to interject those into the video. That was a mistake on my part, but if you just do a search on the platform for those topics, you’ll see plenty. I wasn’t picking out any video in particular, for any other reason than they were the first one on the list.
You guys are sleeping on this episode!
I came across this because I was looking into a slightly different Etsy issue. If you have your own website and an Etsy store, you’re forced to pay for offsite ads on Etsy (if you make over a certain amount on there.) These targeted ads showing my products pop up on most social media channels and at the top of google searches for my brand name and I’m fairly certain they’re poaching customers who would otherwise end up on my website - which I also do a lot of work to promote. I’m tempted to close my Etsy shop to eliminate the problem, but also I don’t want to lose those sales. (posting from an unrelated personal account so as not to drag my actual company into this. 😂)
idk - anyways, cool and thought provoking video. Thanks for posting it!
Thanks for watching.
Yep these shops pay the high ad rate esty fees and shoot themselves to the top of search. I can believe the really bad products and garbage listings I see at top of the page now
Yeah, it's gotten so bad.
Thanks for these tips. I don't see the link for the skillshare site you mentioned, would you be able to share that again? Thanks
You know what, I completely forgot to interject those into the video. That was a mistake on my part, but if you just do a search on the platform for those topics, you’ll see plenty. I wasn’t picking out any video in particular, for any other reason than they were the first one on the list.