Etsy Guides
Etsy strategy for makers: how a good listing looks, how search and tags work, photos, video, pricing, sections, reviews and traffic.
Straight talk about selling on Etsy, written from work on a real shop rather than theory. How a good listing is built, how search and tags actually behave, what photographs and video do for a product, how to price without copying a competitor, and how to turn a custom skill into something that sells while you sleep.
No hacks and no gurus. Every piece here comes from testing on a live shop and reading the results back from Etsy's own data.
The guides
- What Makes an Etsy Product Sell: Anatomy of a Listing - The promise, the ten images, the video, the price family and the personalisation questions that remove doubt.
- Custom Portrait on Etsy: How to Order Without Guessing - What a buyer should send, what a proof is for, and what a fair turnaround looks like.
- How Etsy Search Works, and Where Rankings Come From - A lot of Etsy SEO guides repeat guesses that sellers pass to each other. Renew your listings at 8pm on a Sunday.
- Etsy Tags That Work: Thirteen Slots, No Wasted Space - Etsy tags are the thirteen short phrases you attach to a listing so that search can match it to what a buyer.
- Etsy Titles: Putting the Strongest Phrase First - Etsy titles can run to 140 characters, and most sellers try to use every one of them. I understand the urge. More.
- Personalised Gift on Etsy: What to Check Before Buying - Buying a personalised gift on Etsy is mostly a matter of reading the listing properly before you pay. The photos and reviews.
- Etsy Christmas SEO: Keywords That Still Work in January - Etsy Christmas SEO is mostly a question of restraint. From early November, gift shoppers type different words into the search bar, and.
- Etsy Holiday Deadlines: Cutoffs Buyers Can Actually Trust - Etsy holiday deadlines usually go wrong in the same way. A seller picks a sensible date in October and writes it in.
- Etsy Christmas Listing Photos That Show the Real Thing - Every December I want my listing photos to look like Christmas. A sprig of fir and a wrapped box beside the frame.
- Etsy Christmas Shop Preparation: A Late Autumn Audit - Etsy Christmas shop preparation is mostly quiet, unglamorous work done in late autumn, before the first gift order lands. You are checking.