Items Not Showing Up In Searches
Hey everyone,
I just tried searching a bunch of my own listings tonight and determined that only about 60% of the higher value ones I searched with exact words do not show up in searches. This appears to be a problem here and there for others as well. Anyone aware of why this would be the case? I list on .com, and have searching issues with both .com and .ca
Thanks!
4 comments
reallynicestamps
·2 years agoI found only four items with that brand name on dotCOM, and yours was #3.
My standard Search is Highest Price First and 25 items per page.
And the same four items are on dotCA.
So I don't understand how your item could be anywhere but on the first page.
How many items are you seeing?
milezero
·2 years agoI'm having exactly the same problem: selling an item with an unusual and unique brand name "Purifiner", listed on eBay.ca with shipping to USA enabled. Listing shows up first in search results on eBay.ca, but doesn't even appear on the first page of results on eBay.com
Spoke to eBay Support rep. and they have no explanation, though they sure tried to find something!
The obvious conclusion is that some kind of covert weighting is happening. When a potential buyer searches for an exact term and that doesn't show up in the search results something is going on.
flipistics
·2 years agoThis thread will probably be locked due to age (it's best to start a new thread rather than add to an old one), but how long was the item listed before you searched for it?
pjcdn2005
·2 years agoOnce I put Purifiner in brackets, your listing showed in first place on .com with best match. But when I first searched for your listing with Purifiner, there were thousands of results but with Purifier in the title. I had to click on ' search instead for Purifiner.' It's annoying when it assumes that I don't know what I'm looking for