Mulitple items listed with similar specifics, lowered visibility experiment | Selling

ricarmic · 2023-12-03T21:00:04.946000Z

You may recall discussion in thread(s) a while ago and the original blog (video) where it was pointed out that the search algorithm demotes items that have similar item specifics listed at about the same time. I generally sell stuff that has the same item specifics (items of different sizes/counts for example) and this most certainly was observable in terms of view counts. I mentioned in a different thread that generally the most views are on the most expensive item, regardless whether it was listed first, last or in the middle and the rest have relatively very few views at least until the final hours. So I've embarked on an experiment. For what I sell, there are a lot of optional item specifics that really I don't think matter, an example would be the era they were issued, colour or something else, and I've almost never used them. However I've noticed that I can pick some optional specifics (despite the valuelessness they have in my opinion) and put values in to make them look "different" perhaps to the bots, from the other items, at least that's the hope. I'll watch the views closely and report back when I have news. If others have already done this experiment, I'd be interested to know observations/results.

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