@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:
My observations/decrease in sales are directly tied to the Category IS changes, when they were implemented and how search NOW works. My decrease in traffic matches what other sellers selling OOAK/Antique/Mixed Lot listings are reporting on both sites. I didn't personally change anything I was doing. It has also made creating listings much more difficult because categories that were once available are now MIA. "Kinda close" has become the new normal. (Which replicates what buyers/anyone searching is now seeing. Garbled results)
In business, this was the recurring hazard of having "too many balls in the air" at a time. However skillfully juggled, you tend to spend more time keeping everything in flight, and not enough getting it all handed off, and closer to going out the door.
Perhaps not the best analogy, but we all saw a lot of changes - and changes upon changes upon changes - in Search via Item Spec overhauls throughout the year. In the media categories, I am still finding Format specs I know I updated last Spring (or previously) that I had to revisit because somewhere along the way someone had quietly tweaked the syntax of field or list data. As Lotz notes, in many cases, "kinda close" was now my best (or only) fit for what was once "spot on" (e.g. the Release Year of the Production vs. the Product, the generally useless MPN, etc, etc.).
Top of my wishlist for the New Year is that these sweeping Item Spec revamps and rolling tweaks will finally get locked down and stabilize*...at least for awhile, or long enough for Sellers to derive some bottom line benefit.
* ...always keeping in mind, for a sense of perspective, that there is a larger world out there continuing to go through its own massive juggling act...
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