Upgraded my whole listings and my visibility is gone

Anything i did wrong?

 

I used to have 2+ views on my new listings most of the time in the first minutes and often reaching 10+ in the first day. Even once in a while i had 40+ in one hour on random not popular at all listings (was very very suspicious). I decided last week to revamp everything since i have a better set up for my photos and received a better camera. I literally upgraded everything, i changed my username to a better one, better photos, cleaner title, lowered a lot of prices, added back free shipping, lower shipping to US. I relisted everything as sell similar and i took the time to relist them around 10 listings per day on many days. I relisted the same way and at the same times i used to do

 

Now like over 50% of my listings are stucked to 0-1 view and not a single one reached 10. I noticed i lost 0.2% in sale conversion as well. So i worked like a crazy to upgrade everything over 1-2 weeks and i'm punished for it, this is weird

 

I wonder if something i did is punished by the algorythm? Like a username change or ending all our listing to relist all as sell similar? I removed a small logo i used to put on my photos there's no way it was what bringing me lot of views but i wonder... Maybe free shipping cause of higher looking prices...

 

Not sure what i did wrong, i really felt like i upgraded everything. I did put a lot of work, but it won't work having 0-1 view on 50%+ listings. Any thoughts

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Upgraded my whole listings and my visibility is gone

I understand that it's bad to change the name so frequently, but at my defense for the first one i thought i had to because of legal purposes. Now with a bit more experience i see so many top sellers with ''illegal'' names using companies characters with rights, that i don't think it's a problem to do it. I changed to honestraccoon and felt like having to tell i'm honest in the name was weird so i changed it. And both last and this one are very similar reference to the team rocket i mentionned in my previous post. Which i'm not sure it's really good as an image for the pokemon buyers

 

The reality is that i have/had no knowledge in running a business online, i'm a self-taught person, i'm experimenting stuff and learn. My first sale ever was mid july and i had no idea of nothing about how ebay works, selling on the net, shipping, etc. If i have to be hesitant about my name it's better be now than when etablished. I'm clearly doing too much changes overall but its also explained by the fact i feel like it does not sell enough. I understand i don't have a lot of listings compared to the full time sellers, but as said i see weird things going on. Like sellers selling some items at higher prices with better success than my listings as a previous exemple. I listed an item i have the lowest price of ebay for canadians to experiment, at 2.25$, and seen someone sold for 3.70$ yesterday, same condition, i see that quite often

 

Though everytime i'm doing a change i either upgrade or doing a mistake and learn, so i'm not sure it's that bad

 

Stop waisting your time on this forum and go actually do it, come back and report in 3 to 6 months from now, not before

 

I understand what you mean. But at the same i learned in 2 months what i would have learned in maybe one year or two without being active in here. That's how i learn and progress, i learn from others and i like to share my experience, i'm the kind of person who would need an open blog

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