@andyorell2002 wrote:
I've been following this thread for quite a while as like many I had a huge drop on the 18th in impressions. Since last week my impressions have been higher than usual, but my sales and page views have been roughly the same, although maybe slightly lower, although I think this is the time of year.
I have noticed something the past few days which may account for this. I may well be wrong and it may even be something that people have mentioned on here recently that I have not spotted. Anyway, search has changed. I have a few regular things that I look for. An example is Merlin Premier League 94 football stickers, I have been after completing a set of these for a while.
So once a week i type 'Merlin Premier League 94' into the search to see what comes up. Usually I get around 50 results. Today when I tried though I get over 2000 results. Many of which are completely irrelevant. So many of those listings are getting impressions they would not usually get, but not getting page views or sales as I'm not clicking on stuff that does not interest me. Plus the items I actually want to see are buried below a load of irrelevant items so I never actually find them and spend my money.
However when I type in just 'Merlin 94' I only get around 50 results. So a much broader term is giving me a much smaller return. Which surely is the opposite of how it should be. The more details you put into a search term the less it should return, or so common sense would say, but it seems the opposite is true at the moment.
So my theory is they have alterered the way search works this past week. Thus meaning we are seeing higher impressions, but lower page views and sales. I may be completely wrong on that but it is something I have noticed.
I agree with the logic. But it doesn't mean the search has changed for everyone. It could be linked to you, or to the groups of buyers (ie ebay will record what buyers typically end up buying after typing Merlin 94 vs what they typically end up buying after typing Merlin 94 premier league)
Another possibility is the 'categories' section. I do a lot of searching on a different ebay account. Sometimes it forcibly changes the categories (to the right of the search bar). You can just change it back to 'all categories' if you want. I think ebay sometimes notices when a buyer keeps searching and not buying - and thinks you cant find what you want. Conversely ebay has an incredible knowledge/memory of what I do buy and frequently points things out to me (via PL) that I haven't typed in any keywords for, for a few weeks or so.
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