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Etsy touted a “retrieval engine” called XWalk that improves search results, reminiscent of eBay’s Cassini search engine. In its 2nd-quarter earnings announcement, Etsy stated: “We continued to improve our search capabilities by leveraging the engagement […]
Sales on the Etsy marketplace grew 144% to $2.9 billion in the first three months of 2021. Sales including Reverb grew 132% and revenue 141%. In what may be news to sellers, Etsy said it […]
Etsy added new categories under Face Mask Accessories; Shelving; and Drink Flight barware, which was part of an update to categories and product attributes it launched this month. The marketplace explained that shoppers use categories […]
Etsy added provisions to its Search & Advertisement Ranking Disclosures policy on September 15th: Frequency Capping: to limit the number of times the same listing or shop appears at the top of results for a […]
On January 31, 2018, eBay announced its plans to take over payments and explained: “Most sellers can expect their costs of payments processing to be reduced after they transition to eBay’s intermediated payments model, and […]
Etsy published two new posts on its Seller Handbook, one offering guidance on search, the other on Promoted Listing ads. In March 18th’s “Your Search Questions, Answered,” Etsy published answers to search questions from Sam […]
Etsy has begun rolling out a new search analytics tool for sellers to provide them with insight into how their listings perform in search; note that Etsy is keeping the existing Stats feature. Etsy said […]
Etsy is readying a search analytics tool for sellers along with other resources it will launch in the coming months to support sellers. It also released today a new guide called the Ultimate Guide to […]
Etsy continues to test ways to highlight sales taking place on its marketplace. Just as rival eBay encourages its sellers to run sales through Promotions Manager (and formerly Markdown Manager), Etsy now offers individual sellers […]
Etsy launched new tools on August 1st that allow sellers run and manage sales and coupons for their Etsy shops, and as of Tuesday, shoppers can search for sales on Etsy with a new “on […]