I’ve had one listing up for a couple weeks, it got about 1.7k views on Pinterest but maybe 5 on Etsy. The second listing is all but dead in the water, and I’m getting no traction towards my page. I feel like I’ve looked into SEO and stuff, but it’s just not translating. I know I won’t get many (if any sales) this early, but I just want traction at the very least!
I'm strictly digital and selling in a unique niche. Planning on cutting back on advertising as I build my library of products. Right now sitting at about 90 items total.
Started my digital wall art shop a month ago. Currently at 20 listings, running $1/day Etsy Ads, but Etsy has only spent $0.43 in 10 days.
Any experienced Etsy sellers what am I doing wrong? Is this normal for the first month or should I change something
I’ve been posting new listings consistently on this account for the whole month of July I ended up getting my first sale first week of August and this is how many sales I’ve got since the beginning of August. I don’t advertise on social media the only thing I’ve been using is ChatGPT and alure for help w listing titles, tags, etc. I also use alure to make videos for my listings. Yesterday I got my first view.
All this is to say don’t give up on ur shop just continue to be consistent and research research research!!! Consistency pays off.
If anyone have anymore tips for me to continue I’m open to the help.
I kept adding new listings and ran ads, but there are barely 2-3 clicks a day. Yesterday I was checking Marketplace Insights and looking for the search volume for my keywords when I found out that none of my listings are indexed on those keywords.
I have used all the relevant keywords in my listing content and titles have the main keyword then why is this happening?
I recently hit 30 sales in my Etsy shop, which honestly made me really happy — especially since I’m still learning and figuring out what works.
But now I think I may have made a mistake with some of my listing images.
I sell mostly Notion templates, and lately I’ve been redesigning some of my first listing images to look cleaner, more minimal and more “premium/editorial.”
The older thumbnails were much more product-focused: bigger headlines, more visible features, icons, stronger contrast, and a clearer view of what the template actually does.
The newer ones look prettier to me, but I’ve started wondering if they’re too aesthetic and not clear enough when seen as a small Etsy search thumbnail.
What’s interesting is that some of my listings that still use the older, more commercial/feature-focused style continue to get occasional sales.
So I’d really love some outside opinions:
If you were shopping for a Notion template, which style would you be more likely to click on — the cleaner/minimal style or the more detailed/product-focused style?
And when you look at my shop as a whole, are there any first images that immediately feel unclear, too empty, too busy, or simply not clickable?
Shop link for context:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Livoie
I’m genuinely happy with reaching 30 sales, so this isn’t a “why am I getting no sales?” post. 😄 I’m mainly trying to understand what I should improve before I redesign the rest of my shop.
Please don’t worry about being nice — constructive criticism is exactly what I’m looking for, especially about the thumbnails/first listing images.
I opened Etsy shop about 3 months now, selling digital PNG designs, I started with Christian PNG then recently switched to fall and Christian design based on the current hype. I now have around 70 active listings, but my traffic is extremely low.
This past week, I received only 19 views and 10 visits. On many days, I get fewer than five views. I have researched keywords, used all 13 tags, added multiple mockups, completed my descriptions, and tried creating designs based on currently popular designs.
I understand that a newer shop takes time to grow, but 10 visits across 70 listings in one week feels unusually low. I’m unsure whether the main problem is my SEO, thumbnails, product demand, competition, or simply the age of my shop.
For anyone experienced with digital downloads:
I received an email asking about one of my digital downloads and i directed the person to my Etsy shop to purchase and they said they would but then I got an email saying my esty shop got an order but it came from the same email as that person I didn't click on anything because its fishy and there's no sales on my Etsy shop yet.
Been running my shop with just 9 listings and wanted to share where I’m at:
**•** 52,610 views
**•** 30,439 visits
**•** 374 orders
**•** £7,902.56 revenue (all time)
Conversion rate is sitting around 1.2% which I think is decent, but growth has plateaued. I’m trying to figure out the smartest next move — should I be:
**1.** Adding more listings/variations, or doubling down on optimizing my existing 9?
**2.** Running ads, or focusing on organic/SEO?
**3.** Diversifying products, or going deeper into what’s already working?
Would love to hear from anyone who’s scaled past this stage — what actually moved the needle for you? Happy to share more details (platform, niche, pricing) if it helps people give better advice.
Hello everyone! I’m new to selling digital products on Etsy.
I’ve been following a lot of advice from YouTube and here on Reddit. I’ve worked on SEO-friendly titles and tags, checked bestseller listings to compare their titles and descriptions, and tried to optimize my listings as much as possible.
I’ve also posted all my products on Pinterest. I’m starting to get some visits and clicks from Pinterest day by day, but I still haven’t made a single sale.
What’s more, I haven’t had any visits to my Etsy shop for the last two days.
I know it takes time to get the first sale, but I’m wondering if there’s something wrong with my shop or listings.
What do you think I might be missing?
Which category should I focus ?
Thank you for all replies.
Hi guys, this is my progress so far 3 months into my Etsy journey. I sell a niche digital product and so far it looks like its got traction but I feel like I'm still missing out on so much more.
I need some help and advice if some of you are willing to share:
How can I potentially go to procuring more orders per day/month?
Is social media really worth it? If so should I start advertising my products on X and instagram by building/posting content there?
What other useful advice can you give to an aspiring seller to potentially break into the next level?
Thank you for your time and feedback 😊
And now I wonder if by any means we can connect lovable to Etsy to create the listings.
Well, I had a cute coloring pages store on Etsy an year ago and I was actually making a few sales and taking some money home. But the whole listing process was HARD. I ended up having a burnout in the end because I was also managing being a single mom and having a full time job.
I wanted to know if anyone ever tried to have some kind of app connected to Etsy that helped us streamline the workflow or not. I am actually thinking about creating one but I’m not sure this is even allowed by them 🙃
For example, I now have my own app for my products and I created in the admin a connector to Pinterest that allows connecting another app with an API. Maybe something like this would also work for Etsy?
If so, which features would a app need to be useful for you?
I’m just really brainstorming here, sorry!! And thank you for reading!!
Hi! This is where i’m from now, i would have love to get some advice to what to improve to my shop, i been scrolling this Reddit for the past week and i already found some precious gems !
I have set up a Pinterest, a TikTok and even a X acccount to promote my product, but i would love to know what i can do better to make my listing attracting for the people who browse my shop.
I started simply with album poster and some sell, but i really love to create different type of product
I don’t post so much listing because i create everything from A to z which take plenty of time,
Currently I’m turning into Halloween type of digital product, i put it alot of time and i really enjoy to do it
I have some project in preparation, i could turn around like 2 listing per week is this enough? Or should i do more ?
Thanks for your future advice and your time 🖤
Hi everyone! I'm just curious, for those willing to share... what are your profit margins?
When I started on Etsy, I failed to realize just how much revenue goes back into the operating expenses of the business. It's totally fine—just a surprise for me as a new business owner! I sell digital wall art (no AI), and my profit margins right now are approximately 40% after all of the Etsy platform fees, advertising, and design software costs, etc.
Here's a detailed breakdown of my costs from the previous month, in case anyone is interested:
~6.5% - transaction fees
~3.5% - listing fees
~6% - processing fees
~33% - advertising (Etsy ads)
~10% - COGS/off-platform expenses: design software, marketing materials, etc.
(It's definitely a bit of a sticker shock when you have $1,300 in revenue in a month, but only bring home $520 of that, for example! 😂)
I'm just curious to hear what's normal for people. 🙂
Physical therapist here 👋 Im working as many hours as physically possible around my kids schedules and still living pay check to pay check. I want to make some passive income and thinking about selling on etsy, here are some of my ideas - can you give me suggestions or is it even worth my time??? i'm new to this space and not sure what sells
Home exercise programs
New Home Health Survival Guide
Home Health Caseload, Mileage & Income Spreadsheet
Home Health Documentation Phrase & Example Guide
skeleton or anatomy wall art for clinics
knee/ hip rehab guides
ect ect
Hello there. So I am selling posters of music, and i often get deletion because of violations of copyrights of artists. Yet, there are many many who sell them and get many reviews and orders and I don't know how they do it. If you know something that would help me or enlighten me please don't hesitate
Hello,
In the last couple of years I've taken some nice photos as a hobby and I wanted to turn them into some passive income, so I've opened an Etsy shop.
I spent a few good hours into making it as professional as I could, but it doesn't really seem to work.
I'm using printify and I know a free shipping option would be welcomed and maybe I'll change this in the future, but for now I don't really want to take this risk.
I activated ads for $1 per day with no click, but at least I've seen 31 views in the last 2 days, so as long as there's no click I can get a glimpse on what shows the most. I got a favorited item though.
My question is this: can my posts gain some attention at least from a few people? I mean could be someone interested in buying any of these? I think my titles and tags aren't the best but also not the worst. I also plan to upload the digital version of every photo.
My link: https://photomarian.etsy.com
Waiting for any tip. Thank you!
Etsy reported Q2 on August 3rd and I went through the shareholder letter and the earnings call because nobody here ever does and the numbers explain a lot of what people complain about in this sub daily.
The headline is good. Marketplace GMS hit $2.6 billion, up 7.5% year over year, third consecutive growing quarter. Etsy is doing fine.
Then you look at the composition.
Active sellers grew 5.9% to 5.7 million. Active buyers declined 0.4% to 87.0 million. GMS per active buyer rose 2.8% to $124 on a trailing twelve month basis.
Read that again slowly. The marketplace grew because the existing buyers each spent about 3% more, not because more people showed up. Meanwhile roughly 300,000 additional sellers joined the pool competing for those same buyers.
If your views are down this year and you've been blaming the algorithm, this is at least part of your answer. There is measurably more supply chasing a buyer pool that did not grow. That is not a bug in your listings. It's arithmetic, and it's happening to everyone at once.
The part that got no coverage
On the earnings call, management said agentic traffic is currently under 1% of Etsy's total traffic, but that it carries higher purchase intent and a higher average order value than regular traffic.
Agentic traffic means people arriving through AI assistants rather than through Etsy search or Google. It's tiny right now. It's also the only traffic source they described as improving in quality rather than volume, and Etsy is already live with checkout through Google's protocol and testing conversational shopping through its Gifting Assistant.
I'm not telling anyone to chase this. Under 1% is under 1%. But it's the first channel in years where the composition of your listing text matters more than your position in a ranked list, because an assistant reads your description to decide whether you match a described need. If you've been writing titles as keyword strings, that stops working the moment the reader is parsing meaning instead of matching tokens.
Where the marketing money is going
They shifted spend toward social and streaming and reported a fivefold increase in visits from millennial and Gen Z audiences on YouTube and TikTok. Buyer cohorts stabilized and grew sequentially for the first time since 2023.
So the incoming buyers skew younger than the traditional Etsy base. Management noted younger buyers have lower near-term lifetime value but higher growth rates. Whether that helps you depends entirely on whether your product reads as relevant to a 24 year old.
The restructuring
Etsy cut about 12% of its marketplace workforce on August 3rd, roughly 220 people, while simultaneously raising full year guidance and authorizing a new $2 billion buyback. They also closed the Depop sale to eBay for about $1.4 billion at the end of July.
Talent is being redirected toward machine learning and customer operations. The CEO said explicitly that the largest AI opportunity is on the marketplace itself, in buyer understanding, inventory understanding, and matching.
Translation for sellers: search and recommendations are going to keep changing, and the direction is toward a system that tries to understand what your item actually is rather than what keywords you stuffed into the title. Whether that helps or hurts you depends on how honestly your listing describes your product.
What I take from it
The buyers who are already here are spending slightly more each year. New ones are not arriving in numbers. The seller count keeps climbing. In a market like that, average listings get squeezed hardest, because there is nothing to distinguish them when supply grows and demand doesn't.
The counterweight is that Etsy is spending its engineering budget on matching. A system that gets better at understanding what an item is rewards specific, honest, well-described products and punishes generic ones. That's the opposite of the last decade, where volume and keyword coverage won.
I'd rather have five listings a matching system can confidently place than fifty it has to guess about. That is the strategy the filing implies whether or not anyone at Etsy would phrase it that way.