Does a copyright violation affect search rankings?

[CH1N3S3_W@RR103]

Hi,

I had a listing up for a while and it was getting tons of traffic and I was making a bunch of sales; however, I soon ran out of stock and the listing was automatically taken down.

Shortly after, I got a copyright violation on an unrelated item. I re-stock on my product, put the listing back up and now I get maybe 10% of the traffic and sales I did before.

Any reasons why this could be happening? The listing is the exact same as before.

Thanks

[vogeltron]

Would be careful if you get more than like 1 or two policy violations in like a 90 day period you account can be restricted/limited. Yes, it does affect your policy compliance which is somehow calculated into their method of madness for who comes up first in the search engine.

[rsot]

Could be your competition has upped its game to compete and beat you out too?

[Cornelius]

Ya, running out of stock is a bad thing

I was selling an item that costed me $1 10x a day for $8
Took it down someone that I compete with other items on decided to start selling the same item as I.
Now, were in direct competition - I lost my Top Rated Seller last month but I qualify for it this coming month (Thank God)
So, until the 20th next month I don't expect to make much money.

Though, come March I'm gonna start selling 1 listing super cheap as the cost of the product has cut in half.

[Ebayorbust]

I'm not sure if policy compliance affects your search ranking. There are a load of factors that do but not sure if this is one of them.

Could it not just be you are experiencing a downturn in trade? A lot of folk have found the last few weeks post-Xmas fairly lean.