Indexing

[ashelizabeth]

I have a new stealth running, only on the 4th day now but I just realized my listings aren't indexed. How long has this taken in your experience? Should I delete them and relist, or wait and see? I currently only have 9 listings.

[hatim7811]

usually a shop get indexed between 3h and one day if it's not it will get deactivated!

[Bigblackdog]

Probably a silly question - what is indexed?

[Pandoras_box]

Originally Posted by ashelizabeth

I have a new stealth running, only on the 4th day now but I just realized my listings aren't indexed. How long has this taken in your experience? Should I delete them and relist, or wait and see? I currently only have 9 listings.

Are these 9 listings of the same item? If yes, you may be under penalty for duplicate listing.
Are you below standard or have you recently gotten TRS?
Have you had a few listings taken down recently?
How did you know it is not indexing?
Has it got views? What about impressions?
Does the item command a lot of traffic?
Is there a lot of competition? E.g. "iPhone cases."

Is your title something to envy and are the words in the right case?

What about description, price and photos?

If you can't be bothered to check all these, and this item is under £10 just setup up a three days auction and see how that fares.

[Pandoras_box]

Originally Posted by Bigblackdog

Probably a silly question - what is indexed?

Nothing silly about it.

Indexing is when a search engine organises information in anticipation for a query form users that may need that information.

A closely related but mistaken term is Search Placement

Every time you search Google, Bing eBay or Amazon, you get results because they had been indexed (stored into the website's database)

The order in which results are displaced is called Search Placement ( i.e Peter, Paul, Paula, Pamela, etc) This order is usually determined by merit and a few other things.

You can get indexed without being assigned a place on the search result. This indicates some penalty.
You can't get search placement without first being indexed.


Sometimes, when users think they've not been indexed, they have, but their position would be far down the search results, it would seem they're not indexed. On eBay, you can take a look at your traffic details to know what's happening behind the scene.

[Bigblackdog]

Thank you - makes sense now

[Khaleesi]

Did you make one listing and then just copy it 8 times? That would be your issue. I say delete and make individual listings.

[ashelizabeth]

They are all separate different items and were listed individually. They aren't anything I've sold before. New photos, new phone, data wiped, all of that.
It is a brand new account not linked to my others which aren't below standard themselves, so that shouldn't be the issue. No listings have been taken down. There's no trademark infringement going on in my products and they don't go against TOUs.

You can tell it's not indexed by doing a search of your product in your own search bar in your shop. Mine comes up with no results. Plus, I am getting zero views or impressions.

Not sure what to do. Still not indexed as of today. Bank account linked just fine, everything else seems fine but my listings will not index.

[prodigyace]

Originally Posted by ashelizabeth

They are all separate different items and were listed individually. They aren't anything I've sold before. New photos, new phone, data wiped, all of that.
It is a brand new account not linked to my others which aren't below standard themselves, so that shouldn't be the issue. No listings have been taken down. There's no trademark infringement going on in my products and they don't go against TOUs.

You can tell it's not indexed by doing a search of your product in your own search bar in your shop. Mine comes up with no results. Plus, I am getting zero views or impressions.

Not sure what to do. Still not indexed as of today. Bank account linked just fine, everything else seems fine but my listings will not index.

So just to confirm, did you copy the Ebay ID, and paste it on the main ebay.com page search bar, and nothing came up?

[ashelizabeth]

Originally Posted by prodigyace

So just to confirm, did you copy the Ebay ID, and paste it on the main ebay.com page search bar, and nothing came up?

Sorry, is there a translation of doing this but for Etsy not Ebay? Etsy is where I'm having the issue.

[ashelizabeth]

Ok, earlier today I deleted and relisted what I already had up. They are finally indexed!

[Kingfisher]

This is a Etsy thread not eBay y’all!