Lower Views Today; Comparing Stats to Last Year

During the New Normal I was reaching 100 views from Etsy search at about 2:11 pm.  Today near 2 pm I have only 89.  So I will not be reaching even that level.

This type of drop didn't happen last fall, november & december. It was steady high views the entire time.  With steady sales.

Comparing the past 7 days to the same time last year my shop dashboard says:

673 fewer views
9 fewer orders
$172 less revenue

And comparing the past 30 days to the same time last year my shop dashboard says:

1,691 less views
18 less orders
$144 less revenue

The difference in  views for the past 7 days and past 30 days is actually greater because when I was posting listings on another site at the end of last month it was giving me many artificial "bot" views.

So that says things are slower in the past week more so than in the past 30 days.
That the Christmas shopping season is off to a slower start?

Drop in Views

Here at noon only 69 views from Etsy search!  13 from Google.  267 total.  1 small plate sale.

Yesterday's Views

I ended with 316 views from Etsy search.  But total views were only in the 800's.  And 69 Google views.  That was decent.  Not as many as I'd like though.

My views from Etsy search were partly due to my Burberry trench coat being popular.  Views have not come to where they were the first half of the year.

And my Etsy search views ended at many more than I thought.  It picked up in the evening and at night.
I was only at the New Normal at 12:30.  So I thought I'd end the day around 250 or so.

And only 1 small tea cup sale.

It is not looking like it will be a good Christmas season.  I think I will make about 2K/month.  

Back to the New Normal

For today at least my views from Etsy search are back to the new normal.  Only 83 of them at 12 noon. One small tea cup sale, of course.

I just got back from the laundromat and the thrift store and I found 10 nice vintage Hallmark Christmas ornaments, a beautiful salt shaker set from Russian, an old, small tole tray and some books.

Well off to my outdoor and indoor work.

Slow sales

For having more than 1,000 items in my shop and having donated so much cash just in the past twelve  months, I barely sell anything.  Just tea cups here and there.  So I should just go to the tithing only.  I had a good 13 months. It is looking like 2014 will be much slower.  More like sept & october.

The Christmas shopping season so far

If november is a start to the Christmas shopping season, my shop is noticeably slower than last year. Views from Etsy search are better than last month, but google views, order and revenue are down.

It is looking like it will be noticeably slower than last year.  Uh oh.

Views (cont); Survivor Night

Well I finished yesterday with 315 views from Etsy search.  1 sale and 2 sales that will be canceled.

Today views have dropped back down.  Here about 8 am only 50 views from Etsy search.  I was around 90 during my recent uptick in views.

I am about to go do an early load of laundry.  Then some work outside.  Some work inside. Then pack & ship my orders.

I am looking forward to tonight.....it's Survivor night.  Although it is not that a good of a season.  It is still somewhat entertaining and interesting to watch.  They really don't have characters on their this season like in just about all of the past seasons. I was not a fan of Rupert.  So I didn't really care that he left early.  I was surprised that he seems so mean.  I thought everyone liked him because he was some nice guy on the show.  But it showed this season that he has some meanness and anger to him.

Off to work.

Low Google views

Here at nearly 5:30 pm I have only 27 views from Google search.  Disappointing.  I was having that many by noon for the first quarter of the year.

I did reach 200 views from Etsy search about 4:30.  So that's good. No sales today.  I should not have paid the extra 10% today, but I did.  I have made less money in the past 7 days and past 30 days than I did last year.

Stop listing new things.  Just sell what I sell.

High Views at Noon!

Here at 12 noon actual time I have 131 views from Etsy search. 17 from Google and 344 total.

It is good to see that google views are at least in the teens at noon.  Not as good as the first quarter of the year though when they'd be in the 20's-40's with a high of 67.

Off to work to pack and ship my orders.

100 Views!

I have already made it to 100 views from Etsy search.  Here at 8:49 am I have 102.  A very good sign.

3 consecutive days of high views is good to see.  It is the first week of the month though.  And the month before Christmas.  So I will take it a day at a time.  And see what next yaer holds when the time comes.  I am not sure it will be high views the first 4 months of last year like it was the past year.

High Views today

It is good to see that here at 7:46 I have already 93 views from Etsy search.  If I were to count the views in the 11 o'clock hour, I would have over 100 already.  Good to see!  Encouraging!

I guess Christmas shopping is starting? Or changes on Etsy were corrected? Or just more people shopping on Etsy now?  It is a big change from most of sept, that's for sure.

Total views yesterday were only 890.  With having more than 340 views from Etsy search and less than 1,000 total views is not good.  I believe it is partly due to the new listing page and also from lost google views.  In march I had 37,000 total views.  That is more than 1,000 per day.

For october I had over 27,000.  Wow.  10,000 less views in one month.

Today I have orders to pack & ship. I want to find the green horse.

Yesterday's views

Well I ended yesterday at 12 midnight with 343 views from Etsy search. That is a very good sign. That is encouraging.  Only 1 small sale though.  One other sale of tea cups was to a lady who I reserved them for her a month ago.

See how tomorrow goes.  I still have orders to pack & ship and want to take some pics and list new things.

Off to bed.

300 views. Again

Here at 10:27 I have 303 views from Etsy search.  Counting the views from the 11 o'clock hour that is 330 views for the day.

In a half hour I will have what I consider my total views for the day.

300 Views

Here at 8:53 pm I have 273 views from Etsy search.  Counting the 27 views from the 11 o'clock hour last night I have 300 views for the day. Still 2 hours to go, I am thinking, for now.

Tomorrow or some time this week I still start to calculate my views by the actual time.  Instead of considering the hour in time change.

200 Views. Again.

So here at 4:46 pm actual time I have 202 views from Etsy search. That would be 229 total views for the day counting the views from the 11 o'clock hour.

200 Views

So it is another day of high views.  Here at what would be 5 pm I have 189 views from Etsy search.  And counting the views from that 11 o'clock hour that would be 216.  I reached 200 views from Etsy search after 4 pm.   The lady followed through and bought the 4 tea cups.

Views at Noon

Here at 11 am, what I consider noon, for now, because of the time change, I have 97 views from Etsy search and that would be 124 counting the 11 o'clock hour last night.

Only 11 from Google.  Maybe repeating words in my titles has affected my google views? I don't have much duplicate content.  I know I don't really have descriptions either.

I am about to have some lunch.  Then try to get my order packed today.

Views are still high

Here at what would be 10:17, but really only 9:17 because of the time change, I have 76 views from Etsy search.  And counting the 27 views from the 11 o'clock hour I have 103.  Good to see!  I made small sale over night too.

I have 9 views from google.

I finished yesterday with 413 views from Etsy search.  Because of the extra hour from the time change.

My high views yesterday weren't from any one item getting alot of views. My faux fur coat that I have listed in the past month got 11 views from search, but most of the search views I got on a variety of items.  That was another good sign.

I want to get all my orders packed & shipped today. It is a sunny morning. I'd like to get some pics taken.

Off to work.

Nearly 400 views!

Here at 11:01 pm, which is what I consider the full day since the clocks were turned back this morning, I have 386 views from Etsy search!  Easily the most in a long time.  Probably since june or july or earlier.  I think over the summer my high might have been in the 370's.  So it might have been since the spring when I last had 386.

58 views from Google.

Total views are 1,119.  That is more like the way it was the first half of the year.

As far as sales & revenue go, I am slightly ahead of the first 3 days of last november.
Although for october I had 8 less orders and $200 less revenue than last october.

I have nearly 190 less views from Google in the first 3 days of '13 compared to '12.  Wow.

Tomorrow will be a busy day.  I have a number orders to pack & ship. Including my vintage Pope John Paul II plaster relief photo that I sold on ebay.  Finally.  It was one of the first things I listed in my vintage Etsy shop 3 years ago in january.  So I finally decided to try it on ebay and I sold it on the 3rd or 4th listing.
But.....I sold it with free shipping and only had one bid.  And it was a man from across the country who bought it.  So I will hopefully be able to get it there safely for as little cost as I can.

Almost time for bed.  And I can't find the green horse. I will have to cancel that one.

300 Views

I just reached 300 views from Etsy search here at 7:49.  That would be 8:49 before the time change.  Total views are high, too, at 907.  This is more like the way it was the first 7 months of the year.

Only 44 from Google.