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Etsy listing and shop overview: brand identity, listing health and growth habits

Sir Zafar's Class 14 on Etsy brand identity (banner, logo, shop name), what to do when a listing gets no views, using search terms as your pillars, sharing every listing, and the shop rating and conversion benchmarks.

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This whole document is from Class 14 of the Etsy module, Complete Listing and Shop Overview, taught by Sir Zafar.

If you are not doing proper SEO, then neither ads nor ranking will be able to get you a sale.1

Brand identity

  • Banner and logo: your Etsy shop's banner and logo are its brand identity. They are your theme, and your listings follow that same theme.
  • Logo: a logo is only an icon or text. It does not carry a lot of matter.
  • Shop name: keep it one word, and a name that is easy to remember.
  • Branding everywhere: branding is not only for ranking on Etsy. Do it for every place you appear. The color theme and color logic, every single thing matters.1

Listing health: when views do not come

If views are not coming, your SEO is not good.1

  1. After you publish a listing, wait 2 to 3 weeks.
  2. If it does not get even 10 views in that time, change the title, tags and description.
  3. If views still do not come after that, redo everything: title, tags, description, price and image.
  4. If views still do not come, delete the listing.1

If visits are low, the problem is in the title.1

Negative feedback on a listing

If a listing gets negative feedback, double your listings per day and start sharing. Do not let the shop go dead.1

Search terms are your pillars

Take every keyword that shows up in your shop's search terms into one sheet. Target those words and make new listings for them. The keywords that show in your search terms are your pillars.1

Share every listing

  • Whatever you list, you must share it on social media, and above all you must share it on Pinterest.
  • Run your social accounts and your Etsy account in separate browsers.1

Shop health numbers

Sir Zafar's benchmarks for a healthy shop:1

MetricBenchmark
Shop ratingNever below 4
Conversion rate3 to 5%
Conversion rate below 3Bad, needs fixing

Class infographic

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Footnotes

  1. iSkills Quick Skills (Etsy) Class 14 notes, Complete Listing and Shop Overview, taught by Sir Zafar. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

More in this chapter4

  1. LessonEtsy SEO: the ranking formula, keyword layering, and writing the title, tags and descriptionSir Zakria Afzal's Etsy SEO class, the visibility plus clicks plus sales ranking formula, layering low, mid and high competition keywords, and building the title, 13 tags and description from the top 10 competitors with ChatGPT.Read lesson
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Creating an Etsy listing, from final SEO to publish

Sir Zakria Afzal's Listing Creation class, finalizing the title, description and tags, the order to pick tags in, and each step of building the listing from photos to price, plus shop sections.

Etsy listing and sales: improve images, create templates and publish

Sir Zafar's Class 15 on reviewing listings that get views but no sales, improving images and copy, making Canva templates, choosing a category and publishing products.