Etsy Tips. ErsyRank shows us the rise and fall of rankings

Just wanted to share with you my thoughts on this fantastic article from EtsyRank

The geek in me totally loves how they have used all the great statistics they have to look at how the position of an item in a search category is not fixed, it rises and falls because SEO is more than just the tags and titles we work on.
As Etsy has always told us recency, sales, views and hearts do all to differing extents effect our SEO

This shows very clearly how a sale or a renewal can boost an item all the way to the first page of a search and it depends on other factors as to how quickly those items fall away down the ranking.

As I thought this was such a good article I made a quick announcement video of my reactions to this post

Speed Felting a Needle Felted Snow Leopard Wool Painting

I tried out a new art form the other day 2d needle felting - or wool painting
This is my 2nd ever painting, I hope you all enjoy

I created my own transfer by drawing out my leopard with an iron on transfer pen (I used the sulky one in the link below - affiliate link) and I found it surprisingly easy to use
Then I ironed the image onto a piece of felt to give me a guide of where to felt. Then about 8 hours of stabbing later and this guy appeared

How to needle felt with BenMcFuzzylugs. Adding details to you Easter bunny

Todays how to needle felt tutorial video is showing you how to add details to last weeks Easter bunny

Shading in the ears, tiny detailed eyes, a fluffy bunny tail, and his little snuffly nose - here is how to add them

I think he looks much better with his little eyes and its a great project to improve your detail skills 

Please feel free to share if you make little Easter bunnies 

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Etsy Challenge. One simple change a day to improve your Etsy SEO and your Etsy shop

For the month of April I decided to run a challenge for all of us

In the first video I give out my starting stats from the last month - so HOPEFULLY by the end of the month there will be a nice change.

The point of the challenge is every day we do one little thing that hopefully adds up to a big change

Also sometimes its overwhelming all the work you have to do in your shop - its better to get in the habit of doing one thing every day than trying to do it all at once. Its actually better for SEO to have constant activity - and you dont burn yourself out

Week one challenge is to use EtsyRank to change one listing every day to get it to an A grade 

Dog training tips - March Madness

As some of you know I was creating a dog training video a day for the month of march.
It was a whole load of fun and really had me thinking. Subjects from behavioral terms like explaining the quadrants of learning, to what I feed and other random ramblings - I hope you enjoy

I hope you enjoy these, thank you so much for all your support. I dont know if I will do a video a day again :D but it was well worth it 

If you are interested in more (better) information then check out this book (Im not selling it, its just an affiliate link - which dosent cost you anything) I really enjoyed it