Store Score Team
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Etsy Ads and Your Price Floor: The Break-Even Math Before You Turn a Campaign On
Etsy’s own Ads dashboard tells you exactly two numbers you need for this: Spend and Revenue, sitting right next to each other in Shop Manager under Marketing → Etsy Ads. Divide the first by the second and most sellers never…
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Does Etsy’s Star Seller Badge Affect Search Rank? What’s Confirmed vs. What Isn’t
Etsy has never published a statement saying the Star Seller badge itself moves a listing up in search results — and sellers who lose it mid-quarter often see no visible change in their own search position at all. What Etsy…
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Scaling a Ceramics and Pottery Business Beyond Etsy: A Realistic Roadmap
A potter selling mugs and bowls on Etsy hits a ceiling the average jewelry or print seller never does: the kiln. A standard home-studio electric kiln fires maybe twice a week, holds somewhere around 40 to 60 mid-sized mugs per…
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Where to Put Your Etsy Processing Time So Buyers Actually See It Before They Buy
Etsy already knows a shop’s processing time — the seller entered it, it drives the ship-by date on every order, and it’s one of the four inputs behind the Star Seller badge. What Etsy doesn’t do is put that number…
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How to Reprice Etsy Listings When Material Costs Spike (Without Losing the Ranking You Already Built)
Silver spot price moved from roughly $65.83 an ounce on September 3, 2026 to $67.18 an ounce on September 18, 2026 — about 2% in two weeks, and gold has climbed a similar amount over the same stretch. A seller…
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Etsy Listings on Google Shopping: The Free Channel, the Paid One, and What Each Actually Costs You
Every Etsy listing that’s active, in stock, and meeting Etsy’s basic policy requirements is already eligible to show up for free in Google’s Shopping results — no Merchant Center account, no feed to configure, no toggle to switch on. That’s…
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Big Cartel vs. Shopify for an Etsy Seller’s Second Storefront: The Real Monthly Math at Three Revenue Levels
Most “Etsy vs. build your own site” advice treats the decision as one fork in the road: stay on Etsy, or leave for Shopify. In practice, the seller who’s actually facing this decision this week isn’t leaving Etsy at all…
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Should You Put the Price on Your Etsy Thumbnail? What Overlays Actually Cost You
Etsy already prints the price under every thumbnail it shows a shopper — in search results, in the shop grid, in a buyer’s favorites list, in cart. That number is there before a single click. So when a seller adds…