Store Score Team
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Etsy’s $6 Shipping Threshold and $35 Free Shipping Guarantee: How to Price for Both
Etsy runs two separate shipping-price rules through its US search ranking at the same time, and most sellers only know about one of them. The older, more famous one is the Free Shipping Guarantee: enable it, hit $35 on an…
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Etsy Search Cannibalization: When Your Own Listings Compete for the Same Keywords
Etsy’s own Search, Advertisement & Recommendation Ranking Disclosures name “frequency capping” as one of the mechanics behind search results — a limit on how often the same shop’s listings can occupy the top of results for a given keyword. Point…
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Not On The High Street for UK Etsy Sellers: What a 25% Commission Actually Does to Your Margin
Not On The High Street charges partners a one-off joining fee plus a commission on every sale — commonly reported at £199 + VAT to join and 25% commission per sale, with no listing fees and no annual renewal (Not…
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Etsy’s Featured Listings Grid: How to Choose the 4 Items Buyers See Before They Scroll
Every free Etsy shop gets exactly four featured-listing slots at the top of Shop Home, and Etsy will happily let a seller queue up dozens more behind them without ever explaining why that matters. Those four slots are the first…
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How to Price a Rush Order Fee on Etsy (A Framework That Actually Covers What Rushing Costs You)
Etsy has no rush-order fee, no expedited-processing charge, and no built-in mechanism for a seller to bill extra for jumping the queue. Search the Seller Handbook and the closest you’ll find is the Processing Time field — a plain settings…
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Etsy Listings on Google: Why Some Show Up in Search and Others Never Will
Etsy’s own seller handbook draws a hard line between the two search systems a listing lives in: “these optimizations are very similar to those recommended for Etsy Search, with a few extra considerations” for Google, Bing, and other external engines…
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Google Shopping for Handmade Sellers: Getting Your Own Site’s Products Listed for Free
Google Merchant Center opts every new account into free product listings by default, and those listings can surface across Search, Images, Lens, YouTube, and the Shopping tab at no cost per click, per impression, or per sale — a structurally…
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How to Present an Etsy Shop That Sells Both Made-to-Order and Ready-to-Ship Items
Etsy caps every shop at 20 custom sections on top of the automatic “All items” catch-all, and it caps every section name at 24 characters. That’s a hard constraint, not a suggestion — and it collides directly with a specific…