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1. Welcome to Class!: Hi there, My name is Ben. I'm going to be your
instructor today. And today we are
teaching a course that I'm really honestly
very excited about, which is understanding etsy SEO. And if you're new to SEO, SEO means search
engine optimization. Basically, how can you show
up first in search on Etsy? And I'm really, really excited it to get
him to this course. My goal here is that this will be a very
experience of course, but there'll be simple into
the points so that you can learn a ton about SEO and search engine
optimization without spending too much time so
that you can actually get into your Etsy shop
and start doing the work to make sure that
your SEO is on point. My name is Ben Haas. I am a side hustle coach, so I have an Instagram Tiktok. I teach here on Skillshare and I love sharing information
about how to find, start and grow your
very own side hustle. One of my expertise is in Etsy and being able to
make sales on Etsy. So I'll get into that
talking about who I am and why I'm the person here
teaching this course today. So like I said, my name is Ben. I live and work in New
York City and I run about for businesses
including an Etsy shop. I'm a side hustler. I loved side hustles. I love coming up with
ways to make money, ways to create, creatively
express myself. And Etsy is such a
great way to do that. So I've actually
found myself teaching other people about how to really get in there on Etsy
and make some sales because a lot of times
they have ideas, they have reasons that they want to start and
that's Etsy store, but they don't actually
end up making sales. So this course, the main
goal of this course is to teach you how to
really optimize your SEO, your search engine optimization
to truly make sense. I have an Etsy shop. It's actually my second Etsy
shop that I've started. I sell corporate
humor mugs on Etsy, so things like sorry,
I was on mute. Let's circle back later. Things like that on mugs, which is a really
fun to Etsy store. And I've sold over 350 of those months in the
last year or two. I am a successful Etsy seller. I love talking about Etsy. I love helping other people
with their Etsy shops. And that's why I teach the
courses here on Skillshare. I love being able to share these messages and these
lessons that I've learned, I have spent hours and hours, probably a 100 or 200 hours
on Skillshare on YouTube, exploring my, exploring
myself through, through ETC. And I have learned a ton about Etsy SEO, search
engine optimization. And I'm really, really excited to share these
lessons with you. Today's agenda is pretty packed, but we'll get through
it fairly quickly. My goal is again, to be straightforward but
very educational so that this is the only class that you have to take about Etsy SEO. The first thing we're
gonna talk about is defining search
engine optimization. Then we're gonna get into tags and what we call long tail tags. We're going to talk about focus keywords, titles,
tags, descriptions. And then at the very end, I'm going to share
with you a tip that I got from my friend who is
also a business owner, that was really helpful
when it came to SEO. And then I'm going
to share with you a tool that you can try out to really master your SEO. This is gonna be, I'm actually very excited
about this course. I've been working
on it for awhile to make sure that
I am delivering skills and lessons that are very relevant to you
as an Etsy seller. And I'm so excited to dive in. Let's click into the next
video and get to it.
2. What is SEO? : Okay, so before we even get started on the tips and the
trucks and the strategies, what I would love to do is dive in and talk about what is SEO. Like I said, SEO means
search engine optimization. And I want to demystify
that a little bit even further
because some people might not know what search
engine optimization necessarily means, but it is exactly
what it sounds like. It's optimizing for
search on Etsy. So the goal of SEO is
to show up as close to the first page as possible when people are
searching on Etsy. It's basically optimizing for search engines and it's very important when you want to
make sales to integers. You might be thinking
why is SCOM important? It's important because
you want to show up on Etsy when people search something similar to
what you're selling, a lot of times people start Etsy stores and they
promote on Instagram, they promote on to their
family and friends. And that's something that's very necessary when you
have an Etsy store, especially to make
your first few sales. But I cannot stress this enough. It is extremely important
that if you want to sell to strangers on Etsy, that you master
this skill of SEO, you don't have to master it, you just have to get
pretty good at it. The other thing that I want
to say about SEO and going on Etsy and making
sales is that it's not just something that you
can click on or click off. It is a skill that you have to learn and you'll
have to stay very active with with each
listing that you post to xy. So what I recommend is
taking this course, going through this course, taking notes and
identifying for yourself. What are the things
that I know that I can do to maximize my SEO on Etsy. That's what SEO is. I hope that was a good explanation and
that you understand now because we're
gonna get into tags, titles, descriptions, and really how to
maximize your SEO. In the next couple of slides.
3. Long Tail Tags: Okay, So one of the most important things that you will ever need
to know about SEO, and it's actually the first
step toward maximizing your SEO is understanding
exactly what tags are. You've heard about tags
and hashtags on Instagram. You've heard about them by
tagging a YouTube video. You have heard of
search terms in Google, but have you heard
about tags on Etsy? They're not much different, but it's really
important that you understand what a tag is. And I cannot stress this enough. It's a really important
that you use tags on Etsy. Tags help your SEO because it tells Etsy when they want
you to show up in search, if you posted a green shirt, It's important that you tell Etsy that what you're
selling is a green shirt. And one of the ways
that you can do that is by tagging it with the words and green or
green shirts or shirt. That way Etsy nose so that when someone types in green
shirts, you will show up. That's what a tag is. So it's really important
that you understand that tags are necessary when you're building
out your SEO. It's essentially a word or a few words that describe
what your product is. And you can add these tags. And when you are
posting your listing, when you're going
through and adding a title and putting
up your pictures, There's a space that
you can put your tags. And it's really important that
you actually think really strategically about how you're
going to tag your items. Because there's a lot of tips and tricks that I'll get into in the next slide that
really will help you. The last thing on
this slide though, is that there are 13 slots. You can put in 13 tags. Key takeaway here is that I
want you to use all 13 tags. It's going to help
you not hurt you. It's going to make Etsy really aware of what it is
that you're selling so that they know
exactly when to push your items to customers. It's really important
that you use all 13 tags when you are
posting your listing on Etsy. Now, Long Tail tags or something that's a
little bit more advanced. So if you really
think about it as tags versus long-tail tags, tags are important,
they're good. They will help
your SEO for sure. But if you really want to
put that cherry on top, and I highly recommend
looking into this and learning a
little bit more as well, is understanding how to
leverage long tail tags. Long-tailed tags is probably something that you may
not have heard of. It's a little bit more advanced, but it's something that is
very good for your SEO. Now some tags are only one word. In the past example
of green shirt, shirt is a short tail tag. Green is a short tail tag. But a tag with two
to three words is best because it makes you show up for more
specific searches. Just back to this example
of the green shirt. If I am a customer on Etsy and I'm looking
for a green shirt. And I type in green shirt. I want your green shirt
to show up first. Because then I'm going
to have something that's really relevant to
what I'm looking for. If I type in shirt, then I'm going to see
a million shirts. They're gonna be
irrelevant to me. They are not going
to be what I'm exactly looking for
at a lot of times the behavior on
Etsy is that people type in things that are specific to what
they're looking for. Very rarely does
somebody go onto Etsy and type in the word
mug or the word necklace. A lot of times people are looking for things
that are specific. Maybe they're looking for
a pink heart necklace. Then pink heart necklace
is three words. If you made that your tag, that would be a long tail tag. The reason that's helpful
is because then if you tag your item as pink heart necklace and somebody goes in and, and types in pink
heart necklace, you are going to come
up so much closer to the first page and you're much more likely to make
that sale because what they searched is exactly
what you're selling. That match is really important when you're
thinking about SEO and you're thinking about tanks and descriptions and
all of that stuff. The more you can
do in your listing and then your tags to make sure that what they're searching is exactly what you've tagged and exactly what you're selling. The better the more
specific your tag is, the better your chances
are at selling your items. That is the core of
what we're talking about here is how to
really make more sales. And SEO is an example
of a great way to leverage your knowledge and your skills to make more sales. The second piece
on long tail tags, I thought it'd be good
to give examples of bad, which is short-tailed tags, and good which is
long-tail tags. So examples of
short-tailed tags, and this is what
you want to avoid. Do not use these tags if you're looking to have
longer tail tags. But mug would be a short tail tag that
you don't want to use. The example is if
you typed in mug, they'll user is going to get millions of results for monk, it is very unlikely
that you're going to show up first for when someone types in mug
shirt is the same story. Taylor Swift might seem
like a long tail tag, but there's probably
so many things on entity that have to do with Taylor Swift that you're still not going
to show up first. And the last one
here is college. If someone, if you tag
something as college, you're probably
not going to make very many sales because
there are so many things on Etsy that have to do with certain colleges that you're
not gonna show up first. Again, that is the goal, is how can I, as the Etsy shop owner, show up as close to the
first page as possible. The answer to that is
maximizing your SEO. Examples of long tail
tags which are good. Instead of mug, I would say if you're selling
a Beach Boys mug, then title it and tag it. The Beach Boys mug
shirt would be New York Yankees
shirt that is much more likely to get closer
to the first page. Instead of saying Taylor Swift, you can say Taylor
Swift red key chain. And that would make it so
that it's much more specific. So the only people who will see your item
or people who are actually looking for
a red Key chain. Instead of college putting
the specific college put, maybe putting the color, putting what the item is. So purple SFS, new socks, That's my college
that I went to. So I would want to sell
socks in their color. And that's an example
of long tail tags. You can see how the
long tail tags are a few more words than just mug, shirt, Taylor Swift or college. They have descriptive their specific and they're
longer tail tax. So make sure when you're
choosing your focus keywords, which is what we'll talk
about in the next slide, that you are choosing keywords
that are long tail tags. Let's move on.
4. Focus Keywords: Focus keywords is something that I really want to
drive home as well. So focus keywords. You've heard the term keyword. What are you
searching on Google? What are you
searching on YouTube? What are you searching on Etsy, these are all examples
of key words and you would want your tags
to be your keywords. The term focus keywords are tags and words that show up in all three
of these categories. They are tags and
words that show up in your tags, titles,
and descriptions. So let's take a pause and take a step back
and talk about how, when I'm talking about SEO, the main thing I'm
talking about is titles, tags, and descriptions,
those three things. So it's titles. What is
the title of your listing? Tags? How are you tagging your item, and what have you written
in the description, title tags and description. Focus keywords are things that show up in all three
of those categories. So if I'm writing about
a black horse shirt, I want black horse shirt
to come up in the title. I want it to come
up in the tags, and I want it to come
up in the descriptions. It's really important that
you're thinking about those tags and where you can place them to make
them more powerful. Focus keywords in your listing or more powerful SEO tools, because they make the
keywords and tags more searchable and
they hold more weight. You can imagine
two listings here. Maybe I'm selling greeting cards and maybe they are about prints. The singer. One listing just
says greeting cards. Maybe it says prints
greeting card in the title, but it doesn't say
it in the tags, it doesn't say it
in the description. And the other one says prints greeting card in the title
tag and description. Those two Etsy listings
are not the same. The one that just has it in
the tags or just has it in the titles is not as strong as the one who has it in the
title tag and description. Etsy, if somebody's searches
prints greeting card at C, we'll show the one that
has the stronger tags and the stronger focus
keywords first before it shows the weaker
one, the stronger one, just to reiterate, is the
one that has the word prints greeting card in the title
tag and the description. It basically makes
it more weighted. It holds more power if it shows up in all
three of those things. I hope that makes sense. I hope I didn't harp
on it too much, but it's really,
really important. So they should be descriptive, like long tail tags. So you wouldn't want your
focus keyword to be card. You might not even want
it to be greeting card. But prints greeting
card would be a great focus keyword because that's actually something
that people might search. So if someone searches, prints greeting card, and you have it in your title
tags and descriptions, and you show up, that person
is going to be so likely to buy your item because it's exactly what they're
looking for. That's something I really
want to drive home is if you can create a listing
and make the titles, tags, and descriptions
descriptive of what you're actually selling. You can match the searches that people are searching for
with what you're selling, you will make a lot of sales. That's kind of breaking, kind of groundbreaking
thing with FC is that you should be selling items that people actually want. If you're doing that and if
you've tagged it correctly, you're going to make more sales. They can be also creatively worked into titles
and descriptions. More about descriptions and
titles in the next hat, in the next slides. But just keep that in
mind that you don't just have to list them out
in bullet points. Actually, I think you
shouldn't do that, but you can creatively, right? And one of the things
that's really interesting about SEO in general is that when people write blog posts or when people
write website homepages, they're actually
writing paragraphs out and writing
sentences that include these focus keywords so that it seems natural for
someone to read it. But from the SEO perspective and the SEO machine can pick up those words and actually spit out the right results
when someone searches. So get creative
about the way that you incorporate these
keywords into your listing.
5. Listing Titles: Now we've talked about tags, we've talked about
focus keywords. And so this is where we really start to put it altogether. And we're talking now
about listing titles. As you know, when there
is a listing on Etsy, it always has a title. You might not think that
there's a strategy to making things show up first
in search based on the title. But there really is. And so what I always
like to say is add as many of your fear of focus keywords into
your title as possible. It's really, really
important that if you are using these focused keywords in your titles, tags,
and descriptions. So here we're talking
about titles. I also want you to
think about how you can add them in your
description and your tags. Be descriptive and use
your focus keywords. And I would love to
show you just with an example today about
what kind of title I'm looking for when
I'm looking for a good SEO title and what
I'm not looking for. So you'll see down here at the bottom I have a bad example, which is a Beyonce key chain. Now, Beyonce key chain is better than Beyonce and it's
better than key chain, or at least there's two
words putting it together. But it's not very
strong and it's not going to have very many opportunities for
people to find it. So what I like to do is
add in as many keywords, as many focused keywords, and pull from the tags
that I used to really identify a title that will
pull in as many people. Because another thing
about SEO is if you type in Beyonce key
chain as your title. Just for an example, you might find ten
people who will, who will find your item. But if you type in
this example here, which is a longer example of
Beyonce lemonade, key chain, lemonade music video, merch Bay HIV fan collection,
Beyonce memorabilia. Then you're putting out more words that people can actually use to find your item. That's a really,
really good things. So what I always like to
say for this good example is find as many
keywords from your, from your tags and from your description and
put them right up there into your title here. So what I like to do is come up with a couple of
different phrases. So we have Beyonce
lemonade key chain, that's the main one. You always want to put
the main one up front. And then we have lemonade
music video March, which is a great long-tail keyword beehive fan collection. That's a really good thing for
people who are looking for things that are specifically
for the fandom of Beyonce. And then the last one here
is Beyonce memorabilia. The reason why I say put all
of these different words in there is because anything that someone types in
Beyonce memorabilia, they would not find your item if you had just titled
it Beyonce key chain. Same with beehive
fan collection, you just wouldn't, they just
wouldn't ever find you. The more you can
put in the titles, the better off you'll be and
the more sales that you'll make in terms of structure and almost like grammar and I'm
the framework of the title. I definitely recommend putting
a slash or a line between each of the words and making
it feel really organized. So you can see here how I have Beyonce lemonade key chain
and then I have a line. It's not just commas, I think that's sometimes
look a little sloppy. But fiance lemonade,
key chain line, lemonade music video March line. And that can actually
make it look really nice, but also include a lot of
different keywords in there. So it's really
important that when you are doing your titles that you include as many of
the keywords as possible. That is the main tip here
for listing titles on Etsy.
6. Listing Descriptions: So now we've talked, again, we've talked about tags, we've talked about titles. And now we're going to
talk about description, which is really
where you can get a lot of leverage from
your SEO on Etsy. So we're talking about
descriptions and the description is what someone reads about
your product before they buy. So this is where I was talking about getting creative with your keywords and
your focus keywords and your tags and your titles, descriptions, I really want you. This is less of an SEO tip and more of a merchandising
tip on Etsy. But I really want you
to think about what is the customer going
to ask if they were to message you
about the products? So if you're selling something
that requires dimensions, if you're selling
something that may or may not be dishwasher safe, if you're selling something that is original versus a print, what are those questions
that somebody might ask you in a message
directly to you? And I want you to
write out paragraphs about what the answers
to those questions are. Salad a little bit and talk about what you're
selling and talk about the story of why you
created it, who you are. I really want you to get
creative in here and talk about ways that share ways that you can connect with your clients and with
your customers and with the buyers who are buying your items right out
more than you think. That's my big tip here. I think a lot of times
people are pretty minimalistic when they write
out their descriptions. But as far as, as far as I know, there's not really a
limit or the limit might be huge to how much
you can write. The other thing that
I know about fc and fc consumer behavior is that a lot of people
don't actually read through every single
piece of the description. They mainly see the image, they see the title,
they see the price, they see the shipping, and they make a decision
based on that. But the description
is a really, really, really helpful place
for you to add in those focused keywords and give information about
what the product is. I really would highly
encourage everybody and really specifically to leverage
your focus keywords and get creative about
how you include them. And include basically
every 13 of your tags, include them in your
description somewhere. So as you're writing through the description of
what your product is, think about the 13 tags you're 13 focus keywords that you came up with as
you're building out the, um, as you're building
out the listing and really add those in
there to your description. The last thing that I'll
say about descriptions is show your personality and your willingness to
provide great service. Again, this is not
necessarily an SEO tip. It's more of a sales type in
more of a merchandising tip. But this is where people
might go to see what kind of person you are to see if
they want to buy from you. And so it can always be
a nice cherry on top to just show them that
you're a nice person. How you made the items, why you decided to
start the shop. It's all really
great to add that in and show that you're willing to provide really great service. Another quick reminder about titles, tags and descriptions. I want to repeat it
because I want you to walk away from this
class knowing that there's nothing
more important than adding your focus keywords into your titles, tags
and descriptions. So description is just as
important as the title and tag, which is oftentimes
overlooked on Etsy, also on other websites. So if you are taking
these lessons from ETC, they do apply to something
like YouTube or Instagram. It's really important that when you're ready
off the description, you are making it searchable. Titles, tags, and descriptions.
7. Posting Multiple Listings: So this slide I am very excited about because this is something that I didn't
always know about, ETC. It's one of the
best tips that I've unlocked as I've sold on
Etsy for multiple years. And it's essentially
that you should have at least eight or more
listings in your shop. Oftentimes what I see as someone who sees a lot
of Etsy stores and someone who helps other people figure out how to start
and grow their Etsy store? Is that a lot of
times, especially when people are getting started, they only have two or three
items for sale on their ETC. Industry. Now, that's fine. But etsy isn't really a platform where you go on to
sell one or two items. It's really supposed to be a platform where people have shops and people have stores. And so when you have
just two or three items, it creates a weird
experience for the customer. And they don't necessarily
trust the store. They don't necessarily
trust that the product is that good. And so it's really important
that you have a couple of maybe eight plus
listings in your store because they want to
see that you're active. They want to see that
you have for variety. And so what I always like to say about Etsy stores is that
you should treat your, the store or any e-commerce
store for that matter as if it's a regular in-person
brick and mortar store. What I mean by that is if
you walked into a store on Main Street in your city and they only had two
items for sale. You probably would walk out. You probably wouldn't
be interested in shopping for very
long in that shop. It now as another
extreme example, if you went into a store
and they had a 100 items, you might spend an hour in there looking through the
items that they have, admiring their artistic
ways of building products. And you might actually walk
out with two or three items. So those are two extremes. You don't want to
have two items. 100 might be a lot,
but it's also okay. But think of it like
a regular store. What I also like to
say about that example is if you walk into a store, you want to see a person. You want to see someone working, someone organizing the shelves. You want to see somebody
at the cash register. So make your store
feel very human, but also have a lot of
different items and have them in sections so that people can actually
shop around your store. Think about your store as a way. When people are walking
into your store, what do you want them to see? What do you want them
to feel and what is the experience that you want
to create with your store. Now, the reason that I say
eight or more listings is because Etsy grids them
out in sections of four. And so I think it'll look at
least a little bit full if you have eight
sections or listings. But the other thing about having multiple listings and how it relates to SEO because of the previous steps were a little bit more around merchandising. You're getting a
two-in-one in this course. But the more listings that you have and the more variety
you have in the tags, titles, descriptions, and focus
keywords for those items, the more people will
find your shop. What I mean by this is say you have an Etsy
store where you sell art and you're selling your art and maybe
you're selling collages. If you only have one collage and say it's a Devil
Wears Prada collage. Then the only people who
will ever find your store, or people who type in collage, or people who type in
Devil Wears Prada. Now if you automatically add, let's say you have 30
collages in your shop. And one of them was
about Devil Wears Prada. One of them was about Batman. One of the men wall is
about Tiffany jewelry. One of them was
about Carol Burnett. You have all of these
different listings, all of these different items, all of these different
topics covered. If you have all of those out
in the ecosystem of ETC, you're going to have 30 times
more likelihood that people will find your shop because they are searching
for Carol Burnett, they're searching
for Tiffany jewelry. There's searching for
the Devil Wears Prada. And now all of those
people who have all of those searches are finding
their way into your store. That's why I say have a multiple listings
because with SEO, they want to know that people are coming
from multiple places. On Etsy. That's my best
example is collage. I think that's a really
good example of why. If you have more
items in your shop, then it's much more likely that people
will find your shop. You'll convert more
people to sales. You will get more people
favorite in your shop. You will get me up more
people visiting your shop. And it's a really great way to bring people into your store. It's kind of like if, think about Best Buy. If Best Buy put out
an ad that they had Dell computers and they put out that add to
a million people. Then the only people who
would want to come to The Best Buy would be people who already want Dell computers. But if they had Dell
computers, Apple computers, and they also had printers, and they also had printer
paper or whatever. Then they put out an ad that had eight items
that they've sold, they would automatically get eight times more customers
to come to the store. That's an example of how SEO and how having a variety of products will help
you in your shop. When you have your shop, it's important that you
have eight or more listings and I can't stress that enough. I would not open a shop if you
only had one or two items, I would figure out a way to
have eight plus listings. With that, let's move on to the best tip I ever
got about SEO on xy.
8. Best SEO Tip: In this course today, we have talked about so much. And I really, really
hope that you've learned a lot about titles,
tags, and descriptions. I hope you've learned
about focus keywords, getting creative about
your descriptions. But the coolest tip that
I ever learned about SEO. And this applies to SEO
within Etsy as well as, as well as outside of Etsy. But you don't have to
reinvent the wheel, which is so cool and
so good to know. The cool thing about Etsy
is that you can look at other people's listings
and you can see how many sales
somebody has made. And they let you see how they did their SEO for their listing. What I recommend is going and finding similar shops
to what you have. If you're selling candles, maybe find five really
successful Campbell shops and bookmark their page and look into what they did in terms of titles, tags,
and descriptions. Because a lot of times the more successful Etsy shops do a really good job of SEO. Look at other listings and
see how they have done it. The other tip, in terms
of tags, I have two tab, two tips here that will help you understand what
are popular tags, what our tags you should use, and what are focused
keywords that will be helpful in your SEO. The first step here is if you scroll to the bottom
of a listing, not a shop but a listing, you're actually
able to see some of the tags that they used
to pull people in. And that's a really, really good hack when
it comes to Etsy. Because a lot of times
people are guessing like, would this be a good tag? Would this be a good tag? But oftentimes you can scroll to the bottom of
a listing and see what was actually working for another shop.
That's my first step. The second tip, back to the candle example is use
the search bar to see what terms are popular
by starting to type out one and
seeing what they say. What I mean by that is go to the search bar and
Etsy as a user. And if you're selling
candles, type in candle, what that does is it auto populates a bunch of
long tail tags for you. You should choose the
ones that are relevant. For example, if you
typed in candle and one came up
that said candle, soy fall just for the
season in the fall. Just as an example, if I said candles soy fall, then you would know that
if you're selling that, if you actually are selling a soy fall candle, then if you, if you use that tag, it will actually bring in more people to your
shop, to your product. And so you can take that from
the search bar and add it into your own tags and
your own focus keywords. Another example is
if you are selling mugs and you really are selling, let's say celebrity mugs, maybe you're selling
Britney Spears mugs. Then if you type in the
word Britney Spears, you're going to get a really
good couple of examples of long-tailed tags that are
working for Britney Spears. Britney Spears mug would
be one long tail tag. Britney Spears merge
might be another one. Britney Spears, funny mug
might be another one. What's cool is that
you can actually use the search bar to find examples of long
tail tags that are already popular and
are already working. So that's the best tip I ever got is that
you don't have to reinvent the wheel when
it comes to Etsy SEO, you can do those two tips, scrolling to the
bottom of a listing to see what tags they used and using the search bar to
see what terms are popular. Those two tips are instrumental and have
been foundational to the way that I have
made 350 sales on Etsy, I really recommend that you don't try to
reinvent the wheel. You're not just guessing and
pulling things from the air. They were actually doing
research and finding out what are the long-tail tags, what are the focus
keywords that will actually bring in
people to my shop?
9. Best SEO Tool: All right, we're at the
second to last slide here. What I really want to do
is talk about marmalade. Now I'm not sponsored, this is not something
that I'm being paid for. I'm just sharing a tool
that has been really, really helpful for me. And it's called marmalade. And Marlene is specifically
an SEO tool for Etsy. And I highly recommend
that you google it. Essentially, you can
integrate your store so that all of your listings
come into marmalade. What it does is it gives you a letter grade for
each of your listings. It might give you an a, B, C, D, or F. What's cool about it is it will actually break down
what you're awake, what your strengths are and what your weaknesses are
when it comes to SEO. Now it's not a free tool, but there are free
trials out there. And I don't have a link to a free trial because
I think you have to be a sponsor or you
have to be a partner. And so what I recommend doing is googling marmalade free trial, and I'm sure one will
come up for you. If not, I think it's $19 a month and I might
recommend doing it for one month to see if
your SEO is doing well, but it's really a great
tool and it'll show you which areas you can
improve in for SEO. It's really great if you're
just trying to learn SEO. I wouldn't necessarily
recommend it as something that
you keep forever, but it's something
that as you're learning the ins
and outs of SEO, this is my best tip, is find a way to do
marmalade for free and do it really quickly
with your Etsy store. It's really, I hope
in this class, I hope you've learned
a lot about titles, tags, descriptions,
and keywords, but it's also important to know what tools are available to you as you are building out your Etsy store and hoping
to make more sales. So that's why I
included marmalade here because I would love for you to go check it out, go look it up, and use that as a way to edit as an extension to this course because it can be
really, really helpful. And it's something that really, as I was learning how to master SEO and maximize my Etsy SEO, it was instrumental as to
how I was able to learn and how I was able to
make adjustments as I went along my journey in SEO.
10. Next Steps For You: Okay, So we've
gotten to the end of the class, like I mentioned, the number one thing I
want you to take away from here is long-tail tags, titles, tags and descriptions
and focus keywords. If you can remember
those five things, you have made a lot of progress
in learning about SEO, and I'm really excited for you. I think that it's really
important as you're looking to make more sales and
as you're looking to make sales specifically
to strangers, that you understand
how SEO works, how search engine
optimization works on Etsy. Your assignment today, if
you choose to accept it, is to put in the comments and put into the
assignments section, what is the thing that you're most surprised to
learn in this class? And what is the thing
that you're looking forward to
implementing the most? What was something that
you didn't know when you came into the course that
you were surprised to learn. The second thing is, what, what are you looking
to implement as a result of this class? Put that in the assignment
section because I'd be really curious
to have your feedback and also follow me here
on Skillshare because I have tons of classes about Etsy. I have tons of classes
about making more sales, both in at CNN, just in general, I have
marketing classes, I have customer service classes. I am a side hustle coach and my skillshare is
dedicated to helping, helping you find, start
and grow your own side. Hustle and Etsy is a huge
topic on my Skillshare class. So I highly, highly, highly
recommend that you follow me here because there will be many more Skillshare
classes all about Etsy. You're interested
in me as a person. I am on Instagram and TikTok. You can find me at
hospital with Ben. I post about my journey
with my own side, hustles and as a
Skillshare teacher. But I really, really hope
you enjoyed this class. I hope it was comprehensive and straightforward
enough because it was something that I worked
really hard on and something that I really
deeply care about. Again, follow me
here on Skillshare. With that, I hope
you have a great day and even better
week and good luck.