The lack of traffic and low sales volume here is discouraging for many sellers. It would be terrific if Bonanza could step up their advertising game and help drive more traffic here, but for some reason, that doesn’t seem to be their priority.

In my opinion, I’ve always set mine at 9 percent. I would not pay attention to the million and a half people.

Remove the comments from your chat. You never know when someone will pop in and see this. Customers will not know what you mean and it looks a little desparate posting what you did in my honest opinion. If I was a customer I would feel turned off by it.

Use the chat to describe any news in your booth and welcome them to your booth as well…things along those lines. Take advantage of the chat box.

Color or pattern to describe your quilts in the title and description is very important. What will a 40 by 40 fit? Give an idea to your shopper how best to make use of this size. Or maybe also they need to be larger so that they can be made into a bed size….make your item cater to a wider group possibly.

Use keywords such as handmade, patchwork, fabric, material used. Think outside of the box for keywords.

I believe that there are missing attributes that you could be adding to your listings and then Google shopping will group listings under a filter type…like Google shopping will use a keyword such as the word cotton and when in Google shopping and when you click on cotton, a grouping of cotton quilts will pop up. But you’ve got to have your listing right so that Google shopping will place it on their site. Are you getting a notification from Bonanza periodically giving you a list of items that got turned away from Google shopping? If so, start taking a fresh look at what could be wrong.

You want as many pertinent keywords associated with your item as much as possible but just don’t put the keywords in the description. Desbribe it like a story. Google shopping grabs a hold of your description and shoppers will see this when first looking at your listing on Google shopping’s site. Plus Google organic which is google.com likes a story of pertinent information to share.

Google shopping is our number one opportunity on gaining sales in my opinion….so work it to the max.

Here’s how to add an attribute by hand. Like for example, if Bonanza offers a material that you can choose from a drop down, but the item is made using more than one type of material…

1. Go to the very bottom of your listing right under the last sentence.
2. Here are examples of attributes :
[[ material : cotton ]]
[[ material : silk ]]
[[ color : red ]]

NOTE that for the above DO NOT leave any spaces between anything. I had to format it like this for the simple reason that Bonanza thought I was leaving a link and removed it. No spaces between anything…not the color, not the brackets, not between any letters, etc.

3. Then save the listing. Go back into the listing. Go to the bottom of the listing. Look for the attributes that you manually added. If you added them right you will no longer see them there. If you did the format incorrect from what I said, then the attributes you added will still be there and then you need to figure out what you did wrong.

The attributes will help your listing to get into Google shopping in the very first place…so this is very important.

As far has having a UPC, getting your handmade items to show as New for handmade, etc, etc, contact Bonanza or maybe someone on here will offer the info on this part. But this is very important as well to get your listings into Google shopping in the first place.

Once you master the above, it will become like second nature. Good luck. You can do it!!

Sharon