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Etsy Ads stats review: which listings to keep in ads and which to remove

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Etsy Ads stats review: which listings to keep in ads and which to remove

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Example for the Standard package

Ad report review: an online plant pot shop on Google Ads

Where the budget went without sales

Search termsClicksCostSalesWhy
Care questions ("how to repot…", 37 terms)412$2860People looking for tips, not pots
"terracotta pots wholesale", "bulk planters"58$940The shop sells retail only
"free plants", "plant swap"96$710No buying intent
"plant stand ideas", "diy planter"74$480Ideas and crafts
Other shops' names (14 terms)133$1621Broad match on "pots"
Total773$661131% of spend

Negatives to add

The "Negatives" sheet has 38 words with match types, ready to paste. The main ones: "how to" (phrase), "wholesale" and "bulk" (broad), "free plants" (phrase), "ideas" (phrase), "diy" (broad), and the 14 shop names (exact).

Not added: "free" on its own, because "free shipping plant pots" brought 9 sales.

Ads to rewrite

Self-watering pots: click rate 1.9% against 4.6% for the account; the headlines say "Shop Now" and never mention self-watering.

New headlineCharacters
Self-Watering Pots, 12 Sizes28
Water Your Plants Once a Week29
New descriptionCharacters
Self-watering pots with a hidden water tank. Free shipping over $60, delivery in 3 days.88

Large floor planters: the ad sends people to the home page. Point it to the planters category instead.

Changes by priority

#ChangeWhy
1Add the 38 negatives from the sheet$661 a month went to these terms
2Lower bids by 30% on "plant stand" keywords$214 spent, 2 sales, return 0.9
3Raise bids by 15% on "large self-watering pot"Return 6.2; 40% of impressions lost to budget
4Replace the two ads aboveWeakest click rates in the account
5Move terracotta keywords to their own ad groupThey share an ad with plastic pots
6Check the search terms again in 14 daysTo see the effect of steps 1–3

These are recommendations: you decide what to apply and make the changes in your account. Files: review.docx and changes.xlsx (Negatives, Keywords to add, New ads, Change list).

Client: Pebble & Fern, an online shop selling plant pots and supplies. Reports: search terms (612 rows) and keywords (148 rows) for the last 30 days. Spend: $2,140, 41 sales, return on ad spend 2.1; the goal is 3.0. Standard package.

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About this service

Etsy Ads gives sellers few controls: you set a daily budget and choose which listings are advertised, and Etsy decides the rest. So the review focuses on what you can change: we read per-listing stats and the search queries behind the clicks to find listings that take clicks without orders, listings that earn their spend, and buyer words missing from your titles and tags. You get a keep or remove decision for every advertised listing, a budget note and new titles and tags for the listings worth keeping.

What is included

  • What you getA Word summary of what Etsy Ads earn per listing, and an Excel workbook with each listing marked keep, remove or fix first, plus new titles and up to 13 tags for the listings that stay. Delivered as a Word (.docx) summary and an Excel (.xlsx) workbook.
  • Keep or removeA decision for every advertised listing
  • Search queriesBuyer words behind the clicks
  • Titles and tagsTitles up to 140 characters, 13 tags up to 20 each
  • Profit after feesAd spend and Etsy fees against your margin
  • Offsite Ads noteWhat you can and cannot switch off

How it works

  1. 1
    StatsYou screenshot or copy your Etsy Ads stats
  2. 2
    Listing reviewWe weigh each listing's clicks, orders and fees
  3. 3
    Shop updateYou switch ads and update titles and tags

What we need from you

Screenshots of your Etsy Ads dashboard and listing stats, or a spreadsheet (CSV or Excel .xlsx) with listing, views, clicks, orders, revenue and spend; your shop link and what each item costs you to make and ship.

We will ask you:

  • How many listings are in Etsy Ads now?
  • What does an average item cost you to make and ship?
  • What daily budget do you set?
  • Are you required to stay in Offsite Ads?

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Questions and answers

Etsy does not export ad stats. What do I send?

Screenshots of the Etsy Ads page and of each listing's details work well. If you prefer, copy the table into a spreadsheet and upload that.

Can I exclude searches on Etsy Ads?

Etsy Ads has no negative keywords. If a listing keeps getting clicks from the wrong searches, the fix is in its title and tags or in taking it out of ads.

Will removing listings from ads hurt my sales?

It can lower views for those items. We mark the ones to remove first by spend without orders, so you can test the change for two weeks and compare.

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