So I made a sale on Etsy

I made a sale, I made a sale, I made a sale!!!!! Just one. And now I am hungry for more. If you ask for advice on how to boost sales, there are things you will learn to hate hearing. Like SEO. Everybody is an SEO critic. If you don't know what it means, don't feel bad. Neither did I. So I did what any nerd would do. I googled it.

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION - by any other name, is keywords. Or tags. Or descriptors. It's those words you reasonably expect to be used by the average person in the google (or bing, or whatever) search bar. Let's say you sell fabulous trinket boxes. Like this...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/181651952/celestial-bodies-trinket-box?ref=shop_home_feat_2

You have 13 tags to use for this work of art. How many two-word phrases can you come up with to direct traffic to your trinket box, rather than Betty Sue GottaShop's trinket box? I mean, seriously, there are only so many ways to search for a trinket box. Don't believe me? Try it and see. So I confess I am struggling with SEO in my little Etsy shop. And by struggle, what I really mean is I loathe dealing with SEO. I use google adwords keyword helper to help me, but apparently so does every other trinket box seller in the world. Anyway, I am still struggling with SEO. And don't even get me started on pictures. Or linkbacks. Or teams, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter......

Here's a thought. Go shopping. In my shop. Go. Now. Right now. You are still here. Why? Fine, I am leaving, and you will be here alone. In the dark. Bye bye!