Coincidence?

[kmmcrafts]

I don't feel like this is coincidence.. 

I moved my website host from Shopify to GoImagine Mosaic about a year ago.. my sales and page views went to almost nothing.. I thought it was just the economy and whatever.. Going through some health things most of the year ( thankfully they figured out my problem and put me on a different allergy med and I seem to be getting back to my normal Maybe ) I hadn't felt like dealing with getting listings up and keeping track across all these selling venues I have going on so since this one was not doing much of anything at all I decided to move my .com over to the etsy pattern websites because it keeps track of my inventory across both the website and etsy so if something sells out on either etsy or the .com it is removed from both which will be easier for me until I get completely back to feeling like myself..

Since the move last week I have had 5 orders and 3 custom request emails etc. from the new site Host.. I'm not the only one to experience this too.. I read late summer on the GI Help Group on FB about this same stuff.. I still have the GI site up and going but I pointed the .com to Pattern site just for the easier inventory and listings until I felt better.. Maybe I just need to drop it altogether though if it's going to be like that.. 

I'm actually very surprised because it usually takes a few weeks for searches to kinda pick up your site when things get changed around.. 

[BadBob]

As of yesterday, my Goimaging shop is getting more views than my Etsy shop, but not more sales. Most of this is me promoting it. Most of my shop views on Etsy also come from me. At least, that is what the crappy Etsy stats tell me.  If I had known how to use Google Analytics from the beginning, I could have known where they came from.

[kmmcrafts]

Well yes, promotion does work and I've promoted my .com for years.. so people do go to it but the link may be a dead link.. Usually when that happens GA shows me the page not found that they seen when clicking on a link. so they made it to the .com but didn't show them the page they clicked the link for.. Even those was very few which is good as those dead links can hurt your SEO. 

I think you have done great with your setting up with pushing to google shopping etc.. I never got around to do much of this stuff and really wasn't up to the task of working on the sites.. You can sell anywhere so long as you're willing to put in the effort.. website hosting in many cases you get what you pay for.. some of these hosting sites will do a lot of this leg work on your behalf.. GI pushes their marketplace but they do not do much of anything for the Mosaic side of things.. While it's really not idea to host a site linked to the marketplaces like GI  mosaic and Etsy pattern as you're still under their umbrella and if they change policies to say you can't sell your product on their site no longer then you lose the .com too.. This was the main reason I moved from Etsy pattern to Shopify.. I had my best sales ever on Shopify but also the monthly cost is up there more than double.. again.. you do kind of get what you pay for.. LOL

[BadBob]

I pushed Etsy for a long time and quit because their stats were so bad that I could not tell what was working. Now, I know how to track things with Google Analytics and Urchin Tracking Modules (UTM). I may go back to promoting Etsy once I have finished all the things I have planned for Goimagine. I am still testing and trying new things as I discover them. Yesterday, I set up Google Search Console for my Mosaic shop.

Goimagine should show you the sold-out link and tell you it is sold out, much like Etsy does. A broken link should take you to the shop front, not a 404 error page.

I am not going to abandon Etsy.

If Goimagine does not fix the severe problems with the new dashboard, I may drop Goimagine, but only if they force me to use it without the fixes. The only thing I use the new dashboard for is to look at the analytics, which are broken now as well.

 

[kmmcrafts]

Yeah, GI does seem to try to keep improving things.. but then so did so many of the other like sites I was on years ago that are no longer a thing.. It's a lot of effort to promote a site only to have them close up because they can't manage it right.. some of those old sites ( Artfire ) I and many of the others I became friends with would have paid more money to help the site and for them to hire help to get the site working right.. many of us worked hard for that traffic and just when things were getting good they had some employees quit and within 1.5 years they closed up. Same with Zibbet.. It's hard for me to push so hard on a site that is also part of a platform.. Only reason I left Etsy's Pattern to go to shopify.. now I back on pattern until I find what I want to do.. simply cause it's all integrated and the site was still all set up how I left it so no added work. 

You're right I did have a lot of links that just took to the homepage.. I don't really understand how I was getting barely any views on GI and as soon as I jumped back over to the Pattern site sales and views was were they used to be.. Maybe something on my end or something with GI.. I'm leaning toward GI because there have been a lot of others saying the same thing.