My etsy pictures are yellow and though I have changed my SEO four times now, they are still terrible. I can’t hire a professional to take my photos. I have a camera, and a white sheet, and lights... but the lights are yellow. Hopefully sometimes this week I can aquire some full spectrum lights. Maybe then my pictures will be purely white enough. Maybe when I change my titles for the fifth time the keywords will be right. Maybe my next reddit post will be a “good job” instead of ten shop critiques I wasn’t looking for. I don’t know how to make my etsy as perfect as yours. I care so much about my art. I used to enjoy it more. I love my dolls actually, and it breaks my heart that other people don’t have any interest. People don’t want to know about the planet I imagine them to come from, the map I drew, the whole story behind it all. It is truly breaking my heart. I want people to love my art as much as I do.
But, until the background is whiter than fresh snow, my art will never be good enough for etsy. I will still be buried even when my photos are good enough. I am the thousandth person to make plush. I am the thousandth person in the sea of people who use key words like “artdoll, OOAK plush, One of a kind Plush, Unique plush, OOAKartdoll, Toy, Stuffedanimal” < that is what my titles will look like soon. I can only hope people will read the stories. I can only hope that etsy’s SEO is really something that works and helps me. What can I do fellow etsians? I had to leave the etsy facebook group last week beacause it’s depressing when people who make triple digits every month are saying things like “i guess it’s ok”. “i guess the one thousand dollars I made this month is ok.” All together, from the past three years I have been an etsy seller, I have made MAYBE 200 dollars. I guess that’s ok.
What is art? Do you love your art? Did it start out as something you grew wildly passionate about? Does every stitch hold something from you and make your art unique and beautiful and loveable?Should I start making scarves and jewelry? Should I forget about making what I love? Money is a perk...it’s something I need and I am about to go to college with no help from anyone at all. It’s all on me. I will try to make my pictures professional... but I am curious...
