Keyword search - Maximum search words (or characters for products)?

[Spica Inventor]

What do you think? A dozen or so keywords maximum for each product to keep the search result spam down? Who's with me on this? :-D

 

And for gods sake, take the merchants company name out of it! How hard can that be! hehe ;-)

[Calamari]

"keywords" content="Apocalyptic, Post Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Fallout, Retro, Cyberpunk, MadMax, Role Play, Pirate,
Dark Fantasy, Rusty Vehicles, Junks, Unisex, Joke Items, Wasteland, Steampunk, Urban, Military,"/>

That's the keyword list for a bikini currently on the marketplace, it doesn't mater how few key words you limit an item to, if they are all spam, and LL thinks that the keywords above describe a bikini.

 

 

[Pamela Galli]

We have begged for this, there is a JIRA I believe -- but I think you can add this to the list of things they do not know how to do.

[Kampu Oyen]

Speaking as someone who has plenty of personal experience exploiting the excessive openness of the keyword function, I'd rather see it become more limited than to be given continued reason to keep trying to out-do competitors on how shameless I can be.

[Spica Inventor]

Oh god! That's horrible. But it might help alot with most items anyway. I'm hoping. ;-)

[Spica Inventor]

Well they should be able to reduce the number of characters you can fill up the box with easily enough shouldn't they?

[Spica Inventor]

How much do you think it helps your sales. Do you have any idea on that? I felt too 'oogy' to even try testing such a tactic. ;-)

[Kampu Oyen]

>How much do you think it helps your sales. Do you have any idea on that? I felt too 'oogy' to even try testing such a tactic. ;-)

It helps enough to warrant the effort, assuming you have enough products and you're not buying listing enhancements.

But not much.

If others were not also being enabled to do it, I would just as soon not bother.

[Calamari]

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Spica Inventor wrote:

Oh god! That's horrible. But it might help alot with most items anyway. I'm hoping. ;-)

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I'd be more willing to support a shorts key word list if search is working correctly, I use to have much shorter list but found that certain word combinations wouldn't show in search unless I combined them in my key word list for example:

steampunk, Victorian, house, steampunk house, Victorian house, steampunk Victorian house,

This was reported fixed a while back but I tested it a few months ago and it was broke again so I've kept the extra key words just in case.  It may be fixed again but I haven't checked.

I think the shorter list is a good idea for a quick fix that would reduce some spamming, but I really think the whole keyword system need to be fixed form the listing guide lines, search engine, to the flagging process.

[Kampu Oyen]

>if search is working correctly,

I consider that to be a very reasonable stipulation.

People might not game the system so much if the system were not gaming them first.