Hi @MVPThemes you are totally right! Sadly, their official response is that if you want more view/sales, then you should advertise more (here’s a quote of the response to low sales/views:)
Items that perform the best on Envato Market are those that supplement Envato’s marketing activities with their own. Optimizing your pages for SEO, building partnerships with affiliates, running your own marketing initiatives, etc. The best conversion method is to drive traffic directly to your item page.
Relying solely on the marketing efforts of Envato and the category page (which doesn’t see the most traffic) as your primary exposure is less likely to lead to the results you’re after.
We (authors) have been battling Envato for months for them to go back to Newest Items filter on several topics
Today we’re announcing the launch of a new experiment for the default display of results on category pages.
Over the last few months we’ve been rolling out changes and updates to the item layout on category pages. All marketplaces are now using the new ‘card’ layout and we’re very happy to report that the results are showing an increase in conversion.
With these new cards now in place we are going to be running a new experiment to learn more about how the display of category results impacts bu…
Category page experiment update
Over the past month we’ve been running a series of tests for the default sort order across Envato Market. We tested Newest, Best Selling, Best Rated and Trending. Our aim for these tests was to see which sort filter resonated best with customers and to see if we could improve the customer experience, helping them make a purchase.
The results for these tests are now in. For ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, VideoHive and CodeCanyon the best selling sort filter increase…
Category page experiment update
Over the past month we’ve been running a series of tests for the default sort order across Envato Market. We tested Newest, Best Selling, Best Rated and Trending. Our aim for these tests was to see which sort filter resonated best with customers and to see if we could improve the customer experience, helping them make a purchase.
The results for these tests are now in. For ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, VideoHive and CodeCanyon the best selling sort filter increase…
But sadly our complaints fell on deaf ears. We kindly ask you to post this in the current discussion Category Page Update and tag James so this doesn’t get lost, and to get all Power Elite authors opinions in one place. They didn’t hear us, but maybe, you (Power Elites) can make them change their minds
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Thanks!