Hello. I’d like to know what is your opinion about commenting tracks. Does it really important regarding sales? People leave comments like “good job” “cool” “like” “great” “well done” etc. It’s obvious that they don’t listen our tracks Ok, it’s really nice when other authors appreciate our work and write something which proves that they listen our music but unfortunately 80% comments are like these examples above…
I don’t think that buyers take these comments seriously…For example corporate track with 40 comments : good, cool, good job, like
Moreover I see the same authors looking for comments and giving them. Of course I also leave my tracks in feedback topic but it seems useless for me.
It’s cool if someone actually means it and actually listens to the track they comment on.
However, i see many “GLWS” comments and “great job” copy and pasted on many comment sections of various authors.
People seem to think it helps to get your items trending, I don’t think it helps one bit.
I have 1 item that has been trending 5 times now and it only has 3 comments.
So why people copy/paste comments i have no idea… but i doulbt it will help sales.
The only positive thing here: comments is a visit to the page. But I think 20 visits (views) is too small to raise your track in the top. So lately, I agree to the uselessness of the feedback. Would like to hear the opinions of other authors
It’s cool if someone actually means it and actually listens to the track they comment on.
However, i see many “GLWS” comments and “great job” copy and pasted on many comment sections of various authors.
People seem to think it helps to get your items trending, I don’t think it helps one bit.
I have 1 item that has been trending 5 times now and it only has 3 comments.
So why people copy/paste comments i have no idea… but i doulbt it will help sales.
The comments = trending thing seems to be a very persistent myth
There shouldn’t be any direct effect on trending status from comments. There might be an indirect one if lots of different people are visiting the item page to leave a comment… but that’s more related to how the system identifies items that are bringing in lots of new traffic, and not a function of the number of comments left on an item.
The major things that comments help to address on other marketplaces are probably a bit less relevant for AJ - complex items like WordPress themes or After Effects templates generally have a lot of support questions (pre- or post-sale) left in comments. Those discussions are also used as a trust signal for buyers: similar to an item that has a very low rating, items that seem to have serious ongoing problems raised in the comments are also less likely to be purchased. The flip side is also true - many authors successfully make sales because the buyers feel reassured that they’ll receive a good level of service, based on what they can see in previous comments.
Audio tracks can still benefit from those to some extent, but it’s less vital - customers can hear the preview, and see whether the download will include things like alternative track lengths. There are fewer moving parts from their perspective, and so there’s less need for support questions.
Hi @BenLeong ! I would like to know. Some buyers (on the forum) asked a question for the volume of the preview file. They seem to be more convenient at different volume levels to immediately select tracks for the video and announcer (without downloading the preview). Will this be introduced?
Personally, I’m very pleased when they leave comments to my track! Even if it does not play any role for sales, it’s still very nice in the first place
Well basically, people think that comments on their item equals a possible trending item.
So you have people who just spam “GLWS” on as many as possible items, hoping to get a comment in return, so that their item can achieve the almighty trending status.
It makes more sense than my previous statement (above) the fact that traffic only can generate a trending status and not comments alone, yet the item I was talking about had 0 sales, lots of comments (around 80) - and the track was not an instant net sensation by the way, which made me realise that that was some kind of a group of authors helping eachother getting a trending item.
Now, ok, I generate traffic on an item (lets say I have a facebook grup with 1000 members) and bring them on my page, some of them are authors and leave me comments also, some of them just click and exit and so on…my question is: if there are no actual sales on the item or any other item on the market from those clicks, isn’t trending status easy to obtain (and maybe in an abusive way) without bringing actual revenue and just from fake traffic?
I’m pretty sure every sale is considerably more important than all those other things… so you can game the system slightly, but new items that are selling well will always trend more than new items that aren’t selling well… even if everyone is checking them out and commenting on them.
Ok, it’s really nice when other authors appreciate our work and write something which proves that they listen our music but unfortunately 80% comments are like these examples above…
