How search engine changes affected sales of your new items? After almost two weeks of test we can share some tendencies.
Tracks sold in march: 132 tracks
New tracks uploaded since 18.03.17: 6
Total sales of those new items: 2 (! ! ! )
Average sales of new items before changes: 3-10 per one new item per two weeks.
So it looks like there is no sense in uploading new tracks until tests are over. Sales of new items are about 20-30 times lower comparing to last months ! This will probably and unfortunately affect visibility of those tracks in next months. So loss will be even bigger. I hope tests will end early next week.
What makes you say thereās been 2 weeks of search engine tests? Search is always changing and being tested. Itās an on going thing.
There are plenty of threads talking about how everything changed since the search test/update/algorithm modification,ā¦ spanning for yearsā¦
Trying to figure out sales pattern from search engine modification, when you donāt know exactly whatās been modified, when, what scope, nor for how long, is pointless. As results would be inconclusive at best.
I agree itās very easy to over-interpret personal fluctuations in sales that may well just be random. But we definitely know about some very specific experiments with the default ordering of tracks for buyers who are browsing through different categories, as this was officially announced. Given it means that the default ordering will often not be by newest while the experiments are running it would be very surprising if this didnāt impact on the sales of new items.
You do have a point. This ātestā surely does have an impact, and new items may indeed have reduced exposure.
But there are so many other factors. What I mean is that itās impossible to draw (relevant) conclusions from the sales of a single author (or a few dozens, for that matter).
Envato made changes in default sorting about/almost 2 weeks ago. It is quite big change. They also announced this in forum. So actually we know exactly what has been changed. Further tests on Market Search / Category / Home pages
I didnāt wanted to judge this change basing only on my sells, which can be random, especially that I am uploading regularly only since January. Thatās why Iāve asked other authors about their situation.
And yes, it is important for me, because I just canceled most of my other music projects, so now Audio Jungle started to be priority for me. I am quite new author and Iām building my portfolio right now. Most of my sales where from new tracks. So this kind of changes makes me feel very insecure, because I donāt have too many old tracks, which have better placing in this tested engine.
Same here.
Iām a very young author here on AJ. The sales was good until this āTestā.
I got 2 approvals in the beggining of the test and those tracks got ā0ā sales.
Also stastics canāt lie.
Only 10% of newest items(itās around 400-450 on weekend and 500-600 on working days) get sales in the first day of approval. And those 10% get 1-2 sales.
Just open the popular files and look how much sales did get top authors like PinkZebra and AurusAudio in march.
They have great portfolio,but because of this test search theyāve improved their sales around 30%
From 1000-1200 to 1500-1700 a month.
And itās no suprise for me that none of top sellers didnāt write a single word about this test.
I wanted to upload more tracks,but thereās no sense in doing that until this madness ends.
I think it was bad idea to show the old items to the customers. Old bestsellers items become trending and shown in two categories out of three (trending and bestsellers), during newest items drown with a zero sales value.
If I were ENVATO employee - I would stop loading a new items, because they are spend disc space on ENVATO servers and have no sales (newest and Elite authors both).
Buyers do not see the tracks with a new sound. Maybe ENVATO didnāt feel a drop in sales because bestsellers still sold, but new authors, who is the future of audiojungle - remain on the fringe.
P.S. if the rules will not return back - audiojungle may lose development and new authors. Old authors will feed stock by old sound/musical conceptions.
P.P.S. if many sales items will be demonstrated in both categories Best Sellers and Trending Items - Newest items has no chance. Two times lessā¦or less. Hope you will hear me.
And new authors without old and big portfolio but (many of them) with fresh style could move to other stocksā¦ But they will not do this, because those tests will be over early this week, right?
Wow, same here. I wasnāt aware of all this. Just 1 or 2 sales for my newest 12 items and the authors I follow seem to be facing the same scenario. Itās sooo disapointing. Iām aware my schedule has been pretty tight lately and my new items are not exactly top notch (far from that) but itās something that didnāt happen to me so dramatically until this tests you guys mention started.
Just wanted to chime in and say that I also really, really dislike these tests. Right now everythingās being sorted by ātrendingā times. Thatās going to make trending items even trendier and new items less likely to get discovered. I kindly urge Envato to change it back.
Hey guys! So sorry to read all this massages about bad sales latelyā¦but do not worry - it is just the same for me . Actually I am about to ask next question - does anyone noticed next thing - when i update my items (adding tags and description) with a slight hope that may be something can change this no-sales-nightmare, i figure out that right after any change to the item have been made - i take a look at my portfolio with a sort by rating - and this (changed/edited) item goes right to the bottom of the portfolio. Has anyone noticed the same or I am the luckiest one? I do not really know whether it influence items rating in the global Envato search but who knowsā¦
So - any thoughts?
And also - keep it up guys! We have to be strong to survive this dark days!
Hey, I hadnāt noticed that but yes, same here. So it seems that updating an item decreases itās rating, is that what you meant? I donāt knowā¦ everything is so weird (and alarming). Almost 3 days in a row without a single sale around here.
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. Actually I am about to ask next question - does anyone noticed next thing - when i update my items (adding tags and description) with a slight hope that may be something can change this no-sales-nightmare, i figure out that right after any change to the item have been made - i take a look at my portfolio with a sort by rating - and this (changed/edited) item goes right to the bottom of the portfolio. Has anyone noticed the same or I am the luckiest one? I do not really know whether it influence items rating in the global Envato search but who knowsā¦