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Clarifications and Changes: Updates to Etsy's Site Policies

Last week we let the Etsy community in on a "sneak peek" preview of the proposed updates to our site policies in the DOs & DON'Ts of Etsy. During this preview week, we received lots of feedback and discussed the policies in the Forums, by Conversations and email with members of the Etsy community. After a rather …

Not-So-Top-Secret: Policy Sneak Peek

Psst ... Secret Squirrels! You may not know this, but for the past few months, a special task force at Etsy has been locked away in a tiny conference room, buckling down to polish up Etsy's site policies. I've just smuggled some highly classified documents out of the heavily-guarded, steel-doored Lawyer Hole …

Billing Alert: Updates to Etsy’s Billing System

UPDATE (6/25/09): With the migration to our new credit card processing system complete, some remaining sellers over the next billing period may need to re-enter their credit card information.  This is a one time action; you will not need to re-enter your credit card information every month, unless your card …

Seller How-To: Optimizing Your Etsy Shop for Search Engines

We've been making some changes around the site that we hope will have a big impact. Over the past several months, we've implemented a series of changes to improve Etsy's SEO (search engine optimization). Improved SEO means that it's more likely Etsy pages will be found by people searching with sites like  …

How to Make a Treasury: The Nuts and Bolts

Have you ever wanted to choose the handpicked items on the home page of Etsy? Do you enjoy carefully selecting and arranging collections of wonderful things? If you’ve answered “yes” to either of those questions, then Etsy’s Treasury may quickly become your favorite feature. Below is a step-by-step how-to …

Billing Alert: Change to Overdue Bill Collection

UPDATE: Sellers, we are bringing this post back up to the top as a reminder. If you have any questions about your bill, please contact billing@etsy.com privately. Note, you can now pay your Etsy bill using PayPal. Read about this new option here. We now accept payments under $1, so we expect all sellers to pay the …

Tech Update: Etsy Web Analytics Enhancements

Dear Etsy sellers,Recently, Etsy launched Web Analytics for your Etsy shops (powered by Google Analytics). Today I am pleased to share with you two enhancements to Web Analytics. First, we updated our configuration for Google Analytics, which has reduced unexpected Traffic Source keywords in Google …

Tech Update: Dolls and Miniatures Category Coming Soon!

UPDATE: Sellers, please start adding your items to the new category at 6pm ET! For your reference, we have made a PDF with all the sub-categories and sub-sub-categories. You can download the PDF file here.[the following was originally posted on 9/30/08]We're happy to announce that on Monday, October 6, 2008, at 6 …

Tech Update: More Info on Search & Categories

Last week Etsy's new CTO, Chad Dickerson wrote an honest account of some of the technical challenges Etsy.com is currently facing, specifically in reference to the search function. In that article, Chad mentioned some new hardware and "other tweaks" to improve things. Many of you may be curious about what we …

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