The $6 shipping cliff nobody told you about
Etsy quietly made shipping price a ranking signal. Anything over $6 domestic reduces how often your listing gets shown — and your shipping profile is a setting you have probably not looked at in years.
What you actually keep on a $30 shirt in 2026
Etsy's transaction fee went from 5% to 6.5%. Add processing, listing and Offsite Ads and the real number is nothing like what most sellers think. Let us do the maths properly.
Your sales dropped and you changed nothing. Here is what happened
Six things that quietly cut Etsy traffic in 2026 without you touching a single listing — and how to work out which one hit you.
The dashboard that tells you why nobody can see your listings
Etsy now shows you exactly which listings have reduced visibility and why. Most sellers have never opened it. Here is how to read it and what to fix first.
Etsy killed keyword stuffing — write your titles like this instead
Titles over 15 words now cost you visibility instead of buying it. Here is what changed, why, and how to rewrite a stuffed title without losing the keywords that were actually working.
The Q4 listing calendar — what to put up, and when
Q4 is 40 to 50 percent of the year for a print-on-demand shop, and it is won or lost in August and September. Here is the actual calendar.