Vote for Your Favorite Embrace Treasury!

To celebrate our Storque Article we decided to have a fun treasury challenge. Everyone who wanted to participate used the word "embrace" in the title of their treasury. Our judges had their work cut out for them....the entries were all beautiful!

The judges are:
Kristen, Ames and Rebecca


....and here they are!

Embrace Life by Sacred Suds

Embrace Innocence by Little Bug Jewelry

Embrace the Old and New by Ginny Huber

A Romantic Embrace by Erika Price

Embrace the Talent by Knot Original

Embrace Softly by Wild Woman Jewelry

Canyon Embrace by Wish Art Glass

Embrace Sunshine by Monarch Dancer

Embrace with Love by Rough Magic Creations

Which Embrace Treasury is Your Favorite?
	Embrace Life Sacred Suds
	Embrace Innocence Little Bug Jewelry
	Embrace the Old and New Ginny Huber
	A Romantic Embrace Erika Price
	Embrace Talent Knot Original
	Embrace Softly Wild Woman Jewelry
	Canyon Embrace Wish Art Glass
	Embrace Sunshine Monarch Dancer
	Embrace with Love Rough Magic Creations
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Use that Thesarus!

Within the last ten days Etsy introduced the ability to tag treasuries. This opens the doors for a lot of useful ways to search for treasuries. Have you noticed at the bottom of several of the Etsy Finds emails the words they used to create their finds? If you click on those it brings you to a list of treasuries that are tagged with those same words. This brings more attention to your treasury that you may have created weeks and weeks ago. I think we were all wondering why they chose not to have treasuries expire and I think this is one of the reasons. I'm sure they have even more fun up their sleeve.

You have up to 18 tags to use in your treasury. If I'm making a team treasury I always use the team tag identifier. Then I use as many descriptive and emotional words I can. Or, if my treasury is team based and Etsy marketing theme based I will use the marketing terms that are highlighted by Etsy.

I've also noticed that google is now finding the treasuries as well. I get google alerts on my shop name (if you don't know what this is, let me know and I will help) and just over the last two weeks I have received alerts on those treasuries. Which means that the google spider is crawling those treasuries. So when people search on a term that you may have used as a tag there is a possibility that they will find your treasury. Exciting isn't it?

So brush off those Thesauruses and find descriptive words and fill those 18 spaces!

Keeping Your Treasury Tidy

Yep, I said it..."tidy."

Etsy admin does use treasuries with sold items in the collection for the front page. They also use treasuries that are days/week old. However, they will put an alternate in place of the sold item. Since treasuries do not expire and if you don't delete your own then you should consider keeping up with the sold items. I generally check mine once a week and choose to delete some and then replace the sold items with new items from the same shop.

I have noticed in many of my treasuries that one to five items have sold in a very short time. If five have sold you will not have enough alternates to cover the ones sold. Good reason to keep an eye on those rascals!

There is also a bug in treasury making. Some people have found that if you use an item for your treasury that has a number in the title, either that item will not show up, or one of your other items will not show up. It doesn't always happen, but a pattern has been observed. If you have numbers in your titles, you may want to consider taking them out so that people feel safer using your creations.

Clicking and commenting is still important for treasuries. Doing this helps keep the treasury you made on the first page of that huge list. I've seen one of my treasuries stay on the first page for an entire day when it got plenty of comments and clicks.

So, get those brooms and dust mops out and clean up your treasury!

Treasury East What Makes it Tick?

No Waiting for the Magic Box to Open Anymore...

Staying up until the wee hours of the morning just to catch one...

You can make as many lists as you want, anytime you want...

What do you think...love it or hate it?

Everyone is trying to figure out the algorithm to understand what gets and keeps your treasury on the first page (the front page is another topic...) of the thousands of treasury east lists. From observation it appears that once you make a treasury you need to get as many people to visit your treasury as possible. They also need to click on each item and comment. The faster you get people to visit in a short time span the more likely it is that your treasury will be on the first page and stay there for, maybe a few hours! Since there are sooo many treasuries now we can't expect that buyers are going to page through all of them. Buyers will certainly look at the first page and probably a few more pages deep.


It really appears that Etsy is pushing hard to get everyone to use more Social Media tools...Twitter, Facebook, blogs...etc. Since these tools are used to communicate quickly and get rapid response to new treasuries and shop changes. If you have been hesitating to adopt, at least one of these, marketing tools I would suggest that you do a little research and find one that you can live with. I believe that you will begin to see less and less traffic in your shop if you don't begin using some of these tools.

There seems to also be some bugs when visiting and clicking the new treasuries. Depending on your browser your clicks may or may not register. The biggest offender is IE. It seems that Firefox works the best and Sarfari is marginally successful. I'm sure Etsy will get all of this under control pretty soon. Etsy has also stated that clicks sometimes take time to show up, but they will eventually.

You may be frustrated when clicking on items and you have to page back to keep looking at each new item. Try this trick. Open the treasury in a separate window. Then once that window is open, if using firefox you can hold your control key down and click on the item, it should open as a new tab within that window. Keep clicking each item like this and a tab will open for each item. Once you have looked at each you can then just close the entire window, rather then closing each item individually. This same thing works in Safari and I've been told it works in IE, but the commands are a little different.

If you want to find out what treasuries you are in and have google analytic's set up Craftopolis now has a tool to let you search. If you want to find a friends treasuries use this format with their shop name at the end:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/people/shopname

If you have found any shortcuts or tips on how to maximize Etsy's Treasury East, post them in comments. I'll bullet point the additional tips/tricks so that we have one place to find them.