ETSY SELLING TIP # 9

Use as many Tag Words as possible

Tag Words are descriptive words that prospective buyers will enter as search terms to screen and find your artwork. You need to use the correct Tag Words so people can find your art subject easily. If you are painting a short naked white man, for example, then you would use the Tag Words “short”, “naked”, “white”, and “man”. I know this is complicated, so you may need to read this paragraph again.

It’s best if you can use as many Tag Words as possible… Etsy allows you to use up to 13 Tag Word entries… but you can actually fit in 2 or 3 words in a single Tag Word entry…so you may be able to get up to 30-40 Tag Words if you choose really short words …so you need to paint subjects that can be described with really short words.

So if you are painting animals, then you can forget the long named Hippopotamuses – that is much too long … you need to go with Dogs and Cats and Fish, okay? If you are interested in nature, you need paint the Sun, Moon and the Sky…but no Mountaintops, or Fountainheads. Flowers ? Don’t draw Chrysanthemums… draw a Rose instead.

If you are painting famed singers, you need to go with Cher, Bono, and Seal…but you cannot ever go with Engelbert Humperdinck, or even Enrique Iglesias, although he is quite the sexy beast. In fact they are both sexy animals…good thing I am married.

Keep it short, and cram in as many Tag Words as possible.