I’m sorry to announce that we have excluded etsy shops from Love2Trade’s search engine.
Although we’ve received mostly positive input from etsy members, there were several requests for removal of items on Love2Trade. Since there is no way for us to exclude specific etsy shops via oodle, we have decided to completely filter out etsy. Please allow time for search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo..etc) to reflect the changes we made to the system.
Etsy provides a fantastic service to a very talented group of people and as much as we would love to help and support their talent & business, and even though request removals should be done through Oodle, we have chosen to respect the removal requests of the others and the only way was to completely exclude Etsy.
Filed under: Love2Trade News | Tagged: barter, crafts, etsy, news
Why would people ask for you to stop giving them ‘free publicity’? That is one thing I never understood. Either way, Etsy is a wonderful site, and the artists on there are amazing.
Hi Melissa,
Thanks for your comment. You’re right, Etsy has some very talented artists. I think most people that requested to be removed didn’t like the idea of their shops showing up in a website they did not sign up for.
We tried our best to explain how it works but there were still some that wanted their shops removed and we respect that.
Your website seems to be providing a great service, please let me know if Love2Trade can help you