Items sold getting views???

Possible stupid question ( ;) )-I notice, in the views counts, that sometimes items that have already sold will show that someone has viewed them. How is this happening?

Good Sunday morning, and thanks in advance!

asked about 11 years ago

2 Answers

1. People search for an item and then click on the box that says “Sold in the last year” and might check on it

2. Any item that was tweeted, pinned or facebooked, the link is still on the internet and someone may click on it

3. Someone who checked Feedback may click on link to see what was purchased

4. It takes a while for items purchased to fall from the search/indexing programs and may still be in google, bing, yahoo or any other place that brings up results from searches

There are probably more ways also

answered about 11 years ago

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Autumn_Offerings says: April 06, 2014

Oooooh-I had no idea! Thanks so much for the info!

Stats are for Item view counts -—————-sold items and -———search crawler activity.

Where the dashes are (in my less than artistic example )is where you have an option to include or not include sold items and search crawler activity. Just switch it to “do not include” if it is a distraction for you :-)

answered about 11 years ago

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